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Jun 2, 2021

Merging nature and engineering: mantis shrimp vision in the operating room

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering

Inspired by the mantis shrimp visual system, researchers have built a camera that helps cancer surgeons see the unseen.

Jun 2, 2021

How to opt out of Amazon Sidewalk

Posted by in category: futurism

Echo and Ring users have just under a week to disable the new Amazon Sidewalk shared network feature.

Jun 2, 2021

NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbour, after decades of exploring other worlds.

The US space agency’s new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system’s hottest planet, during his first major address to employees.

“These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface,” Nelson said.

Jun 2, 2021

Venusian Acid-Cooked Turkeys, or Why I Still Read Blog Comments…

Posted by in category: futurism

A bit early, (or a lot late 🙂) but I love this post. Beverage warnings apply:


In a world where many blogs and websites are shutting down comment threads, I think we all need the occasional reminder of why we permit comments. Sure, you often learn something new from other people’s inputs, and sometimes get corrected when you step beyond the limits of your actual knowledge-base too far. But sometimes you read a comment that’s so brilliant, you just have to look up the commenter’s email, and beg them for permission to repost their work of art. This was one of those times.

Jun 2, 2021

Out on a limb: Pioneering scientists grow monkey arms in the lab

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Circa 2015


Monkey and rat limbs are being grown in the lab by teams hoping to one day grow human organs and limbs for use as transplants.

Jun 2, 2021

La primera GPU gaming de Intel en imágenes: ¿NVIDIA y AMD en peligro?

Posted by in categories: computing, entertainment

La Intel Xe-HPG cada vez es más real y después de varios rumores se han podido ver las primeras imágenes de esta GPU gaming.

Jun 2, 2021

Motion of water monomers reveals a kinetic barrier to ice nucleation on graphene

Posted by in category: materials

The dynamics of water molecules at interfaces controls natural and artificial processes, but experimental investigations have been challenging. Here the authors investigate water molecules on a graphene surface using helium spin-echo spectroscopy, and reveal a regime where freely mobile molecules undergo strong repulsive mutual interactions which inhibit ice nucleation.

Jun 2, 2021

Feature-specific reaction times reveal a semanticisation of memories over time and with repeated remembering

Posted by in category: futurism

Consolidation theories posit that memories gradually change in nature over time. Here the authors use a simple, feature-based reaction time task to show that with time and repeated remembering, access to conceptual features is preserved over perceptual detail, reflecting this qualitative change.

Jun 2, 2021

eBay sellers can no longer use PayPal under new terms

Posted by in category: futurism

Some sellers are unhappy with the changes that put payments straight into bank accounts.

Jun 2, 2021

Parasitic worms: The helping hand of an unwanted friend

Posted by in category: evolution

Full article available at: https://www.regenerativemedicinedaily.com/parasitic-worms… See More.


Humanity has a long and turbulent history with parasites, even today many parts of the world still struggle with rampant parasitic infections, with pathogens such as the malaria parasite claiming hundreds of thousands of lives every year. By their very nature parasites are harmful to our bodies, or at least that has been the prevailing opinion within the scientific community for as long as we have known of their existence. However, the malicious evolution of parasites might very well have produced a positive side effect which we are only just starting to notice.