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Mar 7, 2021

How wearable tech helped elite athletes through the pandemic

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From the English Premier League to the NFL, sport is a multibillion-dollar industry, and top teams are increasingly turning to technology to give them the edge.

Until recently, gathering athletes’ performance data was a laborious process. Coaches and sports scientists would spend hours compiling information from games and training sessions, pulling out the information relevant to their players’ development. But technology-based performance analytics has changed all that.

These days, athletes can wear devices or vests with GPS-tracking capabilities that record the speed and distance they run, as well as the impacts on their body. The information helps coaches develop training plans to avoid athlete fatigue and maximize performance for match days.

Mar 7, 2021

World’s first space HOTEL to begin construction in Earth orbit in 2025

Posted by in categories: entertainment, health, space

Work is due to start on the world’s first ‘space hotel’ in low Earth orbit in 2025 — and it will come equipped with restaurants, a cinema, spa and…


Developed by the Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the Voyager Station could be operational as early as 2027, with the infrastructure built in orbit around the Earth.

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Mar 7, 2021

Cameras on 32 Interplanetary Spacecraft

Posted by in categories: electronics, space travel

Read about the cameras on 32 interstellar spacecraft that have been launched from earth in recent decades.

Mar 7, 2021

Vision Impairment Is Associated With Mortality

Posted by in category: life extension

Summary: Meta-analysis reveals those who have visual impairments or are blind have a higher risk of mortality compared to peers with better vision. The study found mortality risk was 29% higher in those with mild visual impairment and rose to 89% higher for those with severe visual impairments.

Source: University of Michigan.

The global population is aging, and so are their eyes. In fact, the number of people with vision impairment and blindness is expected to more than double over the next 30 years.

Mar 7, 2021

In the Race to Hundreds of Qubits, Photons May Have “Quantum Advantage”

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, supercomputing

Canadian startup Xanadu says their quantum computer is cloud-accessible, Python programmable, and ready to scale.


Quantum computers based on photons may have some advantages over electron-based machines, including operating at room temperature and not temperatures colder than that of deep space. Now, say scientists at quantum computing startup Xanadu, add one more advantage to the photon side of the ledger. Their photonic quantum computer, they say, could scale up to rival or even beat the fastest classical supercomputers—at least at some tasks.

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Mar 7, 2021

Life’s rich pattern: Researchers use sound to shape the future of printing

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, information science

Researchers in the UK have developed a way to coax microscopic particles and droplets into precise patterns by harnessing the power of sound in air. The implications for printing, especially in the fields of medicine and electronics, are far-reaching.

The scientists from the Universities of Bath and Bristol have shown that it’s possible to create precise, pre-determined patterns on surfaces from aerosol droplets or particles, using computer-controlled ultrasound. A paper describing the entirely new technique, called ‘sonolithography’, is published in Advanced Materials Technologies.

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Mar 7, 2021

Scientists grow human-Neanderthal hybrid ‘minibrains’ in petri dishes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

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Sesame seed-size brains created from a mix of human and Neanderthal genes lived briefly in petri dishes in a University of California, San Diego laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how the organs have evolved over millennia.

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Mar 7, 2021

Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, government

The hackers started their attack in January but escalated their efforts in recent weeks, security experts say. Business and government agencies were affected.

Mar 7, 2021

Paleontologists Solve 150-Year-Old Mystery – And Discover New Insect Group

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SFU-led research team uncovers how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misclassified due to their striking similarity.

For more than 150 years, scientists have been incorrectly classifying a group of fossil insects as damselflies, the familiar cousins of dragonflies that flit around wetlands eating mosquitoes. While they are strikingly similar, these fossils have oddly shaped heads, which researchers have always attributed to distortion resulting from the fossilization process.

Now, however, a team of researchers led by Simon Fraser University (SFU) paleontologist Bruce Archibald has discovered they aren’t damselflies at all, but represent a major new insect group closely related to them.

Mar 7, 2021

New brain imaging research sheds light on the neural underpinnings of emotional intelligence

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Recently published neuroimaging research provides evidence that the directional connectivity between several brain regions plays an important role in emotional processing abilities.

Although interest in emotional intelligence has been steadily growing since the 1990s, the underlying neural mechanisms behind it have yet to be clearly established. The new study, which appears in NeuroImage, is part of a process to begin to fill in this gap in scientific knowledge.

“Emotional intelligence is one of the least studied topics, especially in conjunction with cutting-edge computational neuroimaging techniques,” explained lead researcher Sahil Bajaj, the director of the Multimodal Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory at Boys Town National Research Hospital.