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Jun 8, 2020

If China Invades Taiwan, This Is What The Fleet Could Look Like

Posted by in category: futurism

· Just now ·


A possible invasion of Taiwan has long been derided as the ‘million man swim’ because the Chinese Navy was not equipped to pull it off. That may no longer be the case.

Jun 8, 2020

SpaceX Starship’s first launches could be at one of 3 places, Elon Musk says

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

The Starship, SpaceX’s giant rocket designed to send humans to Mars, could take off from a few different places.

Jun 8, 2020

Controversial Coronavirus Lab Origin Claims Dismissed By Experts

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

“Properties that have never been found in nature”


New claims that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was engineered have been dismissed by scientific and intelligence experts.

The authors of a British-Norwegian vaccine study—accepted by the Quarterly Review of Biophysics—claim that the coronavirus’s spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted.

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Jun 8, 2020

Samsung and SK Telecom reveal world’s first smartphone with quantum security tech

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, mobile phones, quantum physics

The Quantum Random Number Generator makes it much harder to hack some services.

Jun 8, 2020

Out With the Old Blood

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

There is great promise in 2020 that we might be able to make our bodies young without having to explicitly repair molecular damage, but just by changing the signaling environment.

Do we need to add signals that say “young” or remove signals that say “old”?

Does infusion of biochemical signals from young blood plasma rejuvenate tissues of an old animal? Or are there dissolved signal proteins in old animals that must be removed?

Jun 8, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Gut Organoids Bolsters Case for Intestinal Transmission

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

SARS-CoV-2 can infect and replicate in cells that line the inside of the human intestines, suggests study using gut organoids.

Jun 8, 2020

Falcon Heavy

Posted by in category: space travel

Flight Test (Watch till the end)

#SpaceX

#SpaceMan

Jun 8, 2020

Family seeking help for Kato mother of eight with rare brain tumour

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Almost a year after being diagnosed with a rare brain tumour, a mother of eight of Kato Village, in Region Eight, is now slated to undergo the first phase of her treatment tomorrow.

Junita Gomes, a former teacher, was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma on March 5th, 2019. She is currently bedridden and unable to see, speak, eat, or hear.

Jun 8, 2020

How ‘microgravity’ changes the bodies of astronauts

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Being an astronaut looks like an exciting and glamorous career. But have you ever thought about the dangers that these people face by being exposed to extreme conditions, such as radiation and microgravity?

Living and working in microgravity can impact your whole body in different ways. On the other hand, the human body is capable of adapting its physiology to survive in diverse conditions.

Jun 8, 2020

‘Whispering gallery’ effect controls electron beams with light

Posted by in category: futurism

When you speak softly in one of the galleries of St Paul’s cathedral, the sound runs so easily around the dome that visitors anywhere on its circumference can hear it. This striking phenomenon has been termed the ‘whispering gallery’ effect, and variants of it appear in many scenarios where a wave can travel nearly perfectly around a structure. Researchers from the University of Göttingen have now harnessed the effect to control the beam of an electron microscope by light. The results were published in Nature.