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Sep 6, 2020

This Army corps wants you … to send in your solutions

Posted by in category: military

Winners will get four days off, a medal and the training school of their choice.

Sep 6, 2020

Second case of human plague reported this summer in Colorado

Posted by in category: health

A second case of human plague has been reported in Colorado this summer and state health officials are urging residents to take precautions to prevent exposure.

A resident of a rural county in the state has been diagnosed with plague and the case was reported to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Thursday, according to a news release. A southwest Colorado resident was diagnosed earlier this summer.

Grand County Public Health on Friday said the newly infected victim is a Grand County resident.

Sep 6, 2020

Mars Curiosity Rover Captures Stunning 1.8 Billion Pixel Panorama

Posted by in category: space

NASA released the highest-resolution panorama that the Mars Curiosity rover has ever taken, at close to 1.8 billion pixels.

Sep 6, 2020

Britain’s first robot ship prepares to set sail

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Autonomous vessels may offer solution to pandemic struggles.

Sep 6, 2020

One cure for an ailing American economy: Legalize cannabis

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics

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Forty states have already led the way, and the time is now.

Sep 6, 2020

Europe Just Declared Independence From China

Posted by in category: futurism

As the EU navigates an increasingly Sino-American world, it finally sees the need to stand together, even against Beijing.

Sep 6, 2020

How AI will automate cybersecurity in the post-COVID world

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

As cybercrime is becoming more lucrative and more automated, we’re going to have to depend on automated defenses on the other side.

Sep 6, 2020

Study reveals possible new coronavirus entry points

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Since the start of the pandemic, scientists have learned that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is quite cunning. When the virus enters the body, it’s capable of turning off an entire branch of the immune system, allowing it to spread for days before the immune system can sound the alarm on the intruder. However, researchers still don’t know the full scope of tissues and cell types that are most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2. Most research has focused on identifying genes and pathways that facilitate the virus’s entry into lung cells – yet both clinical and scientific data indicate that it can cause damage in a wide range of organs. Now, new Cornell research has developed potential roadmaps for how the virus infects these other organs and identifies what molecular factors could help facilitate or restrict infection.


Research from the Feschotte Lab identifies 28 new SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus associated receptors and factors that predict which tissues are most vulnerable to infection.

Sep 6, 2020

A vaccine won’t cure the global economy

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, employment

🤔 My belief is: Many people have ideas on how to fix the global economy. It is only in trying as many ideas as possible to see what works, and what fails. Personally I believe in the ideologies of Scottish Intellectuals David Hume, and Adam Smith. Capital needs to be broadly spread out to the most productive hands of an economy. Currently that would be creatives. Musk and Bezos have multiplied wealth and created jobs, like Steve Jobs. With people cozy to the idea of working a… See More.


The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked states to be ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine by late October. Pfizer (PFE) thinks it will have enough data to ask the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize its potential vaccine next month.

Most experts think it’s unlikely — but not impossible — that a vaccine will be ready ahead of the US election. But with at least seven candidates in phase three trials, it’s very likely that at least one successful vaccine will emerge in the months to come. Pharmaceutical companies are also racing to develop effective treatments for the disease.

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Sep 6, 2020

Molecular analyser is 100 times faster

Posted by in category: futurism

A new infrared spectroscopy method, nearly 100 times faster than previous techniques, is reported by the University of Tokyo.