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Aug 7, 2020
How to see the 2020 Perseid meteor shower, one of the best of the year, as it peaks
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Aug 7, 2020
Mars map with water: incredible terraforming image shows Elon Musk’s dream
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, engineering, environmental, space
A new map shows what the red planet would look like if 71 percent of its surface area was covered with water — around the same proportion as Earth.
Aug 7, 2020
Tick-borne bunyavirus causing fever, hemorrhages spreading in China: Everything we know so far
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: biotech/medical
tech2 News Staff Aug 07, 2020 13:06:46 IST
While new cases of the novel Coronavirus are still popping up in China, the country is facing yet another potentially contagious viral infection. This time, it’s jumping from ticks to people.
According to a report by Global Times, cases of the Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) virus first appeared in April and since then more than 37 people in East China’s Jiangsu Province have contracted with the virus and 23 people were found infected in East China’s Anhui Province. As of 6 August, around seven people have died from the infection.
Aug 7, 2020
Episode 10 — The Case for Mars Polar Science
Posted by Bruce Dorminey in categories: climatology, science, space travel
Great interview with planetary scientist Isaac Smith, an expert on Mars polar science at York University in Toronto. Well worth a listen.
Three spacecraft are currently en route to Mars, but none will visit the poles. Yet Mars’ poles drive much of the Martian climate. And their understanding is key to deciphering what might have been happening on the Red planet some 3.5 billion years ago when it had lakes, deltas, rivers, and perhaps even transient oceans. I’m very pleased to welcome planetary scientist Isaac B. Smith of York University in Toronto — an expert on Mars polar science and exploration — to discuss the need for a Martian polar lander as well as a broader look at Mars science.
Aug 7, 2020
The newly discovered weird link between REM sleep and eating patterns
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: food, neuroscience
An intriguing new study, from a team of Swiss researchers, has revealed neural activity during REM sleep in a particular region of the brain known to affect appetite and feeding behaviors significantly influences waking eating patterns.
Despite a hefty volume of robust study, REM sleep is still a mysterious and unique sleep phase. Named after the rapid eye movements that occur in all mammals during this sleep phase, it has also been referred to as paradoxical sleep, due to the strange similarity in brain activity between waking states and REM sleep.
The new research homed in on a brain region called the lateral hypothalamus. This tiny brain region, found in all mammals, is known to play a fundamental role in food intake, compulsive behavior, and a number of other physiological processes.
Aug 6, 2020
Scientists Program CRISPR to Fight Viruses in Human Cells
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Circa 2019
A common gene-editing enzyme could be used to disable RNA viruses such as flu or Ebola.
Aug 6, 2020
Intel hacked: Confidential intellectual data obtained and leaked
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
An anonymous hacker claims to have obtained confidential Intel files, and has leaked them in a file-sharing folder.
Aug 6, 2020
After nearly a century, elusive CNO neutrinos are finally seen from the Sun
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: particle physics
For the first time, scientists have detected neutrinos coming from the Sun’s core that got their start via the CNO process, an until-now theorized type of stellar nuclear fusion.
This is really cool, but it’ll take a bit of explaining.
Aug 6, 2020
Space roar: NASA detected the loudest sound in the universe, but what is it?
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: alien life
Very odd posssibly some life form or possibly energy wave.
Space Mysteries: When scientists put their ear to the early universe, they found it yelled back.