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Apr 15, 2020

Bats are a key source of human viruses — but they’re not special

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, surveillance

New Analysis on the possible origins of a virus in the animal population.


Statistical analyses suggest that surveillance efforts for the next pandemic look beyond the flying mammals.

Apr 15, 2020

Demand for Autonomous Delivery Bots is “Expanding Exponentially”

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Pizza Bot

Venezia’s New York Style Pizza in Phoenix, Arizona is now delivering pies by first sanitizing the inside and outside of a Starship robot and placing the robot inside.

The robot then travels to customers within a half mile radius. They can even hop curbs and operate in snowy conditions. Human operators back at HQ can take control over them any time as well.

Apr 15, 2020

How Big Is a Proton?

Posted by in category: futurism

Scientists thought they knew the approximate size of a proton — until a 2010 experiment came back with a very different number 😮.

Apr 15, 2020

CleanStep Shoe Wrapping Machine

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

This automatic shoe cover machine will play a role in some places during the coronavirus outbreak.

Apr 15, 2020

Spectacular ice eggs have washed onto a beach in Finland

Posted by in category: futurism

A combination of cold weather and just the right amount of wave motion has caused strange frozen spheres to cover a Finnish beach.

Apr 15, 2020

This Event Generated the “Brightest” Light in the Known Universe

Posted by in category: energy

This dying star created the highest-energy gamma-ray burst ever recorded 😱

Via Seeker

Apr 15, 2020

Responsive Furniture

Posted by in category: futurism

This transforms from a stool into a chair when you sit down. No buttons, no levers, no batteries. Just bum power.

Apr 15, 2020

We can identify ‘bad’ genes. Why can’t we use CRISPR gene editing to get rid of them?

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

A desirable option would be to use CRISPR gene editing to essentially cut out the unwanted gene. There are, however, many challenges ahead.


If you want to remove an undesirable gene from a population, you have a couple theoretical options — one that most people might find unthinkable, and one that lies outside our current scientific abilities.

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Apr 15, 2020

Two meteorites slow down then disappear over Guam, Easter Sunday

Posted by in categories: futurism, mobile phones

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Apr 15, 2020

Newly discovered coronavirus mutation could threaten vaccine race, study says

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

Scientists say they have discovered the first evidence of a “significant” mutation of the coronavirus — raising concerns that strides made toward a vaccine so far could become “futile,” according to a new study.

The researchers, who isolated a strain of the virus from a sample collected in India in January, said the mutation appeared to make the bug less able to bind to a receptor on human cells called ACE2, an enzyme found in the lungs.

The discovery of this mutation “raises the alarm that the ongoing vaccine development may become futile in future epidemic if more mutations were identified,” the researchers said, according to Newsweek. The study, which was published on biorxiv.org on Saturday, has not yet been peer-reviewed.