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Feb 23, 2020

AI Just Discovered a New Antibiotic to Kill the World’s Nastiest Bacteria

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An AI algorithm found an antibiotic that wipes out dozens of bacterial strains, including some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world.

Feb 23, 2020

AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria

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The machine learning invention could wipe out resistant bacteria strains.

Feb 23, 2020

Los Angeles: Healthy Aging

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Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Ms. Laura Trejo, General Manager of Los Angeles’s Department Of Aging.

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Feb 23, 2020

A powerful new antibiotic discovered using machine learning

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Feb 23, 2020

SubTv — Between the Rounds — DARPA Subterranean Challenge

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Robots are resting, but the #SubTChallenge humans are hard at work today, prepping the course for Round 2 of the Urban Circuit. Have questions about the SubT Challenge? Submit via #AskSubT. We’ll answer as many as we can 2pm ET/11am PT Sunday. Watch:

Feb 23, 2020

Robot Carriage

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Feb 23, 2020

Nuclear Research Reactor Pulse

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Feb 23, 2020

Walking on the Moon

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Feb 23, 2020

Is the polyglot brain different? MIT researchers are trying to find out

Posted by in categories: internet, neuroscience

There are more theories than facts about polyglots. Because internet lists of polyglots identify mainly men, there’s the belief that the male brain is more predisposed to multilingualism. Others believe that polyglots are disproportionately gay and/or left-handed.

These unfounded theories infuriate Ev Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her lab is conducting a study seeking to dispel them and establish a basic understanding of how the polyglot brain works.

Recently, a polyglot named Susanna Zaraysky submitted to a two-hour session of tests inside an fMRI machine. Zaraysky speaks nine languages, most of them the usual suspects — French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian — but also Ladino, the version of Spanish spoken by Jews who were expelled from Spain in the 15th century.

Feb 23, 2020

Science Channel star ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes dies while attempting to launch a homemade rocket

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Science Channel star “Mad Mike” Hughes died during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket Saturday.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Hughes’ family and friends during this difficult time. It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey,” the Science Channel said in a statement.

Hughes was scheduled to launch his homemade rocket for a new Science Channel series called “Homemade Astronauts,” according to the Discovery Channel website.