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Huawei has already confirmed that its new P40 series phones will be unveiled next March in Paris, France, revealing that we’re in for a never-before-seen design for the new handset. That’s a wild claim considering that you can’t really do much more with phone design nowadays. Foldable phones are already a thing, and the first prototypes of devices that feature in-display cameras were revealed months ago — the latter is the holy grail we need for perfect all-screen designs. Huawei didn’t explain what design novelties it has in mind for the upcoming P40 series, but the phone seemingly just leaked and we might have an answer for you.

How machine learning models can alter societal behaviors.

NASA has released photos showcasing the best view of 2I/Borisov we’re ever going to get. The comet is the second interstellar visitor to our solar system since ‘Oumuamua shot through in 2017.

The answer is essentially yes … in the short term.

If you’re an apparently healthy person who wants to learn about your genetic disease risks, you can send a saliva sample and a hundred bucks or so to an array-based direct-to-consumer genetic testing company and get some trait information and selected health risks, plus details about your genetic ancestry. But as the direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies themselves will tell you, this is only a fraction of the medical value that may be hidden in your genome. Many of the experts in both ancestry and medical genomics will suggest that since consumer facing genomics are not as comprehensive as those meeting medical standards, it is quite OK for consumers to pay for these products out of their own pockets.

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Changes to gene activity in mice show the ageing process can be slowed or even reverse, leading to hopes it could be replicated in humans.

12th grader, Zechen Wei broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest quadcopter to ascend to 100 meters or about 300 feet with a record time of 2.732 seconds. Wei is a senior at Princeton International School of Mathematics who has always had a passion for drones.

A team in Switzerland has created a soft robotic insect that can withstand a multitude of hits from a flyswatter.

A new soft robotic insect could one day form part of a swarm designed to perform a number of different tasks. A team from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland developed the insect and showed it is incredibly durable, even when being battered by a flyswatter.

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They are probs descendants from god alien cats from ancient time. They are entirely self sufficient and so cute face_with_colon_three Also essentially perfect on all levels that rival even humans. Basically a whole kit of ninja abilities that truly are phenomenal even used in war times. There is a reason why culture after culture praises them and revels in their abilities and intelligence. Even legends say the ninja learned of them to be akin to them in stealth abilities. Even in popular culture the flerkin is seen guarding the tesseract. Also dragon ball z there is a god cat that oversees a universe. Even to this day the feline genetic code still shows mysteries that have enticed generations of people so why not see they have their own story to tell their own universe of mystery.

Recent polling shows Americans love their conspiracy theories. They also love cats. This was bound to happen.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for patients with social anxiety not only helps to reduce anxiety levels but also seems to protect against accelerated cellular ageing, a study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Translational Psychiatry reports.

“This is the first step towards better understanding the link between cellular ageing and the treatment of psychiatric issues,” says lead author Kristoffer Månsson, researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

Individuals affected by mental illness are at greater risk of developing somatic conditions, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, earlier in life than unaffected individuals. While the reasons for this are unclear, one possible contributory factor is that mental health disorders are associated with shorter telomeres and accelerated cellular ageing.