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Jul 20, 2020

NASA warns of huge asteroid approaching Earth on July 24

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

“Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid’s potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth. Specifically, all asteroids with a minimum orbit intersection distance (MOID) of 0.05 au or less are considered PHAs,” NASA said in a statement.

According to NASA, asteroid 2020 ND is about 170 metre-long will be as close as 0.034 astronomical units (5,086,328 kilometres) to our planet. The asteroid is travelling at a great speed of 48,000 kilometres per hour. The distance from the earth is what categories this asteroid as “potentially dangerous”.

2016 DY30 is headed in the direction of Earth at a speed of 54,000 kilometres per hour whereas 2020 ME3 is travelling at 16,000 kilometers per hour. The 2016 DY30 is the smaller asteroid of the two as it is 15 feet wide.

Jul 20, 2020

Oxford coronavirus vaccine induces strong immune response, early trial results suggest

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Early results in The Lancet on Oxford coronavirus vaccine clinical made by AstraZeneca suggest the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and induces antibodies and T cell response.

Jul 20, 2020

#DTheoryofTime Designer Theme for Those Who Aspire to Live in the Present Moment

Posted by in categories: habitats, physics

“D-Theory of Time, or Digital Presentism, gives us a coherent picture of temporal ontology: In the absence of observers, the arrow of time doesn’t exist — there’s no cosmic flow of time. With that in mind, your timeless cosmic self resides as a hyperdimensional being outside the ordinary space-time dimensionality of your experiential self… In fact, if we are to create high fidelity first-person simulated realities that also may be part of intersubjectivity-based, multiplayer virtualities, D-Theory of Time gives us a clear-cut guiding principle for doing just that.” –Alex M. Vikoulov, The Physics of Time: D-Theory of Time & Temporal Mechanics.

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Jul 20, 2020

In a Strange Twist, This AI Tries to Teach Empathy to Humans

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Incredible Ai


Ergo Sum

Joshua Feast, CEO of Cogito, told USA Today that he sees the system as more of a coach than a replacement for human employees, who can field dozens of calls from irritated customers every day.

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Jul 20, 2020

Israeli startup’s synthetic cornea could restore sight to millions around the world

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

The Israeli startup CorNeat Vision has received approval to conduct clinical trials of a synthetic cornea that bio-integrates with the human eye.

The Health Ministry-approved trial of the CorNeat KPro will be run at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva on 10 patients suffering from corneal blindness who are either not candidates for or have experienced one or more failed cornea transplants, the company announced last week.

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Jul 20, 2020

Amazon’s City of The Future

Posted by in categories: drones, education

What if Amazon moved its shipping centers downtown? Where drones fly into the buildings to pick up deliveries.

This drone beehive is one of the ideas and patents that could be part of Amazon’s city of the future.

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Jul 20, 2020

Regeneron Receives $450 Million BARDA Contract for COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

Yesterday, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, with the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), announced it was launching Phase III trials of REGN-COV2, the company’s two-antibody cocktail for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19. Today, it announced that it had received a $450 million contract to manufacture and supply the antibody cocktail as part of Operation Warp Speed from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

BARDA is part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contract was also with the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense.


A Phase I trial in 30 hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19 received a positive review from the Independent Data Monitoring Committee.

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Jul 19, 2020

Watch a 3D Printer Spit Out an Entire Two-Story House

Posted by in category: 3D printing

Can they print one for me next?

Jul 19, 2020

Poison pass: the man who became immune to snake venom

Posted by in category: futurism

Circa 2018 o.,.o.


Rock singer Steve Ludwin has been injecting himself with snake venom for 30 years. In a strange twist, his bizarre habit could now save thousands of lives. His former partner Britt Collins tells his outlandish story.

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Jul 19, 2020

How an opossum protein may lead to a broad-spectrum snakebite treatment

Posted by in category: chemistry

San Jose State’s Claire Komives is testing an antivenom inspired by opossum biochemistry against various snake species to prevent deaths in the developing world.