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Nov 12, 2019

Human Safety Trial of NMN Concludes

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A human trial of NMN has recently concluded, and the results are not impressive at all; however, this is perfectly fine because that was not the purpose of the study, and, despite the lackluster results, the study was a success!

This might sound strange, but perhaps the words of the study authors may make it a bit clearer why this is absolutely no cause for alarm.

We, therefore, conducted a clinical trial to investigate the safety of single NMN administration in 10 healthy men.

Nov 12, 2019

Kevin Feige Discusses THE ETERNALS Saying It’s a Big, Expensive, and Necessary Risk for Marvel

Posted by in category: entertainment

It’s been interesting to see the fans’ reactions regarding Marvel Studios’ next big cosmic adventure film, The Eternals. While some are excited, it seems like there are a good amount that don’t really care about it.

Personally, I’m stoked! I love the lore of The Eternals and The Celestials! Jack Kirby did some incredibly radical stuff with these characters and the story and I’m super pumped to see how Marvel and director Chloe Zhao bring his vision to life.

During a recent interview with THR, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige talked about the film and explained that it’s a big, expensive, and necessary risk for them:

Nov 12, 2019

How to Spot SpaceX’s 60 New Starlink Satellites in the Night Sky

Posted by in category: satellites

X launched 60 Starlink satellites into orbit on its most flown Falcon 9 rocket yet, which made a historic fourth launch and landing on Monday (Nov. 11).

Nov 12, 2019

Redditor Claims They Fell In Love With OpenAI’s Neural Network

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

They found love — or something like it — in GPT-2.

Nov 12, 2019

Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses produces a previously unseen phase of matter

Posted by in categories: energy, physics

Adding energy to any material, such as by heating it, almost always makes its structure less orderly. Ice, for example, with its crystalline structure, melts to become liquid water, with no order at all.

But in new experiments by physicists at MIT and elsewhere, the opposite happens: When a pattern called a charge density wave in a certain material is hit with a fast laser pulse, a whole new charge density wave is created—a highly ordered state, instead of the expected disorder. The surprising finding could help to reveal unseen properties in materials of all kinds.

The discovery is being reported today in the journal Nature Physics, in a paper by MIT professors Nuh Gedik and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, postdoc Anshul Kogar, graduate student Alfred Zong, and 17 others at MIT, Harvard University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, and Argonne National Laboratory.

Nov 12, 2019

NASA Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast Deep in Space

Posted by in category: cosmology

NASA recently detected a massive thermonuclear explosion coming from outer space.

The culprit seems to be a distant pulsar, the space agency reports, which is the stellar remains of a star that blew up in a supernova but was too small to form a black hole. NASA spotted the burst because it sent out an intense beam of x-rays that got picked up by the agency’s orbital observatory NICER.

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Nov 12, 2019

Breakthrough as scientists create a new cowpox-style virus that can kill EVERY type of cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering

Scientists have created a new cowpox-style virus in a bid to cure cancer.

The treatment, called CF33, can kill every type of cancer in a petrie dish and has shrunk tumours in mice, The Daily Telegraph reported.

US cancer expert Professor Yuman Fong is engineering the treatment, which is being developed by Australia biotech company Imugene.

Nov 12, 2019

DDoS Attacks Target Amazon, SoftLayer and Telecom Infrastructure

Posted by in category: futurism

The specific type of TCP attack used in the recent spate of DDoS efforts were TCP SYN-ACK reflection attacks.

Nov 12, 2019

NSW and QLD bushfires: ‘Catastrophic’ fire danger forecast for today

Posted by in category: futurism

“The catastrophic weather conditions mean that things can change very quickly,” she told reporters in Sydney.

Catastrophic fire danger has been declared for Sydney and the Hunter Valley region to the north today with severe and extreme danger across vast tracts of the rest of the state.

The week-long declaration of a state of emergency gives the Rural Fire Service sweeping powers.

Nov 12, 2019

150 Years of Nature Papers

Posted by in category: futurism

This week’s cover shows Nature’s publication record over 150 years. Explore the growing web of collaboration and science in an interactive graphic here: https://go.nature.com/32wf2SB