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Feb 27, 2020

Reports: China has monopoly on medical supplies and drugs

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

What if you went to the pharmacy and there was no medicine? What if you brought your kid to the hospital and they couldn’t treat them?

Feb 27, 2020

Type 1 diabetes cured in mice using stem cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

According to new research, an innovative stem cell technique ‘rapidly cured’ severe type 1 diabetes in mice. The benefits lasted for at least 9 months.

Feb 27, 2020

Goodbye Dental Implants, Dentist Grows New Teeth in Just 9 Weeks

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

If you’ve ever had the misfortune of losing a tooth, you may have considered dental implants in the past. You may also have been surprised to learn how expensive they are, and that oftentimes materials such as mercury or silver are used.

But what if we could actually grow our teeth back? Fortunately, there is an incredible new development in oral health that could change the game entirely.

Dr. Jeremy Mao and his team from Columbia University were able to regrow teeth using stem cells as a ‘scaffold’ for the new tooth to grow over.

Feb 27, 2020

Time-Lapse Video of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Assembly, Sunshield Deployment

Posted by in category: space

In 2019, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope celebrated the full mechanical and electronic assembly of the world’s largest, most powerful space science observatory ever built. Meaning that Webb’s two halves have been physically put together and its wiring harnesses and electronic interfaces have been fully connected.

Following assembly, the Webb team moved on to successfully send deployment and tensioning commands to all five layers of its sunshield, which is designed to unfold in space, and protect the observatory’s mirrors and scientific instruments from light and heat, primarily from the Sun.

“This has been an amazing journey to get here. The James Webb Space Telescope is now one complete assembly, and known to be the most powerful space telescope ever created by humankind,” said Mark Voyton, Webb Observatory Integration and Testing, and OTIS Manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

Feb 27, 2020

Scientists discover a gene linked to 20 autoimmune diseases

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

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Feb 27, 2020

On the far side of the Moon, China’s lunar lander makes a game-changing discovery

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

“Chang’e 4’s landing was no mean feat in itself. The reason why it is so difficult to send anything, robot or man, to the far side of the Moon, is because it is difficult to maintain communications with ground control on Earth with a giant rock in between (the Moon!).”


Chang’e-4 is the first spacecraft ever to land on the Moon’s far side.

Feb 27, 2020

Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab

Posted by in categories: cosmology, quantum physics

A proposal for building wormhole-connected black holes offers a way to probe the paradoxes of quantum information.

Feb 27, 2020

Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo report the first occurrence of directly splitting one photon into three.

The occurrence, the first of its kind, used the spontaneous parametric down-conversion method (SPDC) in quantum optics and created what quantum optics researchers call a non-Gaussian state of light. A non-Gaussian state of light is considered a critical ingredient to gain a quantum advantage.

“It was understood that there were limits to the type of entanglement generated with the two-photon version, but these results form the basis of an exciting new paradigm of three-photon ,” said Chris Wilson, a principle investigator at IQC faculty member and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Waterloo.

Feb 27, 2020

NM-based glide flights, rocket-powered tests coming

Posted by in category: futurism

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — NM-based glide flights, rocket-powered tests coming.

Feb 27, 2020

California is monitoring at least 8,400 people for the coronavirus

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

California has thousands of people that they’re watching for the Wuhan Coronavirus Pandemic.


California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that 33 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and the state is currently monitoring at least 8,400 others —a day after U.S. health officials confirmed the first possible community transmission of the coronavirus in a Solano County resident.

“This is a fluid situation right now and I want to emphaize the risk to the American public remains low,” said Dr. Sonia Y. Angell, California Department of Public Health Director and State Health Officer during a press conference. “There have been a limited number of confirmed cases to date.”

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