Lifeboat Foundation

Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could help us understand the origin of our universe, they say.

Researchers have discovered hints of a difference between the behaviour of neutronos and antineutrinos. That, in turn, could help demonstrate why there is so much matter relative to antimatter in the universe – and, in turn, how everything that surrounds us came to be.

New Analysis on the possible origins of a virus in the animal population.

Statistical analyses suggest that surveillance efforts for the next pandemic look beyond the flying mammals.

Pizza Bot

Venezia’s New York Style Pizza in Phoenix, Arizona is now delivering pies by first sanitizing the inside and outside of a Starship robot and placing the robot inside.

The robot then travels to customers within a half mile radius. They can even hop curbs and operate in snowy conditions. Human operators back at HQ can take control over them any time as well.

Scientists thought they knew the approximate size of a proton — until a 2010 experiment came back with a very different number 😮.

This automatic shoe cover machine will play a role in some places during the coronavirus outbreak.

A combination of cold weather and just the right amount of wave motion has caused strange frozen spheres to cover a Finnish beach.

This dying star created the highest-energy gamma-ray burst ever recorded 😱

Via Seeker

This transforms from a stool into a chair when you sit down. No buttons, no levers, no batteries. Just bum power.

A desirable option would be to use CRISPR gene editing to essentially cut out the unwanted gene. There are, however, many challenges ahead.

If you want to remove an undesirable gene from a population, you have a couple theoretical options — one that most people might find unthinkable, and one that lies outside our current scientific abilities.

Continue reading “We can identify ‘bad’ genes. Why can’t we use CRISPR gene editing to get rid of them?” »