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Mar 19, 2020

Rep. Andy Biggs voted against coronavirus bill because it gives sick leave to same-sex partners

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, sex

“It’s really hard to define a committed relationship and it’s really hard to define anything related to that,” Biggs said on Monday.

Mar 19, 2020

Meet the Robin Hood of Science, Alexandra Elbakyan

Posted by in categories: open access, science

How one researcher created a pirate bay for science more powerful than even libraries at top universities.

Mar 19, 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and brain tumours

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Brian tumors and the coronavirus.


We hope this information will help address some of our community’s concerns about the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Mar 19, 2020

We’re almost eight billion, nobody can stop us!

Posted by in categories: economics, finance

The space renaissance newsletter: WE’RE ALMOST EIGHT BILLIONS: NOTHING CAN STOP US!


Why are governments useful in times of big crisis? Because they can recover the economy, printing currency, supporting stock markets after catastrophic events, such as pandemics.

Mar 19, 2020

Mnuchin Backs $1,000 Per Adult, $500 Per Child in Payments

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, economics, government

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he supports direct payments of $1,000 per adult and $500 per child to Americans within three weeks if Congress backs the plan.

“The president is determined that we are going to support” those affected, Mnuchin said in a Fox Business interview Thursday morning.

Cash handouts to all American households are gaining support in Congress as the best way to shore up an economy brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus response.

Mar 19, 2020

Scientists Say New Nanomaterial Could “Replace Human Tissue”

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

Looks interesting.


Next up: a urinary catheter made of this stuff.

Mar 19, 2020

The imitation game: Scientists describe and emulate new quantum state of entangled photons

Posted by in categories: computing, engineering, information science, nanotechnology, quantum physics

:oooo.


A research team from ITMO University, with the help of colleagues from MIPT (Russia) and Politecnico di Torino (Italy), has predicted a novel type of topological quantum state of two photons. Scientists have also applied a new, affordable experimental method for testing this prediction. The method relies on an analogy: Instead of expensive experiments with quantum systems of two or more entangled photons, the researchers have used resonant electric circuits of higher dimensionality described by similar equations. The obtained results can be useful for the engineering of optical chips and quantum computers without the need for expensive experiments. The research was published in Nature Communications.

Light plays a key role in modern information technologies: With its help, information is transmitted over large distances via optical fibers. In the future, scientists anticipate the invention of optical chips and computers that process information with the help of photons—light quanta—instead of electrons, as it is done today. This will decrease energy consumption, while also increasing the capabilities of computers. However, to turn these predictions into reality, fundamental and applied research of light behavior at the micro- and nanoscale is needed.

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Mar 19, 2020

Superfast, Superpowerful Lasers Are About to Revolutionize Physics

Posted by in categories: physics, space

They’ll serve as the heart as “discovery factories” for planetary science, astrophysics, materials physics, fusion and more.

Mar 19, 2020

2,000 Atoms Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

:oooo.


The new experiment demonstrated a bizarre quantum effect from the double-slit experiment at an unprecedented scale.

Mar 19, 2020

Reports: China’s first COVID-19 patient not linked to seafood market

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Looking for patient 1; Mr. Chen :

On Jan. 24, the Lancet, an independent medical journal, published a study showing Wuhan’s first patient was not connected to the seafood market. A joint research team representing China’s Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Huanan Agricultural College and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research have also said the seafood market is not the source of COVID-19.

https://www.upi.com/…/Reports-Chinas-first-C…/1201582811760/

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