Jan 19, 2020
Liquid Biopsies: A Lung Cancer Game-Changer?
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Newer, less invasive tests are helping scientists isolate genomic alterations.
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Jan 19, 2020
Mycorrhizal fungi: all you need to know about the Internet of Plants
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: internet
Symbiotic fungi have a key role in soil ecosystems and inoculating plants with them has been claimed to benefit their growth. But scientific evidence shows a very complex picture; which might surprise you.
Jan 19, 2020
US Officials Will Screen Travelers from China for New Virus
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
As an outbreak of a new virus in China spreads, U.S. officials will start screening passengers arriving at select U.S. airports.
Jan 19, 2020
Sugar alters brain chemistry after only 12 days
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: chemistry, neuroscience
New research in pigs examines how sugar intake affects the brain’s reward circuits and finds that changes are noticeable after just 12 days.
Jan 19, 2020
How Quartz used AI to sort through the Luanda Leaks
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Reporters had a problem: 350 GB of documents is a lot of documents. Enter machine learning.
Jan 19, 2020
FBI Takes Down Site With 12 Billion Stolen Records
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: security
Turkey gets Wikipedia back, Mayor Pete loses his cyberguy, and more of the week’s top security news.
Jan 19, 2020
Fiery SpaceX test of Crew Dragon capsule was ‘picture perfect,’ Elon Musk says
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
SpaceX completed its last major test before flying astronauts to space on Sunday, in a critical high-speed mission that lasted mere minutes.
Launched on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the company conducted a test of its Crew Dragon capsule called in-flight abort.
“Overall, as far as I can tell thus far, this was a picture perfect mission,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a press conference after the test. “I’m super fired up; this is great.”
Jan 19, 2020
Large Hadron Collider gives young ALICE a black-hole ray gun
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Essentially a pocket lhc could make a perfect raygun.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Jan 19, 2020
Laser diode emits deep UV light
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, computing
Nagoya University researchers say they have designed a laser diode that emits the shortest-wavelength ultraviolet light to-date, with potential applications in disinfection, dermatology, and DNA analyses.
Jan 19, 2020
Amazon reportedly wants to turn your hand into a credit card
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: finance, privacy
Technology giant Amazon is working to allow customers to connect their credit card information to their hands, so that they can scan for purchases with their palms at checkout areas in physical stores, people familiar with the project told The Wall Street Journal.
While Amazon’s plan is in the early stages, the company has reportedly begun working with Visa on testing out the terminals, and has discussed the project with Mastercard, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Synchrony Financial.
The company previously filed a patent for a “non-contact biometric identification system” that features a “hand scanner” to produce a picture of a person’s palm.
