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Jan 15, 2020

NASA astronauts are taking the second all-woman spacewalk today. Watch it live!

Posted by in category: space

Two NASA astronauts are taking a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Jan. 15), and you can watch all the action live online.

For the first spacewalk of the year, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will spend about 6.5 hours working in the vacuum of space to continue replacing old nickel-hydrogen batteries on the station’s solar arrays with new lithium-ion batteries. The spacewalking duo began working to replace these batteries during a spacewalk together on Oct. 18, and that was the first all-woman spacewalk in history.

Jan 15, 2020

Gene Tweak Can Extend Life 500% (But You Have to Be a Worm)

Posted by in category: life extension

What could this tell us about the aging process in humans?

Jan 15, 2020

Final images from Cassini spacecraft

Posted by in categories: physics, space travel

Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the Cassini spacecraft which has been in orbit around Saturn for more than 13 years until the end of its mission in September 2017.

For the last leg of its journey, Cassini was put on a particularly daring orbit passing between Saturn and its rings which brought it closer to Saturn than ever before. This allowed scientists to obtain images of Saturn’s ultraviolet auroras in unprecedented resolution.

The new observations are detailed in two new studies published in Geophysical Research Letters and JGR: Space Physics.

Jan 15, 2020

Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults

Posted by in categories: biological, life extension

A new study shows drinking low-fat milk—both nonfat and 1% milk—is significantly associated with less aging in adults.

Research on 5,834 U.S. adults by Brigham Young University exercise science professor Larry Tucker, Ph.D., found people who drink low-fat experience several years less biological aging than those who drink high-fat (2% and whole) milk.

“It was surprising how strong the difference was,” Tucker said. “If you’re going to drink high-fat milk, you should be aware that doing so is predictive of or related to some significant consequences.”

Jan 15, 2020

A blood clot has been treated in space for the first time!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, space

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Jan 15, 2020

The hunt for the ‘angel particle’ continues

Posted by in category: particle physics

In 2017, researchers believed they had found evidence for the elusive Majorana fermion. Now, a new study found that the exotic class of particles may still be confined to theory.

Jan 15, 2020

Art therapy is finally being taken seriously as a tool for boosting health

Posted by in category: health

In the past two decades, scientists have also starting looking at art as a way to keep people mentally and physically healthy. In a report, the World Health Organization points to just how powerful art can be as a therapy. The report has problems but could lend heft and credibility to the field.

Jan 15, 2020

City of Las Vegas detects and deters major cyberattack

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Security breach took place on January 7, but the city said it detected the intrusion in time to prevent any damage.

Jan 15, 2020

Windows 10 Has a Security Flaw So Severe the NSA Disclosed It

Posted by in categories: privacy, security

In a shift toward transparency, the National Security Agency announced a bug that could have left over 900 million PCs vulnerable to attack.

Jan 15, 2020

Australian man becomes first robotic kidney transplant recipient in the world

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Tim Sawley’s wife Talitha donated the kidney to him in a medical first.