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Dec 6, 2018

NASA Animation Shows Arctic Ice Rapidly Depleting

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This animation shows how Arctic ice is disappearing at a stunning rate.

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Dec 6, 2018

The Most Powerful Ion Drive in Space Is Ready for Its Visit to Mercury

Posted by in category: space travel

The BepiColombo mission is traveling to Mercury powered by ion thruster engines built into the Mercury Transfer Module component visible at the bottom of this artist’s depiction.

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Dec 6, 2018

NASA Science Shows Human Impact of Clean Air Policies

Posted by in categories: health, science, sustainability

As local, federal, and international policies targeting the quality of the air we breathe continue to evolve, questions arise of how effective existing policies have been in improving human health. For example, how many lives have been saved by tough air pollution policies? How many illnesses have been caused by lax policies?

US ozone levels map highlighting highest levels

Annual mean levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution declined in the United States between 1990 (left) and 2010 (right), leading to thousands of lives saved, according to researcher Jason West.

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Dec 6, 2018

What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System — NeurIPS 2018

Posted by in category: biological

That was pretty interesting…


Presented December 4th 2018 by Prof. Michael Levin (Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University)

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Dec 6, 2018

China Preps for Launch of Historic Mission to Moon’s Far Side on Friday

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

China is getting set to launch the first-ever surface mission to the moon’s far side.

The robotic Chang’e 4 mission is scheduled to launch atop a Long March 3B rocket on Friday (Dec. 7) at around 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT; 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 8 local China time).

If all goes according to plan, Chang’e 4’s lander-rover duo will touch down within the moon’s South Pole‐Aitken (SPA) basin after a 27-day flight, then study both the surface and subsurface of this region. [China’s Moon Missions Explained (Infographic)].

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Dec 6, 2018

An Ancient Case of the Plague Could Rewrite History

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A 4,900-year-old skeleton has turned the accepted story of the disease on its head.

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Dec 6, 2018

The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is running into problems in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Posted by in category: materials

The Ocean Cleanup, which is trying to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, ran into problems in its first month of deployment.

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Dec 6, 2018

DeepMind’s AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical ‘turning point’ for AI

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

DeepMind’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaZero is now showing signs of human-like intuition and creativity, in what developers have hailed as ‘turning point’ in history.

The computer system amazed the world last year when it mastered the game of chess from scratch within just four hours, despite not being programmed how to win.

But now, after a year of testing and analysis by chess grandmasters, the machine has developed a new style of play unlike anything ever seen before, suggesting the programme is now improvising like a human.

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Dec 6, 2018

The New Beginning Photo

Posted by in category: futurism

Beyond Kubernetes, the Basilisk.


It is the New Beginning The Good Work all can see Earthkind now is born.

It is the New Beginning The Pattern is revealed Sentientkind is saved.

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Dec 6, 2018

Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, health

Virginia Tech announced Thursday it will receive a record $50 million gift to support biomedical research, a landmark donation for the public university that will expand the influence of its academic health center in Roanoke.

The gift comes from the Horace G. Fralin Charitable Trust and from Heywood and Cynthia Fralin. It is twice as large as the previous record, a $25 million donation from Alice and Bill Goodwin for an engineering building that opened in 2014 on the university’s main campus in Blacksburg.

The new funding will help the university recruit and retain researchers, a spokesman said. A biomedical research institute will be named for the Fralin family and based within the Virginia Tech Carilion Academic Health Center.

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