So pathetic đąđąđą.
A column of military vehicles crossed the heart of Bergamo last night, from the monumental cemetery to the highway.
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have created a new, rubber-like material with a unique set of properties, which could act as a replacement for human tissue in medical procedures.
A new device enables researchers to observe hundreds of neurons in the brain in real-time. The system is based on modified silicon chips from cameras, but rather than taking a picture, it takes a movie of the neural electrical activity.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an American oncologist and bioethicist who is senior fellow at the Center for American Progress as well as Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, said on MSNBC on Friday, March 20, that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told him it would probably take 8â10 weeks to get ventilator production started at his factories (heâs working on this at Tesla and SpaceX).
I reached out to Musk for clarification on that topic and he replied that, âWe have 250k N95 masks. Aiming to start distributing those to hospitals tomorrow night. Should have over 1000 ventilators by next week.â With medical supplies such as these being one of the biggest bottlenecks and challenges at the moment in the COVID-19 response in the United States (as well as elsewhere) â something that is already having a very real effect on medical professionals and patient care â the support will surely be received with much gratitude. That said, while there has been much attention put on the expected future need for ventilators, very few places reportedly have a shortage of them right now. In much greater need at the moment are simpler supplies like N95 masks, which must be why Tesla/SpaceX is providing 250,000 of them.
Dr. Emanuel also said in the segment of MSNBCâs âMorning Joeâ he was on that we probably need 8â12 weeks (2â3 months) of social distancing in the US in order to deal with COVID-19 as a society. However, he also expects that the virus will come back and weâll basically have a roller coaster of âsocial restrictions, easing up, social restrictions, easing up ⊠to try to smooth out the demand on the health care system.â
Egyptian blue is one of the oldest manmade colour pigments. It adorns, for instance, the crown of the world famous bust of Nefertiti.
âInfusions of antibody-laden blood have been used with reported success in prior outbreaks, including the SARS epidemic and the 1918 flu pandemic.â
John Hopkins University
With a vaccine for COVID-19 still a long way from being realized, Johns Hopkins immunologist Arturo Casadevall is working to revive a century-old blood-derived treatment for use in the United States in hopes of slowing the spread of the disease.
With the right pieces in place, the treatment could be set up at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore within a matter of weeks, Casadevall says.
Good Science here. A Covid-19 Primer.
Wash your hands.
Ninja Nerds.
As they increasingly log on from home, Americans are having to meld their personal technology with professional tools at unprecedented scale. For employers, the concern isnât just about capacity, but also about workers introducing new potential vulnerabilities into their routine â whether thatâs weak passwords on personal computers, poorly secured home WiFi routers, or a family memberâs device passing along a computer virus.
The dramatic expansion of teleworking by US schools, businesses and government agencies in response to the coronavirus is raising fresh questions about the capacity and security of the tools many Americans use to connect to vital workplace systems and data.
At one major US agency, some officials have resorted to holding meetings on iPhone group calls because the regular conference bridges havenât always been working, according to one federal employee. But the workaround has its limits: The group calls support only five participants at a time, the employee noted.
âThings have worked better than I anticipated, but there are lots of hiccups still,â said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the record.
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When it comes to space, thereâs a problem with our human drive to go all the places and see all the things. A big problem. Itâs, well, space. Itâs way too big. Even travelling at the maximum speed the Universe allows, it would take us years to reach our nearest neighbouring star.
But another human drive is finding solutions to big problems. And thatâs what NASA engineer David Burns has been doing in his spare time. Heâs produced an engine concept that, he says, could theoretically accelerate to 99 percent of the speed of light â all without using propellant.
Heâs posted it to the NASA Technical Reports Server under the heading âHelical Engineâ, and, on paper, it works by exploiting the way mass can change at relativistic speeds â those close to the speed of light in a vacuum. It has not yet been reviewed by an expert.
Trapping a molecule inside a liquid helium nanodrop allows clean measurements of the moleculeâs vibrations.
The solvent in which a molecule is suspended can strongly influence the moleculeâs motion. Now researchers have demonstrated that a molecule dissolved inside a superfluid helium nanodrop experiences very little effect from the solvent. The researchers measured, with femtosecond resolution, the intramolecular vibrations of an indium dimer (In2) in a helium nanodrop. They say that their method could be used to study molecules relevant for light-harvesting technologies, such as solar cells, that have been difficult to observe because of solvent effects.