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Jun 11, 2019
Russian biologist plans more CRISPR-edited babies
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: biotech/medical
The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year.
Jun 11, 2019
Let’s take an interstellar journey into a Black Hole
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: cosmology, space travel, supercomputing
This video shows what you will see if you fall into a black hole. It is not an artistic impression, but a result of general- relativistic supercomputer simulation by prof. Andrew Hamilton.
Jun 10, 2019
China’s new ‘social credit system’ is a dystopian nightmare
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in category: futurism
Imagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren, and then a voice intoning, “Be careful in your dealings with this person.”
Would that put a damper on your relationship? It’s supposed to.
Welcome to life in China’s “Social Credit System,” where a low score can ruin your life in more ways than one.
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Jun 10, 2019
Stephen Hawking Was Right: Black Holes Can Evaporate, Weird New Study Shows
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: cosmology
Using supersonic gas and sound waves, researchers have shown that one of Stephen Hawking’s theories about black holes was right all along.
🔥 Absolutely beautiful video created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it’s edge-on rings. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/44583965185/?fbclid…quZjFTDy_s
Jun 10, 2019
West Virginia University Takes Top Prize in Moon to Mars Ice Challenge
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
West virginia university takes top prize in NASA test of concepts to extract water on the moon and mars.
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Jun 10, 2019
People born today will witness the first off-planet permanent colony
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Jun 10, 2019
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Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
Barcodes are used in a new way in the MAGESTIC platform, adding a new level of precision to CRISPR gene editing.