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Woman with ‘mutant’ gene who feels no pain and heals without scarring discovered by scientists

Mar 30
2019

She reported numerous burns and cuts without pain, often smelling her burning flesh before noticing any injury.

Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Cast of ‘The Expanse’ visits Blue Origin’s space turf

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space travel

Mar 30
2019

Science fiction met space fact this week in the Seattle area when the cast of “The Expanse,” the science-fiction jewel in Amazon’s streaming-video crown, got a look at Blue Origin’s spaceship.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the common denominator in the meetup: He personally engineered the sci-fi series’ shift from SyFy to Prime Video, and announced it onstage at a space conference last May while I was sitting beside him. Bezos is also the founder of Blue Origin, the space venture that is testing its New Shepard suborbital spaceship and gearing up to build its orbital-class New Glenn rocket.

During last May’s sit-down with Bezos, I joked that cast of “The Expanse” might want to take a ride on New Shepard, just to get some real-life experience behind their portrayal of space travel. And Bezos played along.

Giant viruses have weaponised CRISPR against their bacterial hosts

Posted by Genevieve Klien in bioengineering, biotech/medical

Mar 30
2019

Hundreds of giant viruses that infect bacteria have been discovered. Some seem to deploy CRISPR – the system used for gene editing – to fight their hosts.

‘Google brain’ implants could end school as anyone can learn anything instantly

Posted by Genevieve Klien in education

Mar 30
2019

101 votes and so far on Reddit.

Physicists predict a way to squeeze light from the vacuum of empty space

Posted by Genevieve Klien in quantum physics

Mar 30
2019

Experiment could test theory of quantum electrodynamics—if it ever can be done.

Sir David Attenborough Urges Young People To Look Up From Their Screens At The “Great Treasure” Of The Natural World

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space

Mar 30
2019

The broadcaster talks to BuzzFeed News about his new Netflix show Our Planet, why we need to get off our screens and how there are so many more species on our planet we’ve yet to discover.

Doing this one thing can boost memory and help prevent Alzheimer’s

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

Mar 30
2019

Results showed the hippocampus experienced a boost both immediately after exercise and after continued habitual exercise following a 12-week regiment.

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