Fri. Nov 18th, 2022

science
U.S. National Science Foundation provided video of the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory. Credit: Courtesy of the Arecibo Observatory. This video was taken from the vantage point of the Arecibo operations building. At the center of the video is the …
Deep Mind AI predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry out life’s tasks. DeepMind AI will massively speed up drugs for protein-based problems. Deep Mind revealed enough …
There are two huge aspects to a new antiaging drug. The first aspect is that a large portion of age-related brain decline is not permanent damage. This non-permanent damage is repaired overnight by a new antiaging drug. The Google-back antiaging …
The UK has already approved the Pfizer COVID vaccine. This is ahead of the EU and the USA. Everyone knows the Pfizer COVID vaccine will be approved in each of the jurisdictions. However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …
Imagine a technological breakthrough that increased computer resources by a billion times. The world would be minimally changed. Almost everyone would not have problems that would need the computer resources. Those that would have a need for those resources might …
Thousands of years ago, ancient Aztecs may have held the key to the next biotech breakthrough. During ceremonial rituals, they used a special compound they called the flesh of the gods… And today, researchers are discovering that this same compound …
“First, you get the money, then you get the power, and then you get the women.” Tony Montana Scarface. For Warp drive. First, we get the math, then we get the physics and then we get the warp drive. We …
A top Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by five gunmen. There have been successful assassinations of leading Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010. This is the first successful assassination since 2012. The Iranian government has difficulty recruiting scientists for …
WKRP is part of the Thanksgiving tradition with its Turkey drop episode. There was a famous line from Mr Carlson. As god is my witness I thought Turkeys could fly. the episode had a marketing promotion go wrong as turkey …
Using rapid-spray plasma processing, the Stanford team was able to produce 40 feet (12 meters) of perovskite film per minute about four times faster than it takes to manufacture a silicon cell. We achieved the highest throughput of any …