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Jun 15, 2020

The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

I remember I looked over a study from the Lancet. I questioned it. I have also read other studies, and I have questioned them. At least I know my questioning was within reason now. People can not spike studies and expect to get away with it, as the truth always comes out in the end.


Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.

Jun 15, 2020

Moderna aims to make 1 b. coronavirus vaccine doses per year

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

If there are only enough vaccines for a fraction of the world who will get them first?

Jun 15, 2020

Physicists May Have Solved Long-Standing Mystery of Matter and Antimatter

Posted by in category: physics

An element that could hold the key to the long-standing mystery around why there is much more matter than antimatter in our Universe has been discovered by a University of the West of Scotland (UWS)-led team of physicists.

The UWS and University of Strathclyde academics have discovered, in research published in the journal Nature Physics, that one of the isotopes of the element thorium possesses the most pear-shaped nucleus yet to be discovered. Nuclei similar to thorium-228 may now be able to be used to perform new tests to try find the answer to the mystery surrounding matter and antimatter.

UWS’s Dr. David O’Donnell, who led the project, said: “Our research shows that, with good ideas, world-leading nuclear physics experiments can be performed in university laboratories.”

Jun 15, 2020

Terra® Robot Mower

Posted by in categories: mapping, robotics/AI

IRobot introduces® Robot Mower. With wireless boundaries and Imprint smart mapping,® knows your lawn like only you do.

Jun 15, 2020

What Happens in Your Brain When You Make Memories?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Scientists are using new tech to decode how our brains remember.

Jun 15, 2020

Clone a voice using just a 5 second sample with the help of AI

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

This post is about some fairly recent improvements in the field of AI-based voice cloning. If we have hours and hours of footage of a particular voice at our disposal then that voice can be cloned using existing methods. But this recent breakthrough enables us to do the same using…

Jun 15, 2020

Human Eggs Can Choose the Sperm They Prefer

Posted by in category: chemistry

While people usually put a lot of effort into finding a partner, recent research suggests that our bodies are choosy in their own ways. Chemical signals that are released by human eggs can attract sperm, and new work has shown that eggs also use these molecules to ‘select’ the sperm they want. The findings, reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, showed that eggs also don’t always pick the same sperm; eggs from different women can opt for sperm from different men.

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Jun 15, 2020

Cutting-edge research shows that making art benefits the brain

Posted by in categories: biological, health, media & arts, neuroscience

In other words, practicing the arts can be used to build capacity for managing one’s mental and emotional well-being.

Neuroesthetics — With recent advances in biological, cognitive, and neurological science, there are new forms of evidence on the arts and the brain. For example, researchers have used biofeedback to study the effects of visual art on neural circuits and neuroendocrine markers to find biological evidence that visual art promotes health, wellness, and fosters adaptive responses to stress.

Jun 15, 2020

Why scientists want you to realize that being sensitive is a good thing

Posted by in category: genetics

A new study is the first to quantify the proportion of differences in sensitivity that can be explained by genetic factors.

Jun 14, 2020

Army Futures Command general describes how future wars will look

Posted by in categories: economics, military

Warrior: The Army must have some major efforts looking at what war may look like in 20 to 30 years?

Murray: “We have something called ‘Team Ignite.’ It is not a standing organization but a cross-functional team between my technologists and my scientists. One part is responsible for the technology at Combat Capabilities Development Command, another is a ‘future concepts’ unit at Fort Eustis, Va. and my concept writers at our Futures and Concepts Center. This forces the people who are thinking about future concepts to take technology into account because they technologists are right there with them. This forces them to think about how technology will change the concept… also it directly feeds what we should be investing in our science and technology areas.”


Gen. John Murray, commander of Army Futures Command, explains what future wars will look like.

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