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Apr 14, 2021

Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture

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Inside the symmetries of a crystal shape, a postdoctoral researcher has unearthed a counterexample to a basic conjecture about multiplicative inverses.

Apr 14, 2021

Donna Butts, Exec. Director, Generations United — Health, Aging, And Intergenerational Collaboration

Posted by in categories: innovation, life extension

Donna butts — executive director, generations united — focusing on the psycho-social aspects of healthy aging and wellness.


Donna Butts is the Executive Director of Generations United, an organization with a mission to improve the lives of children, youth, and older people through intergenerational collaboration, public policies, and programs for the enduring benefit of all, a position she has held since 1997. For more than 30 years, Ms. Butts has worked tirelessly to promote the well-being of children, youth and older adults through nonprofit organizations across the country and around the world. She began her career in her home state of Oregon as a youth worker with the YWCA, where she worked one-on-one with teens and saw the positive effects of intergenerational programs firsthand.

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Apr 14, 2021

Scientists are using natural-language algorithms to predict Covid-19 variants

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science

Scientists are using natural-language algorithms to try understand which coronavirus mutations will be most infectious.

Apr 14, 2021

Will Covid vaccines protect us against new variants? | Julian Tang

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Covid variants will be the next big challenge. Can vaccines protect us?


All viruses mutate. They do this to adapt and survive better in their specific host. The virus that causes Covid-19 is no different: it has moved from the animal realm, where it most likely originated in bats, to the human world. Since then, scientists have been locked in a battle between the spread of the virus and the ability to immunise against it. We now have the vaccines to protect us against Covid-19 – but what happens when this virus mutates further, as it likely will? ”“{“uid”:0.9208093413637026,” hostPeerName”:” https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.

Apr 14, 2021

Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory

Posted by in category: neuroscience

After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why.

Apr 14, 2021

After 48-year search, physicists discover ultra-rare ‘triple glueball’ particle

Posted by in category: particle physics

A never-before-seen particle has revealed itself in the hot guts of two particle colliders, confirming a half-century-old theory.

Scientists predicted the existence of the particle, known as the odderon, in 1973, describing it as a rare, short-lived conjointment of three smaller particles known as gluons. Since then, researchers have suspected that the odderon might appear when protons slammed together at extreme speeds, but the precise conditions that would make it spring into existence remained a mystery. Now, after comparing data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the 17-mile-long (27 kilometers) ring-shaped atom smasher near Geneva that’s famous for discovering the Higgs boson, and the Tevatron, a now-defunct 3.9-mile-long (6.3 km) American collider that slammed protons and their antimatter twins (antiprotons) together in Illinois until 2011, researchers report conclusive evidence of the odderon’s existence.

Apr 14, 2021

SpaceX adds to previous equity round, pushing Elon Musk’s last raise total to nearly $1.2 billion

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, space travel

Elon Musk’s SpaceX added more money to its February equity raise, with the amended total reaching nearly $1.2 billion.


Elon Musk’s SpaceX added more money to its most recent equity raise, according to a securities filing on Wednesday.

SpaceX held a second close of about $314 million, adding to the $850 million that CNBC reported the company raised in February. The amendment brings the round’s new total equity raised to $1.16 billion, which the company raised at a valuation of about $74 billion.

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Apr 14, 2021

Gene therapy offers hope to those with ultra-rare genetic illnesses

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

The reality is Benny and Josh both have Canavan disease, a fatal inherited brain disorder. They are buckled into wheelchairs, don’t speak, and can’t control their limbs.

On Thursday, April 8, in Dayton, Ohio, Landsman and his family rolled the older boy, Benny, into a hospital where over several hours, neurosurgeons drilled bore holes into his skull and injected trillions of viral particles carrying the correct version of a gene his body is missing.

Apr 14, 2021

All Eyes on Alpha Centauri

Posted by in categories: futurism, innovation

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Future Breakthroughs in Technology and in the Search for Life: Take Aways from the last two days at the Breakthrough Discuss Meeting.


Takeaways from this week’s Breakthrough Discuss meeting.

Apr 14, 2021

Superbug killer: New nanotech destroys bacteria and fungal cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

The material is one of the thinnest antimicrobial coatings developed to date and is effective against a broad range of drug-resistant bacteria and fungal cells, while leaving human cells unharmed.


Importantly, the BP also began to self-degrade in that time and was entirely disintegrated within 24 hours—an important feature that shows the material would not accumulate in the body.

The identified the optimum levels of BP that have a deadly antimicrobial effect while leaving human cells healthy and whole.

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