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Apr 13, 2020

The Fictional Future of Cyberpunk Is About to Come True

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

The real future may be more Amazon and less androids, but the dystopian power dynamics are hard to miss.

Apr 13, 2020

COVID-19 Patients Given Unproven Drug In Texas Nursing Home In ‘Disconcerting’ Move

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Okay now I agree that Hyroxychloroquine works. Ventilators have a mortality rate of 80% yet people keep trashing this drug, while people like that French doctor say it works.

Doctors at nursing home: “It’s actually going well. People are getting better,” Armstrong told NPR, adding that after just a handful of days, some of the 39 patients on the medication are showing signs of improvement.”

“Paid Professionals:

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Apr 13, 2020

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.

Apr 13, 2020

Trailblazing Mars helicopter attached to Perseverance rover for July launch

Posted by in categories: space, transportation

Technicians attached the first-of-its-kind Mars Helicopter to Perseverance’s belly on Monday (April 6) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the rover is being prepped for its planned July 17 launch.

Apr 13, 2020

Final Russian rocket launched NASA Astronaut, now SpaceX will ignite a new era in American spaceflight

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, space travel

Featured Image Source: NASA

NASA has been highly dependent on booking Russian spacecraft for almost a decade. Ever since the Space Shuttle fleet was grounded in 2011, the United States has not conducted manned flights to space. Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, a final Russian Soyuz rocket launched a NASA Astronaut for the last time to the International Space Station (ISS). On April 9, the Soyuz-2.1 rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia, at 4:05 a.m. Eastern time. Then the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft was deployed into orbit about 9 minutes later. After a 6-hour trip, the spacecraft docked to the orbiting laboratory. Onboard the Soyuz spacecraft were American Astronaut Chris Cassidy, and Russian Cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner. They all makeup Expedition 63, the crew will stay at the orbiting laboratory for 6 months. Due to the coronavirus, staff during the launch was limited in order to avoid spreading the COVID-19 respiratory illness. Governments from across the world have issued ‘stay at home’ orders to avoid straining healthcare systems. NASA and Roscosmos took extra precautions by limiting contact with Astronauts so they would not take any illnesses to ISS. “I knew I was going to be in quarantine these two weeks, but what’s really different is everybody else around us is in quarantine, too,” Cassidy said in a prelaunch interview on NASA TV. “It’ll be a really, really skeletal crew in the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which will be quite different.”

After the successful Soyuz launch, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stated:

Apr 13, 2020

Five months on, what scientists now know about the coronavirus

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Medical researchers have been studying everything we know about Covid-19. What have they learned – and is it enough to halt the pandemic?

Apr 13, 2020

Elon Musk reveals the reason behind Tesla’s cabin-facing camera

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Elon Musk has revealed the reason behind Tesla’s cabin-facing camera that has been in the Model 3 for years without being used.

When Tesla launched the Model 3, it equipped the vehicle with a standard cabin-facing camera located in the rearview mirror.

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Apr 13, 2020

A new machine can translate brain activity directly into written sentences

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Translating up to 50 sentences at once, it’s about as accurate as human transcription.

Apr 13, 2020

WHO Says 70 Vaccines in the Works, With Three Leading Candidates

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

There are 70 coronavirus vaccines in development globally, with three candidates already being tested in human trials, according to the World Health Organization, as drugmakers race to find a cure for the deadly pathogen.

Apr 13, 2020

From The Hospital To The Lab, Black Scientists Are Fighting COVID-19

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Here are three Black scientists and doctors making a difference during the COVID-19 pandemic.