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Feb 20, 2019

10 Ways Space Could Destroy Civilization As We Know It

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A starry sky on a warm summer’s night is a beautiful view to behold. We tend to focus mainly on the wonders of space—how it could save our planet, how we could make contact with other friendly civilizations, and how we could learn about natural marvels that we can only begin to imagine.

However, behind the twinkling lights hide some of the most dangerous phenomena that we, as a species, have ever witnessed. From burning balls of gas to violent bursts of deadly radiation, here are 10 terrifying ways that space could destroy civilization as we know it.

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Feb 20, 2019

Samsung Just Revealed a $1,980 Folding Smartphone

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Korean tech giant Samsung officially announced its take on the growing foldable smartphone trend at its Galaxy Unpacked event today in San Francisco: the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The device will go on sale for $1,980 on April 26.

We first got a glimpse of the device in November, but the brand has likely been working on the concept for almost half a decade.

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Feb 20, 2019

Could Magnonics Spark the Extinction of Electronics?

Posted by in categories: electronics, existential risks

Watch Could Magnonics Spark the Extinction of Electronics?, a Tech video from Seeker.

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Feb 20, 2019

Scientists Used Gene Therapy to Cure Deafness in Mice

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The mice could hear almost as well as those that were born able to hear.

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Feb 20, 2019

Researchers peer inside the mind of the worm for clues on how memories form

Posted by in category: biological

Try as you might, some events cannot be remembered. Known in psychology as memory blocking, the phenomenon has remained elusive since first described more than half a century ago. Now Donnelly Centre researchers have found that blocking is not due to problems with forming memories, as previously thought, but with memory recall—in worms at least.

By studying this process in the C. elegans worm, a creature only one millimeter long but whose biology has been studied so extensively that the position of all of its 302 in the body is known, the researchers think they’ll be able to pinpoint the cells and molecules at play during learning and memory.

The findings are described in a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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Feb 20, 2019

Neuroscientists Discover New Form of “Wireless” Brain Communication

Posted by in category: neuroscience

A team of scientists studying the brain have discovered a previously unidentified form of “wireless” neural communications in brain tissue.

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Feb 20, 2019

Samsung just announced the first foldable phone you can buy and it will cost $1,980

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Samsung announced the Galaxy Fold phone during a press event in San Francisco. It’s the first foldable phone consumers will be able to buy.

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Feb 20, 2019

Meet the newest known moon of Neptune

Posted by in category: space

The wee world, named after a mythical sea creature, has a surprisingly brutal past.

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Feb 20, 2019

Heart attacks rising among young women, study shows

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

(CNN) — The risk of having a heart attack appears to be rising among young women, according to a new study, and researchers are trying to figure out why.

When analyzed across five-year intervals, the overall proportion of heart attack-related hospital admissions in the United States attributable to young patients, ages 35 to 54, steadily climbed from 27% in 1995–99 to 32% in 2010–14, with the largest increase observed in young women, according to the study, published recently in the journal Circulation.

During those periods, there was a rise in these admissions from 21% to 31% among young women, compared with 30% to 33% among young men, the study showed.

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Feb 20, 2019

Tennessee Teen Builds Working Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

A Tennessee teen has become the youngest person in America—and possibly the world—to build a working nuclear reactor and achieve fusion.

Jackson Oswalt, now 14, set out on the ambitious project when he was just 12, according to USA Today, and achieved nuclear fusion in his Memphis home just hours before he turned 13 on Jan. 19, 2018.

“A couple of years back, all I did was play video games,” he told the news outlet. “And I decided I didn’t want to spend all my life doing video games.”

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