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Dec 14, 2018
12 Creative Virtual Reality Uses Businesses Should Consider
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) has made massive bounds in recent years. We’re now seeing VR as an innovative and creative experience catered to customers.
To find out about t he creative ways entrepreneurs are using VR — and which methods have true applicability — I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council the following question:
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Dec 13, 2018
Buzz Aldrin To Steph Curry: ‘Go Ask The Russians’ If We Landed On The Moon
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space travel
Buzz to Steph Curry on the Moon landings: “Go ask the Russians…” Priceless. #buzzaldrin #Moon #NASA #MadhuThangavelu https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/12/12/buzz-aldrin-steph…sBqDDiE-k4
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The second man to walk on the moon doesn’t want to talk about NBA superstar Steph Curry’s theory that it never happened.
Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, one of three men who took part in the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, was at USC Tuesday night to hear presentations by students on why the U.S. should attempt to return to the moon.
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Dec 13, 2018
How I discovered new worlds (and how you can, too)
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Thinking of trying something new today? How does “discovering new planets while sitting comfortably at home” sound? Learn how ordinary citizens can make a WORLD of difference in the ongoing hunt for exoplanets.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to discover new planets? Learn how Planet Hunters TESS shows us how to find new worlds far away from our Sun.
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Dec 13, 2018
Bluetooth Smart Pill Pairs With Your Phone From Inside Your Stomach
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, mobile phones
A tiny piece of 3D-printed tech could foreshadow the future of medicine.
A team from MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has created a 3D-printed smart pill that can release medications in the stomach and monitor temperature for up to a month at a time — and they believe they’ve only scratched the surface of its capabilities.
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Dec 13, 2018
Alzheimer’s could be triggered by medical procedures, study suggests
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
The seeds of Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted through medical procedures, scientists have found, leading experts to call for the monitoring of blood transfusions from the elderly and those with a family history of dementia.
In 2015, researchers at University College London discovered that people who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) following treatments with human growth hormone also showed signs of Alzheimer’s in their brains after death.
The scientists tracked down vials of the same hormone and found that it did indeed contain misfolded amyloid-beta proteins, capable of setting off the deadly chain reaction which can lead to dementia.
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Dec 13, 2018
Historic Virgin Galactic Flight Reminds Us That ‘Space’ Is Just a Concept, Man
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Earlier today, Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into space, a historic first for the private company. But at a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles (82.68 kilometers), the spaceplane fell 10.6 miles (17.32 kilometers) short of the Karman line—the internationally recognized boundary separating the atmosphere from space. Prompting the inevitable question: What the hell is space, anyway?
Before we nitpick Virgin Galactic’s achievement, let’s give credit where it’s due.
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Dec 13, 2018
Is a cancer vaccine on the horizon?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Dec 13, 2018
The New Bad Tick Is Going to Take Over Half the United States, Study Finds
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, sustainability
A disease-carrying, newly invasive tick to the United States, the Asian longhorned tick, is poised to spread across much of North America, suggests a new study published Thursday in the Journal of Medical Entomology. According to the study, the tick might be able to live anywhere from Southeastern Canada to most of the eastern half of the U.S. and even parts of the West Coast.
The Asian longhorned tick, or Haemaphysalis longicornis, made an unwelcome splash last year, when researchers and health officials discovered it on a pet sheep in New Jersey. Any hopes that the discovery was an isolated incident faded away this year, with sightings of the tick popping up again in New Jersey and eight other states this past spring and summer (Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia). Since 2017, the tick has been found on pets, farm animals, and at least two people in the U.S., and it’s possible that it might have made its way here at least as early as 2010.
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