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Nov 19, 2020
Scientists sequence genome of bowhead whale—longest-lived mammal
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have sequenced the genome of the bowhead whale, estimated to live for more than 200 years with low incidence of disease.
Published in the journal Cell Reports, the research could offer new insight into how animals and humans could achieve a long and healthy life.
Scientists compared the genome with those from other shorter-lived mammals to discover genetic differences unique to the bowhead whale.
Nov 19, 2020
Particle Physicists Continue Empty Promises
Posted by Pat Maechler in categories: cosmology, finance, particle physics
The CERN in Geneva has become a sink for public money.
At the same time there’s a lack of funding in other research areas, that would be much more urgent!
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Nov 19, 2020
Kidney Function: The Missing Link In The TMAO-Health And Disease Story?
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in categories: biotech/medical, food, health
Here’s my latest video!
Animal products, including meat, cheese, and eggs contain carnitine and choline, metabolites that are converted by gut bacteria into TMA, which is then converted by the liver into TMAO. Plasma levels of TMAO are associated with an increased risk of disease and death, so should we limit intake of these animal products?
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Nov 19, 2020
Singaporeans in space: the start-ups powering city state’s ascent
Posted by Derick Lee in category: space
The space industry is opening up new frontiers in Southeast Asia, with Singapore fast emerging as a regional hub for a growing tribe of scientists, inventors, designers and so-called astropreneurs with their sights set firmly on the stars.
Entrepreneurs and tech start-ups have joined the space race. Singapore is fast emerging as a space technology hub, bringing together investors, scientists, designers and inventors.
Nov 19, 2020
Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn’t Pitch Black After All
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Scientists have used a NASA probe way out in space, beyond Pluto, to measure visible light that’s not connected to any known source like stars or galaxies.
Nov 19, 2020
AI startup Graphcore says most of the world won’t train AI, just distill it
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Most people won’t have the kind of money it takes to train trillion-parameter models of deep learning. Instead they’ll simply shave off what they want.
Nov 19, 2020
Human Brain’s Neuronal Network Has Similarities to Cosmic Web, Study Claims
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: physics, space
In a paper published this week in the journal Frontiers of Physics, a duo of researchers from Italy investigated the similarities between the network of neurons in the human brain and the cosmic network of galaxies.
Nov 19, 2020
NASA Astronaut will sleep inside SpaceX Crew Dragon while docked to the Space Station
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
SpaceX launched NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronauts atop a Falcon 9 rocket aboard the Crew Dragon Resiliece spacecraft on a voyage to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. After a 27-hour trip, Crew-1 NASA astronauts Michael, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi arrived to the orbiting laboratory on Monday night. Dragon Resilience docked to the station’s Harmony module where it will remain until the astronauts head back to Earth. “SpaceX, this is Resilience, excellent job right down the center,” radioed SpaceX mission control in Hawthorne, California. “SpaceX and NASA, congratulations. This is a new era of operational flights to the International Space Station from the Florida coast.”
Upon arrival Crew-1 astronauts were welcomed by Expedition 64 crew members, NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov. Crew-1 astronauts will stay at the space station for six months to conduct science research. This is the first long-duration ISS crew in history that features seven members. The space station does not have enough sleeping quarters for all members, only for six. So, one of the Crew-1 astronauts will sleep aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
NASA Astronaut is Commander of the Crew-1 mission, he decided he will be who sleeps inside Crew Dragon while its docked at the space station. said he will sleep inside the spacecraft until another sleeping pod is delivered to ISS, which could arrive three months from now or after the Crew-1 is scheduled to return. He shared that it is an old tradition for a commander to sleep inside the spacecraft. —“I think there’s a tradition that oftentimes in the shuttle days, the commander usually slept in the cockpit,” said during a press conference. “So, at least for me, it just felt right that was where I needed to be. If any of us were going to sleep there, I felt like it should have been me.”