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Dec 3, 2020

Galaxy Survives Black Hole’s Feast – “Goes Against All the Current Scientific Predictions”

Posted by in categories: alien life, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mf3QSEFVSZE

The hungriest of black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material they put an end to the life of their host galaxy. This feasting process is so intense that it creates a highly energetic object called a quasar – one of the brightest objects in the universe – as the spinning matter is sucked into the black hole ’s belly. Now, researchers have found a galaxy that is surviving the black hole’s ravenous forces by continuing to birth new stars – about 100 Sun-sized stars a year.

The discovery from NASA ’s telescope on an airplane, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, can help explain how massive galaxies came to be, even though the universe today is dominated by galaxies that no longer form stars. The results are published in the Astrophysical Journal.

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Dec 3, 2020

Shrinking massive neural networks used to model language

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Deep learning neural networks can be massive, demanding major computing power. In a test of the “lottery ticket hypothesis,” MIT researchers have found leaner, more efficient subnetworks hidden within BERT models. The discovery could make natural language processing more accessible.

Dec 3, 2020

Dark energy camera snaps deepest photo yet of galactic siblings

Posted by in categories: computing, cosmology

Images from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) reveal a striking family portrait of our galactic neighbors—the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The images represent a portion of the second data release from the deepest, most extensive survey of the Magellanic Clouds. The observations consist of roughly 4 billion measurements of 360 million objects.

A sprawling portrait of two astronomical galactic neighbors presents a new perspective on the swirls of stars, gas, and dust making up the nearby dwarf known as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds—a pair of dwarf satellite galaxies to our Milky Way. While this isn’t the first survey to map these nearby cosmic siblings—the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) is the most extensive survey yet.

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Dec 3, 2020

Maya Water System Discoveries Show the Ancient Civilization in a New Light

Posted by in category: futurism

Elaborate water and irrigation systems, overlooked for decades by archaeologists, are getting their due.

Dec 3, 2020

‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists.

Dec 3, 2020

China Has Made Drone Warfare Global

Posted by in categories: drones, military

The United States must Join the market or be left behind.

Dec 3, 2020

BioAge lands $90 million; gears up for clinical trials in 2021

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, robotics/AI

Longevity biotech firm BioAge Labs is readying itself for clinical trials after raising a whopping $90 million Series C funding round. The company revealed it will be moving its lead platform-derived therapies, BGE-117 and BGE-175, into Phase 2 clinical trials in the first half of 2021.

Longevity. Technology: As the developer of an AI platform that maps the molecular pathways impacting human Longevity, we’ve followed developments at BioAge with great interest. With two compounds ready to enter the clinic next year, and more on the way, this company is fast-becoming one of Longevity’s most exciting prospects.

The new funds will be used to develop BioAge’s portfolio of therapies for increasing healthspan and lifespan, as well as to augment its AI platform, and further expand its capabilities to test drug candidates in predictive models of human diseases of aging.

Dec 3, 2020

Core: 91 billion years till the earths solidifies

Posted by in category: futurism

But maybe an artificial earths core could allow for permanent inhabitantation.


Earth’s core is the very hot, very dense center of our planet.

Dec 3, 2020

CDC Issues Warning Against Travel To Mexico

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The CDC issued a level four warning last month, it’s most severe, advising against all travel to Mexico.

However, those who choose to travel to Mexico should get a COVID-19 test between three and five days after they return. They should also quarantine at home for seven days.

Dec 3, 2020

Oral drug blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Sounds important.


Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours, researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University have discovered.

The group led by Dr. Richard Plemper, Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State, originally discovered that the drug is potent against .

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