Dec 2, 2019
Europe’s Space Agency Joins Mission to Deflect Killer Asteroids
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
The goal is to change the trajectory of a city-killer asteroid.
NASA and the ESA are going to try to reroute an asteroid.
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Dec 2, 2019
How suspicions of spying threaten cross-border science
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: military, quantum physics, science
An intelligence startup warns that China is exploiting Western quantum scientists for military ends. The evidence is thin, but tensions are rising.
Dec 2, 2019
How to Get Solar Power on a Rainy Day? Beam It From Space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
A decades-old idea is finally getting a chance to shine—that is, a chance to send sunshine harvested by a satellite down to Earth.
Dec 2, 2019
Scientists: Ominous Black Hole Is Way Too Big to Exist
Posted by Michael Lance in category: cosmology
Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy.
The black hole dubbed LB-1 is 15,000 light years from Earth.
Dec 2, 2019
Human behaviour follows probabilistic inference patterns
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: futurism
How do human beings perceive their environment and take their decisions? To successfully interact with the immediate environment, for human beings it is not enough to have basic evidence of the world around them. This information by itself is insufficient because it is inherently ambiguous and requires integrating into a particular context to minimize the uncertainty of sensory perception. But, at the same time, the context is ambiguous. For example, am I in a safe or a dange…
According to a study published on Nov. 28 in Nature Communications by Philipp Schustek, Alexandre Hyafil and Rubén Moreno-Bote, researchers at the Center for Brain and Cognition of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Barcelona
Dec 2, 2019
Scientists develop a pill that could reverse obesity and type 2 diabetes
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Dec 2, 2019
Oil-Eating Bacteria Could Help Clean Up Oil Spills
Posted by Paul Battista in category: sustainability
Dec 2, 2019
Cross-linking of the Extracellular Matrix — Dr. William Bains
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
The University of Cambridge’s Dr. William Bains provides a thorough overview of extracellular cross-links in this lecture. He explains that advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) can irreversibly link proteins together, and cross-linking AGEs appear to play an important role in aging. They are particularly problematic in the cardiovascular system, where cross-links cause our arteries to stiffen with age, raising blood pressure and making a patient more likely to suffer from a heart attack or stroke. Cross-links are also implicated in complications from diabetes. Dr. Bains explains the structure and nature of cross-links, where they accumulate in the body, and even what their surprising role is in cooking. He ends by discussing a major AGE-breaking drug that has been tested on humans and touches on potential future therapies.
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Dec 2, 2019
How Joe Tippens Beat Terminal Cancer with $7 Dog Medicine — Interviewed by James Templeton
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCOODjrJhRQ&feature=share
Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, Joe was told he had about 3 months to live. A veterinarian friend of his in western Oklahoma called him and told him about a cancer research experiment he had learned about in which a dog-deworming medicine had cured cancer in the experimental mice… and when the researcher developed cancer, she used the same medicine on herself and her glioblastoma was gone in about 12 weeks.
With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Joe ordered the veterinary product, Fenbendazole, and began taking it. He added a few other things to his regimen such as curcumin and Vitamin E, now known as the “Joe Tippens Protocol”. Three and a half months later, he went in for a scan and he was totally clear!
Dec 2, 2019
Fifth Force of Nature: The Plot Thickens for a Hypothetical “X17” Particle
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
Fresh evidence of an unknown particle that could carry a fifth force of nature gives the NA64 collaboration at CERN a new incentive to continue searches.
In 2015, a team of scientists spotted an unexpected glitch, or “anomaly,” in a nuclear transition that could be explained by the production of an unknown particle. About a year later, theorists suggested that the new particle could be evidence of a new fundamental force of nature, in addition to electromagnetism, gravity and the strong and weak forces. The findings caught worldwide attention and prompted, among other studies, a direct search for the particle by the NA64 collaboration at CERN.
A new paper (pdf) from the same team, led by Attila Krasznahorkay at the Atomki institute in Hungary, now reports another anomaly, in a similar nuclear transition, that could also be explained by the same hypothetical particle.
