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Doc in a Box Knows What Ails You
Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have improved their SpinDx mobile diagnostic device so that it can perform both protein and nucleic acid tests. This lets it identify nearly any cause of...
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The World’s 10 Most Deadly Minerals
This stuff is “natural”… Precious minerals make the modern world go ‘round—they’re used in everything from circuit boards to tableware. They’re also some of the most toxic materials known to science,...
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Eve of Destruction: Doomsday Clock Hovers at 2 Minutes to ‘Midnight’
Today (Jan. 24), experts with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) updated the imaginary timepiece, which measures the proximity of humanity’s destruction based on the position of the clock’s...
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The Cause of Alzheimer’s Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth, Study Claims
From the article: In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer’s disease isn’t just a disease, it’s an infection. While the exact mechanisms of...
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“Sun in a Box”: A New Way to Store Renewable Energy for the Grid
The new design stores heat generated by excess electricity from solar or wind power in large tanks of white-hot molten silicon, and then converts the light from the glowing metal back into electricity...
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This Massive, Nightmare Bee Was Once Thought Extinct. Not Anymore
You’d think that the world’s biggest bee would be hard to lose track of. But Wallace’s Giant Bee — an Indonesian species with a 2.5-inch (6.4 centimeters) wingspan and enormous mandibles — was last...
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Hawaii’s False Missile Alert Shows Americans Have No Idea What to Do in...
Many people in Hawaii faced that very question on Jan. 13, 2018. That morning, at 8:07 a.m. local time, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency sent out an alert advising residents to seek shelter from...
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New Wearable Respiratory Sensor Will Monitor a Child’s Every Breath
Michelle Khine is a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Nine months ago, her newborn son was hospitalized for complications during childbirth and was admitted...
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Identifying Cancer Cell Types in a Hurry
Cancer cells are generally much more metabolically active than healthy cells, so some insight into a cancer cell’s behavior and type can be gathered by analyzing its metabolic activity. But getting an...
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The Oldest Ice on Earth May Be Hiding 1.5 Miles Beneath Antarctica
European scientists looking for some of the oldest ice on the planet have homed in on a particular spot in Antarctica, where they will drill more than 1.5 miles (2.7 kilometers) below the surface of...
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Starship engine ‘crisis’ poses possible bankruptcy risk for SpaceX, Elon Musk...
Elon Musk thinks SpaceX needs to ramp up production of its next-generation Raptor engine soon or face potentially dire consequences, according to media reports. Raptors will power Starship, the huge,...
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Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death
A stem cell researcher who founded his startup with the psychedelic-loving German billionaire Christian Angermayer, Peyer believes that aging is a disease that humans can fight with pharmaceuticals....
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Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is Going to Start Sucking CO2 Out of the Air and...
SpaceX is embarking on a bold new adventure: making rocket fuel out of thin air. “SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel,” CEO Elon Musk tweeted on...
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Commercial AI system enables autonomous detection of vision-threatening...
An artificial intelligence (AI) system that can identify diabetic retinopathy (DR) without physician assistance, including the most serious form that puts patients at risk of blindness, has...
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Out-of-control SpaceX rocket will smash into the moon in weeks
A SpaceX rocket that launched nearly seven years ago is now on course to crash into the moon, astronomers have predicted. The Falcon 9 booster was launched in February 2015 as part of a mission to...
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The Falcon 9 DSCOVR’s booster going to hit the Moon: a video — 7 Feb. 2022
The latest on some space debris… The Falcon 9 DSCOVR’s booster: 7 Feb. 2022. The animation above comes from 268, single, 4-second exposures, remotely taken with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″+Paramount...
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Geomagnetic storm sends 40 SpaceX satellites plummeting to Earth
Elon Musk’s company launched a Falcon 9 rocket bearing the 49 satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday (Feb. 3), but a geomagnetic storm that struck a day later sent the satellites...
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Rogue rocket about to smash into the moon is from China, not SpaceX, experts say
Ooooops!! A rocket stage set to smash into the moon on March 4 is no longer believed to be a piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but rather a booster from a Chinese rocket sent to the moon in 2014,...
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How will Ukraine keep SpaceX’s Starlink internet service online?
Russia’s attacks on Ukraine continue to take lives and destroy infrastructure as the country invades. This infrastructure damage has disrupted internet access in Ukraine, leading a government official...
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Elon Musk says SpaceX focusing on cyber defense after Starlink signals jammed...
Musk and SpaceX sent Starlink terminals to Ukraine at the request of a government official after internet service was disrupted across the country by the Russian invasion. A shipment of Starlink...
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