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Billionaire Ethereum boss wants FAKE wombs so women don’t have to carry children
THE CREATOR of the second biggest cryptocurrency in the world has landed himself in hot water for saying women should get FAKE wombs. 27-year-old crypto titan
Nasa wants to turn POO and even astronaut breath into ‘space gold’ with genius waste system
NASA is trying to work out how to recycle human waste, including poo and the carbon dioxide we breathe out, into useful products. Recycling waste could help astronauts go on longer missions
The Right Chemistry: What a classic painting tells us about vacuums — and science
Will the bird live or die? That is the question we are left pondering when contemplating Joseph Wright’s marvellous
To retain plum mining posts, civil engineers resist move to hire specialists
Civil engineers want to retain the plum posts of the
Booster Shots Needed Against Omicron, CDC Studies Show
NEW YORK — Three studies
Los Angeles weighs phasing out oil and gas drilling
The University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles has a lot in common with urban areas across the U.S.: A dense population with lots of businesses and housing. A cluster of Click to Continue » ...
How well do explanation methods for machine-learning models work?
Imagine a team of physicians using a neural network to detect cancer in mammogram images. Even if this machine-learning model seems to be performing well, it might be focusing on image features that are accidentally correlated with tumors, like a watermark or
Adult blood cancer-causing mutations occur in early childhood
Genetic mutations causing a type of adult blood cancer occur in childhood or even in the womb, new research has shown. Image credit: Piqsels, free public domain licence A new study, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, has traced
Smarter catalysts through 'induced activation'
Researchers propose a novel method of significantly enhancing the catalytic efficiency of materials already in broad commercial usage, a process they have termed 'induced activation.' <!-- more --> ...
Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars craters
New research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years. <!-- more --> ...
Scientists build 'valves' in DNA to shape biological information flows
Scientists have developed new biological parts that are able to shape the flow of cellular processes along DNA. <!-- more --> ...
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
If you’re interested in alien invasions, vivid dreamscapes or adorable cats, this collection of streaming picks may be just right for you. ...
Infrared goggles and vibrating armband help people who are blind ‘see’
An array of vibrating pads can convey a low-resolution image of a location to help people who are blind navigate ...
A Brain-Dead Person Just Scored Two Kidneys From Genetically Modified Pigs
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham transplanted kidneys derived from genetically modified pigs into a brain-dead person last year as part of human preclinical trials, . Organ transplant from another species recently made big news, a heart
Sunspot Erupts With Two Solar Flares, Sending Coronal Mass Ejection Our Way
Among the 60 sunspots currently on the surface of the Sun, there’s one that has been furiously active this week. Spot AR2929 has released not one but two solar flares followed by coronal mass ejections. Luckily, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which
Top performer in township schools wants to study Actuarial Science
Marischen Mamabolo was relieved when her son Raymond was named the top performer from Gauteng schools.
Groundbreaking light sources can increase effectiveness and security of transferring quantum information
Entanglement is a central phenomenon of quantum mechanics. It enables two photons to be connected with each other regardless of distance, and it is the basis of the immense potential of quantum technologies. However, the continuing development of quantum
Biden plans new effort to retain international science and tech students
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The Biden administration plans to unveil new steps on Friday to retain international students who specialize in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as part of its effort to counter China, officials said. The
Researchers date the oldest known human skull at 233,000 years
(credit: Vidal et al 2022) The oldest known Homo sapiens fossil is about 36,000 years older than previously thought, according to a recent study. Volcanologists matched a layer of ash above the fossil skull to an eruption of southern
The Hydrogen Stream: World’s first full-scale pilot plant for extracting hydrogen from natural gas pipeline
Germany-based Linde Engineering has started up a full-scale pilot plant in Dormagen to showcase how hydrogen can be separated from natural gas streams using its membrane technology. Furthermore, Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy developer Masdar has teamed up
Sodium-ion battery tech gets commercial testing in UK
Harwell Campus will provide a testbed for energy storage technologies coming from three U.K.-based innovative businesses, bringing their solutions one step closer to the market. UK-based battery manufacturer AMTE Power, battery intelligence tech provider Brill
Webinar on data science MBA on January 23
It is being held by INSOFE along withThe Hindu Education Plusunder the Study Abroad series ...
14 students from 4 schools in Thane district for National Children’s Science Congress
Seven teams from four
World's longest-lasting BUBBLE maintains its shape for a record 465 days — 200,000 times longer ...
Here's one for the Guinness Book of Records — researchers from the University of Lille created the world's longest-lasting bubble, which kept its shape for 465 days. This is a whopping 200,000 times longer than regular soap bubbles, which typically last for a
Even as Omicron plateaus, L.A. County officials recommend avoiding gatherings
Even as the winter Omicron surge flattens, Los Angeles County health officials are urging the public to continue avoiding nonessential gatherings, saying coronavirus transmission remains at one of the highest levels ever seen in the two-year-old pandemic’s
27 Practical Valentine's Day Gift Ideas for Tech Enthusiasts
Rooting back to the Roman festival Lupercalia, held in mid-February to celebrate the coming of spring and fertility, Valentine's Day is a magical time when partners show their affection and intimacy to one another through various gifts and gratulations. With
243-Year-Old Impossible Puzzle Solved Using Quantum Entanglement
Over 240 years ago, famous mathematician Leonhard Euler came up with a question: if six army regiments each have six officers of six different ranks, can they be arranged in a square formation such that no row or column repeats either a rank or regiment? After
Jeff Bezos Is Looking To Defy Death – This Is What We Know About The Science Of Ageing
Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the ambitious new anti-ageing company with billions of investment. So what does science really say about this? Could we beat ageing?
Iran says in talks with Russia to build nuclear power units
Tehran: Iran is in talks with Russia over the construction of two new units at its sole nuclear power plant, the Islamic republic’s atomic energy agency said on Friday. “Negotiations are underway between Tehran and Moscow to construct the second and third
Researchers will use the world’s most accurate radiation detector in quantum computers
In September 2020, researchers at Aalto University and VTT revealed that they had developed a high-speed nano-scale radiation detector—a bolometer—fast enough to read the qubits in a quantum computer. Now, Professor Mikko Möttönen’s team and their partners
