U.S. researchers say they have, for the first time ever, “functionally cured” an HIV-infected infant, a breakthrough that could one day end HIV infection in children.
Jokes aside, this is really interesting. Personally I'm not very worried about the healthiness of such "meat", and knowing the miracles that the food industry can do with "meat-like products", I see potential for genuine large scale meat production this way within my lifetime. Not necessarily for "bacon", but sausages, minced meat etc.
I wonder what the nutritional value of such 'meats' would be. Seems the more something is messed with by humans, the more nutrition it loses.
Happy 60th Anniversary DNA! Genentech employees celebrating the anniversary of the discovery of DNA by forming a human DNA strand. Over 2,600 participated!
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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
This video is really cool to me. I love how they built a realistic 3D model of a 1980 era mall with all interior framing and details to come up with this forensic report on the reason for the roof failure.
Also, Dollarama and the Bargain shop 10 feet from each other!
Scanning the heavens, you might very well miss the star Kepler-62. It’s a rather typical star, slightly smaller, cooler, and more orange than the Sun, much like tens of billions of other stars in our galaxy. But it holds a surprise: It’s orbited by at least five planets… and two of them are Earth-sized and orbit the star in its habitable zone!
The two planets, called Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, are both bigger than Earth, but not by much; they are 1.6 and 1.4 times the Earth’s diameter, respectively. Kepler-62e orbits the star every 122 days, while Kepler-62f, farther out, takes about 267 days. Given the temperature and size of the parent star, this means that both planets are inside the zone around the star where water on the surface could be a liquid
Scanning the heavens, you might very well miss the star Kepler-62. It’s a rather typical star, slightly smaller, cooler, and more orange than the Sun, much like tens of billions of other stars in our galaxy. But it holds a surprise: It’s orbited by at least five planets… and two of them are Earth-sized and orbit the star in its habitable zone!
The two planets, called Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, are both bigger than Earth, but not by much; they are 1.6 and 1.4 times the Earth’s diameter, respectively. Kepler-62e orbits the star every 122 days, while Kepler-62f, farther out, takes about 267 days. Given the temperature and size of the parent star, this means that both planets are inside the zone around the star where water on the surface could be a liquid
These look like great candidates to be habitable. It is too bad they are so far away (1200 light years). Hopefully we can find some similar ones closer to Sol, so we can go adventuring some day.
The folks at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory have updated their comparison of the best candidates for habitability: (Behind tag for size.)
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Possibly a stupid question; but are they planning on using that as a vessel to bring equipment/supplies to the ISS? And if so, how do they plan on bringing it back out of low orbit and landing it vertically?
Grasshopper is being developed and tested by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in order to assist development of the reusable Falcon 9 and reusable Falcon Heavy rockets, which will require vertical landings of the near-empty Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy first-stage booster tanks and engine assemblies.
It's so depressing discovering all these potentially habitable planets and knowing that we'll never be able to actually go and visit them in our lifetimes. Truly a selfless investment.
It's so depressing discovering all these potentially habitable planets and knowing that we'll never be able to actually go and visit them in our lifetimes. Truly a selfless investment.
*sigh*
I've accepted we won't be getting outside of our solar system in my life time. If we can just SEE another habitable planet in my lifetime I'll die satisfied. So for that, what I most look forward to is the release of the James Webb Telescope and any advancement past that.
With such a small population and most people descending from the same original settlers, I guess accidental incest is common enough in Iceland that people need to be careful.
To be fair, this is an issue on a lot of island communities.
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Do take issue with one thing, the incest part of the app is part of a longstanding joke in Iceland and urban legend. What the app is and is from is the online database of Iceland's geneology, which has no equal.
People are complete nerds when it comes to this history, and this app was a way to bring the online database so people could more easily look up friends, co-workers, etc..
The title of that article is so absurd, and its obviously not written with any journalistic seriousness as it gets the premise completely wrong. But then again the app was made with a sense of humour about this long standing joke in Iceland, it would be hard for a foreigner to get it.
Just for fun I quickly went back on of family trees for myself, here's the oldest relative I could find. Which btw you can read about in the Sagas
It's so depressing discovering all these potentially habitable planets and knowing that we'll never be able to actually go and visit them in our lifetimes. Truly a selfless investment.
*sigh*
My goal is to not die for at least another hundred years, since apparently the first human who will live past 200 years is already alive today. Maybe there will be some crazy warp drive breakthrough by then
