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New findings strongly suggest that COVID-19 may negatively affect sperm quality and reduce fertility in men, according to research published in the Journal Reproduction. The study indicates that COVID-19 infection can cause increased sperm cell death, inflammation, and oxidative stress, resulting in lower sperm quality and potentially reducing fertility.
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General Motors, in partnership with Navistar, says it will focus on fuel cells for long haul trucks. According to reports, they will include a tie-in with a company called OneH2 to produce hydrogen and control the storage, delivery, and designing systems.
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Apparently, Apple quietly added a new iMessage security feature in iOS 14 called BlastDoor. BlastDoor is a new sandbox inside iMessage that receives and sanitizes all iMessage content before it’s shown to the user.
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The term "3D printing" can refer to a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined, or solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object, with the material being added together (such as liquids or powder grains being fused together), typically layer by layer.
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Today we are discussing teeth. Our ancestors had much bigger jaws than we do, which helped them chew a tough diet of roots, nuts, and leaves. And what meat they ate, they tore apart with their teeth, all of which led to worn-down chompers that needed replacing.
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Cancer Removal
Today is Thursday, February 4, 2021. At the top of our news, a new laser system to aid in cancer treatment will help surgeons remove cells without damaging healthy tissue. Scientists proved in the lab that the laser system could remove cancer cells in a way that does not damage the surrounding, healthy cells. Those healthy cells were within the width of a human hair.....
Xenobots
An African clawed frog, in biology, it is known as Xenopus laevis. This frog typically lives in sub-Saharan Africa's streams and ponds, scavenging for food that it rips apart with its feet. In January, researchers at the University of Vermont and Tufts University published a report that gave the amphibian a different lot in life. They harvested its embryonic skin and heart cells and reassembled the living matter into robotic devices — transforming Xenopus into xenobot. Xenobots are the first robots made entirely of living materials....
Doomsday Glacier
If Thwaites melts away, that much-larger ice block will add water to our oceans as well, further driving up sea level rise. If and when this might happen, however, is what researchers are trying to learn. Scientists know that Thwaites Glacier is very important, but still, how much and how fast sea levels increase into the decades and centuries is still uncertain....
Blue Eyes
I’ve heard that the blue waters near ocean glaciers are beautiful to behold. The same could be said about blue eyes. New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation that took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today....
NASA's Perseverance
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is just 22 days from landing on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft has about 25.6 million miles remaining in its 292.5-million-mile journey and is currently closing that distance at 1.6 miles per second....
Human Evolution
When we think of human evolution, our minds wander back to the millions of years it took natural selection to produce modern-day man. Recent research suggests that humans continue to evolve....
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Today is September 10th, 2020. The first use of prosthetics goes back to the fifth Egyptian Dynasty that ruled between 2750 to 2625 BC. The earliest known written reference to an artificial limb was made around 500 BC. Thousands of changes in technology changed the artificial limb over time, now researchers have created an artificial skin that is capable of reacting to pain just like human skin.
#artificalskin
According to a leaked FBI bulletin, cops are worried that criminals are using internet-connected smart doorbells, such as Amazon’s Ring doorbells, to spy on law enforcement.
#CriminalsAndDoorbells
For the first time, engineers built optical tweezers capable of grabbing individual bio-molecules and proteins without damaging them — this is a vast improvement to technology.
#LaserTweezers
Amazon Prime Air, the retail giant’s drone delivery project, was just designated an “air carrier” by the Federal Aviation Administration, meaning they can start to test drone package deliveries.
#AmazonDrones
Using carefully-crafted nanomaterials, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology scientists were able to bend light in a way no natural material could accomplish. The result? The first hologram movie of the Earth spinning on its axis.
#Hologram
In another breakthrough, a team of French scientists created an anti-gravity levitating fluid that allows a tiny boat to float on the top and bottom of the fluid. it, like flipping gravity on its head.
#Antigravity
Scientists recently found a new victim of climate change and pollution: The blackmouth catshark that had its teeth, skin, and other features dissolved away from swimming in contaminated water.
#PollutionAndSharks
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Today, August 27th, 2020. Here is something interesting that happened earlier this month. NASA released it’s finding from a trip to the dwarf planet Ceres on August 10th.
#NASA #ceres
Earlier this month, researches discovered something frightening. Many patients that had COVID-19 exhibit neurological symptoms, from loss of smell to delirium to a higher risk of stroke. They are worried that COVID-19 survivors may face a wave of cog na tive issues.
#COVID-19 #COVIDandNeurological
NASA is soon going to start building its latest spacecraft called Psyc-he. The NASA mission will be to a 70 mile-wide asteroid named ‘16 Psyc-he’. The spacecraft cleared the ‘critical design’ phase last month.
#psyche-16
A team of Chinese scientists just improved the way they can send a quantum-encrypted message, managing to beam one all-the-way down from a satellite. That twisted a lot of cybersecurity heads around the world.
#quantummessages
According to MIT mechanical engineer Mr. Henry, humans are running out of time to stop our own extinction. The challenge comes down to physics: Almost all of our energy consumption involves generating or transferring heat. Coupled with the greenhouse gas emissions that come with that energy use, Henry warns that we are very near the point of no return that would send us on a path toward inevitable destruction of the climate and ourselves.
#HumanExtinction
In an unusual experiment, scientists got to watch as bacteria adapted to a new host, evolving to become more infectious over hundreds of generations. While tracking changes over time, the University of Vienna scientists saw two very different evolutionary strategies emerge in bacteria that were subjected to different conditions. The research, published in the journal PNAS, is a fascinating case study that helps scientists understand how bacteria become dangerous.
#bacteria
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The new plane just announced the SR-72 would fly twice as fast—so fast that at top speed, the very air entering its engines will be moving as fast as an SR-71. Keeping combustion and thrust going under such conditions is like lighting a cigar in a hurricane. The SR-72’s planned ability to go from a standing start to Mach 6 and back again is a hat trick no one has been able to pull off. Mach 6 is 3,600 miles per hour.
#SR72
In the beginning, there was Adam. We’re not talking about the supernatural alleged first human, but rather the first machine to fully automate the scientific process and make a discovery on its own. Adam looks nothing like a human. It resembles a big box about the size of an office cubicle. It’s equipped with robotic arms, incubators, a freezer, cameras, and other parts to help it do work. Everything it needs to conduct its research is there, including a brain.
#RobotScientists
California-based tech company Hyperion has unveiled the Hyperion XP-1, a hydrogen fuel cell-powered hypercar with an advertised 1,000-mile range and a top speed of 221 mph. It can launch from 0 to 60 mph in just 2.2 seconds.
#Hydrogen-Powered Hypercar
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What makes ants so fascinating today is their effectiveness at preventing epidemics within their colonies, despite their close living quarters and massive communities. In fact, epidemics and sick colonies are rarely, if ever, found in the wild. Thanks in part to this, ants are one of the most successful species on Earth. According to some estimates, they make up almost a quarter of all terrestrial animal biomass. And because of the social measures they’ve evolved to use, ant behavior often seems distinctly intelligent. As human communities are warding off this generation’s biggest pandemic to date, we should take a closer look at how our fellow inhabitants deal with infectious outbreaks. Scientists have observed many species of ants disease-curbing social practices, including separating groups by role within their nest, sanitizing themselves and their living quarters, and mixing tree resin with their poison to kill pathogenic spores.
#ants #antspandemic #socialdistancingants
In 2007, astronomers digging through data from six years prior found a very strong, very brief burst of radio emission coming from an unidentified source in space. It introduced us to a new class of objects dubbed fast radio bursts or FRBs for short. “Fast” because these blips are very short—less than five milliseconds in duration. The “radio” portion of the nickname is because the emission is detected by radio telescopes surveying the sky at radio wavelengths. They are called “bursts” because the signals disappear as quickly as they appeared, without warning and, so far, without explanation. Since 2007, astronomers have added 17 more bursts to the list of known FRBs. However, their origins are still a bit of a mystery because of their defining characteristics, the very reasons they are so interesting, also make them challenging to study.
#fastradioburts #fbr #fbrs
Last month engineers started construction of the world’s largest nuclear fusion project in southern France, with operations planned to begin in late 2025. The project, called ITER, is an international collaborative effort between 35 countries with enormous ambitions: prove the feasibility of fusion energy with a gigantic magnetic device called a “tokamak,” as per the project’s official website. Enabling the exclusive use of clean energy will be a miracle for our planet. Fusion power, in theory, works by harnessing the energy released by two lighter atomic nuclei fusing to form a heavier nucleus, and turning it into electricity.
#fusionreactor #worldslargestfusionreactor
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