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Carnival of Space 345
The Carnival of Space 345 is up at Dear AstronomerMeridiani Journal - Europa or bust: possible mission to icy moon in fy 2015 budget proposalUniverse Today - Astronomers have announced Nobel...
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Rand Paul's proposal of Economic Freedom Zones for reduced taxes and...
Rand Paul proposed legislation creating what he calls Economic Freedom Zones which would see federal income and corporate taxes cut to 5%, and federal payroll taxes reduced to 2% for employers and...
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US Billionaires making a modern model of Renaissance Science Patronage
Last year, the USA started the Brain Initiative. It is a $100 million initiative to probe the mysteries of the human brain.The government initiative grew out of richly financed private research: A...
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New York Genome Center and IBM Watson Will Try to Create Personalized Cancer...
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) and IBM today announced an initiative to accelerate a new era of genomic medicine with the use of IBM’s Watson cognitive system. IBM and NYGC will test a unique Watson...
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C Spire Fiber Could be the first of many businesses who will copy the Google...
C Spire is using the Google Fiber plan as a blueprint for building its own fiber-to-the-home network that the company hopes will eventually blanket Mississippi.C Spire executives are hopeful that a...
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What Comes After Pax Americana ?
Pax Americana (1946-today) followed Pax Brittanica (1815-1914). Those were where the world was often more at peace with America and Britain leading the world. Note- the theory is the world was more at...
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Virus Decoys - nano-scale virus traps that capture and destroy viruses
Erez Livneh spoke about the potential of virus decoys to transform health care. Here's a snapshot into this moonshotter's background:Erez spent a decade conducting and leading bioresearch programs in...
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Surgical Nanorobotics using nanorobots made from advanced DNA origami and...
do Bachelet's moonshot to use nanorobotics for surgery has the potential to change lives globally. But who is the man behind the moonshot?Ido graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a...
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Make plants more nutritious to prevent stunting
Solve for X - Howard Shapiro - Ending Stunting in AfricaStunting lasts for the rest of the persons life.Stunting is not a caloric problem it is lack of nutrition.Stunting effects 30% of Africa, 52% of...
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Laura Deming has been a venture capitalist since she was 18 and she is...
Laura Deming is an 18 year old venture capitalist Partner at Floreat Capital. At 18, Deming is already a venture capitalist, working closely with biotech legend Corey Goodman. She is obsessed with...
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Zuckerberg, Musk Invest in Machine Learning Artificial-Intelligence Company...
Vicarious is developing machine learning software based on the computational principles of the human brain. Their first technology is a visual perception system that interprets the contents of...
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The Status of the battle against childhood malnutrition including Wasting and...
Stunting was defined as the proportion of children below two standard deviations from the WHO length- or height-for-age standards median. Linear mixed-effects modelling was used to estimate rates and...
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General Fusion making progress towards net gain in about two to three years
Vancouver-based Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and the provincially-owned B.C. Innovation Council have organized two tours for TED attendees. Chrysalix, which bills itself as “the most active...
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Graphene alters copper wires dissipate 25% more heat
The semiconductor industry has another thermal problem to sort out. As chip components shrink, the copper wiring that connects them must shrink, too. And as these wires get thinner, they heat up...
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High temperature gas nuclear reactor cooperations within China and a US and...
Although various HTGR projects have been under development around the world over the years, China's HTGR project is currently the closest to commercial realisation. Construction work began on two...
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Shawn Douglas Google Solve for X targeted cancer therapeutics with DNA...
Recently we had covered the Google Solve for X talk on DNA nanobot microsurgery by Ido Bachelet.Here is the 2013 Google Solve for X talk by Shawn Douglas who led the work on the 2012 paper that was...
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BIOMOD is an annual biomolecular design competition for students
Shawn is an advocate and founder of for the BIOmed project. Undergraduate teams compete to build the coolest stuff using the molecules of life. Previous winners have used DNA, RNA, and proteins as...
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Cadnano simplifies and enhances the process of designing three-dimensional...
Shawn Douglas is an advocate for Cadnano Cadnano simplifies and enhances the process of designing three-dimensional DNA origami nanostructures. Through its user-friendly 2D and 3D interfaces it...
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Dwarf Planet 2012 VP113 which is in the range of Pluto size has been...
Scientists using ground based observatories have discovered an object that is believed to have the most distant orbit found beyond the known edge of our solar system. Named 2012 VP113, the observations...
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Open thread for March
This is an nextbigfuture thread for March, 2014. Submit any articles of interest or introduce topics for discussion.Please avoid any abuse and insults to other commenters. Please keep things polite and...
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