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Thirty micrometres a minute: scientists discover the speed of death

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism | Leave a Comment on Thirty micrometres a minute: scientists discover the speed of death

08.12.
2018

By studying frogs’ eggs, researchers have measured the rate at which cells kill themselves off for an organism’s greater good

A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos

Posted by Derick Lee in futurism | Leave a Comment on A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos

08.12.
2018

I wish the academy would incentivise scholars to improve society, not chase citations. I want us to reimagine a PhD that is designed not to win kudos within the academic community, but rather aimed at discovering something new that will be useful for practitioners and have real social impact.

Too much research is aimed at insular academic circles rather than the real world. Let’s fix this broken system.

Julian Kirchherr

What’s the speed of death? Scientists have measured how fast one type of cell death strikes

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism | Leave a Comment on What’s the speed of death? Scientists have measured how fast one type of cell death strikes

08.11.
2018

Scientists have measured how quickly the signal to commit form of cellular suicide called apoptosis travels.

This Colorful New Seahorse Is the Size of a Grain of Rice

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08.11.
2018

Researchers have discovered a tiny new species of pygmy seahorse that inhabits the boulder-strewn coasts of Japan.

New Type Of Lung Cell Has Been Discovered

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08.10.
2018

Researchers discover new type of lung cell.

Reconstrução de filmes apenas através da atividade cerebral humana

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08.10.
2018

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series, Titan RTX and RTX 2080 Performance Rumors

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08.10.
2018

A new rumor has suggested that NVIDIA will be using the new GeForce RTX branding on their upcoming GeForce 20 series graphics card lineup.

Spinning heat shield for future spacecraft

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism, space travel | Leave a Comment on Spinning heat shield for future spacecraft

08.09.
2018

A University of Manchester PhD student has developed a prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft that could reduce the cost of space travel and even aid future space missions to Mars.

NASA picks 13 companies to envision the future of orbital human spaceflight

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism, space travel | Leave a Comment on NASA picks 13 companies to envision the future of orbital human spaceflight

08.09.
2018

Thirteen companies, including Boeing and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be doing studies for NASA on the future of commercial human spaceflight in low Earth orbit.

All of the studies are due in December, and are supposed to cost no more than $1 million each. NASA still has to negotiate the contract amounts with the study groups, but it expects the total cost of the effort to come in at around $11 million.

Upcoming Perseid Meteor Shower Will Decorate Sky

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08.08.
2018

Watch this preview of the Perseid Meteror shower that’ll blaze through the sky this weekend.