Mosquito finding a blood vessel pic.twitter.com/IGXxPQi9Mo
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Month: November 2017
In 1968 the Sugar Association funded a research project on animals to shed light on the connection between sugar and heart health. They found that sugar might promote heart disease and bladder cancer so they ended the study and never published the results.
via Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential Harms – The New York Times.
Costa Rica just ran 300 days on renewable power in 2017
http://grupoice.ticoblogger.com/2017/11/18/costa-rica-alcanza-300-dias-de-generacion-electrica-100-renovable-en-2017/
This one is not like the others …
Astronomers recently scrambled to observe an intriguing asteroid that zipped through the solar system on a steep trajectory from interstellar space—the first confirmed object from another star.
via Solar System’s First Interstellar Visitor Dazzles Scientists | NASA.
In the last week 134 earthquakes have hammered a three-mile stretch around Monterey County on the San Andreas fault.
The real state of drone autonomy …
It’s going to be a while before drones find and hunt us down.
Crossfit robot box jumping
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New research published November 13 in Nature Astronomy predicts that gravitational waves generated by the merger of two supermassive black holes will be detected within 10 years. The study is the first to use real data, rather than computer simulations, to predict when such an observation will be made.
Extinct cave lion cub in ‘perfect’ condition found in Siberia rising cloning hopes
The young beast’s head was resting on a paw in frozen ground for up to 50,000 years, shows amazing first picture.