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Mar 30, 2019
Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Cast of ‘The Expanse’ visits Blue Origin’s space turf
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Science fiction met space fact this week in the Seattle area when the cast of “The Expanse,” the science-fiction jewel in Amazon’s streaming-video crown, got a look at Blue Origin’s spaceship.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the common denominator in the meetup: He personally engineered the sci-fi series’ shift from SyFy to Prime Video, and announced it onstage at a space conference last May while I was sitting beside him. Bezos is also the founder of Blue Origin, the space venture that is testing its New Shepard suborbital spaceship and gearing up to build its orbital-class New Glenn rocket.
During last May’s sit-down with Bezos, I joked that cast of “The Expanse” might want to take a ride on New Shepard, just to get some real-life experience behind their portrayal of space travel. And Bezos played along.
Mar 30, 2019
Giant viruses have weaponised CRISPR against their bacterial hosts
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
Hundreds of giant viruses that infect bacteria have been discovered. Some seem to deploy CRISPR – the system used for gene editing – to fight their hosts.
Mar 30, 2019
‘Google brain’ implants could end school as anyone can learn anything instantly
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: education
Mar 30, 2019
Physicists predict a way to squeeze light from the vacuum of empty space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: quantum physics
Mar 30, 2019
Sir David Attenborough Urges Young People To Look Up From Their Screens At The “Great Treasure” Of The Natural World
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
The broadcaster talks to BuzzFeed News about his new Netflix show Our Planet, why we need to get off our screens and how there are so many more species on our planet we’ve yet to discover.
Mar 30, 2019
Doing this one thing can boost memory and help prevent Alzheimer’s
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience
Results showed the hippocampus experienced a boost both immediately after exercise and after continued habitual exercise following a 12-week regiment.
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Mar 30, 2019
A DNA Company Wants You to Help Catch Criminals
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, law enforcement
Family Tree DNA was criticized for secretly working with the FBI. Now it’s explicitly asking potential customers to help law enforcement.
Mar 30, 2019
World’s First HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplant with Living Donor Performed Successfully
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
The ability to use organs from living HIV-positive individuals could increase the supply available for transplant.
- By Victoria Knight, Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News on March 29, 2019
Mar 30, 2019
Meet history’s most brilliant female coders
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: computing
From a gifted 19th-century countess to a maverick naval officer, these women blazed a trail for computer programmers today.