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Feb 20, 2019
Amazon Pays No Tax For Second Year In A Row
Posted by Michael Dodd in category: futurism
We have come to the point where we need an Alt Min Corporate Tax. It is time to take away the Welfare Payments that these parasite Corporations receive.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon has found a way to not paying Corporate taxes for the 2nd year in a row.
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Feb 20, 2019
This Spider Has Been Dead For 110 Million Years, But Its Eyes Still Shine in The Dark
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: cyborgs
Soft, squishy, ancient spiders are hard to investigate — they don’t fossilise as easily as bones or exoskeletons. So you can imagine how excited researchers were to find 10 brand new spider fossils in a relatively unexplored area called the Jinju Formation.
The Jinju Formation is a geological area of South Korea from the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million years ago. This new spate of fossils, which researchers from the Korea Polar Research Institute and the University of Kansas found in shale, has increased the number of known spiders in the Jinju Formation from just one to a whopping 11.
But two of these spider finds were even more exciting than the rest – their eyes still reflected light 110 million years after they died.
Feb 20, 2019
Association between Alzheimer’s and high brain iron to be tested in new clinical trial
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
A new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry is suggesting high iron levels in the brain may fundamentally trigger the progressive neurodegeneration associated with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A clinical trial is now underway exploring whether Alzheimer’s-related cognitive decline can be slowed by lowering brain iron levels.
Feb 20, 2019
10 Ways Space Could Destroy Civilization As We Know It
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
A starry sky on a warm summer’s night is a beautiful view to behold. We tend to focus mainly on the wonders of space—how it could save our planet, how we could make contact with other friendly civilizations, and how we could learn about natural marvels that we can only begin to imagine.
However, behind the twinkling lights hide some of the most dangerous phenomena that we, as a species, have ever witnessed. From burning balls of gas to violent bursts of deadly radiation, here are 10 terrifying ways that space could destroy civilization as we know it.
Feb 20, 2019
Samsung Just Revealed a $1,980 Folding Smartphone
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: mobile phones
Korean tech giant Samsung officially announced its take on the growing foldable smartphone trend at its Galaxy Unpacked event today in San Francisco: the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The device will go on sale for $1,980 on April 26.
We first got a glimpse of the device in November, but the brand has likely been working on the concept for almost half a decade.
Feb 20, 2019
Could Magnonics Spark the Extinction of Electronics?
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: electronics, existential risks
Feb 20, 2019
Scientists Used Gene Therapy to Cure Deafness in Mice
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
Feb 20, 2019
Researchers peer inside the mind of the worm for clues on how memories form
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biological
Try as you might, some events cannot be remembered. Known in psychology as memory blocking, the phenomenon has remained elusive since first described more than half a century ago. Now Donnelly Centre researchers have found that blocking is not due to problems with forming memories, as previously thought, but with memory recall—in worms at least.
By studying this process in the C. elegans worm, a creature only one millimeter long but whose biology has been studied so extensively that the position of all of its 302 nerve cells in the body is known, the researchers think they’ll be able to pinpoint the cells and molecules at play during learning and memory.
The findings are described in a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Feb 20, 2019
Neuroscientists Discover New Form of “Wireless” Brain Communication
Posted by Paul Battista in category: neuroscience
A team of scientists studying the brain have discovered a previously unidentified form of “wireless” neural communications in brain tissue.