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DARPA Is Funding Brain-Computer Interfaces to Treat Blindness, Paralysis and Speech Disorders
A undle of microwires developed by startup Paradromic to interface directly with the brain. Image: Paradromic These days, it seems you’re nobody if you’re not working on a way to merge machines with the human brain. Earlier this year, both Facebook and perpetual moonshot-enthusiast Elon Musk announced plans for brain-computer interfaces that could allow us…
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China Sealed Four Students in a Moon Lab to See If We’ll Lose Our Shit in Space
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Controversial Studies Suggest Coffee Drinkers Live Longer
Image: Steve Snodgrass/Flickr Coffee drinkers, rejoice. Two new studies are linking our favorite hot beverage to a decreased chance of being killed by heart disease, cancer, a stroke, and more. So, does this mean we can start drinking coffee with reckless abandon? We spoke to the experts to find out, and not surprisingly, the answer…
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‘Inventor of Email’ Compares Trump’s Immigration Policy to Science
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Dozens of gays killed in Chechnya
MOSCOW – The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has Monday the names made public of 27 young men in Chechnya without charge have been arrested and in the night of 25 on 26 January have been killed in a prison. The magazine, which critically is the opposite of the Kremlin, relies on high-ranking sources with the…
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Kurds clash with Turkish in north-west Syria
BEIRUT – Kurdish fighters Monday in a clash with Turkish troops with grenades afschoten on Kurdish towns in northwestern Syria, reported Kurdish officials. A spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in the region Afrin said that the Turkish army and Syrian rebels grenades afvuurden on Tal Rifat, Sheikh Issa and other towns north of…
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Us air force picks Germans from the sea
BREMEN – The U.s. air force has been in action for two Germans to rescue after their yacht on the Atlantic Ocean on fire was flown and tested. Five parachute jumps, rafting out of a plane to get the men to safety. The father (66) and son (48) were on some 800 miles of the…
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In our galaxy of 100 billion stars failed. And that’s bad news
Astronomers estimate that the milky Way contains at least 100 billion brown dwarfs – stellar objects that were not able to turn into a full-fledged star. Research shows how much is actually distributed, this type of stars in our galaxy, and what active part they take in the formation of new stars. The figures show…
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Elon Musk has promised to quickly create the world’s largest lithium-ion battery
Elon Musk (Elon Musk) promised that his company Tesla in just 100 days will provide South Australia with a large lithium-ion battery in the world. This will allow to store energy and use it during bad weather, when the electricity is usually turned off. The project is truly Grand, and time for its implementation Elon…
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China is actively preparing to send a man to the moon
While Elon Musk talks about how going to live out their days on Mars, the Chinese government is slowly preparing the ground for the colonization of the moon. Four volunteers from among the graduates of one of the best Chinese universities of Aeronautics will live for 200 days in an isolated laboratory in preparation for…