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voyager1

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Still no news for funding the Chinese particle accelerator, CEPC.

I hope that the top leadership doesn't pull the plug on the project. However I am afraid that the CPC wont approve it.

Like come on, the EUpoors will build their new particle accelerator for $21 billion and China cant cough up $5 billion for CEPC?...You know, Chinese scientist were very concerned that the CPC wouldnt accept high costs which why they went to great pains to make compromises on the design so they could reach this super low number of 5 billion

Xi has talked the talk about "Global leader in science by 2050" but where is the walk the talk Mr.Xi?
 
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The New Productivity Revolution​

Innovations in biotech, energy, and space could drive the next generation of prosperity—if we let it happen.

Most generally, our society does not seem to care about reversing the stagnation that began in the early 1970s. If the pre-1973 trend in productivity growth had continued, it would have added about 1.25 percentage points to the annual growth rate for the last 48 years. Living standards would be around 80 percent higher today. Shouldn’t there be an outcry? Unfortunately, politics has become dominated by what Tyler Cowen calls the Complacent Class, which would rather preserve neighborhood character than unlock such an increase in living standards.

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Scientists Drove Mice to Bond by Zapping Their Brains With Light​

Late one evening last March, just before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the country, Mingzheng Wu, a graduate student at Northwestern University, plopped two male mice into a cage and watched as they explored their modest new digs: sniffing, digging, fighting a little.

With a few clicks on a nearby computer, Mr. Wu then switched on a blue light implanted in the front of each animal’s brain. That light activated a tiny piece of cortex, spurring neurons there to fire.

Mr. Wu zapped the two mice at the same time and at the same rapid frequency — putting that portion of their brains quite literally in sync. Within a minute or two, any animus between the two creatures seemed to disappear, and they clung to each other like long-lost friends.

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Moderna’s Next Act Is Using mRNA vs. Flu, Zika, HIV, and Cancer​

A year ago,
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was an unprofitable company with no marketed products and a promising but totally unproven technology. None of its experimental drugs and vaccines had ever completed a large-scale trial. Experts were divided on how well the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine it was about to enter in a Phase III trial would stack up against older, more established vaccine technologies.

This year, Moderna could deliver 1 billion doses of its Covid shot and bring in $19 billion in revenue. It’s become the rare biotech to hit the big time without being gobbled up by, or splitting profits with, a larger, more established company. Its market value—which hit $100 billion for the first time on July 14th—exceeds that of stalwarts such as
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, the German inventor of aspirin, and biotech peers such as
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, founded three decades prior.

But for Moderna Chief Executive Officer Stéphane Bancel, the Covid vaccine is just the beginning. He’s long promised that if mRNA works, it will
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capable of treating most everything from heart disease to cancer to rare genetic conditions. Moderna has drugs in trials for all three of these categories, and Bancel says his company can also become a dominant vaccine maker, developing shots for emerging viruses such as Nipah and Zika, as well as better-known, hard-to-target pathogens such as HIV.

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Chinese researchers claim to have a quantum computer 1 million times faster than google's. Their computers are 66 qubit vs google's 55 qubit. Interestingly, Rigetti computing in Berkeley, CA has claimed to have a 128 qubit chip since 2018. Yet...not much in the way of news there since.

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Products from convenience stores delivered by drone.
Seven-Eleven Japan and ANA Holdings have begun a demonstration experiment using drones to deliver products ordered online to residential areas in the suburbs.
Convenience store clerks loaded products such as oden and plastic bottles, and drones carried them to a park in a residential area about 1.4 kilometers away.
Local resident: "I was surprised. I wondered if we've come to this kind of age.
In the experiment, the drone will carry items weighing up to five kilograms for a delivery fee of 100 yen.
In the future, Seven-Eleven hopes to commercialize a delivery service using drones, with a focus on rural villages and remote islands where shopping is difficult.
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The first pig-to-human heart transplant could lead to thousands more​

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A Maryland man has lived three days after receiving a genetically modified pig heart transplant.

The nine-hour-long operation took place at the University of Maryland Medical Center on Friday and was the first time the heart of a genetically modified pig has been successfully transplanted into a human without being immediately rejected.

The patient, 57-year-old David Bennett, agreed to take part in the experimental surgery after exhausting all other treatments for his heart disease and becoming ineligible for a traditional heart transplant.
 
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