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Only 0.008% of Vaccinated People in The US Have Caught COVID-19, New Data Reveal
More than one in five Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But vaccinated people can still get…
Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture
Inside the symmetries of a crystal shape, a postdoctoral researcher has unearthed a counterexample to a…
At last! There’s an algorithm that’s closer than ever to solving the traveling salesperson problem
Planning the best route with multiple destinations is hard even for supercomputers – a new approach…
MS: AI helps discover 3 new subtypes
A new analysis of brain MRI scans of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) reveals that individual…
A Monkey Implanted With Elon Musk’s Neuralink Now Plays Pong–Really Well–Using Just His Mind
Once again, Musk makes the impossible possible. It’s why we find him so fascinating. Read more…
Elon Musk confirms that SpaceX is done trying to catch its rocket components
SpaceX has been wildly successful in just about every one of its efforts. The company was…
Earth nearly lost all its oxygen 2.3 billion years ago
A new study pushes the permanent rise of oxygen in the atmosphere to 100 million years…
NASA Now Has Direct Evidence Humans Cause Global Warming
Now, NASA has calculated individual impacts on climate change and can definitively share humans’ role in…
‘Strong’ evidence found for a new force of nature
Physicists may have just made a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Universe. Read more…
New Decoy Protein Treatment Fools Coronavirus, Rendering It Impotent
Treatment reduces lung damage and results in mild symptoms in a preclinical study. A novel decoy…
AI in Drug Discovery Starts to Live Up to the Hype
Machine learning–based techniques are finding a place in early-stage target discovery and in drug development workflows.…
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on the Red Planet
The Perseverance rover dropped the helicopter on April 4, 2021. Read more at Space.com…
Harvard Scientists Excited by Results on New Cancer Vaccine
Personalized cancer vaccines may be just “a few years” away. Read more at Futurism…
Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer to Mythic Goal
A matrix can also have entries that are themselves matrices. These four-by-four matrix matrix has four…
Scientists Just Killed the EmDrive
The “impossible” emdrive has failed international testing in three new papers. The idea was always far…
Mysterious Interstellar Visitor May Be the Most Pristine Comet Ever Found
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue…
The Remnants of Theia May Still Exist Deep Inside the Earth – ExtremeTech
The remnants of Theia, the planetesimal that created the Moon, may still exist hundreds of miles…
Why COVID-19 survivors should only get one dose of mRNA vaccine
Data seems to be indicating that survivors of COVID-19 may not need two doses of mRNA…
Mathematicians Find a New Class of Digitally Delicate Primes
Despite finding no specific examples, researchers have proved the existence of a pervasive kind of prime…