Sunday, June 25, 2017

The quantum phone call

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Ever since the phenomenon of entanglement was discovered, humans have been enthralled by visions of communication at faster than the spee...
Monday, June 5, 2017

The autoimmune era

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Humans, it appears, have successfully conquered external biological threats to them, at least in the short run. One implication of this dom...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Artificially Intelligent Pain

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Recent observations (1) from the University of Cambridge that machine learning could identify the amount of pain suffered by sheep from the...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Vancomycin 3.0 - The fight continues

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Recent news (1) that a new breed of antibiotics, possibly many orders of higher potency than what is currently available, is entering the f...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Sleep discrimination

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A recent study (1) concludes that the world is heading toward sleepless nights with climate change driving temperatures up. A mere 1 degree...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Tactical valley of ignorance

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Many of the rich and famous appear to be now indicating that universal income (1) is a good policy. It may be too little too late with chil...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Immigrants

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Nearly 3% of the population - 250 million, live outside the country of their birth (1) and it is a constant reminder that humans have been ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

The advantages of sex

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A recent study (1) suggests that genetic interactions are driving selection. This is an important finding and it suggests that mutations ar...