Sunday, February 2, 2020
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How doctors and nurses are using TikTok to demystify the medical profession by sharing info on topics like sex education, vaping, coronavirus, and nutrition (Emma Goldberg/New York Times)
How doctors and nurses are using TikTok to demystify the medical profession by sharing info on topics like sex education, vaping, coronavirus, and nutrition — They have M.D.s, but are they up for this challenge? — For decades, sex education in the classroom could be pretty cringey.
Genetic mapping investments a right move for drug development, agri yield
Israel-based serverless computing startup Nuweba raises $10.2M in an expanded seed round, bringing its total raised to $15M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Israel-based serverless computing startup Nuweba raises $10.2M in an expanded seed round, bringing its total raised to $15M — Serverless computing startup Nuweba Labs Ltd. said today it has raised $10.2 million in an expanded seed funding round. — Blumberg Capital led the latest investment …
Maharashtra TET Answer Key 2020 – Interim Key Released
As Apple closes its offices, stores, and contact centers in China, Ming-Chi Kuo lowers Q1 iPhone shipment forecasts by 10% due to Wuhan coronavirus outbreak (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
As Apple closes its offices, stores, and contact centers in China, Ming-Chi Kuo lowers Q1 iPhone shipment forecasts by 10% due to Wuhan coronavirus outbreak — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has lowered his iPhone shipment forecast by 10 percent to 36-40 million units in the first quarter of 2020 …
BPSC Answer Key 2020 – Assistant Mains Re-Exam Provisional Key Released
BPSC 2020 – Assistant Mains Re-Exam Provisional Answer Key Released
Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung's folding Galaxy Z Flip (Sam Byford/The Verge)
Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung's folding Galaxy Z Flip — Samsung's next foldable should be coming this month — Samsung's next folding phone is likely to be announced this month, and what appears to be the first hands-on video with the device has just appeared online.
Internally glowing virus reveals its path to cellular destruction
Enlarge / The microtubules inside a cell, here shown in green, are like a race track for viruses. (credit: National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research)
One of the reasons that I tend to stick to physics is that the subject is actually pretty simple. Any single bit of chemistry is more complicated than all of physics put together. Biology, in all its wonders, simply boggles what little of my mind is left.
With that in mind, the idea of me writing about viruses seems like a bit of a joke. But a cool development that allows researchers to track single viral particles and watch them invade their hapless victims is simply too good to pass up.
Glowing virus illuminated well-worn path?
Tracking single virus particles is not exactly new. The idea is that you attach some sort of molecule that will glow to the virus. Then, you hit the sample with an exciting laser and look for glowing points of light. Optical microscopes can then track the virus' location with very high precision.
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Flat surfaces surf past each other on the peak of a wave
Enlarge / Some surfaces, like sandpaper, create more friction than others. (credit: Daniel Machado / Flickr)
A cook's reaction to cockroaches in the kitchen is a good approximation of a physicist's reaction to friction: not only is it undesirable, it is hard to get rid of. OK, our analogy falls at a last hurdle: unlike cooks, most physicists don't really want to understand friction.
That said, there are a few strong-stomached physicists who are trying to understand friction. One of the problems they face is that is friction is so… individual. Every experiment is different. Even copies of the same experiment are slightly different. Despite that, one group has now managed to come up with a general model that replicates many of the main features of friction.
Friction, how I stab at thee
Actually, part of that last sentence is a lie. The model focuses on the transition between two different types of friction. I'll get to that in a moment.
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Doubtnut, an India-based startup which wants to teach math and science concepts through short videos, raises $15M Series A led by Tencent, says it has 13M MAU (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Doubtnut, an India-based startup which wants to teach math and science concepts through short videos, raises $15M Series A led by Tencent, says it has 13M MAU — Doubtnut, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates an app to help students learn and master concepts from math and science using short videos …
A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company's successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company's successful crackdown on password sharing and ...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...
