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02/04/2020

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New blood test can detect 50 types of cancer
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System uses machine learning to offer new way to screen for hard-to-detect cancers

Pancreatic cancer cells. The AI-based system detected 63% of stage I pancreatic cancers, and 100% at stage IV in the study. Photograph: Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo
A new blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer has been revealed by researchers in the latest study to offer hope for early detection.

The test is based on DNA that is shed by tumours and found circulating in the blood. More specifically, it focuses on chemical changes to this DNA, known as methylation patterns.

Researchers say the test can not only tell whether someone has cancer, but can also shed light on the type of cancer they have.

Dr Geoffrey Oxnard of Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, part of Harvard Medical School, said the test was now being explored in clinical trials. “You need to use a test like this in an independent group at risk of cancer to actually show that you can find the cancers, and figure out what to do about it when you find them,” he said.

Writing in the journal Annals of Oncology, the team reveal how the test was developed using a machine learning algorithm – a type of artificial intelligence. Such systems pick up on patterns within data and as a result learn to classify it.

The team initially fed the system with data on methylation patterns in DNA from within blood samples taken from more than 2,800 patients, before further training it with data from 3,052 participants, 1,531 of whom had cancer and 1,521 of whom did not.

Using this information, the system sorted the samples into groups based on the methylation patterns. The team then taught the system which groups reflected which type of cancer.

“In pregnant women we look in their free-floating DNA for foetal abnormalities,” said Oxnard. “We know this [approach] exists, the question is how do you fine-tune and perfect the art of lo

01/04/2020

A 49-Foot Asteroid Will Skim Earth Tomorrow At 28,900 MPH
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The space rock will miss Earth by just 437,100 miles.

A small is making its way towards our planet and will swoop in for an extremely close approach tomorrow, has announced. The space rock is estimated to measure 49 feet in diameter at the most, and will skim Earth from just 437,100 miles away — or less than two times the distance to the moon. While a close brush with an asteroid of any size can certainly be unnerving, NASA assures that there’s no reason to panic. The flyby will be a perfectly safe one and won’t cause any disturbance to Earth and its inhabitants.

Tomorrow’s celestial visitor is known as asteroid 2020 FF1 and was only recently discovered. According to a report released earlier this week by NASA’s (JPL), the space rock was picked up by asteroid trackers on Monday, March 16. After studying its orbital path, NASA classified the near-Earth object as an . This means that the rock has the potential of being “Earth-crossing” and can not only approach our planet, but also cross its orbit.

As explains, the orbit of an asteroid is calculated by taking careful measurements of its position as it moves across the sky. The data is compared to computer models of the rock’s orbit around the sun. “It is possible to calculate a rough orbit with only three observations, but the more observations that are used, and the longer the period over which those observations are made, the more accurate is the calculated orbit and the predictions that can be made from it,” states the space agency.

In the case of asteroid 2020 FF1, scientists spent two days observing the rock over a series of 13 different sessions. The data showed the asteroid circles the sun once every two years or so, and has ventured to our corner of the solar system only once before, on March 1, 2018.

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NASA predicts that the rock will swing by Earth on Sunday evening, reaching its closest point to our

30/10/2019

NASA just ordered the Boeing SLS rockets to go to Mars and beyond

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NASA has inked a rocket deal with Boeing that will see the company supply up to ten of the huge SLS rockets the American space agency will use for its Artemis missions. The deal space exploration rocket is earmarked for use initially for Moon missions, but if all goes to plan will be used for manned missions to Mars and beyond.

The original SLS core stage was designed and constructed by Boeing for NASA’s Stages contract, with the first upper stage only delivered last year. Indeed, NASA has only just completed assembling the first SLS rocket, when it added the engine section to the rest of the structure back in mid-September.

The Space Launch System (SLS) is a mild name for what is in reality a vast space craft. 212 feet tall when fully assembled, the SLS Core Stage is described by NASA as “the backbone of the rocket.” It consists of five main parts, with the engine section at one end and the forward skirt at the other, and a liquid hydrogen tank, interbank, and liquid oxygen tank sandwiched in-between.

Four RS-25 engines are in the engine section, for a total of two million ponds of thrust. They’re powered by 733,000 gallons of propellant, cooled significantly. The forward skirt is where the flight computers, cameras, avionics, and other technology for managing the core stage are kept.

Until now, Boeing had been contacted to build the core stages of the rockets for the first two Artemis missions. This addition to that deal is expected to include up to ten core stages and up to eight Exploration Upper Stages (EUS). The their core stage has now been funded, which gives Boeing around four years to build it in time for the Artemis III mission in 2024. That will be NASA’s mission to take the first woman and next man to the Moon.

“The new contract is expected to realize substantial savings compared to the production costs of core stages built during the design, development, test and ev

27/08/2019

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Indian Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 arrives in lunar orbit

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Lander hopes to touch down and then hunt for water

This photo released by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shows its Geosynchronous Satellite launch Vehicle (GSLV) MkIII carrying Chandrayaan-2 lift off from Satish Dhawan Space center in Sriharikota, India ( Indian Space Research Organization via AP )
An Indian spacecraft is now in orbit around the Moon – and about to examine the secrets of the lunar surface.

The unmanned craft has reached lunar orbit and will gradually get closer to the surface before touching down on its far side and looking for water.

But there is a considerable chance it will fail. Most craft that attempt to land on the Moon don't get down successfully.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said it has manoeuvred Chandrayaan-2 – the Sanskrit word for "moon craft" – into lunar orbit.

Chandrayaan will continue circling the moon in a tighter orbit until reaching a distance of about 62 miles from the surface.

The lander will then separate from the orbiter and use rocket fuel to brake as it attempts to land in the south polar region of the moon on September 7.

A rover will search for water deposits which were confirmed by a previous Indian moon mission.

Scientists have said the water and mineral deposits could make the moon a good refuelling station for further space travel.

The mission is led by two female scientists.

The success rate of landing on the moon is only 37%, ISRO chairman Dr K Sivan said in a news conference.

Dr Sivan said that when the semi-autonomous lander uses artificial intelligence to land on its own, after matching the landing spot with pre-loaded images of the region, "it'll be a mix of feeling, of happiness and tension and more anxiety," likening it to a "bridegroom separated from the parents' house".

A rover will study permanently shadowed moon craters that are thought to contain 100 million tonnes o

08/07/2019

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Mars 2020 SuperCam instrument has been installed
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Engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA have installed a critical instrument on the Mars 2020 rover. The instrument is the SuperCam Mast Unit. SuperCam has several components including a camera, laser, and spectrometers that can identify the chemical and mineral makeup of targets as small as a pencil point from a distance of more than 20-feet.

SuperCam is a next-gen version of the ChemCam that is on Mars now as part of the Curiosity rover. SuperCam was developed jointly by the U.S., France, and Spain. France delivered the last piece of flight hardware for SuperCam, and it was integrated fully into the Mars 2020 rover on June 25, 2019. The final assembly was done at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility’s High Bay 1 clean room at JPL.

SuperCam will be used by scientists to examine rocks and soil on Mars as the Mars 2020 rover seeks to find evidence of past life on the planet. NASA still has a lot of work to do; in the coming weeks, the Mars 2020 Sample Caching System will be installed. That system has 17 different motors and is designed to collect samples of Martian rock and soil that will be left on the surface of Mars to be returned to Earth by future missions.

Mars 2020 will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in July 2020 and will land on Mars at Jezero Crater in February 2021. SuperCam is led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which is where the Body Unit for the instrument was built.

That portion of the rover was installed in the body of the rover in May and includes spectrometers, control electronics, and software. The Mast Unit consists of a laser, a telescope, a camera, an infrared spectrometer, and a microphone.

02/07/2019

Dinosaur bones are home to unique microscopic life

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Scientists have discovered modern microbes living in fossilised dinosaur bones, a finding that further quashes hopes of creating clones of the ancient prehistoric animals from preserved proteins.

Some paleontologists have reported finding dinosaur bones that contain exceptionally preserved traces of the protein collagen, along with soft tissues like blood and bone cells.

It has been speculated that these preserved proteins can be used to resurrect the extinct dinosaurs.

Scientists from Field Museum in the US who looked for preserved collagen, the protein in bone and skin, in dinosaur fossils.

Instead of finding protein, the researchers found huge colonies of modern bacteria living inside the dinosaur bones.

"This is breaking new ground -- this is the first time we've discovered this unique microbial community in these fossil bones while they're buried underground," said Evan Saitta, a postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum.

"And I would say that it's another nail in the coffin in the idea of dinosaur proteins getting preserved intact," said Saitta.

"Some molecules can survive in the fossil record, but I suspect proteins can't; they're unstable on those timescales in the conditions of fossilization," explains Saitta.

"There's been an uptick in interest in these supposed dinosaur proteins," said Saitta, who set out to try to independently verify the presence of collagen in dinosaur fossils.

Researchers collected dinosaur fossils under as sterile conditions as possible so that new proteins or bacteria would not be introduced to the fossils and skew the results.

"To collect these bones in a very controlled, sterile way, you need a dig site with a tonne of bone because you have to find the bone quickly, expose just enough of one end to know what it is, then aseptically collect the unexposed bit of the bone and surrounding rock all in one," Saitta said.

The team collected 7

30/06/2019

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Sri Lanka successfully launches its first satellite 'Ravana-1' into orbit

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Sri Lanka's first satellite 'Ravana-1', designed and developed by two local engineers, was successfully launched into orbit this week from the International Space Station (ISS) along with two other BIRDS 3 satellites from Japan and Nepal. Raavana 1, the cube satellite measuring 11.3 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm, and weighing around 1.05 kg, was launched into orbit at 3:45 pm (Sri Lanka time) on Monday, the Colombo Page reported.

The satellite was designed and developed by two Sri Lankan engineers - Tharindu Dayaratne and Dulani Chamika - studying space engineering at Japan's Kyushu Institute of Technology. Raavana-1 was deployed to the 400-km of orbit at an inclination of 51.6 degrees using the JAXA (Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency) owned Kibo experiment module, the paper said.

The satellite was officially handed over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on February 18 and was sent to the ISS on April 17, through the assistance of Cygnus-1 spacecraft from the US. Raavana-1 is expected to fulfil five missions including the capturing of pictures of Sri Lanka and surrounding regions, active attitude stabilization which ensures that satellite's attitude is stable under the influence of external talks. It will have a minimum lifespan of one and a half years but was expected to be active for up to five years.

11/06/2019

*Scientific proof*
Massive supernova explosion could have made humans walk upright, study says
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Researchers claim cosmic particles bombarded Earth's surface at such high levels forests turned to savannah

Professor Adrian Merlott believes a supernova (artist's impression) may have exploded just 163 light years away from Earth ( NASA )
Exploding stars 2.6 million years ago may have caused ancient humans to walk upright, a new scientific paper claims.

Cosmic particles from these supernovae bombarded Earth's surface at such high levels that they caused global forest fires, researchers from the University of Kansas suggest.

This led to the creation of large swathes of savannahs in places that would previously have been forested. Early hominins in northeast Africa had to learn to walk on two legs to cross these vast areas, according to the study, published in the Journal of Geology.

The theory was laid out by a team led by physicist Professor Adrian Melott in an attempt to join together different strands of research.

“It is thought there was already some tendency for hominins to walk on two legs, even before this event. But they were mainly adapted for climbing around in trees,” he said.

“After this conversion to savanna, they would much more often have to walk from one tree to another across the grassland, and so they become better at walking upright. They could see over the tops of grass and watch for predators.”

Professor Melott arrived at this hypothesis by drawing on research about historic supernovae and evidence for the impact they had on Earth. Ancient seabed deposits of iron-60 isotopes – radioactive forms of iron – provided a crucial clue.

Professor Melott said these materials must have arrived on Earth from a supernova, which would have exploded 163 light years away from Earth during the transition from the Pliocene Epoch to the Ice Age.

“We calculated the ionization of the atmosphere from cosmic rays which would come from a supernova

11/06/2019

*SCIENTIFIC PROOF*
Alien abduction: an unlikely solution to the climate crisis
The Guardian
An Oxford lecturer claims that a secret breeding programme to create alien-human hybrids will save humanity from environmental disaster

The little green men are acting in our best interests, according to Dr Young-hae Chi. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Name: Alien abductions.

Appearance: Vague.

Age: They have been happening since at least the 1960s.

Or have they? Some people certainly believe it.

Wacky people such as David Icke? Yes, but not only them. The US navy is reportedly preparing new guidelines that will encourage pilots to report any “unexplained aerial phenomena” they happen to come across, without fearing ridicule.

You mean “unidentified flying objects”? From now on, please call them unexplained aerial phenomena, or I’ll be forced to probe you.

OK. But I thought we dealt with all this in the 1990s? Mulder and Scully proved that aliens were here. Then further evidence came to light that proved they were, in fact, fictional characters in a TV series. That is the official version, if you want to believe it.

Sounds good to me. But how do you explain the fact that people are still saying they have been abducted by aliens?

People being wrong. If only it were that simple.

It is. Are you sure you are qualified to say so? Dr Young-hae Chi, a lecturer at Oxford University, takes the alien abduction theory very seriously.

Is he a psychologist? A materials scientist? Not exactly. He teaches Korean at the faculty of oriental studies.

Oh. But in 2012, he delivered a lecture at a conference organised by Ammach, a support group for abductees. In this lecture, he disputed the idea put forward by the ufologist Dr David Jacobs that visiting aliens have a sinister plan to take over the world.

That sounds unlikely, so I agree with Chi so far. Instead, he argued that their secret breeding programme to create alien-human hybrids almost indistinguishable from humans was part

04/06/2019

NASA calls for Apollo stories for 50th anniversary oral history
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A historic anniversary for one of the greatest achievements in human history is coming this year. NASA says that July 20, 2019, will be the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. Apollo 11 is the mission that took Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts to the moon for the first time in human history.

Ahead of that historic anniversary, NASA is calling for people to share their Apollo story. NASA wants people to submit audio interviews of themselves or of loved ones who remember the Apollo era that spanned 1960 through 1972. NASA wants the submissions emailed to it at the address [email protected].

The interviews can be recorded using the voice recording app on a mobile device or using free apps that are readily available. It is also asking for people to add text to their email that includes their full name, hometown, and state. If the recording is of you interviewing someone else, NASA also needs their name and hometown along with information for the context of the story.

NASA says that those who submit stories need to keep an eye on their inbox because the thank you email received for submitting a story might ask follow-up questions to get additional detail or clarify something in the story. NASA suggests some questions to ask or answer in the interview and to keep answers under 120 seconds.

03/06/2019

Pluto may be in the danger of losing its wispy atmosphere by 2030. A team of international researchers led by University of Tasmania astronomer Andrew Cole have been studying the celestial body.

Located 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometres) from the Sun, the dwarf planet was discovered in 1930. And later in 1980, astronomers began to suspect it may have an atmosphere. It largely comprised of nitrogen with traces of methane and carbon monoxide, all of which had vaporized from their solid icy forms on its surface.

During the last decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century, the Earth and Pluto were perfectly aligned with a dense cluster of stars in the centre of the Milky Way. This was a perfect opportunity for astronomers to capture data and information.

We were able to construct seasonal models of Pluto and how it responds to changes with the amount of sunlight it receives as it orbits the Sun,” Dr. Cole said. “What we found was when Pluto is farthest away from the Sun, and during its winter in the northern hemisphere, nitrogen freezes out of the atmosphere.”

“The atmospheric pressure has tripled over the past three decades, but as the dwarf planet orbits, our modelling showed that most of the atmosphere would condense out to almost nothing left,” Dr Cole said in a statement. “What our predictions show is that by 2030 the atmosphere is going to frost out and vanish around the whole planet.” The researcher adds, “If it does freeze over, Pluto may appear brighter in the sky due to sunlight reflecting.”

A recent informal poll taken by a small group of scientists voted overwhelmingly in favour of reinstating Pluto’s full planetary status.

16/04/2019

First Black Hole Captured By Scientists Gets Its Own Hawaiian Name
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The first black hole to ever be depicted in an image has been given its own name by a language professor in Hawaii.

The landmark scientific experiment resulted in the first-ever image of this kind of cosmic object to be produced, which was named “Powehi” by Hawaiian professor Larry Kimura at the University of Hawaii-Hilo. According to The Guardian, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported on Thursday that Professor Kimura chose that specific name because it means “the adorned fathomless dark creation” or “embellished dark source of unending creation,” and it originates from the 18th-century Hawaiian creation chant Kumulipo. “Po” is a deep dark source of unending creation, and “wehi” means honored with embellishments, while also being one of the chant’s descriptions of “po.”

“To have the privilege of giving a Hawaiian name to the very first scientific confirmation of a black hole is very meaningful to me and my Hawaiian lineage that comes from po,” Professor Kimura said in a statement.

The first-ever image of a black hole was produced on Wednesday and created by using data from eight different radio telescopes around the globe, including two located in Hawaii, which is why astronomers agreed on the project’s name. A whole team of 200 scientists put together a group effort to capture the image of the huge black hole located in the M87 galaxy, which is about 54 million light-years from Earth.

“As soon as he said it, I nearly fell off my chair,” said Jessica Dempsey, who’s the deputy director of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and part of the team.

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