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Why It Actually Took 50 Years to Make COVID mRNA Vaccines

The FDA recently approved two mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, but it was a challenge to make this type of vaccine work. And it took decades of research to get us to the point where scientists could make those vaccines as … Continue reading →

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Square Kilometre Array: ‘Lift-off’ for world’s biggest telescope | BBC News

Jonathan Amos Science correspondent One of the grand scientific projects of the 21st Century is ‘Go!’. The first council meeting of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory has actioned plans that will lead to the biggest telescope on Earth being assembled … Continue reading →

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HOW TO LAND ON THE MOON – Smarter Every Day 250

A very special thank you to Wayne Ottinger http://www.aletro.org/​ Check out the AMAZING website by Ben Feist that synchronizes all Apollo data: https://www.apolloinrealtime.org/​ I had to find a lot of archival footage to make this video. Thanks to Devin for … Continue reading →

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Artist Merges Famous Faces To Create Confusing Celebrity Mashups

Can you tell which celebrity combinations you’re looking at? Zendaya and Beyonce   At first glance, these photos look like standard celebrity portraits, however, they might make you do a double-take. French digital artist Benji (aka @morphy_me) takes two famous … Continue reading →

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Has the threat of Trump really gone? – Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder is an American author and historian. He is a professor of history at Yale University and a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe​) He talks to Krishnan about the future of Trump and … Continue reading →

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New Addington: The Tram Stop They Took 50 Years to Build

How New Addington wound up in the middle of nowhere. https://ko-fi.com/jagohazzard​

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How The COVID-19 Vaccine Could Lead To A Cure For Cancer | Answers With Joe

The mRNA technology behind the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are groundbreaking, but their potential goes way beyond COVID-19. They have the ability to help the body fight a multitude of diseases, from enzyme deficiencies, to diabetes, and even, yes, cancer. … Continue reading →

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Scientists have taught spinach to send emails | Euronews Living

It sounds too weird to be true, but engineers at MIT have developed nanotechnology which can be embedded in plants. Through nanotechnology, engineers at MIT in the US have transformed spinach into sensors capable of detecting explosive materials. These plants … Continue reading →

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Walter Isaacson: The History Of The Future

The history of computers is a history of competition and collaboration: Innovators have worked together, but also clashed over the place of computers in society and how they should function. Those clashes—between privacy and openness, businessmen and bohemians—continue to this … Continue reading →

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Artificial Intelligence | Roger Penrose, Kate Devlin, Martin Rees, Nigel Shadbolt & more

Roger Penrose, Kate Devlin, Martin Rees, Nigel Shadbolt, Marta Halina & David Malone discuss the rise of artificial intelligence. Chapters: 00:00​​ Introduction 00:38​ – Roger Penrose 05:09​ – Martin Rees 09:21​ – Kate Devlin 12:16​ – Marta Halina 18:15​ – … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Tuning Forks from the National Museum of American History

Meet Steven Turner, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, as he discusses the Smithsonian’s scientific instrument collection. This video focuses the science behind and uses for tuning forks, including demonstrations of tuning forks on resonators, the Grand … Continue reading →

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YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists | Open Culture

Photo via Oregon State University “Color is part of a spectrum, so you can’t discover a color,” says Professor Mas Subramanian, a solid-state chemist at Oregon State University. “You can only discover a material that is a particular color”—or, more … Continue reading →

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