SSLOI #30 | 2020.03.01 — 2020.04.10

SSLOI  #30

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Join the fight against COVID-19 (desktops/laptops/tablets/smartphones)
Rosetta@home (BOINC) https://boinc.bakerlab.org
Fold.it https://fold.it (game/citizen science)
Folding@home https://foldingathome.org (stand-alone/non-BOINC)
OpenPandemics (soon via World Community Grid/BOINC) https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics

crowdfight covid19 - An initiative from the scientific community to put all available resources at the service of the fight against COVID-19 https://crowdfightcovid19.org

Join the fight against COVID-19 (High Performance Computing Consortium)https://covid19-hpc-consortium.org  Adhesion requests https://www.xsede.org/covid19-hpc-consortium

▶︎ SETI@HOME

1 Apr 2020, 21:12:20 UTC - "The last chunk of new SETI@home work has gone out. There's still a little astropulse to be split when disk space clears. Beyond that, there's only resends when validation fails. Thanks for staying 'til the end." - Eric Korpela https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042379 ..

2020.04.01 - FORA: "We will have to replace the RAC > 1 requirement with a total credit requirement. We may also have to come up with an endorsement process to allow new users." - Eric Korpela  https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042179#2042179 ..

2020.03.31 HIBERNATION: "As promised, we've stopped the process that puts new data into the queue today. Data distribution will continue until the files shown on the status pages are done. We'll be accepting results and resending results that didn't validate for a while." - Eric Korpela https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85412&postid=2042009#2042009 ..

AMA 2020.03.25 - Q. "Why did you shelve SETI@home?"
A. "SETI@home is [a] project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, not the SETI Institute, but the short answer is that the small SETI@home team needs to concentrate their resources on examining the results produced thus far rather than sending out new data. But stay tuned! There will be some exciting new ways to get involved in SETI announced soon! - AS (Andrew Simeion, SETI Institute director) https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/foty97/we_are_scientists_and_engineers_working_on_the/flh7cuv/ ..

New in SETI Perspectives: "How did life begin on Earth and elsewhere?" by Dr Richard Lawn
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85360#2038992

SETI@home Is Over. But the Search for Alien Life Continues | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/setihome-is-over-but-the-search-for-alien-life-continues/ ..

Breakthrough [Listen] is also being shepherded by the Berkeley SETI Research Center, but its data firehose would overwhelm a distributed computing program like SETI@home to search through it all. Instead, to parse through the data it uses massive banks of GPUs at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia running advanced search algorithms.“Developing these new algorithms and bringing them on site is really the way to crack this problem today,” says Steve Croft, Breakthrough Listen’s project scientist at the Green Bank Telescope. “It’s just not feasible anymore to go over the internet to individual users.”

Each day, the telescopes around the world that contribute to Breakthrough Listen generate more than 100 terabytes of raw data. Even if there were enough people volunteering their computers to analyze it, the internet connections at the telescopes can’t push the data onto the net fast enough. As Croft says, it was time to “bring the computers to the data” and do as much processing of radio signals on site as possible.

The grandfather of distributed computing projects, SETI@home, shuts down – Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/the-grandfather-of-distributed-computing-projects-setihome-shuts-down/ ..

Farewell SETI@Home | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2020/03/06/farewell-setihome/ ..

SETI@Home ends, The search for alien life is over | The Intelligencer https://www.lintelligencer.com/setihome-ends-the-search-for-alien-life-is-over-2575-2020/ ..

'All the data we need': Seti computing project paused after 20 years | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/05/all-the-data-we-need-seti-computing-project-wound-up-after-20-years ..

After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/04/seti_at_home_halt/ ..

Nebula: science goals | If we don't find ET, our secondary goal is to quantify the sensitivity of the search. Read about  some ideas about how we can do this in the Nebula blog.
7 Mar 2020, 4:44:49 UTC https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85311&postid=2036357#2036357 .. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85312 ..

Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation

Message 2035163 -  Posted: 2 Mar 2020, 21:16:23 UTC   On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation. We're doing this for two reasons: 1) Scientifically, we're at the point of diminishing returns; basically, we've analyzed all the data we need for now. 2) It's a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper. However, SETI@home is not disappearing. The web site and the message boards will continue to operate. We hope that other UC Berkeley astronomers will find uses for the huge computing capabilities of SETI@home for SETI or related areas like cosmology and pulsar research. If this happens, SETI@home will start distributing work again. We'll keep you posted about this. If you're currently running SETI@home on your computer, we encourage you to attach to other BOINC-based projects as well. Or use Science United and sign up to do astronomy. You can stay attached to SETI@home, of course, but you won't get any jobs until we find new applications. We're extremely grateful to all of our volunteers for supporting us in many ways during the past 20 years. Without you there would be no SETI@home. We're excited to finish up our original science project, and we look forward to what comes next.

All good things must come to an end...
''SETI@home hibernation''  https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85267&postid=2035163  ..  Dr Eric Korpela comments : https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85275&postid=2035328#2035328 .. The Nebula portion of the project continues https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=1511 . The SETI@home community is maintained along with its Message boards https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php ..

UC Berkeley SETI ..@BerkeleySETI .. Thanks to the many volunteers who have helped crunch data for SETI@home in the last two decades. On March 31, the project will stop sending out new work to users, but this is not the end of public engagement in SETI research. 8:15 PM · Mar 2, 2020

..    @BerkeleySETI

Data volumes from projects like @brkthroughprize Listen are huge, requiring us to bring computing resources to the data rather than the other way round. But we still seek to engage the world in helping to develop algorithms and analyze data: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/28

UC Berkeley SETI

@BerkeleySETI

Stay tuned …. We have some exciting new ways for the public to contribute to SETI@Berkeley that we will announce in the near future. 8:15 PM · Mar 2, 2020

2020.03.24 - Opportunities to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09639 ..

Europe - The Final Countdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw ..

THERE IS NO PLANET B

▶︎ SETI 

Life as We Don’t Know It https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/life-as-we-dont-know-it/   "If we’re going to find extraterrestrials, we need to stop assuming they’ll think like humans"

Reddit AMA  25 March 2020 - " We are scientists and engineers working on the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) at SETI Institute. AUA!" https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/foty97/we_are_scientists_and_engineers_working_on_the/ ..

Asteroids@home... Because an asteroid will eventually come around here to check how our space programs are doing. http://asteroidsathome.net

A great post about Dysonian SETI in ''Signs of Life on Ancient Mars?" https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85356&postid=2039740#2039740 ..

We asked astronomers: are we alone in the Universe? The answer was surprisingly consistent.  https://theconversation.com/we-asked-astronomers-are-we-alone-in-the-universe-the-answer-was-surprisingly-consistent-132088 ...

Interference is a huge problem. It's really easy to find signals from technology - much harder to eliminate the ones which have been generated by us pesky humans. As the field of machine learning has massively grown, there are probably a lot of techniques that those outside the field of SETI are familiar with that are only just making inroads to the SETI community. If you're an at home nerd with those skills, check out some SETI data from the Breakthrough Listen Initiative! It never hurts to look at data in new ways --

The main data repository is at: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/opendatasearch and there is an additional beta version at http://seti.berkeley.edu/opendata

Our github repository hosting code and walkthroughs is a good place to learn more about our searches: https://github.com/UCBerkeleySETI/breakthrough [AMA]

▶︎ BOINC  

Updated BOINC Clients for Win 64, Mac OS X 64 and Linux 64 have been released for public use https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes_for_BOINC_7.16  ..


The future of BOINC (6 Apr 2020) - Android apps is questionable now that Google has implemented new policy of only signed apps being distributed by the app store. Got notification that Vitalii and David Anderson are looking for developers to completely change how Android BOINC native executable apps are developed and packaged to make them compatible with Google's new policies. https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/system/sepolicy/+/804149  https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3561  (source : Keith Myers)

IBM.org - OpenPandemics https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..

▶︎ DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING 

WCG has released an open paper about future plans about covid-19 here / https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..

IBM (through https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org) will soon join research efforts (Rosetta@home, Folding@home, Fold.it) in the fight against COVID-19 with OpenPandemics https://www.ibm.org/OpenPandemics ..

Coronavirus: How your PC's spare computing power could help discover potential COVID-19 treatments | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/coronavirus-how-your-pcs-spare-computing-power-could-help-discover-potential-covid-19-treatments/ ..

▶︎ CITIZEN SCIENCE 

[AMA] We are scientists who use computers to design COVID-19 vaccine candidates — AND we’re part of the team behind https://Fold.it, the computer game that lets anyone craft new antivirals. Ask us anything! : COVID19 https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/frt2za/crosspost_we_are_scientists_who_use_computers_to/ ..

▶︎ COVID-19 & EPIDEMIOLOGY

How to track the coronavirus: Dashboard delivers real-time view of the deadly virus | ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-track-the-coronavirus-dashboard-delivers-real-time-view-of-the-deadly-virus/ ..

▶︎ ASTROBIOLOGY 

Life found in rocks beneath the ocean floor give scientists hope of finding life on Mars - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/world/earth-ocean-rock-life-mars-scn/index.html .. 


▶︎ EXOPLANETS  

Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228073146.htm ..

▶︎ PLANETOLOGY 

Earth formed much faster than previously thought - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/earth-formed-much-faster-than-previously-thought/ ..

▶︎ SPACE 

NASA calls on public to help improve RASSOR Moon-mining robot https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-public-help-improve-rassor-moon-mining-robot/ https://grabcad.com/challenges/nasa-regolith-advanced-surface-systems-operations-robot-rassor-bucket-drum-design-challenge ..

Solar Orbiter launch preparations - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw0w2qb-2eU&feature=youtu.be ..

Space Bites: Becoming a planetary explorer | Matthias Maurer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvk3TNNURI .. .. .. .

Voyager and the Deep Space Network Upgrade https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/05/voyager-and-the-deep-space-network-upgrade/ .. ..

Calculating Life’s Possibilities on Titan by PAUL GILSTERon MARCH 4, 2020 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/04/calculating-lifes-possibilities-on-titan/ .. 

Possible Worlds' takes us back into a universe of science - https://www.space.com/cosmos-possible-worlds-season-3-premiere.html .. Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan's original 'Cosmos.'

Pearl Jam's 'Gigaton' boldly goes to the Red Planet, has 'Apollo' launch on SiriusXM

By Steve Spaleta an hour ago - Our changing planet is a muse for the legendary grunge rockers. https://www.space.com/pearl-jam-gigaton-record-review.html .. 

Surprise! Earth and the moon aren't made of exactly the same stuff.

By Charles Q. Choi 5 hours ago The new findings provide a boost to the giant-impact theory of the moon's origin. https://www.space.com/earth-moon-different-compositions-surprise.html ..

Green auroras dance over Iceland in awesome fisheye video https://www.space.com/green-auroras-over-iceland-seljalandsfoss-cliffs-video.html ..

Tenacious bacteria flourish on space station, but they're no more dangerous than Earth bugs

 - By Chelsea Gohd 3 days ago -It turns out that bacteria contaminating the drinking water on the International Space Station aren't any more dangerous than bacteria here on Earth. https://www.space.com/bacteria-space-station-water-dispenser-not-dangerous.html ..

What's in a name: Why NASA chose 'Perseverance' for its next Mars rover By Mike Wall 3 days ago - NASA didn't name its next Mars rover Perseverance just because 'Percy' is a cute nickname. https://www.space.com/why-nasa-chose-perseverance-mars-rover-name.html ..

Is life possible around black holes? By Paul Sutter 3 days ago - A new research paper has found a new potential type of abode for life: a rocky planet orbiting just past the event horizon of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole. https://www.space.com/is-life-possible-around-black-holes.html ..

'They Are Already Here' starts with a total solar eclipse and a UFO. (Book Excerpt) By Sarah Scoles a day ago - Read an excerpt from the new book "They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers" by Sarah Scoles. https://www.space.com/they-are-already-here-ufo-culture-book-excerpt.html ..

These 4 Pieces Of Evidence Have Already Taken Us Beyond The Big Bang https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/these-4-pieces-of-evidence-have-already-taken-us-beyond-the-big-bang-5d0005bad7ed?source=rss----458a773bccd2---4 ..

Two Mars Missions Are Gutted Despite Near-Record Funding for Planetary Science | Strong funding for NASA's Planetary Science Division isn't enough to support MSL Curiosity and Mars Odyssey, apparently https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2020/fy-2021-pbr-for-planetary-science.html ..

Using Gaia as a Gravitational-Wave Detector | astrobites https://astrobites.org/2020/03/02/using-gaia-as-a-gravitational-wave-detector/ ..

Bad Astronomy | The Earth has a new minimoon! But not for long… https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-earth-has-a-new-minimoon-but-not-for-long ..

Chinese moon rover peers beneath surface of mysterious lunar far side | Space https://www.space.com/china-change-4-moon-far-side-subsurface.html ..

Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-ocean-moons-europa-enceladus.html ..

Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-hunt-mars-underground.html ..

▶︎ SCIENCE 

David Baker: 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins | TED Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/david_baker_5_challenges_we_could_solve_by_designing_new_proteins ..

The Audacious Project https://www.audaciousproject.org ..

Coronavirus massive simulations completed on Frontera supercomputer: New simulations can help researchers design new drugs and vaccines to combat the coronavirus -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200324102720.htm ...

The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a treatment - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/fastest-supercomputer-coronavirus-scn-trnd/index.html ..

World's Fastest Supercomputer, Summit, Joins The Battle Against COVID-19  https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-joins-the-battle-against-covid19/  

Fight climate change like it's World War III: 4 potent weapons to deploy https://phys.org/news/2020-03-climate-world-war-iii-potent.html ..

News | Greenland, Antarctica Melting Six Times Faster Than in the 1990s https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7616 ..

At CMS, artificial neural networks search for exotic particles | CERN https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/cms-artificial-neural-networks-search-exotic-particles ..

New study allows brain and artificial neurons to link up over the web -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226110843.htm ..

Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New study sheds light: Scientists one step closer to understanding the mystery of matter in the universe -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228142022.htm ..

Unique material could unlock new functionality in semiconductors: Researchers synthesized ferroelectric material that can be manipulated using light in previously impossible ways -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228170329.htm ..

Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic: A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220141748.htm ..

Unique non-oxygen breathing animal discovered: The tiny relative of the jellyfish is parasitic and dwells in salmon tissue -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200225114408.htm ..

▶︎ SCIENCE-FICTION 

From Soviet to science fiction icon, the weird life of Isaac Asimov 100 years on • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/06/isaac_asimov_100_years_on/ ..

▶︎ TELEVISON AND PREVIEWS 

COSMOS on Twitter: "The discoveries of today would not be possible without the sacrifices of the past. Yesterday’s scientists are today’s historic heroes. #COSMOS https://t.co/NEf7tkNrvr" / Twitter https://twitter.com/COSMOSonTV/status/1239567097018986496 ..


▶︎ HUMOR 

Neil deGrasse Tyson On Coronavirus: Will People Listen To Science? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4FUHHMI24 hhhhh

▶︎ WEIRD 

How UFO Sightings Became an American Obsession | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/how-ufo-sightings-became-an-american-obsession/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1 ..

BBC - Ogopogo, Canada’s mysterious lake monster http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200309-ogopogo-the-monster-lurking-in-okanagan-lake  ..

First US coronavirus death follows Trump claim outbreak is a hoax | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/joe-biden-trump-coronavirus-hoax-claim ..


▶︎ OTHER NEWS 

▶︎ MUSIC

Unique non-oxygen breathing animal discovered: The tiny relative of the jellyfish is parasitic and dwells in salmon tissue -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200225114408.htm   ..

FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE | MASTER BOOT RECORD https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/floppy-disk-overdrive  ..


▶︎ ON REPEAT

Why dying stars may be a good place to look for alien life (2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/16/why-dying-stars-might-be-a-good-place-to-look-for-alien-life/.

China barred my dystopian novel about how its system enables epidemics - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-how-its-system-enables-epidemics/2020/02/27/cc0446f0-58e5-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html “World War Z” imagined a mysterious virus being downplayed by Beijing. Sound familiar?''

▶︎ NEW LINKS  UNCATEGORIZED

Mystical Complex & Dapanji - Distigma (Bassfactor Remix) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWeoGaVFOMs ..

Voyager and the Deep Space Network Upgrade by PAUL GILSTER on MARCH 5, 2020 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/05/voyager-and-the-deep-space-network-upgrade/ ..

Calculating Life’s Possibilities on Titan by PAUL GILSTERon MARCH 4, 2020 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/03/04/calculating-lifes-possibilities-on-titan/ .. ..

'Cosmos: Possible Worlds' takes us back into a universe of science - https://www.space.com/cosmos-possible-worlds-season-3-premiere.html .. Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan's original 'Cosmos.'

Pearl Jam's 'Gigaton' boldly goes to the Red Planet, has 'Apollo' launch on SiriusXM By Steve Spaleta an hour ago Our changing planet is a muse for the legendary grunge rockers. https://www.space.com/pearl-jam-gigaton-record-review.html ..

Surprise! Earth and the moon aren't made of exactly the same stuff. By Charles Q. Choi 5 hours ago The new findings provide a boost to the giant-impact theory of the moon's origin. https://www.space.com/earth-moon-different-compositions-surprise.html ..

Tenacious bacteria flourish on space station, but they're no more dangerous than Earth bugs By Chelsea Gohd 3 days ago It turns out that bacteria contaminating the drinking water on the International Space Station aren't any more dangerous than bacteria here on Earth. https://www.space.com/bacteria-space-station-water-dispenser-not-dangerous.html ..

What's in a name: Why NASA chose 'Perseverance' for its next Mars rover By Mike Wall 3 days ago NASA didn't name its next Mars rover Perseverance just because 'Percy' is a cute nickname. https://www.space.com/why-nasa-chose-perseverance-mars-rover-name.html ..

Is life possible around black holes? By Paul Sutter 3 days ago A new research paper has found a new potential type of abode for life: a rocky planet orbiting just past the event horizon of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole. https://www.space.com/is-life-possible-around-black-holes.html ..

'They Are Already Here' starts with a total solar eclipse and a UFO. (Book Excerpt) By Sarah Scoles a day ago Read an excerpt from the new book "They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers" by Sarah Scoles. https://www.space.com/they-are-already-here-ufo-culture-book-excerpt.html ..

Designing 'Avenue 5': HBO's epic space cruise ship comedy's look explained By Tariq Malik a day ago https://www.space.com/avenue-5-space-cruise-ship-design-explained.html ..

These 4 Pieces Of Evidence Have Already Taken Us Beyond The Big Bang https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/these-4-pieces-of-evidence-have-already-taken-us-beyond-the-big-bang-5d0005bad7ed?source=rss----458a773bccd2---4 ..

Two Mars Missions Are Gutted Despite Near-Record Funding for Planetary Science | Strong funding for NASA's Planetary Science Division isn't enough to support MSL Curiosity and Mars Odyssey, apparently https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2020/fy-2021-pbr-for-planetary-science.html ..

Using Gaia as a Gravitational-Wave Detector | astrobites https://astrobites.org/2020/03/02/using-gaia-as-a-gravitational-wave-detector/ ..

Bad Astronomy | The Earth has a new minimoon! But not for long… https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-earth-has-a-new-minimoon-but-not-for-long ..

Chinese moon rover peers beneath surface of mysterious lunar far side | Space https://www.space.com/china-change-4-moon-far-side-subsurface.html ..

Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-ocean-moons-europa-enceladus.html ..

Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life | Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-hunt-mars-underground.html ..

▶︎ SCIENCE 

New study allows brain and artificial neurons to link up over the web -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226110843.htm ..

Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New study sheds light: Scientists one step closer to understanding the mystery of matter in the universe -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228142022.htm ..

Unique material could unlock new functionality in semiconductors: Researchers synthesized ferroelectric material that can be manipulated using light in previously impossible ways -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200228170329.htm ..

Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic: A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220141748.htm ..

▶︎ HUMOR 

▶︎ WEIRD 

First US coronavirus death follows Trump claim outbreak is a hoax | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/joe-biden-trump-coronavirus-hoax-claim ..

▶︎ OTHER 

Free online courses - full list — Class Central https://www.classcentral.com/report/new-online-courses/ 

▶︎ MUSIC 

Mystical Complex & Dapanji - Distigma (Bassfactor Remix) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWeoGaVFOMs ..

 ▶︎ ON REPEAT

Why dying stars may be a good place to look for alien life (2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/16/why-dying-stars-might-be-a-good-place-to-look-for-alien-life/ ..

China barred my dystopian novel about how its system enables epidemics - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-how-its-system-enables-epidemics/2020/02/27/cc0446f0-58e5-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html “World War Z” imagined a mysterious virus being downplayed by Beijing. Sound familiar?''

Green auroras dance over Iceland in awesome fisheye video https://www.space.com/green-auroras-over-iceland-seljalandsfoss-cliffs-video.html .. 

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