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Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment Australian researchers have discovered remarkable evolutionary changes to insulin regulation in two of the nation's most iconic native animal species -- the platypus and the echidna -- which could pave the way for new treatments for type 2 diabetes in humans. The findings reveal that the same hormone produced in the gut of the platypus to regulate blood glucose is also surprisingly produced in their venom. ──────────────── Article @EverythingScience

Google's AI just created its own universal 'language' Google has previously taught its artificial intelligence to play games, and it's even capable of creating its own encryption. Now, its language translation tool has used machine learning to create a 'language' all of its own. ──────────────── Article @EverythingScience

NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication in Deep Space New technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say. The technology would combine multiple NASA projects currently in progress to demonstrate the feasibility of X-ray communications from outside the International Space Station. ──────────────── Article @EverythingScience

An F-22 Raptor pulling so many Gs, the low pressure air over the fuselage gets cold enough for the water to condense. http://redd.it/5fanbb @EverythingScience

The world's top biologists have met to discuss whether we should update evolution Evolutionary biology has helped scientists understand why the world looks the way it does for more than 150 years, since Charles Darwin released On the Origin of Species back in 1859.  But a team of researchers has now proposed an update to our current understanding of evolution - one that could completely shift our understanding of how species evolve. ──────────────── Article @EverythingScience

Could We Create A Livable Atmosphere On The Moon? @EverythingScience

Construction of practical quantum computers radically simplified Scientists at the University of Sussex have invented a ground-breaking new method that puts the construction of large-scale quantum computers within reach of current technology. Quantum computers could solve certain problems - that would take the fastest supercomputer millions of years to calculate - in just a few milliseconds. They have the potential to create new materials and medicines, as well as solve long-standing scientific and financial problems. Article @EverythingScience

NASA's Plan To Give Our Moon Its Own Moon @EverythingScience

Quantum Computers Could Crush Today’s Top Encryption in 15 Years Quantum computers could bring about a quantum leap in processing power, with countless benefits for fields like data science and AI. But there’s also a dark side: this extra power will make it simple to crack the encryption keeping everything from our emails to our online banking secure. ──────────────── Article @EverythingScience

Astronomers have found a whole new type of star at the centre of the Milky Way Astronomers have discovered a new family of stars in the centre of the Milky Way, which they're calling N-rich stars, because of their unusually high levels of nitrogen. Not only do these strange new stars deepen our understanding of what lies at the heart of our own galaxy, their discovery could shed light on how globular clusters - strange, spherical groups of stars that orbit the centre of a galaxy - formed during the creation of the Milky Way some 13.2 billion years ago. ──────────────── Article @EverythingScience

Cancer signalling pathway could illuminate new avenue to therapy Researchers have better defined a pro-growth signaling pathway common to many cancers that, when blocked, kills cancer cells but leaves healthy cells comparatively unharmed. The study could establish new avenues of therapeutic treatments for many types of solid tumors. ──────────────── Article @EverythingScience

Neuroscientists have successfully removed specific phobias from people's brains Neuroscientists have figured out how to remove specific fears from patients' brains using a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and brain scanning technology, and the technique could change the lives of people with crippling phobias. ──────────────── Article @EverythingScience

European Mars Lander Crash Caused by 1-Second Glitch: ESA PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) on Nov. 23 said its Schiaparelli lander’s crash landing on Mars on Oct. 19 followed an unexplained saturation of its inertial measurement unit (IMU), which delivered bad data to the lander’s computer and forced a premature release of its parachute. Polluted by the IMU data, the lander’s computer apparently thought it had either already landed or was just about to land. The parachute system was released, the braking thrusters were fired only briefly and the on-ground systems were activated. Instead of being on the ground, Schiaparelli was still 2.3 miles (3.7 kilometers) above the Mars surface. It crashed, but not before delivering what ESA officials say is a wealth of data on entry into the Mars atmosphere, the functioning and release of the heat shield and the deployment of the parachute — all of which went according to plan. ─────────────────────── Article Brought to you by @EverthingScience

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