It's Wednesday

It's the middle of the week and I hope everyone is having a great week. Here are some science posts from the Science Bloggers Facebook group for you to check out.

Science Bloggers on Wednesday

• AI program defeats professionals in six-player poker game
• Automated system generates robotic parts for novel tasks
• Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
• Researchers identify ancient bird trapped in amber with bizarre long toe
• Parents agree to use CRISPR gene editing on their babies to avoid deafness
• New vaccine strategy boosts T-cell therapy
• SpaceX wins NASA contract for launching black hole and neutron star research spacecraft
• Matcha the stress buster
• Study finds most of the pet owners are not aware of pet blood donation schemes
• Princeton scientists spot two supermassive black holes on collision course with each other
• Cancer biologists identify new drug combo
• The hottest Star
• The Importance of Math – 5 Everyday Uses
• Start a Science Blog in 5 Easy Steps
• Brown fat. What is it? Does coffee a day keep obesity away?
• CTS: 3.6 brief quiz on intro logic
• The Slowest Supernova
• Red, White, and Blue Microbes
• Using commander’s intent in the science lab
• Quotes from the founding fathers on science and reason

AI program defeats professionals in six-player poker game

An AI program created by Carnegie Mellon University researchers in collaboration with Facebook has beaten top professionals in the world’s most popular form of poker, six-player no-limit Texas hold’em poker. The AI named Pluribus defeated two top players, Darren Elias, who has the most number of World Poker Tour Titles and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, champion […]

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Automated system generates robotic parts for novel tasks

An automated system developed by MIT researchers designs and 3-D prints complex robotic parts called actuators that are optimized according to an enormous number of specifications. In short, the system does automatically what is virtually impossible for humans to do by hand. In a paper published today in Science Advances, the researchers demonstrate the system by […]

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Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

As a cucumber plant grows, it sprouts tightly coiled tendrils that seek out supports in order to pull the plant upward. This ensures the plant receives as much sunlight exposure as possible. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting fibers that could be used as artificial […]

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Researchers identify ancient bird trapped in amber with bizarre long toe

An ancient bird with an insanely long toe has been found preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber and this has led to the revelation of a new species of an ancient bird. Newly named as Elektorornis chenguangi, it is a bird distinct from all others because of its hind limb. The third digit on its […]

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Parents agree to use CRISPR gene editing on their babies to avoid deafness

A Russian Scientist Dennis Rebrikov wants to use CRISPR to create more gene edited babies and has said that 5 couples have agreed for genetically editing their babies to avoid chances of deafness. The Russian biologist had planned to do gene editing to human embryos and bring them to term. Chinese scientist He Jiankui was […]

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New vaccine strategy boosts T-cell therapy

A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s own T cells to destroy the cancerous cells. This approach, termed CAR-T cell therapy, is now used to combat some types of leukemia, but so far it has not worked well against solid tumors such as lung or breast tumors. […]

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SpaceX wins NASA contract for launching black hole and neutron star research spacecraft

Elon Musk’s SpaceX obtained its sixth contracted mission under National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of estimated cost $50.3 million to launch Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE using the First stage booster on a board of Falcon 9 rocket. This explorer space shuttle will investigate the polarized (limited to a single plane) cosmic rays […]

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Matcha the stress buster

Study finds most of the pet owners are not aware of pet blood donation schemes

A new survey of pet owners which has been published in Vet Record finds that the majority of dog and cat owners are not aware of several blood donation schemes and blood banks for pets. A large number of pet owners in this survey said that they were ready to allow their pets for donating […]

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Princeton scientists spot two supermassive black holes on collision course with each other

Each black hole’s mass is more than 800 million times that of our sun. As the two gradually draw closer together in a death spiral, they will begin sending gravitational waves rippling through space-time. Those cosmic ripples will join the as-yet-undetected background noise of gravitational waves from other supermassive black holes. Even before the destined […]

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Cancer biologists identify new drug combo

When it comes to killing cancer cells, two drugs are often better than one. Some drug combinations offer a one-two punch that kills cells more effectively, requires lower doses of each drug, and can help to prevent drug resistance. MIT biologists have now found that by combining two existing classes of drugs, both of which […]

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The hottest Star

The Importance of Math – 5 Everyday Uses

Start a Science Blog in 5 Easy Steps

In my last post, I talked about how having a blog is more valuable for science outreach than social media, and might even be the best form of science communication, considering the potential for reach...

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Brown fat. What is it? Does coffee a day keep obesity away?

CTS: 3.6 brief quiz on intro logic

The Slowest Supernova

Red, White, and Blue Microbes

Happy 4th of July! For Independence Day here in the United States, I am highlighting three microbes, each a different color: red, white, and blue. So, please enjoy these 4th of July-themed microbes. Red – Serratia marcescens The bacterium Serratia marcescens produces a bright red pigment called prodigiosin, depending on the temperature it is grown …

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Using commander’s intent in the science lab

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