Photo Credit: Bettmann – Getty Images Of Popular Mechanics Medical researchers from around the world are testing the polio vaccine in vivo to detect a secondary ability to prevent COVID-19 (coronavirus) for a short time. Proponents say this could stop humanity until a true vaccine is developed. Scientists don’t understand …
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Earlier this week, NASA announced that it will rename its headquarters building in Washington DC after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency’s first black engineer. “Jackson began his career at NASA in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia,” NASA said in …
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By making use of the “creepy” laws behind quantum entanglement, physicists believe they have found a way to make information jump between a pair of electrons separated by distance. Teleportation of ground states between photons, massless light particles, is fast becoming old news, a trick we are still learning to …
Read More »Google will pay news in three countries
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