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Elon Musk's SpaceX Mars program on track to put humans on the red planet with a successful Starship SN8 test flight - despite explosion

Elon Musk's SpaceX declared their Starship SN8 test flight to be a success, even though it exploded while attempting to land. The rocket is a prototype of the craft that will fly to Mars, land there, and return in 2024. It will eventually carry humans to the planet. <p class="p-2 border-bottom border-warning"></p>

Dec 10, 2020 16:03
Scientists have restored vision in old mice by regenerating cells to make them "younger"

Scientists have successfully restored vision in old mice by tweaking their DNA and regenerating cells to make them "younger". This experiment could have implications for humans, and the process has already been licenced by Harvard to a Life Sciences company in their city (Boston).

Dec 6, 2020 00:01
In an unanticipated discovery, DeepMind - an AI company - has solved an intractable biology problem - that of determining a protein's structure from its genetic sequence

UK based AI company DeepMind (acquired by Google in 2014) was best known for its AlphaZero program which became a world champion at Chess and Go. Now, its AlphaFold program has cracked a biology problem, which could revolutionise medicine and cure diseases

Dec 2, 2020 21:46