28 Jul Meet Cosmo, a Bull Calf CRISPR-Designed to Produce 75% Male Offspring – MORE MALES, MORE BEEF

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have successfully produced a bull calf, named Cosmo, who was genome-edited as an embryo so that he’ll produce more male offspring. The research was presented in a poster today (July 23) at the American Society of Animal Science meeting. Using the genome-editing technology CRISPR, researchers can make targeted cuts to the genome or insert useful genes, which is called a gene knock-in.

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28 Jul Tech firms deploy Bluetooth chips for coronavirus contact tracing in office – Reuters

Technology companies are developing their own contact tracing systems to help prevent coronavirus outbreaks in their offices as countries begin to ease lockdown measures and a return to the workplace is in the offing.

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24 Jul Oldest Light Ever Detected Confirms Age of the Universe

Just how old is the Universe? Astrophysicists have been debating this question for decades. In recent years, new scientific measurements have suggested the universe may be hundreds of millions of years younger than its previously estimated age of approximately 13.8 billions of years.

Now new research published in a series of papers by an international team of astrophysicists, including Neelima Sehgal, PhD, from Stony Brook University, suggest the universe is about 13.8 billion years old. By using observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile, their findings match the measurements of the Planck satellite data of the same ancient light.

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24 Jul LinkedIn 2019 Talent Trends: Soft Skills, Transparency and Trust

This week LinkedIn released its 2019 Global Talent Trends research, a study that summarizes job and hiring data across millions of people, and the results are quite interesting. (5,165 talent and managers responded, a big sample.

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24 Jul Researchers convert female mosquitoes to nonbiting males

Virginia Tech researchers have proven that a single gene can convert female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into fertile male mosquitoes and identified a gene needed for male mosquito flight.

Male mosquitoes do not bite and are unable to transmit pathogens to humans. Female mosquitoes, on the other hand, are able to bite.

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19 Jul Simulation Shows What Would Happen If The Moon Hit Earth

It’s a good thing it’s probably never going to happen, because if the Moon hit Earth, it doesn’t look like it would be good news. This neat simulation from

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18 Jul How to exercise with a face mask — and what not to do

If you have to wear a face mask to exercise outdoors under coronavirus stay-at-home orders, here’s how to make sure you get enough oxygen and stay safe.

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18 Jul Why everyone should be wearing transparent face masks

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, it’s becoming clear that, for the foreseeable future at least, face masks are here to stay. They’re mandatory on public transport, they’re compulsory in shops in Scotland, and from July 24, shoppers will need to wear them in England or face a £100 fine.

But as we all don our masks as evidence in favour of the garment’s effectiveness in curbing the spread of coronavirus mounts, obscuring part of our face is having a detrimental effect on how some of us communicate with each other.

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18 Jul Brazil’s coronavirus chaos provides a global laboratory for the vaccine race

As the coronavirus pandemic tears through Brazil, researchers and pharmaceutical companies are turning to the South American giant in search of a vaccine.

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18 Jul WIRED: Security ALERT! 15 Billion Stolen Logins Are Circulating on the Dark Web

After China imposed a restrictive national security law on Hong Kong, tech companies find themselves at a crossroads. Giants like Google and Facebook stopped responding to requests for user data in the city, but they may eventually have to pull out altogether.

One marquee name to exit Hong Kong already is TikTok, which remains eager to prove its distance from its China-based parent company. TikTok also found itself embroiled in a confusing episode on Friday, when an internal Amazon email indicated that the company was ordering employees to remove the app from their phones; hours later, Amazon stated that the email was sent in error. Hate it when the drafts go live, especially when they cause an international furor.

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