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WHO Launches Project to Develop H5N1 Vaccines Using mRNA

July 30, 2024

On July 29, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a new project to speed up the development of vaccines for bird flu in poorer countries. This project will use messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. An Argentinian company, Sinergium Biotech, is ..

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SpaceX and NASA Set Crew-9 Launch for August 18

July 29, 2024

On July 26th, SpaceX and NASA announced they would send Crew-9 to the International Space Station (ISS) as early as August 18. This comes after the Federal Aviation Administration gave the go-ahead for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which had been stopped ..

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OpenAI Launches SearchGPT

July 27, 2024

OpenAI has released SearchGPT, which is a challenge to Google’s long-time reign as the best search engine. The goal of this AI-powered search tool is to improve the user experience by giving them information and results from the internet in ..

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What is the Oropouche Virus?

July 27, 2024

The Oropouche virus, which is mostly spread by midges and mosquitoes, has killed its first people in Brazil. The health ministry of Brazil stated that two women younger than 30 years old died in Bahia. People are now more aware ..

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India Advances 6G Technology Development with IITs Collaboration

July 27, 2024

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said in July 2024 that it wanted to improve 6G technology that was already in the country. The project aims to create “Cell-Free” 6G Access Points by working with IIT Roorkee and IIT Mandi. This will ..

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ISRO Seeks ESA Collaboration for Apophis Asteroid Mission

July 27, 2024

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are going to work together on the Ramses project, which will focus on the asteroid Apophis, which is going to pass close to Earth in 2029. This project ..

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Meta Introduces Llama 3.1

July 25, 2024

Meta’s latest AI model, Llama 3.1, has reportedly outperformed leading competitors like OpenAI in various performance benchmarks, sparking interest in open source AI’s evolving role in the tech landscape. What is Open Source AI? Open source AI is a term ..

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Chinese Lunar Probe Finds Water Traces in Moon Soil

July 25, 2024

China’s Chang’e-5 lunar probe safely returned soil and rock samples from the Moon in 2020. These samples showed small amounts of water. A group of scientists wrote about this important discovery in the peer-reviewed magazine Nature Astronomy. Historical Background It’s ..

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Researchers Discover ‘Dark Oxygen’ Production on Seafloor

July 24, 2024

Recent research published in Nature Geoscience has uncovered the production of a novel form of oxygen, dubbed “dark oxygen,” on the deep-ocean floor—challenging long-standing scientific beliefs about oxygen production on Earth. Traditionally, it was believed that oxygen on Earth was ..

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ESA Prepares RAMSES Mission to Study Asteroid Apophis

July 23, 2024

The Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet broke up and hit Jupiter in 1994, which sparked a lot of interest in protecting planets. People talked about how to stop similar events from happening on Earth after this one. Planetary defense systems are getting ..

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