Lifeboat Foundation

Sipping coffee to wake up is so 2016. Now you can just wear it around your wrist.

Knowing how or why genes are turned on and off during development, as well as understanding how they respond to environmental changes, will prove to be useful in our quest to find ways to prevent diseases. In addition, while the human initiator is responsible for regulating more than half of human genes, there are other sequences that control gene activity. This achievement could lead scientists to discover other sequence signals.

“The solution of the human Initiator code will enable us to explore new frontiers in gene regulation. In the future, it will be possible to use the code to identify other regulatory signals and, in this way, gain a more complete understanding of how human genes are turned on and off,” Kadonaga says.

Apple new patent.

Some are weird, some are cool, and some make nearly no sense, but a newly uncovered patent application from the company is one of the rare examples of all three; Apple just patented a vape.

The Cupertino giant filed an application for a distinct vaporizing technology, the past year.

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According to a study by two Harvard researchers, they have succeeded in creating metallic hydrogen for the first time in history.

FaceApp can even turn that frown upside down.

Here’s the story of a woman who survived after being frozen solid via Graveyard Shift.

Brachistochrone is a Greek word which translates to the shortest time, and it refers to one of the questions posed by one of the Bernoulli’s brothers; Johann Bernoulli. If you want to move from point A to B in the quickest time possible what is the shortest time you can take. Most people will assume that the straight line will be the shortest and will take the least time which isn’t true.

Listen to the solution to this problem by Steven Strogatz here.

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But there’s hope on the horizon.

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