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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – At noon on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, it will yet another chapter in American history when Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States and Kamala Harris becomes the first woman Vice President of the United States. … [Read more...] about ‘Christmas For Political Scientists:’ University Of Pittsburgh Professor Of Political Science Discusses Inauguration Day

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will establish a quantum computing applications lab in collaboration with AWS, to accelerate quantum computing-led research and development and enable new scientific discoveries. The MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab will provide quantum computing as a service to government ministries and departments, researchers, scientists, academia, and developers, to enable advances in areas such as manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and aerospace engineering. AWS will provide hosting with technical and programmatic support for the lab.This MeitY initiative will provide scientific, academic, and developer communities access to a quantum computing development environment aligned with the government’s science and technology priorities.Quantum computing is an emerging field that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to build powerful tools to process information. It has the potential to solve computational problems that … [Read more...] about MeitY to establish quantum computing applications lab powered by AWS to boost India’s science & technology initiatives

Elon Musk has long spoke about plans to construct a colony on Mars – from sending three Starships a day to building a Starlink internet constellation to a housing plan with glass domes (pictured is artist's impression) … [Read more...] about Forget Mars, welcome to Ceres: Humans may one day be living in a megasatellite habitat around the dwarf planet because its water and nitrogen make a much more suitable off-Earth civilization than the red planet, study reveals

An inter-disciplinary team led by Nandula Raghuram from New Delhi’s Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University found that N-use-efficient (NUE) cultivars tend to be slow in germination and flowering, grow tall and deep with higher biomass and take longer duration to harvest but yield more with lesser N input. They also reported 34 genes associated with NUE for potential crop improvement. Their findings have just been published in international journal Frontiers in Plant Science. … [Read more...] about Rice attributes that improve nitrogen use efficiency found

Gene editing involves inserting, deleting, modifying or replacing the DNA of a living organism It could help protect humans against diseases and natural illnesses And some believe that gene editing could give us superhuman enhancements These may include a boosted sense of smell or improved night vision Scientists are divided over the ethics of gene editing Editing DNA is a new and risky science that could have unknown consequences for babies And DNA-editing could lead to societal changes, with the prospect of "designer babies" becoming real This could lead to severe inequality – a future where only the rich can afford to modify their DNA could lead to a new elite race of superhumans Gene editing has been successfully performed on mice embryos One Chinese scientist successfully gene-edited the embryos of two human baby girls in November 2018 … [Read more...] about Chinese scientists think they’ve invented a way to make people live longer using MICE