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Worried about future planet-cleansing superbugs? But distrust AI? Guess you’re not interested in these antibiotics Antibiotics

Worried about future planet-cleansing superbugs? But distrust AI? Guess you’re not interested in these antibiotics

Meet halicin, picked by a neural network and whimsically named after the HAL 9000 bot Although new strains of antibiotics are increasingly difficult to develop, scientists have done just that, with the help of a neural network. The drug – named halicin as a hat tip to HAL 9000, the…
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February 21, 2020
JR Central logs 8% drop in bullet train passengers amid coronavirus outbreak Super Komachi

JR Central logs 8% drop in bullet train passengers amid coronavirus outbreak

The number of passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Feb. 1 and Wednesday declined 8 percent from a year earlier, operator Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Central) has said.The decrease reflects low travel demand due to the outbreak of new coronavirus COVID-19, and the absence of a three-day weekend…
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February 21, 2020
[ASAP] Optical Supramolecular Sensing of Creatinine Black Hole

[ASAP] Optical Supramolecular Sensing of Creatinine

AbstractCalixpyrrole phosphonate-cavitands were used as receptors for the design of supramolecular sensors for creatinine and its lipophilic derivative hexylcreatinine. The sensing principle is based on indicator displacement assays of an inherently fluorescent guest dye or a black-hole quencher from the receptor’s cavity by means of competition with the creatinine analytes.…
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February 21, 2020
U.S. intel officials warn lawmakers Russia is helping Trump win 2020 election: sources Impeachment

U.S. intel officials warn lawmakers Russia is helping Trump win 2020 election: sources

Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get re-elected, three officials familiar with the closed-door briefing said Thursday. 1:36U.S. intelligence: Russia helping Trump win 2020 election U.S. intelligence: Russia helping Trump win 2020 election The warning raises questions…
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February 21, 2020