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Research and Development: China spends $278B on partnerships

China government policies in Research and Development (R&D) aim to attract top foreign talents to come to China and conduct their researches. The government assures proper funding, loose visa restrictions, and free hands to work on their desired researches. China is now becoming a destination for high-quality Research and Development facilities with its $278 billion […]

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Viral post on smartphone usage flagged for misinformation

Just three months ago, the community was talking about a viral post from “The Washington Post” headlining a journal from “The Scientific Reports” entitled “Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone is to blame, research suggests”. Background of the story In a viral post on June 2019, a group of professors from Australia came out with […]

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Technology does not affect mental health

According to a recent study initiated at the University of California – Irvine, there is no connection between the excessive use of digital devices and the mental health of young adults.  Several faculty members from the psychology department decided to perform a study, as digital devices and online presence are often blamed for mental health […]

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Girls beat boys in A-level science entries

According to Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), girls surpass boys for the first time in A-level science entries this 2019.  The entries reached fifty and three-tenths percent (50.3%) in science fields such as biology, physics, and chemistry. It was hailed by scientists as “a cause for celebration” since female students started to take the initiative […]

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Empowering China with 5G technology

China started the five-year plan on implementing 5G technology from 2015 to 2020. According to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), eight (8) million new jobs are set by 2030.  It was also released that China spent a total of nine hundred billion US dollars ($900 billion) so far which exceeded the […]

Technology

Integrating AI to human brain with Neuralink

This July, Elon Musk announces his new company which deals with a brain-computer interface (BCI) called Neuralink. Despite making huge tech advancements and innovation to space exploration, skeptics raise their doubts that integrating AI to the brain may not help human intelligence after all.  Instead, it may lead to humanity’s self-destruction before AI and machine […]

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Newton is wrong about gravity – scientists believe

The new study proclaims that Newton’s law of gravity isn’t right during the black hole research. Scientists began to turn their heads towards Einstein’s general theory of relativity and speculated that his theory would also be deemed wrong as Newton did.  The study was co-led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Professor Andrea […]

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Tardigrades: First life to survive on the moon?

Scientists speculated that the minuscule hard creatures called tardigrades may be the first life to survive in the barren surface of the moon. To this day, experts have been keeping tabs on how these beings walk on their own. Nova Spivack, the co-founder and chairman of Arch Mission Foundation, speculated that tardigrades have “extremely high” […]