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2022-06-03 22:03:07

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2022-06-03 17:16:10 A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has found that smoking cannabis drastically alters vision, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports.
While a shockingly high number of cannabis users claimed to be able to see just fine, the new study has found the drug does the complete opposite by altering key visual functions like visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, the ability to focus, and more.
This highlights the need to carry out public awareness campaigns about the visual impacts of cannabis, as the visual deterioration can pose a danger when performing daily tasks such as driving.

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2022-06-03 16:03:01 How to Make a Water Wheel Turbine | Crafty Engineer

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2022-06-03 05:30:40 In defense news, it has been officially announced that the United States Air Force is developing its next-generation (sixth-generation) fighter.
During a Heritage Foundation event, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, “we have now started an [engineering, manufacturing, and development] program to do the development aircraft that we’ll take into production.”
“We think we’ll have the capability by the end of the decade," he added.

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2022-06-03 02:30:58 A new computational tool developed by the Asteroid Institute, a non-governmental space organization, uses old data captured by telescopes to spot asteroids that astronomers might have missed, The New York Times reported.
Asteroids that can potentially crash onto Earth and wipe off human civilization are the greatest fear space enthusiasts have. For all the technological advancements we have made so far, our understanding of our solar system is severely limited. Giant asteroids have been zipping past the Earth at thousands of miles an hour every now and then. It would not be a surprise if one were headed straight for us.

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2022-06-02 20:45:28 A team of students at the University of Illinois Chicago has built a solar-powered charging station to ensure that a food truck on the campus makes emission-free deliveries.
Students getting involved in projects inside the university is not something new. However, the students at UIC haven’t just built a prototype or a technology demonstrator. Their solar-powered charging station energizes a commercially built electric vehicle. It may not look like a Tesla or a Ford EV, but the vehicle is very much street legal and has a top speed of 25 mph.

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2022-06-02 02:30:44 Researchers at the Air Force Early Warning Academy in China have claimed to have developed artificial intelligence-based technology that can predict the course of hypersonic missiles even as they approach their target at five times the speed of sound, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
Hypersonic missiles are the new frontier that countries aim to breach in warfare to have an edge over their adversaries. A hypersonic missile can travel at speeds far more excessive than the speed of sound and stay out of the vision of air defense systems for extended periods, springing a surprise.

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2022-06-01 19:56:21 Elon Musk has once again shown his not-so-good side by sparring with Jackson Palmer, one of the creators of the cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, Business Insider reported. In his tirade on Twitter, Musk even went on to say that his kids "wrote better code when they were 12" than what Jackson had sent to him back in 2018.
For the uninitiated, Jackson Palmer is a software engineer at Adobe, but he is popular as one of the creators of the meme cryptocurrency, Dogecoin. About a decade ago, Palmer was joking about the speculation in cryptocurrencies and suggested that a dog coin be created. He even bought the domain name dogecoin.com, after the former IBM engineer Bill Markus got in touch with him.

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2022-06-01 18:10:07 File this one under “likely not aliens, but you never know.”
A team of Australian astronomers discovered a mysterious radio signal of unknown origin, saying it requires further investigation to determine its source.
The bright and compact radio signal, given the designation J054149.24–641813.7, was discovered by a team led by Joel Balzan of Western Sydney University in Australia.
Radio sources are generally emitted by pulsars, nebulae, quasars, and radio galaxies, though some radio sources over the years have been anomalous and unattributed, leading to theories that they might come from intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations.
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2022-06-01 17:53:21

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