The Folding@Home community has turned its attention toward the fight against COVID-19, and it now has massive computational power at its disposal as a result. The distributed computing project is now working with about 470 petaflops of output in its quest to fold proteins, or enough to eclipse the world’s top seven supercomputers combined. That’s…
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Can Drugs for Malaria, HIV, and Ebola Treat Covid-19? New WHO Trial Aims to Find Out
Covid-19 patient samples being prepared for testing at Northwell Health Labs in Lake Success, New York.Image: APThe World Health Organization is launching a multinational clinical trial in which four existing drugs will be used to treat patients with covid-19. The project currently includes 10 countries and will potentially involve thousands of patients currently battling the…
If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren’t They Saving Us Now?
Modern capitalism has never seen anything quite like the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In a matter of months, the deadly contagious bug has spread around the world, hobbling any economy in its path. In the United States, where consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity, commerce has come to a standstill as people…
Poland calls to postpone July Tokyo Olympic games due to coronavirus
FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask, following the outbreak of the coronavirus, walks past The Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympics Museum in Tokyo, Japan, March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File PhotoWARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s Olympic Committee, PKOL, has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to change the date of…
Factbox: Reaction to Canada’s boycott of 2020 Games
(Reuters) – Reaction to Canada’s boycott of the 2020 Tokyo Games in the summer due to concerns about the coronavirus. A man takes a picture of the Giant Olympic rings at the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Stoyan NenovCOMMENTS FROM OFFICIALS Statement from Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and…
Climate Deniers Are Out of Ideas
Photo: GettyFolks, the Washington Post had itself a Sunday night. The paper inexplicably published a puff piece on the “anti-Greta,” a German teen peddling soft climate denial who’s being supported by a group of old white guys at the Heartland Institute. It took two reporters to do one of the most egregious pieces of both…
F1 Is Cancelled, So Drivers Will Race Each Other In The Official Video Game
Photo: Mark Thompson (Getty)The F1 season, like most major international sport, is currently on hold. And like a growing number of international sports, athletes have found one of the best ways to keep busy is to challenge others online in the video game version of what they normally do for a living.So as La Liga’s…
Nokia’s first 5G phone will star in the upcoming Bond film ‘No Time to Die’
Earlier this week, HMD Global announced that it will launch new Nokia phones at an event in London on March 19. The teaser for the upcoming event also hinted at a new James Bond collaboration. HMD Global has now confirmed that its first 5G-enabled smartphone, expected to be called the Nokia 8.2 5G, will feature…
How to watch Lee vs. Oliveira UFC Fight Night live stream online
This Saturday, March 14, Kevin Lee and Charles Oliveira step into the octagon together in the lightweight bout of the evening to see who will come out of the match victorious. Weighing in at 155 pounds, Oliveira has been in more fights than Lee to date, yet both maintain some impressive stats. Kevin Lee has…
The Olympic sport that influences my lab leadership style
A coxswain steers, coordinates and encourages: Leanne Hodson (right) is shown here at the 2017 World Masters Games, Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. Credit: Jac Rush I was a teenager in New Zealand when I started rowing after I watched it on television during the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. I was in awe of how…