The consequences of machine intelligence

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If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

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Artificial Intelligence

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Deepening our genetic understanding of Multiple
Sclerosis

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Five scientists, including two from Simon Fraser University, have discovered that 30 per cent of our likelihood of developing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can be explained by 475,806 genetic variants in our genome. Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) commonly screen these variants, looking for genetic links to diseases.

Subject:

Genetics

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Life satisfaction is linked to our genes

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Vulnerability to major depression is linked with how satisfied we are with our lives. This association is largely due to genes.

This is the main finding of a new twin study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in collaboration with the University of Oslo. The researchers compared longitudinal information from identical and fraternal twins to determine how vulnerability to major depression is associated with dispositional (overall) lifetime satisfaction.

Subject:

Genetics

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New hope for pancreatic cancer patients

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A large-scale study that defines the complexity of underlying mutations responsible for pancreatic cancers in more than 100 patients was published in Nature today.

The analysis represents the first report from Australia?s contribution to the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), which brings together the world's leading scientists to identify the genetic drivers behind 50 different cancer types.

Subject:

Health & Medicine

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Saturn's giant storm reveals the planet's
churning atmosphere

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 25 October 2012 08:16:40 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Paris (ESA) Oct 26, 2012
A recent study of the giant storm whirling on Saturn for the past two years, which became known as the "Great Springtime Storm", has given planetary scientists new clues about the planet's weather. Using a combination of data from the Cassini orbiter and ground-based telescopes, the scientists traced the storm's development from deep within the churning clouds in Saturn's lower atmosphere

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S. Korea readies third bid to join global space
club

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Seoul (AFP) Oct 25, 2012
South Korea hopes to launch a satellite into space on Friday in its third attempt to join an elite club that includes Asian powers China, Japan and India. After two previous failures in 2009 and 2010, the 140-tonne Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV-I) will, weather permitting, blast off from the Naro Space Center on the south coast. Success will mean a huge boost for South Korea - a late

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Record space junk cloud could threaten ISS:
report

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Moscow (AFP) Oct 26, 2012
The explosion of a failed Russian rocket upper stage has created a space junk cloud of 500 pieces which could threaten the International Space Station, a report said Thursday. In one of the biggest orbital debris incidents of recent years the Briz-M rocket stage exploded in mid-October, two months after causing a key launch of telecom satellites to fail in the latest embarrassing mishap fo

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Pleiades 1B joins its launcher at the Spaceport
for Arianespace's Soyuz mission in November

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Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 26, 2012
Activities for Arianespace's fourth medium-lift Soyuz flight from the Spaceport is fully underway as the Pleiades 1B payload has now arrived in French Guiana - joining the mission's launcher, which is well advanced in its preparations. The dual-use, very-high-resolution satellite was delivered this week by a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft to Felix Eboue Airport near the capital city of Cayenne,

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Opportunity Undertakes Survey Drives Of Local
Area

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2012
Opportunity is continuing a local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover performed three survey drives on Sols 3105, 3107 and 3110 (Oct. 18, 20, and 23, 2012), driving first west, then southwest, and then southeast, totaling 226 feet (69 meters). Each drive w

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New crew docks with ISS: Russia

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Moscow (AFP) Oct 25, 2012
A new crew of two Russians and one American successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, Russian mission control said. The Soyuz capsule with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA's Kevin Ford docked with the ISS at 1229 GMT after their two day journey from Earth. The three men blasted off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in a Soyuz T

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