The RECC’E - DAY 75 | 03.16.22 | ASTROBEES

Day 75 / 365

155YEARS ago today Joseph Lister published an article outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery in "The Lancet".

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13bnIONS have bee accelerated and collided by scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to produce a vanishingly rare particle - ‘X’ -  which they believe was around at the very beginning of the universe.

5.5tnDEGREES Celsius - 9.9 trillion degrees Fahrenheit - temperatures were used to collide the heavy lead atoms together which produced 100 of the unknown and elusive particles for about one-sextillionth of a second before decaying.

TRACKING: UKRAINE

500PEOPLE have been taken hostage in the Southern port city of Mariupol as Russian troops seize control of a hospital. 400 of those were driven into the regional intensive care hospital of the street by advancing Russian forces. 

29kCIVILIANS were evacuated from Ukrainian cities yesterday. President Zelenskyy has stated negotiating positions between the two countries is starting to “sound more realistic” with talks branded as “difficult’ but with “room for compromise”.

3mUKRANIANS have now been fled the country as of this morning. The official figure is 3,000,381 and the UN has confirmed it’s aid plans made allowances for 4m in total but this figure will likely have to be revised. 

$280(£213) FINE for a TV employee who interrupted a live state television broadcast in Russia with an anti-war protest sign. State investigators were considering if she could be punished under a new state law carrying a 15 year jail term however she was instead found guilty of flouting protest legislation. 

$13.6bnIN FUNDING has now been allocated to Ukraine after by the US after President Biden signed the historic Bipartisan Government Funding Bill into law yesterday.  

35HOUR curfew remains in place across the country in a bid to protect citizens from harm as shelling intensifies. 

NEED-TO-KNOW

18%REJECTION rates in the first year for heart transplant patients could be a thing of the past after a baby boy has undergone a first of its kind duel heart/thymus operation to remove the need for anti-rejection drugs. The new thymus at the same time as the donated organ (matched to the donor’s cells) means the immune system can effectively be reset to recognize the donor organ as familiar.

104YEARS since the Calder Act introduced a twice-a-year clock-change process, a one-page "Sunshine Protection Act" just got a rare unanimous vote in the US senate that could have drastic technological and transportation implications: a permanent, year-round adherence to daylight saving time (DST). The result would permanently leave clocks and timetables in the "spring forward" state of DST beginning in 2023. People will save a biological week of time not adjusting their internal clocks and there would be a significant reduction in deaths for car passengers and bystanders. 

<50%SUCCESS rate for curing ‘B acute lymphoblastic leukaemia’ in children under 1 - and only children under 1 - has puzzled scientists for 2 decades with no significant improvements. The once universally fatal disease for children is now curable in the majority of cases over this age bracket and no one knew why. However for the first time researchers have identified a subtle difference detected in immune cell types from which leukaemia arises; a breakthrough which could provide a route to treatment for babies under 1 worldwide. 

SHOULD-KNOW

200m+MEMBERS across 19 countries for Amazon prime but the internet giant is now facing federal trade scrutiny as part of a new investigation over its use of “ dark patterns”—manipulative online interface tricks—that supposedly lured users into signing up for costly Prime memberships without their overt knowledge.

40TRILLION mile long beams of matter and anti-matter have been unleashed by a tiny star 1600 light years from earth. The record-breaking beam is powered by a pulsar, a rapidly rotating collapsed star with a strong magnetic field. This city-sized star is spinning around about three times a second, faster than most ceiling fans.

379YEARS AGO an algorithm detailed how cryptographic keys could be broken using a simple mathematical method. However it has now been shown the same method can be used to crack crypto keys developed as recently as 2020 by major global firms. The research also showed weaker keys take mere seconds to crack. 

GOOD-TO-KNOW

30kDEBRIS objects are being tracked in earths orbit but there could be up to 900k smaller bits of orbital debris right down to flecks of paint. Now NASA is testing the feasibility of Astrobees - cube shaped robots - to capture tumbling space junk; they can currently chase down objects in a lab setting but scientists are still trying to ascertain how to grapple objects with a complex motion. 

80mCHINESE citizens are waking up in lockdown today - despite 88.3% of its population being vaccinated - as the country reported 5,370 new covid-19 cases on Tuesday, the biggest one-day increase of the entire pandemic. 17.5m are in Shenzhen, dubbed China’s ‘Silicon valley’ and home to the worlds 4th largest port shipping 90% of China’s electronic exports; Apple shares fell 3% yesterday as Foxconn - who assemble most the worlds iPhones - paused production at 2 factories there.

$310mDEAL sees Spotify obtain naming rights to FC Barcelona’s iconic Camp Nou stadium. Only 1% of the clubs 350m followers are ‘registered’ fans - who provide names, emails and other personal information - otherwise the deal could have been worth much, much more. 

 

SIGN-OFF STAT

350mYEARS AGO the earliest species that we could classify as a “tree” - the now-extinct Archaeopteris - stood in forests where the Sahara desert is now. However research also shows Sharks have been around for over 400m years - meaning while it may sound odd,  sharks are in fact older than trees.

  

  

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