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DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/22/1029973/deepmind-alphafold-protein-folding-biology-disease-drugs-proteome/ Back in December 2020, DeepMind took the world of biology by surprise when it solved a 50-year grand c...

The anti-GMO crowd are gonna lose their shit.

Lol the IOC should've just cancelled this and given it to Tokyo for 2024 and push Paris to 2028 and Lost Angeles to 2032... complete fucking mess. Now they have announced Brisbane for 2032 and completely screwed the pooch. Maybe they should push it to 2036?

Full speed ahead to crazy town! Choo choo!

So I've seen in some articles that the floods in Germany are unprecedented but looking at one of the rivers that was affected - the Ahr in this case - it appears that this river has had similar catastrophic flash flooding events in 1804 (widespread destruction) and 1910 (200+ dead). Seems that the c...

At least 70 people dead from Canada heatwave.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57654133

Fears that toll is going to rise into the hundreds...

I'll be surprised if the total worldwide COVID-19 death toll thus far isn't closer to 7 to 10 million. I believe current estimates are ranging in the 7-13 million range. We will likely end around 15 million which I believe is one of the numbers we kind of guessed on the old forum near the beginning...

Births stopped by pandemic may exceed death toll. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/15/park-visits-predict-changes-in-birth-rates-during-the-pandemic Seems the pandemic will have a lasting demographic legacy for the rest of the century and may accelerate population decline in many co...

Glad this has it's own thread separate from the infectious disease thread as it is such a large topic.