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This 24-year-old used Snapchat to launch a startup so successful, he turned down jobs at Facebook and Uber -- all while fighting cancer

24-year-old Khallil Mangalji is a happy guy. He just closed a $US1.8 million round of venture funding for his two-year-old startup, Fiix, and got some good news about his health. The cancer tumour he's been fighting for the past year while launching his startup is in retreat and the prognosis for a full recovery is good, he told Business Insider.

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The science world is shocked by this 26 year old's answer to antibiotic resistance

Medical experts call the march of the superbug a "slow tsunami". Currently it kills an estimated 700,000 people a year, 230,000 of them newborn babies. The overuse and miss use of antibiotics have led to Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on such a scale that it has become one of the biggest threats to global health.

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In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos

"We've always said in the past gene editing shouldn't be done, mostly because it couldn't be done safely," said Richard Hynes, a cancer researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who co-led the committee. "That's still true, but now it looks like it's going to be done safely soon," he said, adding that the research is "a big breakth...

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How Ancient Roman concrete still stands while modern version erodes

Updated July 05, 2017 14:21:28 Ancient Roman concrete marine structures built thousands of years ago are stronger now than when they were first built. So how has Roman concrete outlasted the empire, while modern concrete mixtures erode within decades of being exposed to seawater?

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Forget the Blood of Teens. This Pill Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pop.

Nir Barzilai has a plan. It's a really big plan that might one day change medicine and health care as we know it. Its promise: extending our years of healthy, disease-free living by decades. And Barzilai knows about the science of aging.

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A game that isn't even out yet has already racked up $100 million in revenue

In 2000, a bizarre and controversial film called "Battle Royale" was released. In the film, dozens of Japanese high-school students are placed on an island, given weapons, and forced to kill one another until one person remains. That person is crowned the winner.

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George Clooney's tequila company just sold for $1 billion - here's the story of how it was set up by accident

Casamigos started as an idea between Clooney and friend Rande Gerber while they were in Mexico. The company just sold to Diageo for up to $1 billion (£79 million). The friends researched extensively to create a tequila they could drink all day without getting a hangover.

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A Facebook AI Unexpectedly Created Its Own Unique Language

In Brief While developing negotiating chatbot agents, Facebook researchers found that the bots spontaneously developed their own non-human language as they improved their techniques, highlighting how little we still know about how artificial intelligences learn. A recent Facebook report on the way chatbots converse with each other has given the ...

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Rare deep-sea creatures found in depths of Australia's eastern abyss

Posted June 17, 2017 08:29:32 An international group of scientists have used new technology to plumb the dark depths of Australia's eastern abyss for the first time, revealing an exciting array of rare sea life. A month after the CSIRO's research ship set off from Tasmania on a voyage into the unknown, the scientists have arrived in Queensland.

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A 13-year-old home school student just won $20,000 in a maths competition on ESPN -- see if you can answer the winning question

Thirteen-year-old Luke Robitaille was named the 2017 Raytheon Mathcounts National Champion, beating a field of 224 to take home the top prize. The competition aired live on ESPN3 on Monday, May 15, at 10 a.m. ET. Robitaille, a seventh grade home school student from Euless, Texas, answered the following question correctly to win: "In a barn, 100 ...

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