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Guardians of the Galaxy #11 just dealt the team a massive blow thanks to a brutal attack by Marvel's most ruthless cosmic gods.

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In the current Guardians of the Galaxy run, Peter Quill's gone from a Star-Lord to the far more powerful Master of the Sun. While he and his teammates try to process his return to the cosmos and their role in saving it, those questions will have to wait for bigger problems that are even more pressing than Knull's King in Black invasion. Those problems are the Dark Olympians, the Greek Gods who Quill blew up earlier on in the series using a singularity bomb. Since returning, they've broken bad and have started feeding off of planets.

As Quill tries to get all hands on deck for the battle against the gods in Guardians of the Galaxy #11, Zeus' crew operates in a proactive manner and deals them a massive blow by incinerating the Bowie spaceship, seemingly killing several key Guardians.

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Guardians #11 opens with Quill worried about what's to come as the Olympians are more focused and fierce than ever before. He and the reticent Nova/Rich Rider are basing the fight on Daedalus-5, a planet they left to rot after Annihilus used Galactus to raze the place in Annihilation, but they know they're not ready. It's a dead, emotional space and the perfect barren battleground, but the team isn't where they need to be mentally for such an overwhelming fight.

It doesn't helpthat an incensedGamora returns with Drax and their team to smack Quillacross the face for abandoning her and living a whole life without her. Meanwhile, there's also turmoil betweenthe likes of Moondragon and Phyla-Vell. As Rich notes, it's the worst possible time to be imploding.

Before everyone can patch things up, sadly, time runs out and the Olympians arrive. However, as Groot tries to pilot the Bowie, he, Rocket Raccoon, Marvel Boy and the heroic Hercules, go up in flames when an energy bolt strikes it. Their alliance is already low on numbers, and Hercules would have been invaluable in the fight against the other gods, so Quill is especially taken aback by the carnage.

RELATED:Doctor Doom Is Joining Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

Considering their family ties, Hercules mighthave even held the key to their redemption, but now that's seemingly off the board. Taken with Groot's powers, Rocket's weapons and aerial expertise and Noh-Varr's prowess as a Kree soldier, the loss of these heroes is huge for the team. While all these members will likely return in the next issue for the team's new Avengers-like roster, it remains to be seen how they survived or otherwise returned to active duty.

Luckily, Quill has the powers of the sun in him, as well as new abilities, and Nova isn't exactly a pushover, either. But given the might of Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Hermes, Athena and the other gods, they really could have done with help. Still, Rocket's sneaky enough to fake the heroes' deaths, so this quartet could be playing possum, ready to make a grand entrance and ambush the evil Greek pantheon.

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I'm a former Chemical Engineer. It was boring so I decided to write about things I love. On the geek side of things, I write about comics, cartoons, video games, television, movies and basically, all things nerdy. I also write about music in terms of punk, indie, hardcore and emo because well, they rock! If you're bored by now, then you also don't want to hear that I write for ESPN on the PR side of things. And yes, I've written sports for them too! Not bad for someone from the Caribbean, eh? To top all this off, I've scribed short films and documentaries, conceptualizing stories and scripts from a human interest and social justice perspective. Business-wise, I make big cheddar (not really) as a copywriter and digital strategist working with some of the top brands in the Latin America region. In closing, let me remind you that the geek shall inherit the Earth. Oh, FYI, I'd love to write the Gargoyles movie for Disney. YOLO.

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An astonishing discovery.Ancient Planet

According to a new analysis, ScienceAlert reports, a meteorite found last year in Algeria is actually older than the Earth itself.

Instead, an international team of scientists behind the research say, it appears to be a remnant of an ancient protoplanet making the space rock an extraordinary curiosity that could offer unprecedented insights into the early years of our solar system.

ScienceAlert reports that the rock asteroid was quickly identified as unusual after its discovery in the Erg Check sand sea last May, since unlike most meteorites, it had clearly been formed by a volcano a suggestion that it had originated as part of a planets crust.

But as described in a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an analysis of radioactive decay of the samples isotopes now shows that it formed around 4.566 billion years ago. Thats a bit longer than the Early has been around, meaning that its likely part of a different and probably now long-gone world.

Its not immediately clear what protoplanet the asteroid might have originated from.

But since its now the oldest magmatic rock ever identified, the researchers wrote in their paper, its almost certain to be an object of intense further analysis. And what scientists find by studying the ancient shard could shed new light on the history of our star system.

READ MORE: This Is a Piece of a Lost Protoplanet, And Its Officially Older Than Earth [ScienceAlert]

More on ancient planets: Jupiter May Have Absorbed a Smaller Planet

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Researchers have discovered the remains of what may be the worlds earliest domesticated wolves in a cave in southwest Germany. Describing the fossils in the journal Scientific Reports, they explain that the specimens could not be classified as either ancient wolves or modern dogs, but encapsulated almost the entire breadth of genetic diversity of all contemporary and ancient dogs and most wolves.

It is generally accepted that the domestication of wolves first occurred around 16,000 years ago in Eurasia, although whether this process began in a single location or took place at several sites simultaneously is not known. Regardless of what may have been going on elsewhere, though, it seems that the residents of the Gnirshhle cave in what is now Germany had already begun to tame wolves at this time, and may therefore have been the worlds first dog breeders.

This small but hugely significant cave is located in the Hegau Jura region, which was inhabited by the Magdalenian cultures towards the end of the Pleistocene.

After analyzing the morphology, genetics, and isotopes of the Gnirshhle canid remains, the researchers noted that the specimens seem to be descended from multiple ancient wolf lineages, including one that doesnt match any other canid lineage from the region. This implies that the caves residents may have tamed and reared wolves from numerous subpopulations, some of which originated outside of Europe.

Results of the isotope analysis indicated that the canids consumed a low-protein diet that differed greatly from that of wild wolves, thereby suggesting that they had been fed by humans. "Thus, we consider the Gnirshhle canids to likely represent an early phase in wolf domestication facilitated by humans actively providing a food resource for those early domesticates," explain the researchers.

Commenting on these findings, study author Chris Baumann explained that the closeness of these animals to humans and the indications of a rather restricted diet suggest that between 16,000 and 14,000 years ago, wolves had already been domesticated and were kept as dogs. Its worth noting, however, that Gnirshhle may not have been the only site of wolf-domestication at this time, and the researchers are keen to point out that similar processes may have been occurring elsewhere.

A closer examination of the specimens mitochondrial genomes allowed the team to identify specific wolf and dog genes, which they were then able to trace back to a common ancestor that lived roughly 135,000 years ago. While this doesnt necessarily mark the point at which domestication began, the researchers say it provides an upper time limit of such events.

Summing up their findings, the study authors explain that while we cannot address the question of the domestication event's singularity, our results support the hypothesis that the Hegau Jura was a potential center of early European wolf domestication.

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Belfast The public is invited to a virtual conversation on Tuesday, March 23, at 7 p.m. when Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo and debut author Gregory Brown discuss Browns just-released novel, "The Lowering Days." The free event is co-hosted by Left Bank Books in Belfast and the Bangor Daily News.

"The Lowering Days" is set in a fictional town on the Penobscot River in Midcoast Maine. The towns paper mill, which provided paychecks while it polluted the water, is shuttered. Just as Japanese investors show interest in reopening the mill, a teenage girl from the Penobscot National Tribe sets fire to the plant. Some townspeople see her defiant action as an act of environmental justice; many others call it criminal mischief. Her act sets loose a series of long simmering grievances, ending in a cycle of violence that tears the communityand two familiesapart.

The narrator of Browns novel is a doctor who, in looking back at his teens in the 1990s, sees the fire as the catalyst that brought social and environmental change to his community, while at the same time changed the trajectory of his life. In his telling of the story, he conjures a rich understory of water, air and forestsreflecting on how they are seen and used, and what they mean in the deepest reaches of a cultures memory.

In a recent interview with the Bangor Daily News, Brown, who grew up in Belfast in the 1980s and 1990s, said his story is a mixture of all the various pockets of the Midcoast and along the Penobscot River that I absorbed. The fiction that often interests me the most is that kind that lets the mythology and folklore of a place shine out from behind the recognizable, real-life details.

Kerri Arsenault, author of "Mill Town" and a correspondent for The Boston Globe, writes that Browns most urgent story. . . is one that has largely been untolda modern day Penobscot National reckoning with the manacles of the past.

Richard Russo ("Chances Are," "Empire Falls," "Everybodys Fool"), Browns conversational partner on March 23, calls the novel a lush, almost mythic portrait of a very specific place and time that feels all the more universal for its singularity. Theres magic here.

Brown holds a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and a masters in fine arts from the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. His work has appeared in Tin House, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, and Narrative Magazine. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He lives in Cumberland County, Maine with his family.

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Elon Musk wants to send people to spacelots of them. Besides the 100,000 he envisions sending to Mars each time its closely aligned with Earth, hes determined to make commercial space flight a thing sooner rather than later. Taking a ride into space obviously wont be cheap, so the prevailing assumption is that the passengers on these flights will be uber-rich. But on at least one early mission, this wont be the case, because a Japanese billionaire is giving away eight spots.

Yusaku Maezawa announced in a tweet on Tuesday that hell be selecting his spaceflight companions from all over the world, emphasizing that he wants people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply.

Yesterday morning Maezawa tweeted that hed already received over 100,000 applications from 216 different countries, with India, Japan, the US, UK, and France topping the list.

Maezawa made much of his fortune from a fashion retail website called Zozotown, which he launched in 2004 and has since grown to be Japans largest such retailer. Forbes lists his net worth as $2 billion.

He signed on with SpaceX as its first commercial passenger in 2018, saying he planned to invite several artists to join him on the mission. In this latest announcement, he seems to have expanded his definition of artist to include anyone who sees themselves as an artist or is working on some kind of creative project.

Slightly more specifically, Maezawa said, hes looking for people who can push the envelope to help other people and greater society in some way and are willing to support other crew members who share similar aspirations. Given that he already has a huge pool of applicants, hell undoubtedly find many people who meet these requirements.

There are no details yet about what kind of preparation or training the crew members will need to undergo before the mission, but it will likely be similar to that planned for the Inspiration4 crew (a month ago SpaceX announced its targeting no earlier than the fourth quarter of this year to launch its first all-commercial astronaut mission, which will include three donated seats of its own, going to individuals not yet named).

SpaceX plans to train that crew in orbital mechanics, microgravity, zero gravity, and other forms of stress testing, as well as making sure they know their way around the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft. Theyll also need to complete emergency preparedness training, exercises for properly putting on and taking off their spacesuits, and mission simulations. Its a lot, but probably not more than youd expect for someone whos not an astronaut to be able to go to space.

Theres no mention of psychological testing or training, but it wouldnt be surprising if that was a component as well; whos to say that even the most brave and calm among us wont have some sort of meltdown once trapped in a metal cylinder thousands of miles from home? The trip will last at least six days, as it takes three to get to the moon and three to get back.

The spacecraft planned for the mission is SpaceXs Starship. 160 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter, Starship hasnt had great luck with its recent test flights; the most recent one just took place yesterday, and though it landed successfully, it exploded on the landing pad shortly after. The two preceding rockets exploded on contact, so it does seem theres been some improvement.

Maezawas flight is slated to take place sometime in 2023. Whether this timeline ends up panning out will likely depend largely on safety, and as it stands right now, SpaceX has some substantial ground to cover.

But heyin a time when many people wont even fly to a neighboring state, we may as well fantasize about a not-too-distant future in which we can not only fly to other countries again, but fly off the planet entirely. You can put in your own application to be part of Maezawas creative space crew here.

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Imagine a dystopian world where the government has become increasingly immoral and art is the only form of escape. Seven brave individuals come together to form a band and rise up as vigilantes, making music that moves people and preserves the craft.At least, thats how one ofGreyspot Syndicate'smembers, Udon, imagines it.

Were all different the guys from the Cliff, he says.

The band members have known each other since they were kids. All Oak Cliff natives, Greyspot Syndicate consists of seven wildly entertaining characters who have one thing in common: no filter.

Were different, but were similar, too," Udon says. "All Dallas enough to hang with each other. But theres one thing that keeps us together and its that each one of us stands out in our own way. Shamelessly. Thats what we have in common.

And stand out they do. One of the most entertaining squads around, each member of Greyspot Syndicate is outrageously unique. (Extraordinarily, Udon says.)

Every member brings something strange and novel to performances, which sets them aside individually. This is where Udon got the idea for his story, a narrative hes converting into a manga or anime-style graphic novel.

Its been in my head for years no, centuries, he says.

The artist never considered himself a writer until he began making music.

Oddly enough, I write like a doctor," he says, "but its like all my creative strengths came from a sense of curiosity, like, I dont know how this is going to turn out. Almost like a mental freedom. A brief reprieve from it all.

The saga goes that seven rebels fall in each others paths and become intertwined through a common sense of wonder and expression. Most certainly, through a common sense of humor. Some of the funniest, weirdest guys in the game, theyll be sure to have you laughing while you sing along. At times they all wear suits for a performance, while in a series of music videos they take turns wrestling with someone in a panda suit. Greyspot Syndicate is full of surprises.

First is Udon, who sports a curled, handlebar mustache and speaks with an eerie, eloquent tone. Then theres Steez Ronin, the leader in the room, wild and outgoing onstage and off. Tyler, Blockparty, is the most silent character, serious and hardcore the last one to call himself an artist. Next is Durty Redd, the realist in the group and a smooth-talking baritone. Prince Ace is the lone wolf and poet. Hood Spaghetti is the natural trendsetter with an avant-garde style and sense of humor thats uncomfortable but somehow fitting. Last is J4 Mane, known for his antics. Each show, you can find J4 in some sort of strange getup.

I guess that kind of led into my idea of doing something different each show. ... Its more about standing out, as if our shows dont do that enough. J4 Mane

I had an idea to do some dumb shit, J4 Mane says. The suits kind of coincided with a fashion project we were working on, Designer Artillery, which was weapons made by clothing designers. Like, Balenciaga brass knuckles, a Burberry b staff, Ferragamo flame thrower.

Picturing the gang in designer artillery draws an image that could be straight from an anime manga. Perhaps Udons story is more relative than he thought.

I guess that kind of led into my idea of doing something different each show,"J4 continues. "Its more about standing out, as if our shows dont do that enough.

While each member of the Syndicate sticks out, J4s antics give him a kooky singularity. Hes shown up on stage in a motorcycle helmet, a top hat, a birthday hat and even performed an entire set blindfolded. And while the group has been making music for some time now, what inspired all the foolery is simple: boredom.

I mean, weve made music since we were young, J4 says. But we got bored and shit sounded good. So we started doing more performances and having fun with it.

Greyspot Syndicate has become more than a group of musical performers, but one of all-around artists. Like in Udons tale, this gang of misfits shares a passion for creating. In the world he illustrated in his story, where art has seemingly reached its pinnacle, the Syndicate continues to find new strengths in themselves both as a group and as individuals through music.

Were all head ass in our own ways, and seeing how the world responded to us as a unit as an entity was pretty fuckin nice, Udon says. Its strange how so much talent can arise in one syndicate. Iron sharpens iron.

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China's growth story, in a nutshell, is built onimitation worth billions of dollars. Chinese progress is not driven by ingenuity, for the country is sometimes called the "world's photocopier". All things available in the West have a Chinese variant, which is usually cheaper, less durable, and indistinguishable at first glance.

For a long time, patent laws in China permitted the replication of products. In the name of import substitution, Western duplicates flooded the market.

After Deng Xiaoping opened the floodgates in the late 70s, foreign producers were able to access the untapped Chinese market. With the investment, China went from being a photocopier to a factory, but there was still no ingenuity. Under Xi Jinping, China wants to shed this tag and emerge as original and inventive - qualities that are not easily enforceable.

What is China's solution?China is scooping up many patents and trademarks through forced technology transfers - a simple, shrewd, and extremely unfair practice whereby the government offers a condition to a foreign firm attempting to enter the Chinese market. Essentially, China asks companies to share technology in exchange for access, which was also one of the reasons for the trade war with the US.

Since the mid-1980s, China has a patent system that is not largely enforced. In most democracies, enforcing a law like this isn't an issue. But behind China's great wall of secrecy, laws are more political than judicial. China's makeover plan to go from a copier to a creator fits in perfectly with Xi Jinping's larger global ambitions - to go from an ally to an alliance leader; from an aspiring power to a world-beating hegemon.

Also read:Is China really leading in the global war for patents?

But there's a catch. China's makeover as a creator is largely cosmetic 20 per cent of products in China are counterfeit. It's so popular that they even have a word for it called "Shanzhai". China will have to start from the bottom to reinvent itself as a creator. China loves singularity - one leader, one party, and one culture and China does not have an entrepreneurial culture.

The country doesn't have room for diversity of thought but exceptions remain, like Alibaba's Jack Ma and Tencent's Pony Ma. But instead of celebrating them, Beijing wants to make an example out of them. After Jack Ma criticised Chinese regulators, Jack is now out of China's top three richest men.

Also read:UN says China still remains biggest source of applications for international patents

Instead of creating world-beating ideas, China has been content with copying them. Some companies like Huawei have had limited success. But since Chinese companies come with the baggage of Chinese politics, they are never welcomed with open arms. Xi Jinping is on a mission to change this, but what if he is the problem?

The Chinese have invented an array of things from gunpowder, the compass, paper currency, and long-distance banking. They never had a problem with innovation until the Communist regime came to power.

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Like taxes and death, nutrition is something we cant escape. Eating should be easy. Yet its also massively confusing, prone to misinformation, and utterly personal.

Take competitive eaters who regularly chow down on thousands of calories without gaining weight. Compare them to people who pack on pounds just looking at a French fry. Or compare people who can tolerate any food to those who are sensitive or allergic to entire food groups. Or people who thrive on a high-fat diet like keto, to unfortunate souls whowith the same dietneed to stay close to the bathroom.

You get the idea: no one diet fits all. Yet nutrition science has long relied on averages to make dietary recommendations. From the 80s fat is bad paradigm to todays sugar is horrible trend, its always been easy to vilify one food component, without digging into how each of us interact with the foodstuff we eat.

Now, thanks to a massive new project led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), nutrition science is about to get the precision treatment. With a price tag of $156 million, the five-year-long study will examine how 10,000 Americans process food. The program, Nutrition for Precision Health, isnt pulling punches. Each person will be given a highly controlled diet to reduce variability. Theyll then be thoroughly monitored for everything from blood sugar levels to their genes, proteins, and gut microbiome composition. Using the massive dataset, the program can then develop AI-based algorithms to predict individual responses to foods and diets.

If successful, we may soon have a scientifically-proven way of optimizing our diet and health based on our genes and gut microbes. While the culinary astronauts among us may cringe at the idea, for those with metabolic disorders or food intolerances, the algorithms are a powerful tool to aid nutritionists in prescribing diets to those who seek help.

Nutrition science has had a bit of a fuzzy reputation. But its not through any fault of its own. The field faces two major unenviable challenges: one, the results are the average of entire study populations, and two, humans hate sticking to a strict diet for long enough to get consistent results. Ever tried a 14-day diet? Now imagine doing it for five years.

As Paul Coates, vice president of the American Society of Nutrition puts it, were all free-range eaters, which mucks up the resulting data.

Thats not to say classic nutrition science hasnt had major wins. Take the Framingham Heart Study, which launched in 1948 with over 5,000 people to better understand heart and blood vessel health. The study was a first population-level triumph in linking diet to cardiovascular diseases, which remains one of the top killers today.

But to NIHs director Dr. Francis Collins, its high time to bring nutrition science into the 21st century. In May 2020, the agency released a 10-year plan to dig into the nitty-gritty of nutrition, tackling the what, when, why, and how to eat to optimize health and reduce chronic health plagues such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

Its looking to be a wild ride. For example, the ambitious effort doesnt just focus on the gut. Thanks to new research showing intimate connection between the gut and the braindubbed the gut-brain connectionthe plan also embraces neuroscience as a component. Given the link between longevity and diet, itll also study the role of nutrition across our lifespans, or even how to use food as medicine.

And underlying all these fundamental questions? Personalization: how each of us responds to the food we eat.

The new program will be housed under the NIHs flagship health project, All of Us. The research program aims to recruit one million people under its banner to build a Google Earth-style database of biology, health, lifestyle, and disease. The key is individuality: forget average treatments, personalization is the future.

To Dr. Griffin Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDKK), now is the perfect time to explore precision nutrition. In a presentation last September, he laid out why. Were beginning to understand how the microbiome influences health. We can rapidly perform multi-omics studiesthat is, look at a persons whole system of genes, proteins, and metabolism. AI and machine learning make it easier to analyze these massive datasets. Finally, digital health tech, offered through smartphones or smartwatches, makes everyday health tracking simple and affordable.

The project is planned in three stages. Roughly 10,000 volunteers from All of Us will wear various monitorssimilar to Fitbitsto track their usual diets, physical activity, and blood sugar levels, creating a baseline. In the second stage, a subset of participants will regularly visit a clinic. There, theyll be given a controlled, specific meal, and be monitored for a series of biomarkers such as how their blood sugar levels change.

Another subset of volunteers will be given three different types of diets, one following another with a washout perioda breakin between. The prepared study foods will be eaten at home, so the participants can go about their daily lives.

Finally, up to 1,000 volunteers will stay at a clinic for three two-week-long holidays. Here, their three meals will be strictly controlled, and outside food not allowed. While seemingly harsh, going from free range to controlled is the gold standard for nutrition science, because it weeds out other variables.

While on the diet, all three groups will undergo a series of clinical tests, ranging from genetics and microbiome composition to blood sugar levels, metabolism, and urine. Psychology and behavior measures will also be assessed. Further on the docket are socioeconomic factors, such as zip code.

With these comprehensive measures, we are removing a lot of that noise that we had for years, created by the factors that we were not measuring before, said Dr. Jos Ordovs, a nutrition scientist at Tufts University.

As the study gathers data, on the back end, software engineers will begin building an infrastructure for storing, organizing, and searching the datasets. This library of data is then passed on to AI scientists to create models and algorithms that predict a persons individual response to a diet. Finally, another five-year period will validate those models in clinical trials.

Its not the first time a study has linked precision nutrition with AI. In 2015, an Israeli study of 800 people monitored their blood sugar levels and microbiome to parse out how individuals respond to different types of sugar intake. Using machine learning, the study built a software program to predict diets best suited for someone who is diabetic or hoping to lose weight.

But Nutrition for Precision Health is larger and far more sweeping than anything previously attempted. For now, the program is still at the planning stage, with a full launch expected in early 2023.

To Rodgers, the study isnt just about generating a wealth of data to fuel discovery science for years to come. The resulting tools, methods, and paradigm shift will have the potential to truly transform the field of nutrition science, he said.

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