Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 165
Jul 8, 2022
520-million-year-old Fossils Could Solve an Evolutionary Mystery
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
Jul 8, 2022
What does it mean when we say that space-time is expanding?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
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When it comes to something as complex as space-time, intuition comes in different ways, depending on the level of science you have access to, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
Jul 7, 2022
Hackers pulled off a $620 million crypto heist
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
After multiple interview rounds, hackers posing as recruiters sent an Axie Infinity engineer an offer letter containing spyware, The Block reported.
Jul 7, 2022
Brain Pathway That Helps to Explain Light’s Effect on Mood Discovered
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: futurism
Summary: Neuroimaging study reveals how light-sensitive signals reach the brain and how regions associated with mood process those signals. Some regions of the cerebral cortex associated with cognitive and mood processing show sensitivity to light intensity.
Source: Brown University.
From changes in daylight across seasons to the artificial lighting choices in workplaces, it’s clear that the quantity and quality of light that a person encounters can significantly impact mood.
Jul 7, 2022
Will the 21st Century See an End to Human Labour?
Posted by Len Rosen in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Not a human in sight in this warehouse. Is this the future of labour?
Employees and employers are changing because of the pandemic, inflation and war. Continuous learning is integral to labour’s future.
Jul 6, 2022
Flood exposure and poverty in 188 countries
Posted by Logan Thrasher Collins in category: futurism
In an illuminating study, Rentschler et al. leverage data to analyze populations at risk of flood exposure. They explore the overlap between poverty, geography, and flood risk while taking into account pluvial, fluvial, and coastal flooding. Their work reveals that hundreds of millions of people in low-income regions are directly exposed to flood risk. The authors emphasize that efforts towards global flood mitigation should take socioeconomic factors into account since many low-income regions have both high flood risk and poor existing flood mitigation measures in place.
#geography #global #asia #africa #datascience
Floods are most devastating for those who can least afford to be hit. Globally, 1.8 billion people face high flood risks; 89% of them live in developing countries; 170 million of them live in extreme poverty making them most vulnerable.
Jul 6, 2022
Hacker Steals Data of Several Chinese Citizens and Sells it Online
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
At least 750,000 entries containing Chinese citizens’ personal information were stolen and sold online by an unknown hacker.
Jul 6, 2022
The eerie bioluminescence of the ghost fungus in all its glory
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Circa 2021
This highly commended photograph in the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition might just haunt your dreams.
Jul 6, 2022
State of the art for Europe’s demonstration fusion power plant
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: futurism, nuclear energy
The European research consortium EUROfusion has announced the start of a five-year conceptual design phase for its demonstration fusion power plant DEMO, capable of net electricity production, shortly after the middle of the century in its Roadmap to Fusion Energy.
The first-of-its-kind facility represents the next technological step after the global ITER fusion experiment. It aims to demonstrate the net production of 300 to 500 megawatt of electricity generated by nuclear fusion, clean and safe energy, as well as essential technologies such as remote maintenance and tritium breeding. The tritium breeding technology will allow operators to produce the tritium fusion fuel on-site is a crucial requirement not just for DEMO but also for any future fusion power device to follow ITER.
Fusion is the process that powers stars like our Sun and promises an inherently safe and nearly unlimited long-term clean energy source here on Earth. Fusion energy will generate immense amounts of energy from just a few grams of the abundant fuels found all over the world.