Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 224
Feb 11, 2022
How Left and Right Hippocampal CA1 Regions in the Mouse Brain Talk With Each Other
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, neuroscience
Researchers have uncovered neural circuitry that allows the CA1 region of th… See more.
Summary: Researchers have uncovered neural circuitry that allows the CA1 region of the hippocampus to communicate with its counterpart in the opposite hemisphere despite there being no connection between them.
Source: RIKEN
Feb 10, 2022
California’s effort to create high-speed rail line to cost another $5B more
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
New cost of California’s plan to bring high-speed rail to the state is now $105 billion. It started 14 years ago at $40 billion.
This graph shows the progress in telecommunications bit rates over the last two centuries, and a future extrapolation to the 22nd century.
A primitive form of telecommunications emerged in the late 18th century, when French inventor Claude Chappe demonstrated a practical semaphore system that delivered messages between Paris and Lille. Known as the optical telegraph, it had a transmission rate of two to three symbols (196 different types) each minute, or about 0.4 b/s.
Feb 8, 2022
More than 60 years on, Japan’s mercury-poison victims fight to be heard
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Shinobu Sakamoto was just 15 when she left her home in the southern Japanese fishing village of Minamata to go to Stockholm and tell the world of the horrors of mercury poisoning.
Feb 8, 2022
Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Circa 2018 😀
Fully enclosed, controlled-environment growth chambers can accelerate plant development. Such ‘speed breeding’ reduces generation times to accelerate crop breeding and research programmes, and can integrate with other modern crop breeding technologies.
Feb 8, 2022
Michigan will get a new graphite processing factory to support US EV battery production
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
There have been almost no capabilities of processing graphite outside of China to date, but this new Michigan factory will change that.
Feb 8, 2022
Tesla gets all its Supercharger cables stolen at brand new station
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Tesla was the victim of a theft that resulted in having to shut down a brand new Supercharger station, as all the cables on the eight stalls were cut off.
The automaker is currently working to triple the size of its Supercharger network over the next two years.
It is currently growing at a record pace.