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‘Hello, humans’: Meet Aura, the Las Vegas Sphere’s humanoid robots designed to help guests

As if being Earth’s largest sphere and having giant LED screens inside and out wasn’t enough, the MSG Sphere has announced its next plan to take Las Vegas to the future with robots.

Sphere Entertainment introduced the world to Aura, the world’s most advanced humanoid robot, that will permanently reside at the arena when it launches this month.

Five Aura robots are located at the venue’s grand atrium greeting guests as they enter and will be available to answer questions, according to MSG Ventures CEO David Dibble. The “spokesbots” will maintain life-like facial expressions and mobility on full display.

Post-Science Civilizations

For centuries now science has unlocked ever more mysteries, but could we one day run out of discoveries or abandon further research?

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Episode 361, September 22, 2022
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X-ray laser could transform atomic-scale research

A major upgrade of the Linac Coherent Light Source has been completed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, California. This latest version is 8,000 times faster and 10,000 times brighter, enabling scientists to observe molecular events in unprecedented detail.

Credit: Greg Stewart.

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at California’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has successfully produced its first X-rays, and researchers around the world are lined up to kick off an ambitious science program. The upgrade, called LCLS-II, now makes it the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, surpassing the European XFEL near Hamburg, Germany.

JWST’s first triple-image supernova could save the Universe

With future observations and as more time passes — both from new data and from data that’s still being analyzed and prepared by this collaboration — we may obtain the most precise and accurate measurement for the expansion rate of the Universe using the cosmic distance ladder method of all-time.

This triply-imaged supernova was not named “Supernova H0pe” in vain, as it really does give us hope that the answer to today’s greatest cosmic puzzle may indeed be written on the face of the Universe. With JWST going strong, we may have already found the galaxy cluster, and the gravitationally lensed system, that will resolve what’s been puzzling astronomers for the entirety of the 21st century.

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