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Sep 7, 2020
New Species Found in the Hottest Place on Earth
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Shrimps are tough: 3.
A new species of freshwater Crustacea has been discovered during an expedition of the desert Lut, known as the hottest place on Earth.
The newly identified species belongs to the genus Phallocryptus of which only four species were previously known from different arid and semiarid regions.
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Sep 7, 2020
Adam Savage Builds Working IRON MAN Suit That Flies
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
If anyone in the world had the actual real-life know-how of Tony Stark, it’d be Adam Savage. He proved this by building a working, flying Iron Man suit.
Making X-Rays From Tape! 🤯
Sep 6, 2020
Brain imaging expertise supports new discoveries on decision-making process
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, neuroscience
Research carried out by a University academic has shed new light on the fundamentals of how, and why, we make the decisions we do.
In two separate studies, UKRI Future Leader Fellow and Lecturer in Psychology, Dr. Elsa Fouragnan has used her expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and computational analysis to discover exactly what happens in the brains of human and non-human primates when certain kinds of decisions are made in different contexts. Both pieces of work were carried out in collaboration with researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology.
The first, published in Nature Communications, explores how and where the brain encodes a memory of the general reward rate in an environment, what the team describes as the ‘richness’ of the context in which decisions are made.
As the EU navigates an increasingly Sino-American world, it finally sees the need to stand together, even against Beijing.
A new infrared spectroscopy method, nearly 100 times faster than previous techniques, is reported by the University of Tokyo.
Sep 6, 2020
Urban Aeronautics CEO has designed a made-in-Israel flying car
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, transportation
In industry speak, he said it has to have electrical Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) to be a flying car. According to the Deloitte website, eVTOL vehicles have the potential to improve the future of elevated mobility by moving people and cargo more quickly, quietly, and cost-effectively than traditional helicopters. A separate journal described eVTOL as a new means of transport that can fly like an aircraft and take off and land vertically like a helicopter, “sometimes called personal aerial vehicle.”
Yoeli’s company has two models: the CityHawk and the Falcon XP, both of which weigh more than a ton, not including the passengers.
So how did he get these cars to fly?
Sep 5, 2020
Scientists Reconstruct Body Dimensions of Megalodon
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A 16-m- (52.5-foot) long megalodon had a head 4.65 m (15.3 feet) long, a dorsal fin 1.62 m (5.3 feet) tall and a tail 3.85 m (9.4 feet) high, according to a study led by researchers from the University of Bristol and Swansea University.
Sep 4, 2020
Scientists Have Found a Way to Make Foldable Keyboards Out of Any Paper
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Scientists have unveiled a new printing process that can turn just about any piece of paper or cardboard into a waterproof keyboard that you can fold up and put in your pocket – and it doesn’t require a power source.
The tech makes use of a special coating that’s repellent to liquids and dust, which allows multiple circuit layers to then be printed on top of the paper without any smudging or degradation between the layers.
On the other side of the paper or cardboard, standard ink printing can then be used to point out where the pressure points (the buttons) are, and what they represent. These layers can be printed in any design you want, from numerical keypads to volume controls.