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Are Space Elevators Still a Thing for the Future?

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It’s been an idea that has been around since 1895 but only since the 1960s that it was taken seriously. But the biggest issue is how to make a cable over 36,000km that is light enough and strong enough. We now have the ability to make the materials but can we make them long enough to make it a reality, find out in today’s video.

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Scientists may be approaching a ‘fundamental breakthrough in cosmology and particle physics’ — if dark matter and ’ghost particles’ can interact

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a “fundamental breakthrough” that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.

‘The dream has come true’: Standard model of cosmology holds up in massive 6-year study of the universe — with one big caveat

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid — but both fail to explain one key observation.

Space Travel Is About to Change Forever — But How?

Space exploration is on the verge of a revolution. With new propulsion systems, upcoming missions to Mars and beyond, and theories that could one day take us to other star systems, the future of space travel is closer than ever.

But how will it actually happen? Will we ever leave our solar system? And is faster-than-light travel even possible?

In this video, we explore:
🚀 Where We Are Now – The progress we’ve made in space travel.
🌍 Mars & Beyond – The next steps for humanity’s expansion into space.
🌌 Interstellar Travel – Is It Possible? – The challenges of traveling beyond the solar system.
⚡ Future Propulsion Technologies – New ways to push past our current limits.
🌀 Warp Drives & Faster-Than-Light Travel – The theories that could change everything.

🚀 Space Travel Is About to Change Forever — But How? — Space Documentary.

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Will humanity ever reach another star, or are we trapped in our own cosmic neighborhood? 🌌👇

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Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Suggests

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.

A study published in early 2025 pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes, showing how they behave during brain development.

The US team found many of these variants remain active for extended periods, potentially influencing multiple developmental stages – and offering new targets for treatments that could address several disorders at once.

Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies for cancer can induce unintended immune related adverse events (irAEs)

Here, Deepak A. Rao & team use mass cytometry immune profiling to identify T cell features in pre-treatment blood samples from patients that are associated with irAEs after ICI therapy.

1Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation, Immunity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

2Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.

3Memorial Sloan Kettering Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.

Powering AI from space, at scale, with a passive tether design

Penn Engineers have developed a novel design for solar-powered data centers that will orbit Earth and could realistically scale to meet the growing demand for AI computing while reducing the environmental impact of data centers.

Reminiscent of a leafy plant, with multiple, hardware-containing stems connected to branching, leaf-like solar panels, the design leverages decades of research on “tethers,” rope-like cables that naturally orient themselves under the competing forces of gravity and centrifugal motion. This architecture could scale to the thousands of computing nodes needed to replicate the power of terrestrial data centers, at least for AI inference, the process of querying tools like ChatGPT after their training concludes.

Unlike prior designs, which typically require constant adjustments to keep solar panels pointed toward the sun, the new system is largely passive, its orientation maintained by natural forces acting on objects in orbit. By relying on these stabilizing effects, the design reduces weight, power consumption, and overall complexity, making large-scale deployment more feasible.

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