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Nov 9, 2024

Cyber-Rodent: Russian Lab Wires Rat’s Brain to AI in World First

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

🐀🧠A RAT ANSWERS HUNDREDS OF SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS — A RUSSIAN SCIENCE MIRACLE

🇷🇺Russian scientists are the first in the world to connect a rat’s brain to Artificial Intelligence — it suggests the right answers to any questions.

Nov 9, 2024

Software design and development tools for radiation-hardened embedded computing introduced by BAE Systems

Posted by in categories: computing, satellites

Related: Radiation-hardened space electronics enter the multi-core era

The approach mitigates risk and enables easy adoption. The RAD510 computer board will launch in industry-standard 3U form factor and use software compatible with the BAE Systems RAD750 and RAD5545 computer boards.

The RAD510 embedded computing board is for the challenging environment of radiation and extreme temperatures of space. It is built on the BAE Systems RAD750 computer board that has enabled more than 100 satellites.

Nov 9, 2024

Two companies to help Navy safeguard high-altitude sensitive electronics from electromagnetic pulse (EMP)

Posted by in categories: electronics, military

SAN DIEGO – U.S. Navy electronics experts are hiring two companies to develop enabling technologies to safeguard naval systems from the effects of high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP).

Officials of the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific in San Diego, announced estimated $12.5 million separate contracts Wednesday to Long Wave Inc. in Oklahoma City, Okla., and to Reliance Construction Co. in Cary, N.C., for high-altitude EMP hardening processes.

Nov 9, 2024

Laser, microwave, and other directed-energy weapons ready for the battlefield

Posted by in categories: drones, energy, military, surveillance

Perhaps no technology has shaped the 21st-century battlefield as profoundly as the drone. These uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), along with their land and sea counterparts, have redefined the way wars are fought by providing military forces with unprecedented capabilities in surveillance, precision targeting, and intelligence gathering — all while reducing the risk to their own personnel. Drones have made complex operations more efficient and less costly, enabling militaries to strike with pinpoint accuracy and maintain a persistent presence over the battlefield.

As the century progresses, the influence of drones continues to expand beyond traditional state actors. Non-state groups and non-peer adversaries increasingly have adopted this technology, leveraging it to level the playing field in conflicts around the world. With commercial drones becoming more accessible, these actors can conduct reconnaissance, drop bombs, and challenge conventional military forces in ways that previously were unimaginable.

The influence of drones flows across all domains of warfare. Loitering munitions, or “Kamikaze drones,” have disrupted traditional force structures by providing smaller, more agile units with the ability to strike high-value targets such as tanks, artillery, and command centers.

Nov 9, 2024

Boom Supersonic’s test jet sets new record, gunning for 3.5 hours NY-London flights

Posted by in category: transportation

The XB-1, nicknamed the “Son of Concorde,” is a single-seat demonstrator plane manufactured by Boom Technology, reports The Jerusalem Post.

Nov 9, 2024

This Planet Has Rings 200 Times Larger Than Saturn

Posted by in category: space

J1407b, has the largest ring system yet seen – around 200 times larger than Jupiter’s (the largest in our solar system). Its host planet is likewise massive: we don’t know whether it’s a gas giant or a brown dwarf. So far, it’s been classified as a super-Jupiter stellar body.

This is an updated (quotes and sources) version of the previous article.

Nov 9, 2024

NASA Admits Alcubierre Drive Initiative: Faster Than The Speed Of Light

Posted by in category: space travel

NASA is currently working on the first practical field test toward the possibility of faster than light travel. Traveling faster than light has always been attributed to science fiction, but that all changed when Harold White and his team at NASA started to work on and tweak the Alcubierre Drive.

Special relativity may hold true, but to travel faster or at the speed of light we might not need a craft that can travel at that speed. The solution might be to place a craft within a space that is moving faster than the speed of light! Therefore the craft itself does not have to travel at the speed of light from it’s own type of propulsion system. It’s easier to think about if you think in terms of a flat escalator in an airport.

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Nov 9, 2024

‘Giant Arc’ Stretching 3.3 Billion Light-years Across The Cosmos Shouldn’t Exist

Posted by in categories: cosmology, mapping

A newly discovered crescent of galaxies spanning 3.3 billion light-years is one of the world’s largest known structures, challenging some of astronomers’ most fundamental assumptions about the universe.

The epic arrangement known as the Giant Arc is made up of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and a lot of gas and dust. It is located 9.2 billion light-years away and stretches across roughly a 15th of the observable universe.

Its discovery was “serendipitous,” according to Alexia Lopez, a doctoral candidate in cosmology at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the United Kingdom. Lopez was creating maps of things in the night sky using light from approximately 120,000 quasars, which are distant brilliant cores of galaxies where supermassive black holes consume material and produce energy.

Nov 9, 2024

Physicists Stir a Supersolid For First Time, Proving Its Bizarre Dual Nature

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Scientists on Wednesday said that they have successfully stirred a strange matter called a “supersolid” – which is both rigid and fluid – for the first time, providing direct proof of the dual nature of this quantum oddity.

In everyday life, there are four states of matter – solid, liquid, gas, and the rarer plasma.

But physicists have long been investigating what are known as “exotic” states of matter, which are created at incredibly high energy levels or temperatures so cold they approach absolute zero (−273.15 degrees Celsius or-459.67 degrees Fahrenheit).

Nov 9, 2024

You could start smelling the roses from far away using AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI can “teleport” scents without human hands (or noses)

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