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Aug 27, 2023

Tesla train at Giga Berlin will take over 4,000 people to work daily

Posted by in category: transportation

Tesla’s train at Giga Berlin will take roughly 4,500 employees to work every day and will commute on its route almost 60 times daily.

This week, Tesla confirmed it would use a shuttle connected to the public railway network running between Erkner Train Station and the Giga Berlin property to give both employees and citizens a public transportation option.

The shuttle will travel between the two stops nearly 60 times a day, and according to rbb24, it will bring “more than 1,500 employees directly to the factory at the change of shift alone.”

Aug 27, 2023

A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco

Posted by in category: futurism

A company called Flannery Associates has been buying up land in Solano County for up to $15,000 per acre, court documents show.

Aug 27, 2023

Molecular Mystery Solved — Harvard Scientists Discover a Previously Unknown Way Cells Break Down Proteins

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Short-lived proteins control gene expression in cells and execute critical roles ranging from assisting brain connectivity to fortifying the body’s immune response. Originating in the nucleus, these proteins are swiftly degraded after fulfilling their purpose.

For decades, the mechanism behind the degradation and removal of these essential proteins from cells remained a mystery to researchers — until now.

In a cross-departmental collaboration, researchers from Harvard Medical School identified a protein called midnolin that plays a key role in degrading many short-lived nuclear proteins. The study shows that midnolin does so by directly grabbing the proteins and pulling them into the cellular waste-disposal system, called the proteasome, where they are destroyed.

Aug 27, 2023

Nitrate opens the door for safe solid-state lithium batteries

Posted by in category: futurism

Researchers from Germany and China have created a new method to produce lithium-metal batteries that are solid-state, safer, and more durable.

Aug 27, 2023

SPACEHOG — In the Meantime

Posted by in category: futurism

OUR LANDS ARE GREEN, AND SKIES ARE BLUUUEEEE

Aug 27, 2023

New Breakthrough Paves the Way for Extending Human Lifespan — Scientists Successfully Transfer Longevity Gene

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

The successful transfer of a gene that produces HMW-HA paves the way for improving the health and lifespan of humans, too. In a groundbreaking endeavor, scientists at the University of Rochester have successfully transferred a longevity gene from naked mole rats to mice, leading to enhanced health and increased lifespan. Naked mole rats, noted for their resistance to age-related diseases, have a gene that produces high molecular weight hyaluronic acid (HMW-HA), which when introduced to mice, demonstrated potential anti-aging benefits.

Aug 27, 2023

Solar Orbiter observes rapid, tiny jets on sun that may be the solar wind’s power source

Posted by in category: sustainability

Though these picojets may be small and last no more than 60 seconds, as Chitta pointed out, they are still powerful in their own right.

“The ‘pico’ prefix refers to the energy scale of the jet. The picoflare jets that we discovered are a trillion times energetically weaker compared to large X-class flares,” he said, X-class flares being the sun’s most powerful explosive outflows.

“Still,” he continued, “the energy content of a single picoflare jet that lives for about 1 minute is equal to the average power consumed by about 10,000 households in the UK over an entire year.”

Aug 27, 2023

Will the cloud kill the data centre? Jim Chanos thinks so

Posted by in category: computing

Anna Gross in London.

In June, Chanos — who won big bets on the downfall of US energy group Enron and the German payments company Wirecard — announced that his eponymous investment firm is raising several hundred million dollars for a fund that will take short positions in US-listed data centre groups.

Aug 27, 2023

Corals have algal friends for dinner

Posted by in category: food

When it is a matter of survival, predation trumps symbiosis.


Corals eat their algal partners during food scarcity.

Aug 27, 2023

The Insane Biology of: Slime Mold

Posted by in category: biological

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