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Oct 23, 2022

Space Center Houston Reimagines Itself with a Bold New Vision, Turns 30 and Launches New Brand

Posted by in categories: education, mathematics, robotics/AI, space travel

HOUSTON, Oct. 18, 2022 – The nonprofit Space Center Houston is advancing a Facilities Master Plan to support the growing need for space exploration learning and training in two massive structures that will also give the public a front row seat into the development of robotics, rovers, lunar landers and reduced gravity systems. Today, the center offered a glimpse of the facility that will include two enclosed simulated cosmic terrains of the Moon and Mars, as well as modular surface labs and STEM learning centers. An elevated exhibit hall over the two surfaces will offer the public immersive experiences to observe astronaut training first-hand while experiencing the future of space exploration as humans return to the Moon and eventually on to Mars.

Space Center Houston is responding to the opportunities and challenges in a rapidly evolving space sector, including the need for facilities built for current and future missions, while sharing this excitement with the public and addressing critical gaps in the development of the STEM workforce through its education programs. The facility will bring together guests, NASA, commercial space partners, colleges, universities and global space agencies to collaborate on new technologies that are propelling present and future human spaceflight.

For 30 years, Space Center Houston has chronicled the journey of human spaceflight while empowering and inspiring people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “Space is expanding once again and a new space age is upon us,” said William T. Harris, President and CEO Space Center Houston. “With new ambitions, new players and new challenges, we will shift our focus from being a curator of past achievements to also facilitating new feats in space.”

Oct 23, 2022

Vladimir Putin Justifies Use of Nuclear Weapons Citing the U.S. Precedent in World War Two

Posted by in categories: military, policy

Putin in threatening to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war is following Adolf Hitler’s precedent, not the U.S.


When Truman chose the atomic bomb over policy options that likely would have killed millions more, he did it to end a war started by Japan.

Oct 23, 2022

Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales

Posted by in category: climatology

Indigenous stories from the end of the last Ice Age could be more than myth.

Oct 23, 2022

‘Our Kids Should be Free to Breathe’: ‘Warrior Moms’ Lead Delhi Toward Cleaner Air

Posted by in category: sustainability

Warrior Moms, a national citizen action group, is battling for their children’s right to breathe clean air in polluted cities like Delhi, by engaging in urban mobility, waste management, biomass burning, and biodiversity protection.

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Oct 23, 2022

Genes link bipolar, schizophrenia, once thought unrelated

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — When Chastity Murry had her first psychotic break, she went into her bathroom and downed a whole bottle of pills, hoping to die. Her teenage daughter had to perform CPR to save her life.

Around that same time more than a decade ago, the man who would become her husband, Dante Murry, also lost touch with reality and considered suicide.

Different illnesses led them down similar paths – bipolar disorder in her case and schizoaffective disorder in his – conditions long considered by many to be distinct and unrelated.

Oct 23, 2022

Breaths Per Minute While Asleep: What’s Optimal?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

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Oct 23, 2022

Ep. 108: Are we close to a technological singularity? | Trent Fowler

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, singularity

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Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author, and co-host of the Futurati Podcast. He recently appeared on the Cutting Edge Podcast with Lee Pierson to discuss artificial intelligence, consciousness, free will, epistemology, and AI risk. For more of their content, check out their excellent show at the Ayn Rand Center UK: https://www.youtube.com/c/AynRandCentreUK

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Oct 23, 2022

Wireless implant could help remove deadly brain tumors

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, neuroscience

Brain tumors are among the most deadly and difficult-to-treat cancers. Glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive form, kills more than 10,000 Americans a year and has a median survival time of less than 15 months.

For patients with brain tumors, treatment typically includes open-skull surgery to remove as much of the tumor as possible followed by chemotherapy or radiation, which come with serious side effects and numerous hospital visits.

What if a patient’s brain tumor could be treated painlessly, without anesthesia, in the comfort of their home? Researchers at Stanford Medicine have developed, and tested in mice, a small wireless device that one day could do just that. The device is a remotely activated implant that can heat up nanoparticles injected into the tumor, gradually killing cancerous cells.

Oct 23, 2022

The mystery of life cannot be solved by science

Posted by in categories: alien life, science

Reductionism is a successful way to explain the universe, but it cannot replace experience. This is part of the mystery of life.

Oct 23, 2022

Hyderabad Students Convert Discarded Bike Into Low-Cost EV With Wireless Charging

Posted by in categories: engineering, sustainability, transportation

The Indian Electric Vehicle market is set to reach a sales volume of 10.8 lakh units by 2025. However, these vehicles are currently at a high price and are not affordable to consumers in low-income categories.

To bridge this gap, a team of seven students at the KL University, Hyderabad have retrofitted an old and discarded bike into an EV.

“We also added futuristic features including wireless charging and cell balancing, which ensures equalised charging,” says Charan Sai (21), a fourth-year student of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, and the lead of the project.