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Today, 15th November 2022, is the most likely date for when the global population reached 8 billion, according to a UN estimate. The world is now on track to surpass 9 billion by 2037 and 10 billion by 2058.
Nov 15, 2022
World’s largest floating wind farm is now powering gas and oil production
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: climatology, solar power, sustainability
It will be used to power oil and gas production.
Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating wind farm, located off the coast of Norway, has become operational, a company press release said. Of the 11 turbines involved in the project, the first turbine began power production on November 13, with another six scheduled to go online this year.
With the impending doom of climate change and the recent upshoot of fuel prices, countries around the world are looking to switch aggressively to renewable energy. While those in the tropics are looking at solar power, others that can access winds over the seas are looking to build offshore wind farms.
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Nov 15, 2022
A US company just deployed world’s largest communication satellite
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: internet, satellites
The 693-square-foot array is designed to provide 5G broadband connectivity directly with cellular devices via 3GPP standard frequencies.
Bluewalker 3 satellite, a test satellite by Texas-based firm AST SpaceMobile deployed its largest commercial communications array ever flow in space, in low Earth orbit, the company announced on Monday. The satellite was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in September, Interesting Engineering.
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Nov 15, 2022
AI predicts that a dinosaur thought to be predatory may have been an herbivore
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: robotics/AI
It’s commonly believed that many of these prehistoric animals were vicious carnivores.
Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover information on dinosaurs, specifically to find out if a certain dinosaur was a predator or not. AI has shown that the dinosaur typically thought to be a carnivore may actually have been an herbivore.
The new analysis was done by using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) — computing systems based on neural networks of the brain — to track the fossils of these prehistoric reptiles.
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Nov 15, 2022
Limitless nuclear fusion energy is one step closer thanks to burning plasma experiment
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: nuclear energy, physics
We could be a step closer to the commercially viable production of limitless nuclear fusion energy.
A group of nuclear fusion researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) achieved self-heating “burning plasma” for the first time ever in January, bringing commercially viable nuclear fusion one step closer.
Now, a new analysis of the plasma, published in a paper in the journal Nature Physics, reveals surprising new details that could help the scientific community finally achieve the holy grail of nuclear fusion — net energy production.
Nov 15, 2022
Artificial light at night might be the cause of diabetes in more than 9 million Chinese adults
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: biotech/medical
The new study found a correlation between outdoor artificial light at night (LAN) and higher rates of diabetes.
According to a new study, exposure to outdoor artificial light at night (LAN) is associated with an increased risk of diabetes, along with impaired glucose control.
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Nov 15, 2022
The world’s population has reached 8 billion and counting
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biotech/medical, health
A result of the gradual increase in human lifespan and high and persistent levels of fertility in some countries.
The world’s population hit eight billion today, November 15, and this is a “milestone in human development,” according to a statement by the United Nations (UN).
This unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene, and medicine.
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Nov 15, 2022
Effective Philanthropy: That’s what Jeff Bezos wants to do with his $122 billion fortune
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: Elon Musk
Bezos thinks that there are many ineffective ways of philanthropy and wants to avoid them as he prepares to give away all his wealth.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told during a short interview with CNN
With this announcement, Bezos joins the list of other billionaires in the world, such as Bill Gates, who have decided to give away their wealth during their lifetimes. After expressing his desire to remove himself from the list of billionaires, Gates donated $6 billion to his Foundation, which runs programs across the world.
Nov 15, 2022
Scientists Created a Black Hole in The Lab, And Then It Started to Glow
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cosmology, mathematics, particle physics, quantum physics
A new kind of black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing.
Using a chain of atoms in single-file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists has observed the equivalent of what we call Hawking radiation – particles born from disturbances in the quantum fluctuations caused by the black hole’s break in spacetime.
This, they say, could help resolve the tension between two currently irreconcilable frameworks for describing the Universe: the general theory of relativity, which describes the behavior of gravity as a continuous field known as spacetime; and quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of discrete particles using the mathematics of probability.
