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Jun 30, 2022

Found: The ‘holy grail of catalysis’—turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light

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An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas, into liquid methanol at ambient temperature and pressure. The method takes place under continuous flow over a photo-catalytic material using visible light to drive the conversion.

To help observe how the process works and how selective it is, the researchers used neutron scattering at the VISION instrument at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source.

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Jun 30, 2022

A Research Engineer Built a Device That Can Generate Power Globally for Years

Posted by in category: energy

A company plans to bring global power for years through a gyrotron.

Jun 30, 2022

Biotech startups join AWS and other partners in open-source project to help design new proteins

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Three Seattle biotech companies are joining forces to support open-access development of protein folding and design software.

The project, called OpenFold, brings together Cyrus Biotechnology, Outpace Bio, and Arzeda, startups developing new proteins that can be used as drugs or in industrial applications.

“It doesn’t make sense for all of us to replicate the same work,” Cyrus CEO Lucas Nivon told GeekWire. “Especially if it doesn’t give any one company a competitive advantage.”

Jun 30, 2022

Tenor GIF Keyboard — Bring Personality To Your Conversations | Say more with Tenor

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Jun 30, 2022

Generation Ships

Posted by in categories: physics, space travel

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Today we will begin our look at the spaceships we might use for colonizing interstellar space in the future. In order to cover the vast distances between even the nearest stars in our galaxy within the boundaries of known physics, we need vessels able to voyage at high speeds for very long periods of time while carrying everything they need to colonize another solar system, a concept typically known as a space ark or generation ship. We will explore the challenges and options for such a vessel, as well as some alternative approaches to the problem.

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Jun 30, 2022

Life in a Space Colony, ep2: Colony Spaceships

Posted by in category: space travel

This episode is the second of a three-part series focusing more on the specifics of colonization including the human aspect of it. Having laid the groundwork last time, we now ask ourselves what the ships carrying people to new worlds would be like, and what life aboard them would be like.

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Jun 30, 2022

HOW IT WORKS: Nuclear Propulsion

Posted by in categories: chemistry, space travel

The theory, design, and operation of a nuclear propulsion engine advantages are explained verses conventional chemical rockets such as the Saturn V.

Jun 30, 2022

Can Nuclear Propulsion Take Us to Mars?

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Jun 30, 2022

Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?

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Jun 30, 2022

5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space travel

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