Lifeboat Foundation

If you thought space already had its fair share of terrifying places, think again. We’ve discovered scorching hot planets, inhospitable gas giants with winds faster than 500 miles an hour, and blackholes themselves, but these celestial objects have characteristics.

Imagine a place that’s literally just a void, a gap in space that has absolutely nothing and stretches millions of lightyears. Scientists have found such a gap and it defies all logic, but do we know anything about this gap? Or are these questions going to be unanswered?

Cabling in power substations is very important due to the fact that they are the longest parts of a system and therefore act as efficient antennas that pickup and or radiate noise. In HV substations, there are different kinds of conductors close to one another, such as high voltage buses, CTs, VTs, carrier couplers, bushing, control cables, substation ground conductors, and equipment ground connections.

The control cables are used to carry potential transformer outputs, current transformer outputs, circuit breaker control signals, relaying, and other communication signals. Increasingly, electronic equipment is used in switchyards and control houses.

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Using quantum entangled particles, scientists have managed to overcome the limits of probability to win a theoretical game more times than should be possible.

The promise and perils of a breakthrough in machine intelligence.

Researchers have created a biodegradable system based on silk to replace the microplastics used in paints, cosmetics, and agricultural products.

Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin is giving space enthusiasts an opportunity to own a piece of American history.

The NASA legend’s most personal and cherished possessions will be up for auction through July 26.

The ‘Buzz Aldrin: American Icon’ sale, orchestrated by Sotheby’s Auction House, features the coverall jacket Aldrin wore in 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission, the first successful mission to the Moon and back.

German energy firm RWE is to invest in a pilot project centered around the deployment of floating solar technology in the North Sea, as part of a wider collaboration focused on the development of “floating solar parks.”

Set to be installed in waters off Ostend, Belgium, the pilot, called Merganser, will have a capacity of 0.5 megawatt peak, or MWp. In a statement earlier this week, RWE said Merganser would be Dutch-Norwegian firm SolarDuck’s first offshore pilot.

RWE said Merganser would provide both itself and SolarDuck with “important first-hand experience in one of the most challenging offshore environments in the world.”

At this year’s ICML conference, Amazon Web Services principal research scientist Dominik Janzing is a co-author on four of Amazon’s 18 papers—all of which have … See more.

Amazon’s Dominik Janzing on the history and promise of the young field of causal machine learning.

Elevian is one of several companies searching for ways to increase life span — in this case, using a protein called GDF11. But challenges lie ahead.