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Feb 15, 2022

A novel Gauss rifle hits the market with pre-orders

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Feb 15, 2022

The DeLorean will come back to the future as a luxury EV in 2022

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Feb 15, 2022

Are thorium reactors the future of nuclear power?

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Feb 15, 2022

China to test the latest version of the world’s largest amphibious aircraft

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Boeing 737 sized aircraft can “ski” on water.

China is set to test the latest prototype of its amphibious aircraft, the AG600, that will increase its maritime coverage to the entire South China Sea. The previous iterations of the aircraft have conducted separate trials on the land and sea in 2017 and 2020 respectively, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

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Feb 15, 2022

The origin of volatile elements in the Earth–Moon system

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Feb 15, 2022

This ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Mod is the John Wick VR Game We Always Wanted

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Half-Life: Alyx (2020) has been in the wild for a little under two years now, and modders have been busy using it to make cool stuff—just like they did with the original Half-Life (1998). Enter ‘Gunman Contracts’, a multi-chapter mod that scores some serious style points while smartly leveraging Valve’s Source 2 for some John Wick-style action.

Gunman Contracts is set of free mods for Half-Life: Alyx created by Germany-based graphics designer ‘ANB_Seth’.

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Feb 15, 2022

What we knew about water was right after all

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing

A comprehensive investigation by KAUST researchers sets the record straight on the formation of hydrogen peroxide in micrometer-sized water droplets, or microdroplets, and shows that ozone is the key to this transformation1,2.

The is a crucial site for numerous natural, domestic and such as ocean-atmosphere exchange, cloud and dew formation, aerated beverages and bioreactors. Yet, probing chemical transformations at the air– interface is challenging due to the lack of surface-specific techniques or computational models.

Recent research revealed that water spontaneously transforms into 30–110 micromolar hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in microdroplets, obtained by condensing vapor or spraying water using pressurized nitrogen gas. The textbook understanding of water is thus challenged by how the mild temperature and pressure conditions, together with the absence of catalysts, co-solvents and significant applied energy, could break covalent O–H bonds. It was hypothesized that this unusual phenomenon resulted from an ultrahigh electric field at the air-water interface that assists OH radical formation, but no direct evidence has been reported.

Feb 15, 2022

Roving with Perseverance: Findings from One Year on Mars (Live Public Talk)

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After a year on the Red Planet, what can Perseverance teach us about Mars’ watery past and our potential future? Tune in to find out!

Speakers:
–Jennifer Trosper, Mars 2020 Project Manager, NASA/JPL
–Dr. Katie Stack Morgan, Deputy Project Scientist, Mars 2020, NASA/JPL

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Feb 15, 2022

Exploration & Origins Colloquium 2022: Space Exploration, Origins, & Astrobiology

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The ExplOrigins early career group invites you to join the 2022 Exploration and Origins Colloquium on February 17th–18th, 2022! The live broadcast portion of this colloquium will begin at 10am ET on February 18th.

We are thrilled to have Dr. Amy Mainzer as our plenary speaker. Dr. Mainzer is a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, principal investigator of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission, and lead of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission. She also has achieved excellence in science communication, serving as the science curriculum consultant, on-camera host, and executive producer of the PBS Kids series Ready Jet Go! and as the science consultant for the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up.

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Feb 15, 2022

Dr Joel Mozer, PhD — United States Space Force — Director of Science, Technology, and Research

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The Future Of Space Tech & Innovation — Dr. Joel Mozer Ph.D., Director of Science, Technology & Research, United States Space Force.


Dr. Joel Mozer is the Director of Science, Technology, and Research, United States Space Force (https://www.spaceforce.mil/).

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