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Aug 30, 2022

The Real Reason the Artemis I Launch Was Scrubbed

Posted by in categories: cosmology, space travel

What is the real reason the NASA Artemis I Launch got scrubbed on 29 Aug 21? NASA made a valiant attempt to launch the SLS Artemis I Moon Rocket this morning, but it was not to be. The launch was scrubbed. Get the real skinny here.

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Aug 29, 2022

Boosting neuron production restores memory in mice with Alzheimer’s

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Boosting neuron production could be a viable strategy for treating AD patients.

Aug 29, 2022

Drones are reshaping how rice is farmed in Vietnam

Posted by in categories: drones, food, sustainability

Vietnam is the world’s second-largest rice exporter, and XAG says its agricultural drones have become the “new favorite” of farmers that grow the crop.

Lê Thành Nguyên, at 62 years old, is one of the early adopters of agricultural drones in Vietnam. This year, he used drones on his seven-hectare rice farm for crop spraying, fertilization, and direct seeding by ordering the service from a local pilot team.

Aug 29, 2022

Yale Study Suggests That Evolution Can Be Predicted

Posted by in category: evolution

Evolution has long been thought to be random, however, a recent study suggests differently.

Evolution has long been thought of as a relatively random process, with species’ features being formed by random mutations and environmental factors and thus largely unpredictable.

But an international team of scientists headed by researchers from Yale University and Columbia University discovered that a specific plant lineage independently developed three similar leaf types repeatedly in mountainous places scattered across the Neotropics.

Aug 29, 2022

Media goes nuts over Elon Musk calling for more oil and gas, but here’s the full quote

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, energy, sustainability, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Puk1doe4kvw

The media is going nuts over Elon Musk calling for more oil and gas at an energy conference in Norway, but the full quote is not being widely reported and brings some important context.

Earlier this year, Elon Musk called to drill for more oil, which raised a few eyebrows, but it was in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how it sent gas prices skyrocketing:

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Aug 29, 2022

Europe Is Getting Serious About Making Space-Based Solar Power a Reality

Posted by in categories: engineering, solar power, space, sustainability

Proposals for beaming solar power down from space have been around since the 1970s, but the idea has long been seen as little more than science fiction. Now, though, Europe seems to be getting serious about making it a reality.

Space-based solar power (SBSP) involves building massive arrays of solar panels in orbit to collect sunlight and then beaming the collected energy back down to Earth via microwaves or high-powered lasers. The approach has several advantages over terrestrial solar power, including the absence of night and inclement weather and the lack of an atmosphere to attenuate the light from the sun.

But the engineering challenge involved in building such large structures in space, and the complexities of the technologies involved, have meant the idea has remained on the drawing board so far. The director general of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, wants to change that.

Aug 29, 2022

This Newly Discovered Super-Earth May Be an Ocean Planet Shrouded in the Deepest of Seas

Posted by in categories: alien life, futurism

This week, scientists announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, which among its many talents can analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets, just confirmed the presence of carbon dioxide on a world orbiting a sun some 700 light-years away. It’s the first observation of CO2 in a planetary atmosphere beyond our solar system.

But that discovery, made about a world very unlike our own, is just the first taste of what Webb’s instruments may soon reveal. Astronomers are eager to focus the telescope on planets like Earth, where liquid water, a crucial ingredient for life as we know it, is abundant. In the coming months and years, they will undoubtedly get their chance.

There are a number of promising Earth-like planets Webb could study in the near future, but in a paper published recently in The Astronomical Journal, scientists from the University of Montreal argue they’ve discovered one of the best such candidates yet.

Aug 29, 2022

Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton: ‘Our universe is one tiny grain of dust in a beautiful cosmos’

Posted by in category: cosmology

As her new book on the origins of the universe is published, the Albanian-American scientist explains how her work on multiverse theory influenced Stephen Hawking.

Aug 29, 2022

Researchers create ‘atomic television’ that transmits live video with big atoms and small lasers

Posted by in categories: entertainment, particle physics

The team even transmitted video games through the atoms to a monitor.

Scientists at the US National Institute of Standards have developed an ‘Atomic Television’ that uses lasers and atom clouds to pick up video transmissions that meet the 480i resolution standard. The team demonstrated the same by transmitting live video feeds and even video games through the atoms to a monitor.

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Aug 29, 2022

Entangled photons tailor-made

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

This will be very useful in progressing the field of quantum computers and communication.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics set a new record after achieving a quantum entanglement of 14 photons, the largest on record so far, an institutional press release said.

Quantum entanglement, famously described by Albery Einstein as “spooky action at a distance” is a phenomenon where particles become intertwined in such a way that they cease to exist individually, and changing the specific property of one results in an instant change of its partner, even if it is far away.

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