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Mar 5, 2022
‘Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures’: Elon Musk says the US needs to increase oil and gas output
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, energy, sustainability
“Sustainable energy solutions simply cannot react instantaneously to make up for Russian oil & gas exports,” Musk said.
Mar 5, 2022
Land Rover Is Sending an Owner to Space With Virgin Galactic
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Land Rover is teaming up with Virgin Galactic for the Adventure of a Lifetime sweepstakes, which will see one lucky Land Rover owner literally fly to space at some point in the near future.
Anyone who currently owns a Land Rover can register online by submitting their vehicle’s VIN and some other bits of info, which counts as one entry. Placing an order for a new Land Rover nets 50 entries, while actually buying or leasing a vehicle gets you 100 entries. Anyone who enters also gets credit for referring people to the sweepstakes, and there’s no limit to how many entries you can get.
This isn’t the first time Land Rover has partnered with Richard Branson’s space-tourism venture. Range Rover SUVs have been used to tow the company’s space planes at various events and presentations, and in 2019 a special Range Rover Astronaut Edition was unveiled. That model could only be purchased by those who signed up to be an astronaut with Virgin, and it came with unique styling elements. As the Astronaut Edition was based on the now-old Range Rover, we wouldn’t be surprised if Land Rover releases a new version based on the fifth-gen Range Rover that was revealed last year.
Mar 5, 2022
PLAN A: Our team developed a simulation for a plausible escalating war between the United States and Russia using realistic nuclear force postures, targets and fatality estimates
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: particle physics
It is estimated that there would be more than 90 million people dead and injured within the first few hours of the conflict.
For more, see https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a.
Mar 5, 2022
The Large Hadron Collider will explore the cutting edge of physics after 3-year shutdown
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: particle physics
Scientists are gearing up to once more push the boundaries of the cutting edge of particle physics with the reopening of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN after a three-year shutdown.
Mar 5, 2022
When Your Boss Becomes a Hologram
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: holograms
Mar 5, 2022
We’re Building Computers Wrong
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI, transportation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0igiP6Hg1k.
Visit https://brilliant.org/Veritasium/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Digital computers have served us well for decades, but the rise of artificial intelligence demands a totally new kind of computer: analog.
Mar 5, 2022
Like bacteria firing spearguns
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology
Biologists from ETH Zurich have discovered speargun-like molecular injection systems in two types of bacteria and have described their structure for the first time. The special nanomachines are used by the microbes for the interaction between cells and could one day be useful as tools in biomedicine.
Mar 4, 2022
Using AI to accelerate scientific discovery — Demis Hassabis (Crick Insight Lecture Series)
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Demis Hassabis, Founder and CEO, DeepMindAt The Francis Crick Institute in King’s Cross, LondonAbstract: The past d…