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Nov 10, 2021

NASA update: What Blue Origin’s lawsuit means for crewed Artemis Moon missions

Posted by in categories: law, space travel

NASA might be going to the Moon a bit later.


NASA wants to send humans back to the Moon as part of the Artemis program, but Blue Origin’s legal action has pushed the launch back further.

Nov 10, 2021

Researchers develop program to read any genome sequence and decipher its genetic code

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, genetics

Yekaterina “Kate” Shulgina was a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, looking for a short computational biology project so she could check the requirement off her program in systems biology. She wondered how genetic code, once thought to be universal, could evolve and change.

That was 2016 and today Shulgina has come out the other end of that short-term project with a way to decipher this genetic mystery. She describes it in a new paper in the journal eLife with Harvard biologist Sean Eddy.

The report details a new computer program that can read the of any organism and then determine its genetic code. The program, called Codetta, has the potential to help scientists expand their understanding of how the genetic code evolves and correctly interpret the genetic code of newly sequenced .

Nov 10, 2021

Roboat III Autonomus Boat Transportation System

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Roboat is a research program on autonomous boats in Amsterdam. The program was scheduled to last from 2016–2021, is developing the world’s first fleet of autonomous vessels. It focuses on moving people and goods, portable infrastructure and data gathering.

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Nov 10, 2021

Elon Musk Sells $1.1 Billion in Tesla Stock

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Share disposal comes as the billionaire chief executive exercises a large number of stock options.

Nov 10, 2021

Tech inventors from around the world compete in Qatar

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Inventors from more than 40 countries are in Qatar for the week-long Challenge and Innovation Forum on technology.
Super computers, cloud technology and robots are among the innovations on display.
Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby reports from Doha.

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Nov 10, 2021

Rolls-Royce secures £450m for mini nuclear reactors venture

Posted by in categories: engineering, government, nuclear energy

Rolls-Royce will move ahead with a multibillion pound plan to roll out a new breed of mini nuclear reactors after securing more than £450m from the government and investors.

The engineering firm will set up a venture focused on developing small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs, in partnership with investors BNF Resources and the US generator Exelon Generation with a joint investment of £195m to fund the plans over the next three years.

Nov 10, 2021

Join us this month at Perpetual Life!

Posted by in category: futurism

Thursday, November 18th at 6:00 PM Eastern Time.

(10:00 PM UTC) for our virtual service with Bill Faloon with his presentat… See more.

Nov 10, 2021

Apple Car Looks Totally Doable in Patent-Based Renderings

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Apple EV expected 2025.


It’s all but confirmed now: Apple is working on its very own electric vehicle, no matter what the company says, and the debut is expected to take place in 2025 at the earliest.

Nov 10, 2021

Gwynne Shotwell: Meet the Woman Behind SpaceX

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

GGwynne Shotwell: Meet the Woman Behind SpaceX: There’s a proverb that says behind every great man is a great woman. That is certainly true of SpaceX. Elon Musk may be the most recognizable face of his aerospace company. But his right-hand woman is Gwynne Shotwell.

Shotwell is the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX. She manages the day-to-day operations and the growth of the firm. In other words – she’s in charge of selling rockets and dealing with Elon Musk.

Unlike a lot of other SpaceX employees who grew up fascinated by rockets, she wasn’t. When she was five and her neurosurgeon father gathered the family around a TV to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing, she found it boring.

Nov 10, 2021

Gravitational Waves Will Soon Lift Veil On Black Holes, Says Portuguese Astrophysicist

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Of the cosmos’ four fundamental forces, gravity is the one that grasps us even before we exit the womb. From our first few minutes of life until we lose the fight to lift our heads from death’s pillow, this weakest of nature’s fundamental forces continues to elude researchers.

In the last few years, however, gravitational wave astronomy has made great strides in detecting gravitational radiation rippling through spacetime at the speed of light.

Einstein first predicted that any accelerating mass should emit gravitational radiation in the form of waves. Gravitational waves were first indirectly detected almost 20 years ago. But it was only recently, in 2,015 that the ground-based LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) detected waves from two merging stellar mass black holes over a billion light years distant in the general direction of the Southern Hemisphere’s Magellanic Clouds.