Knowing a meteorite’s origin is key to understanding the universe.
An international team of scientists has been exploring the samples of asteroid Ryugu brought back to Earth in 2020 by Hayabusa2 and may have stumbled upon their source, according to a press release published by the Natural History Museum on Thursday.
An extremely rare group of meteorites
The new research saw scientists follow 100,000 participants in the UK Biobank national cohort.
Smartphones could soon be used to predict populations’ mortality rates, according to a press release by PLOS Digital Health.
Previous studies have used measures of physical fitness, including walk tests and self-reported walk pace, to predict individual mortality risk. Now scientists are taking it a step further.
It enables us to make extraordinary leaps of imagination.
We all have to make hard decisions from time to time. The hardest of my life was whether or not to change research fields after my Ph.D., from fundamental physics to climate physics. I had job offers that could have taken me in either direction — one to join Stephen Hawking’s Relativity and Gravitation Group at Cambridge University, another to join the Met Office as a scientific civil servant.
I wrote down the pros and cons of both options as one is supposed to do, but then couldn’t make up my mind at all. Like Buridan’s donkey, I was unable to move to either the bale of hay or the pail of water.
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Royal Caribbean International has revealed illustrations of the highly anticipated Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, according to a press release by the firm published on Thursday.
The record-breaking ship is set to arrive in late 2023 ahead of its January 2024 debut.
Raising the bar in the travel industry
Among its many features, the cruise ship will boast a beach retreat, a resort escape and a theme park adventure, giving guests access to all kinds of fun and entertainment for all ages.
If you’ve never heard of molten salt reactors before, prepare to have your mind blown. These cutting-edge pieces of technology might well be the answer to freeing our species from its addiction to fossil fuels.
First constructed and operated in the 1960s, molten salt reactors are an interesting and promising energy technology. There’s a variety of different designs for these reactors, but they all, in essence, primarily utilize molten fluoride salts kept under low pressure as the primary coolant for the reactor.
Hey everyone! I upgraded a previous redstone build to support 3D Wireframe Rendering! Thanks everyone who suggested this, it was a lot of fun! bigsmile
!!! WATCH PART 1 HERE!!!
https://youtu.be/vfPGuUDuwmo.
0:00 Introduction.
1:00 Defining a Wireframe.
1:36 Building UI and Vertex memory.
3:31 Deriving the Rendering Equations.
8:15 Python Simulator.
9:09 Building the Renderer.
13:32 First successful render!
14:34 Python Schematic Generator.
16:02 Building the Frame Buffer.
17:25 Rotation time!
21:21 Vertex Rotator.
23:06 Final Assembly.
23:49 Showcase.
Big thank you to @Sloimay for miscellaneous help, and of course for writing MCSchematic.
Summary: Study suggests quantum processes are part of cognitive and conscious brain functions.
Source: TCD
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin believe our brains could use quantum computation after adapting an idea developed to prove the existence of quantum gravity to explore the human brain and its workings.
A titanium robotic exoskeleton is helping an eight-year-old boy in Mexico learn to walk after being wheelchair-bound for most of his life.
The boy, David, suffers from cerebral palsy, a group of neurological disorders that surfaces during early childhood and hinders a child’s ability to control their muscle movements. In effect, it makes it extremely difficult for an affected child to walk and maintain their balance and posture.
As you can imagine, rehabilitating a child with cerebral palsy is a long and arduous process. But now, David’s speeding up his rehabilitation with the help of the battery-powered Atlas 2030 exoskeleton, developed by award winning Spanish roboticist Elena García Armada.
“Forever chemicals” have been identified in water systems that serve about 9.5 million people in just six states, according to a new analysis of state data by a congressional watchdog.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report this week saying that the toxic chemicals had been found in at least 18 percent of water systems in Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and Vermont.
Sound-diffracting walls and rubberised asphalt ingredients tackle the major environmental concern of noise pollution from traffic.
In cities across the European Union, noise is a significant health hazard along with air pollution. Efforts are under way to reduce a major source of both: traffic.
Noise is the number-two environmental source of health troubles, after air pollution, according to the United Nations World Health Organization.
