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Feb 15, 2022
This ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Mod is the John Wick VR Game We Always Wanted
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: virtual reality
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 Shubham Ghosh Roy 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 air-water interface is a crucial site for numerous natural, domestic and industrial processes such as ocean-atmosphere exchange, cloud and dew formation, aerated beverages and bioreactors. Yet, probing chemical transformations at the air–water 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)
Posted by Alan Jurisson in categories: futurism, space
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
Posted by Alan Jurisson in categories: alien life, chemistry
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.
Feb 15, 2022
Dr Joel Mozer, PhD — United States Space Force — Director of Science, Technology, and Research
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: engineering, finance, government, military, policy, satellites, science
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/).
Feb 15, 2022
Elon Musk gave 5 million Tesla shares to charity after teasing possible donation to fight world hunger
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, food, sustainability
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk donated more than 5 million Tesla shares in November, days after the U.N. World Food Program outlined a plan to potentially use a $6 billion donation from the world’s richest man.
A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made public Monday showed the donation, but not the recipient. The Tesla TSLA, +4.48% shares were transferred in batches between Nov. 19 and Nov. 29, as Musk was also selling Tesla stock in preparation for a large tax bill.
Feb 15, 2022
Fraudsters are using bots to drain cryptocurrency accounts
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cryptocurrencies, robotics/AI
A new type of bot is being sold to criminals who program it to make robocalls that drain cryptocurrency accounts.
Feb 15, 2022
Tesla’s Elon Musk donates over 5 million TSLA shares to charity, reveals SEC filings
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Tesla CEO Elon Musk donated over 5 million TSLA shares to an undisclosed charity, according to a SEC Form 5 filed on Monday, February 14, 2022.
The filing reveals that Elon Musk donated approximately 5,044,000 TSLA shares worth about $4.42 billion, considering that Tesla stock is priced at $875.76 as of this writing. Based on the SEC filing, Elon Musk started donating the stocks on November 19, 2021, a time when over 5 million TSLA shares were worth roughly $5.74 billion.
The transaction code for the stock was filed under “G,” which stands for “Gift of securities by or to the insider” or “Bonafide gift.” Under “Explanation of Responses,” the filing reads: “Represent a bona fide gift of the Issuer’s common stock by the Reporting Person to charity.” The charity Elon Musk donated to was not revealed.
Feb 15, 2022
Physicists Just Achieved a New Smallest Measurement of a Ghost Particle’s Mass
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
Decaying isotopes of hydrogen have just given us the smallest measurement yet of the mass of a neutrino.
By measuring the energy distribution of electrons released during the beta decay of tritium, physicists have determined that the upper limit for the mass of the electron antineutrino is just 0.8 electronvolts. That’s 1.6 × 10–36 kilograms in metric mass, and very, very freaking small in imperial.
Although we still don’t have a precise measurement, narrowing it down brings us closer to understanding these strange particles, the role they play in the Universe, and the impact they could have on our current theories of physics. The achievement was made at the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) in Germany.