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Oct 6, 2024

Engineers develop solar-powered lithium extraction from brine

Posted by in category: sustainability

A team of engineers at Nanjing University, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, has developed a new way to extract lithium from briny water.

In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes the process they developed and the device they built and how it could be used to extract lithium from various natural sources. Seth Darling, with Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S., has published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue outlining the work done by the team on this new effort.

Lithium is in high demand due to its use in batteries. Unfortunately, its traditional sources, hard rock ores, are expected to decline in the coming years. Because of that, scientists have been looking for other sources like briny water found in the world’s oceans. Prior research has suggested there is more than enough to meet global demand for as long as needed.

Oct 6, 2024

Lightning fast charger: Fortescue 6 MW DCFC for electric heavy equipment

Posted by in category: transportation

Fortescue has an all-new 6 MW DC fast charger that can charge a massive 230 ton haul truck’s 1,900 kWh battery in less than thirty minutes!

Oct 6, 2024

P-Cresyl And Indoxyl Sulfates Are Gut Bacteria-Derived Metabolites That May Be Bad For Longevity

Posted by in categories: life extension, media & arts

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Oct 6, 2024

Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun’s Corona

Posted by in categories: energy, mapping, physics, space

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, designed, built, and operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO), achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by directly mapping the strength of the magnetic field in the solar corona, the outer part of the solar atmosphere that can be seen during a total eclipse. This breakthrough promises to enhance our understanding of space weather and its impact on Earth’s technology-dependent society.

The corona: the launch pad of space weather.

The Sun’s magnetic field generates regions in the Sun’s atmosphere, often rooted by sunspots, that store vast amounts of energy that fuel explosive solar storms and drive space weather. The corona, the Sun’s outer atmosphere, is a superheated realm where these magnetic mysteries unfold. Mapping coronal magnetic fields is essential to understanding and predicting space weather — and to protect our technology in Earth and space.

Oct 6, 2024

Like Father, Like Daughter

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Mouse study finds fathers on unhealthy diets can cause cardiovascular disease in their daughters. When they become fathers, men who have an unhealthy, high-cholesterol diet can cause increased risk of cardiovascular disease, or CVD, in their daughters, a University of California, Riverside-led mouse study has found.

The research, published in the journal JCI Insight, is the first to demonstrate this result seen only in female offspring.

CVD, the leading cause of death globally, is a group of disorders that affects the heart and blood vessels. Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a leading risk factor for CVD. In the United States, nearly 703,000 people died in 2022 from heart disease, the equivalent of one in every five deaths.

Oct 6, 2024

New comet could be bright enough to see during the day

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

A brand new comet, known as a sungrazer, has been discovered. It is predicted to be extremely bright.

Oct 6, 2024

WARNING: This Will Make You Question EVERYTHING You Know About Reality

Posted by in category: futurism

Imagine if the reality we experience every day is just a simulation created by a more advanced civilization. Sounds like science fiction, right? But what if we told you that there’s a way to potentially \.

Oct 6, 2024

Quantum Paradox: Does Reality Depend on Who Observes It?

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Discover how quantum mechanics challenges the nature of reality in this engaging exploration. Learn how observation impacts reality and unravel the my.

Oct 6, 2024

Is India at risk? NASA predicts strongest solar storm in seven years will hit Earth; Here’s what you should know!

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

Solar storms, characterized by sudden explosions of particles, energy, and magnetic fields from the Sun, can create disruptions in Earth’s magnetosphere. As told to NDTV, Dr. Annapurni Subramanian, Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, stated, “The (solar) flare which occurred a few days ago is similar in terms of strength to the one which occurred in May.” These flares are known to produce geomagnetic storms that can result in radio blackouts and power outages on Earth.

Recent NDTV reports highlight a series of powerful solar flares emitted by the Sun, including an X7.1 flare on October 1 and an even stronger X9.0 flare on October 3. NASA captured these flares using its Solar Dynamics Observatory, emphasizing their potential to disrupt communication systems. NOAA classified the X9.0 flare as an R3-strength flare, indicating a “strong” potential for radio blackouts.

Oct 6, 2024

NASA’s exoplanet hunter TESS spots a record-breaking 3-star system

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

The team spotted the record-breaking triple star system because of strobing starlight caused by the stars crossing in front of each other, as seen from our position on Earth.

The team turned to machine learning to analyze vast amounts of data from TESS to spot a pattern indicating these eclipses. They then called upon the aid of citizen scientists to further filter this data to spot interesting signals.

“We’re mainly looking for signatures of compact multi-star systems, unusual pulsating stars in binary systems, and weird objects,” Rappaport said. “It’s exciting to identify a system like this because they’re rarely found, but they may be more common than current tallies suggest.”

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