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It’ll take about seven months to send humans to Mars using today’s spaceships. That’s not exactly a quick jaunt, but it is doable.

Trips to other planets could take years, though, and if we want to explore the rest of our solar system — or the places beyond it — we’re going to need a faster way to travel.

Now, a physicist has designed a new rocket thruster that could potentially allow humans to travel 10 times faster in space — and it’s inspired by nuclear fusion.

Not content with relying on standard chips that are in high demand, some of the world’s biggest tech firms are developing their own semiconductors.

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla and Baidu are all shunning established chip firms and bringing certain aspects of chip development in-house, according to company announcements and media reports.

“Increasingly, these companies want custom-made chips fitting their applications’ specific requirements rather than use the same generic chips as their competitors,” Syed Alam, global semiconductor lead at Accenture, told CNBC.

Mott Insulator Exhibits a Sharp Response to Electron Injection In a finding that will give theorists plenty to ponder, an all-RIKEN team has observed an unexpected response in an exotic material known as a Mott insulator when they injected electrons into it. This observation promises to give physicists new insights into such materials, which are closely related to high-temperature superconductors.

Amazon’s air cargo fleet is an increasingly critical component of its logistics machine.

The strangely shaped behemoth gets a close-up.

Using the dark energy camera on a telescope in Chile, astronomers captured a stunning view of the galaxy Centaurus A.

Summary: Findings could advance the development of deep learning networks based on real neurons that will enable them to perform more complex and more efficient learning processes.

Source: Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

We are in the midst of a scientific and technological revolution. The computers of today use artificial intelligence to learn from example and to execute sophisticated functions that, until recently, were thought impossible. These smart algorithms can recognize faces and even drive autonomous vehicles.

Fibromyalgia appears to be autoimmune, and by knowing the antibody target it should be possible to force immunotolerance, curing the disease. Thanks to the animal experiments.

Paper:
Goebel A, Krock E, Gentry C, et al.: Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice. J Clin Invest. 2021;131(13). doi: 10.1172/JCI144201

Will declining launch costs, advances in technology and growing public-sector interest position space exploration as the next trillion-dollar industry?

The decision came after a global trial showed that the drug can “safely cut cholesterol by 50%.”

A twice-yearly injection of a new drug could lower cholesterol levels and prevent thousands of deaths from heart attacks and strokes, NHS England says.