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Mar 23, 2022

Blue Origin’s biggest rocket launch yet just got delayed — here’s what it means

Posted by in category: space travel

Blue Origin’s plan to launch a giant new rocket is unlikely to unfold this year. It leaves the spaceflight firm sticking with New Shepard tourist launches for the coming year.

Mar 23, 2022

ThinkOrbital — orbital assembly, servicing and manufacturing techologies

Posted by in categories: habitats, robotics/AI, space

How to robotically build a human habitat in space…

Happening now.


Accelerate the accessibility and commercialization of cislunar space through cost-effective, habitable, scalable Infrastructure.

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Mar 23, 2022

The Quantum Technology Ecosystem — Explained

Posted by in categories: business, quantum physics

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics

Richard Feynman

Mar 23, 2022

In a first, brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts: ‘I love my cool son.’

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Surgically placed electrodes enable person with late-stage ALS to communicate via neural signals.

Mar 23, 2022

Direct generation of complex structured light

Posted by in category: computing

Extension of laser beam structures promises new laser applications. Exploration of how beam structures change during nonlinear frequency conversion processes has drawn increasing interest in recent years. Nonlinear conversion is an excellent route for structured beam generation and represents a growing, hybrid field for researchers in nonlinear optics and laser technology, as well as the emerging area of light-field regulation technology.

For structured and nonlinear frequency conversion, researchers have considered both intracavity oscillation and external cavity spatial modulation. To achieve flexible outputs, spatial light modulators can be used to obtain structured beams both inside and outside the cavity. But this is an indirect, inefficient method. Intracavity nonlinear frequency generation of structured beams offers a direct, efficient method that has only rarely been investigated, until recently.

Inside a laser cavity, an effect known as “transverse mode locking” (TML) enables the direct generation of the vortex beams or optical vortices from a laser cavity. It is known that both solid-state microchip lasers and VCSELs can produce quite similar outputs of TML beam patterns under large Fresnel number pumping conditions. The complex transverse patterns formed by the TML effect, commonly composed of different basic modes with different weight coefficients and different locking phases, make for abundant spatial information in fundamental frequency modes. Nonlinear frequency conversion of these directly generated TML beams is of great interest, but not yet well studied.

Mar 23, 2022

Gene Editing Now Has A Next-Generation CRISPR Tool

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, evolution

The creation of new proteins and peptides for use with CRISPR represents the next stage in the evolution of this technology.

Mar 23, 2022

Elon Musk’s SpaceX hikes Starlink internet costs due to rising inflation — new customers will now pay $710 upfront

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet kit is going up from $499 to $549 for waiting deposit holders, and to $599 for new customers.

Mar 23, 2022

Brain implant helps completely ‘locked-in’ man communicate

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

𝙇𝙤𝙪 𝙂𝙚𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙜’𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚—𝙖𝙢𝙮𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨 (𝘼𝙇𝙎)—𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢, 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙖 34-𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧-𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙-𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙇𝙎 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣… See more.

The Neuro-Network.

𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 ‘𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝-𝐢𝐧’ 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞

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Mar 23, 2022

Al Sandrock, former top scientist at Biogen, named CEO at Voyager Therapeutics

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Al Sandrock, the top scientist at Biogen who exited last year in a dispute over its controversial Alzheimer’s treatment, has landed a new job as the CEO of Voyager Therapeutics, the company said Tuesday.

Voyager’s appointment of Sandrock as its new CEO is the latest in a series of moves aimed at refocusing the company on a new gene therapy delivery technology, following setbacks with its earlier pipeline.

Mar 23, 2022

Kinova Link 6, a new-gen robust, industrial collaborative robot

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Kinova, a Canadian company that specializes in robotic arms, is launching Link 6, a new generation industrial robot designed for all businesses looking to benefit from automation.

The Link 6 collaborative robot features automation solutions that enable greater daily efficiency while improving the quality and consistency of production results. Kinova’s newest robot helps you start producing faster thanks to a rich interface on its wrist, feed-through of power and data, optional Gigabit Ethernet adapter, and optional wrist vision module.

The company says its Link 6 controller provides the highest processing power and memory capacity on the market, making it ready to use with the AI solutions of the future while keeping the size of the controller compact. Link 6 robotic arm is developed and designed with any user in mind: an experienced industrial integrator and an operator with no particular robotic skills.