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Dec 15, 2021

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ‘touches’ the sun for the 1st time

Posted by in category: space

A NASA spacecraft has officially ‘touched’ the sun, after it plunged through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona, passing just eight million miles from the core of the star.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe battled temperatures of 2370F and radiation 500 times stronger than on Earth as it made its eighth approach to the celestial body, finally passing through its upper atmosphere.

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Dec 15, 2021

2021 HONOR Anniversary Global Gala

Posted by in category: futurism

Thu, Dec 16 at 3 AM PST.


To commemorate #HONORAnniversary we will share a story with you all via our livestream at 11 AM UTC±0 on December 16. To everyone who has been or will be a friend of HONOR — we welcome you all! #GoBeyond

Dec 15, 2021

FDA Approves New Eye Drops that Could Replace Glasses for Millions

Posted by in category: futurism

A first-of-its-kind type of eye drop offers the tantalizing benefit of never needing reading glasses ever again.

Dec 15, 2021

2021 Is the Year of Linux on the Desktop

Posted by in categories: computing, education

No, really. Walk into any school now, and you’ll see millions of Linux machines. They’re called Chromebooks. For a free project launched 30 years ago today by one man in his spare time, it’s an amazing feat.

Dec 15, 2021

Ultra-Accurate Dual-Gas Sensor Tracks Greenhouse Gasses Down to 65 Parts Per Trillion

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

Designed for research into climate change this high-precision gas sensor is good to 133 parts per trillion CO and 65 parts per trillion N₂O.

Dec 15, 2021

Evidence for Parallel Universes — Max Tegmark / Serious Science

Posted by in categories: computing, cosmology, quantum physics, science

Physicist Max Tegmark on predictions that cannot be observed, explanation of Universe’ fine tuning, and quantum computer.

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Dec 15, 2021

Prof. David Chalmers — Artificial Intelligence & Consciousness

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Prof. Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

Dec 15, 2021

Why China’s Advancements in Quantum Technology Worry Others

Posted by in categories: computing, encryption, military, quantum physics

The 41-year-old computing method can decode encrypted messages and help detect hidden military vehicles such as stealth aircraft.

Dec 15, 2021

Watch: Animation shows how James Webb Telescope will rocket into space

Posted by in category: space

A hint at what’s to come.


The Ariane 5 rocket carrying Hubble’s successor will get to the launch pad in just a few days. Here’s what its takeoff will look like.

Dec 15, 2021

$10 Billion Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed — Here’s What We Know

Posted by in categories: alien life, chemistry

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful, and most technologically challenging space telescope ever built.

The Webb Telescope is so large; it must be folded like origami to fit inside its rocket fairing for the ride into space. Once in space, unfolding and readying Webb for science is a complex process that will take about six months.

Webb is designed to see the most distant galaxies in the Universe and study how galaxies evolved over cosmic time. Webb will study planets orbiting other stars looking for the chemical signatures of the building blocks of life. Webb will also study planets within our own solar system.