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Feb 5, 2021

Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA’s first female payload specialist in space, dies at 75

Posted by in category: space travel

Hughes-Fulford launched on the STS-40 space shuttle mission in June 1991.


The first American woman to launch into space who was not a professional astronaut but a working scientist, Millie Hughes-Fulford, has died at the age of 75.

Feb 5, 2021

Tweets of fear used to spread malicious viruses online

Posted by in category: futurism

Cybercriminals are preying on emotions of fear to spread dangerous viruses and spyware across Twitter, new research has revealed.

Feb 5, 2021

A metalens for virtual and augmented reality

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical, virtual reality

Harvard’s Capasso Group has scaled up the achromatic metalens to 2mm in diameter. That may not sound like much, but it is plenty for virtual reality contact lenses. The human pupil is 7mm at widest. These guys are going to beat Mojo Lens to the finish line for smart contact lenses.


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Feb 5, 2021

New research shows geothermal heating may have limited longevity

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability

Though the Earth’s deeper layers have been raging at thousands of degrees for billions of years, new research involving Florida Tech has shown that tapping into that heat to produce geothermal heating for urban regions on the surface has a far, far shorter lifespan.

Feb 5, 2021

Facial recognition may help find Capitol rioters—but it could harm many others, experts say

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In the days following the Jan. 6 riot at the nation’s Capitol, there was a rush to identify those who had stormed the building’s hallowed halls.

Feb 5, 2021

Space travel may harm health

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, health, space travel

Biochemical changes after going to space suggest that harm to cells’ energy-producing structures, called mitochondria, could explain astronauts’ health issues.

Feb 5, 2021

You could be the next astronaut

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Jared Isaacman invites you to join the fight against childhood cancer, and possibly wind up with a seat on the first orbital flight by an all-civilian team of astronauts.

Feb 5, 2021

Newshour mutations: How do scientists find new variants? Sounds

Posted by in category: futurism

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Feb 5, 2021

Immune Boosting Nasal Spray: Protects Against COVID-19 Is Also Effective Against the Common Cold

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Research into a new drug that primes the immune system in the respiratory tract and is in development for COVID-19 shows it is also effective against rhinovirus.

Rhinovirus is the most common respiratory virus, the main cause of the common cold and is responsible for exacerbations of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In a study recently published in the European Respiratory Journal, the drug, known as INNA-X, is shown to be effective in a pre-clinical infection model and in human airway cells.

Treatment with INNA-X prior to infection with rhinovirus significantly reduced viral load and inhibited harmful inflammation.

Feb 5, 2021

Making Of A Neuromorphic Synchronization Circuit Using Quantum Metaheuristics

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, space

In this video I show how I made a self-organisating network of Kuramoto-style oscillators in a system undergoing metaheuristic-guided synchronization. There are also ways to visually demonstrate this with relatively simple hardware, such as using modified microelectronics, controlled using microcontroller circuits.

In this project, which I have dubbed “Feynman’s Quantum Fireflies” I program individual systems of oscillators which display discontinuous pas coupling which can be implemented in a network of transceiver circuits. Using the Path Integral Approach is one way to understand how the system behaves like a quantum thermal bath.

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