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Feb 20, 2021

“Stronger and More Resilient,” the Future of CropMobster with Co-Founder Nick Papadopoulos

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Founded as a resource to prevent food waste, the CropMobster network has grown into an online platform for farmers, food activists, and pantries to exchange resources. Designed to “ignite food system crowdsourcing,” CropMobster empowers local leaders to connect communities interested in sharing or trading goods, labor, excess food, events, and news to help end hunger and reduce food waste. CropMobster was established in the in 2013 and has expanded to serve farmers and local food leaders throughout California and the West Coast.

Food Tank interviewed CropMobster CEO and Co-Founder Nick Papadopoulos to learn about the recent additions to CropMobsters’ sustainable food networking platform since Papadopoulos spoke at Food Tank’s 2016 Farm Tank Summit in Sacramento.

Feb 20, 2021

Hold your breath and enter this hypnotic map of 25,000 supermassive black holes

Posted by in category: cosmology

There’s no denying that black holes are the most destructive force in the universe, with their swirling, light-swallowing maw devouring anything that crosses its perilous event horizon.

Feb 20, 2021

Giant 2D Atlas of the Universe Created – Helps Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey

Posted by in category: cosmology

The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) team of National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their collaborators of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project released a giant 2D map of the universe, which paves the way for the upcoming new-generation dark energy spectroscopic survey.

Modern astronomical observations reveal that the universe is expanding and appears to be accelerating. The power driving the expansion of the universe is called dark energy by astronomers. Dark energy is still a mystery and accounts for about 68% of the substance of the universe.

Large-scale redshift measurements of galaxies can describe the 3D distribution of the matter and reveal the effect of dark energy on the expansion of the universe.

Feb 20, 2021

Mind-Blowing Things NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Do On Mars

Posted by in category: space

Feb 20, 2021

7 ways a trip to Mars could kill you

Posted by in category: space travel

The first human Martian explorers will face huge risks, there’s no way around it.

It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

Feb 20, 2021

Now on ‘Mars time,’ NASA’s Perseverance team has to shift their work hours 40 minutes later every day

Posted by in category: space

NASA asks the engineers and scientists behind the rover to make this daily change for three months, sometimes working overnight.

Feb 20, 2021

An asteroid is approaching, so I invited one of Earth’s defenders to dinner

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

Near-Earth Asteroid 99942 Apophis will be visible on Sunday. Some say it could ultimately destroy satellites and spaceships. The creators of the Unistellar eVscope telescope are trying to marshal our defense.

Feb 20, 2021

South Africa Moves to Manufacture, Commercialize Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology

Posted by in categories: energy, government

After over a decade of research and development around hydrogen fuel technology, President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa is now ready to manufacture and commercialise hydrogen fuels technology.

The President said this when he responded to a debate on the State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday.

For more than a decade, government has been working with various partners, including the private sector and academia, to develop hydrogen fuel cell and lithium battery storage technologies.

Feb 20, 2021

Russia’s Kalashnikov eyes production in India, woos gadget lovers with hi-tech shotgun

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

Featuring a built-in computer, the Ultima shotgun envisages WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and can synchronize with smart phones. It is intended to woo younger clients such as gadget enthusiasts.


Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov plans to start making its AK-203 assault rifle in India this year and wants to attract a wider audience with a hi-tech shotgun, chief executive Dmitry Tarasov said.

Feb 20, 2021

Generating photons for communication in a quantum computing system

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

8 oct 2020.


MIT researchers using superconducting quantum bits connected to a microwave transmission line have shown how the qubits can generate on demand the photons, or particles of light, necessary for communication between quantum processors.