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Jan 2, 2021
Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: sustainability
Circa 2019 o.o
In California alone there are 11 desalination plants, with 10 more proposed. But there are big downsides to making seawater drinkable.
Jan 2, 2021
BMW’s New MINI Concept Is An Autonomous Living Room On Wheels
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
This could make traffic less stressful! 😃
The MINI Vision Urbanaut concept vehicle is an all-new interpretation of a space focused on enhancing social experiences.
Jan 2, 2021
21 Residents of Retirement Home Get Coronavirus After Receiving Vaccine
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: biotech/medical, economics, habitats, health
Some 21 residents of a Bat Yam retirement home tested positive for the coronavirus after they were vaccinated but before they had developed antibodies, according to Ynet.
The other 150 residents of the home will be tested for the virus.
Health officials have stressed that the two-dose Pfizer vaccine regimen means that the vaccine is only fully effective about five weeks after the first dose. This means it could take until sometime in February for enough elderly and high-risk people to be vaccinated to help lower the spread of infection and start reopening the economy.
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Jan 2, 2021
Brains Behind the Brains: Mike Davies and Neuromorphic Computing at Intel Labs | Intel
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: computing, neuroscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN3eSMoJcM8
Neuromorphic computing is coming, and it’s based on the way the brain works. In this installment of Brains Behind the Brains, Mike Davies, Director of Neuromorphic Computing at Intel Labs, talks to us about this technology, Intel’s Loihi processors, and how neuromorphic computing will change our world in wonderful ways. https://intel.ly/3hmL0Ip.
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Jan 2, 2021
Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
#JustAReminder why knowing the origin of this disease is so important. Shi Zhengli who ran the lab in Wuhan worked with Ralph Baric on this gain of function research.
Declan Butler.
12 November 2015
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Jan 2, 2021
Elastic diamonds could help quantum computers run at room temperature
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, quantum physics
Scientists put diamonds under strain to improve their mechanical properties. The results suggest they may help quantum computers run at room temperature.
Jan 2, 2021
Hermeus hypersonic jet aims to fly New York to London in 90 minutes
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: transportation
US aviation start-up Hermeus reveals plans for a hypersonic jet that would travel at five times the speed of sound. That could whisk passengers from New York to London in 90 minutes or less.
Jan 2, 2021
Scientists: Life on Earth Likely Started in Meteor Craters
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks
A new study is flipping the script on the effects of massive meteor impacts. While an ancient impact is commonly to the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, scientists are now starting to suspect that an earlier impact could have jumpstarted life on Earth in the first place.
Scientists have long suggested that meteorites carried the ingredients necessary for life to Earth, but new research suggests that meteor impacts also created the ideal conditions for life to emerge as well, The Weather Network reports. Because of that, the scientists suggest that space agencies ought to pay special attention to similar craters when hunting for life on the Moon, Mars, or beyond.