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Dec 11, 2020

Toyota to unveil electric car with solid-state battery with 10-min fast-charging next year

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

A new report suggests that Toyota is going to unveil an electric car with a new solid-state battery that enables 10-minute fast-charging capacity next year.

Toyota started working on solid-state batteries back in 2017 with plans to commercialize the batteries inside electric vehicles in the early 2020s.

Dec 11, 2020

Early Earth Was No Inviting Blue Planet—It Was More Like Venus

Posted by in category: alien life

How early Earth became the habitable and life-friendly planet that it is today.


New insights on how, and when, terrestrial planets become habitable.

Dec 11, 2020

Military-grade camera shows risks of airborne coronavirus spread

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, military

To visually illustrate the risk of airborne transmission in real time, The Washington Post used a military-grade infrared camera capable of detecting exhaled breath. Numerous experts — epidemiologists, virologists and engineers — supported the notion of using exhalation as a conservative proxy to show potential transmission risk in various settings.

“The images are very, very telling,” said Rajat Mittal, a professor of mechanical engineering in Johns Hopkins University’s medical and engineering schools and an expert on virus transmission. “Getting two people and actually visualizing what’s happening between them, that’s very invaluable.”

Dec 11, 2020

Astronomers Just Found Cosmic ‘Superhighways’ For Fast Travel Through The Solar System

Posted by in category: space

Invisible structures generated by gravitational interactions in the Solar System have created a “space superhighway” network, astronomers have discovered.

These channels enable the fast travel of objects through space, and could be harnessed for our own space exploration purposes, as well as the study of comets and asteroids.

By applying analyses to both observational and simulation data, a team of researchers led by Nataša Todorović of Belgrade Astronomical Observatory in Serbia observed that these superhighways consist of a series of connected arches inside these invisible structures, called space manifolds — and each planet generates its own manifolds, together creating what the researchers have called “a true celestial autobahn”.

Dec 11, 2020

WebConference on Space Safety — Space Renaissance Congress 2021 “Civilian Space Development”

Posted by in categories: government, space

**2021 Space Renaissance [Webinar Series “SPACE SAFETY”](https://spacerenaissance.space/event/webconference-on-space-…elopment/)**

Sunday December 13th 16:00 UTC

Live streaming on [Facebook Space Renaissance Initiative Group](https://www.facebook.com/events/3842711565750385/)

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Dec 11, 2020

Stretchable sensor gives robots and VR a human touch

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, robotics/AI, virtual reality

It’s not a stretch to say that stretchable sensors could change the way soft robots function and feel. In fact, they will be able to feel quite a lot.

Cornell researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor that combines low-cost LEDs and dyes, resulting in a stretchable “skin” that detects deformations such as pressure, bending and strain. This sensor could give soft robotic systems – and anyone using augmented reality technology – the ability to feel the same rich, tactile sensations that mammals depend on to navigate the natural world.

Dec 11, 2020

Flame-throwing drone burns wasp nests in tall trees in China

Posted by in category: drones

This flame-throwing drone in China burns wasp nests out of trees.

Dec 11, 2020

Send in the senolytics

Posted by in category: life extension

Despite early failures in the clinic, the idea of anti-aging therapies that purge the body of dying cells is gaining traction with a raft of startups now focused on senescence.

Dec 11, 2020

How Eating More Jellyfish And Less Fish Could Save The Planet

Posted by in category: food

I didn’t even know we could eat jellyfish! 😃


According to a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Queensland, Australia, we should eat more jellyfish and less fish if we want to save the planet.

The research, published in Nature Communications, suggests increasing our jellyfish consumption worldwide to protect threatened fish species and guard marine conservation efforts. IUCN figures show that fishing is an ongoing threat to 96% of threatened fish species and the only constant threat for some.

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Dec 11, 2020

SN8: An amazing look at the final moments of SN8 before its rapid unscheduled disassembly

Posted by in category: space travel

Credit: SpaceX.