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Feb 5, 2021

Experimental “blowhole” wave energy generator goes online down under

Posted by in category: energy

A 200-kilowatt demonstration version of Wave Swell Energy’s fascinating “blowhole” power generator has been deployed at Grassy Harbour on King Island, off the Australian island state of Tasmania and will be connected to the grid in the coming months.

Feb 5, 2021

Silicon anode structure generates new potential for lithium-ion batteries

Posted by in categories: materials, nanotechnology

New research conducted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has identified a specific building block that improves the anode in lithium-ion batteries. The unique properties of the structure, which was built using nanoparticle technology, are revealed and explained today in Communications Materials.

Feb 5, 2021

Inductance based on a quantum effect has the potential to miniaturize inductors

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, quantum physics

Mobile-phone chargers and other devices could become much smaller after an all-RIKEN team of physicists successfully shrunk an electrical component known as an inductor to microscale dimensions using a quantum effect.

Feb 5, 2021

Engineers develop programming technology to transform 2-D materials into 3D shapes

Posted by in category: materials

University of Texas at Arlington researchers have developed a technique that programs 2-D materials to transform into complex 3D shapes.

Feb 5, 2021

Chimp deaths at Sierra Leone sanctuary linked to a bacterium

Posted by in category: futurism

An international team of researchers has found what they believe to be the pathogen that has been killing chimpanzees at a Sierra Leone sanctuary for approximately 15 years. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group describes their study of multiple samples of chimp tissue retrieved from some of the dead chimps and what they have found thus far.

Feb 5, 2021

Autonomous Ravn X Drone to Launch Satellites From Airport Runways

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI, satellites

OEC promoting Tech in Africa.


Space startup, Aevum, just unveiled the product of years of work—a sleek, autonomous, rocket-launching aircraft called Ravn X.

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Feb 5, 2021

Opinion | They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, transportation

Your smart phone will track your movements if your Location is On.

No brainer right? Turn your Location to Off if you don’t wanna be tracked. Mine is always off!

In the case of 1/6/2021 on the US Capitol:

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Feb 5, 2021

What Happens If We Solve Extinction?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, existential risks

The human species has driven the planet’s biodiversity into an unprecedented decline, with as many as 1 million species at risk. Traditional conservation methods alone are struggling to offset the speed at which we’re losing species. Biotechnologies that have been developing in the wings are now being brought forward to potentially reverse the damage already done. Meet the scientist behind de-extinction.

#Moonshot #Science #BloombergQuicktake.
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Feb 5, 2021

Scientists narrow down the ‘weight’ of dark matter trillions of trillions of times

Posted by in categories: cosmology, materials

Scientists are finally figuring out how much dark matter — the almost imperceptible material said to tug on everything, yet emit no light — really weighs.

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.