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Dec 12, 2020

Toyota to Release An Electric Car with 10 Minutes Fast Charging in 2021

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Electric cars from Toyota are coming! 😃


Toyota may have mastered the art of the solid-state battery. Get the details in here.

Dec 12, 2020

China eyes advanced ‘weather modification’ tech by 2025

Posted by in categories: food, geoengineering

Weather modification, according to the document, would support: forecasts of disasters such as drought and hailstorms, as well as zoning work in agricultural production areas; normal working plans for regions in need of ecological protection and restoration; and emergency response plans to deal with events such as forest or grassland fires, and unusually high temperature or droughts.


The country’s weather modification efforts would support emergency response plans to deal with events such as drought and hailstorms.

Dec 12, 2020

Mars Has Even Less Liquid Water Than Previously Thought

Posted by in category: space

New study upholds the view of Mars as a water-poor, frozen desert; devoid of liquid surface water.

Dec 12, 2020

Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe

Posted by in category: particle physics

Physicists give us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in two dimensions.

Dec 12, 2020

On the cutting edge: Carbon nanotube cutlery

Posted by in categories: biological, engineering, nanotechnology

Circa 2006 o.,o.


Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder have designed a carbon nanotube knife that, in theory, would work like a tight-wire cheese slicer.

In a paper presented this month at the 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, the research team announced a prototype nanoknife that could, in the future, become a tabletop tool of biology, allowing scientists to cut and study cells more precisely than they can today.

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Dec 12, 2020

First US Woman to Walk in Space Is Now Also The First to Reach Ocean’s Deepest Point

Posted by in category: space

Sunday marked the second time Kathy Sullivan made history.

Nearly 25 years after she became the first US woman to walk in space, Sullivan became the first woman to ever reach Challenger Deep, the deepest point in our planet’s oceans. She’s the only person ever to do both.

Challenger Deep lies nearly 7 miles (11 kilometres) below the Pacific Ocean’s surface within the Mariana Trench about 200 miles (300 kilometres) southwest of Guam.

Dec 12, 2020

​​Ushering in an ageless future

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI, singularity

For years, futurists have attempted to predict when, in the future, we will finally achieve the technological singularity’’ — a technological breakthrough so profound, it changes the course of humanity. Specifically, futurists have been talking about the moment when super-human artificial intelligence becomes reality. Or — to put it simply — when computers become smarter than people.

However, at Centaura, we believe that the world needs to prepare for a different singularity — one that might arrive even before super-human intelligence. It’s the moment when humans have the power to slow down — and even reverse aging.

The idea of the singularity first became popular nearly thirty years ago by the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge. In his essay The Coming Technological Singularity, he famously declared, Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Dec 12, 2020

Graphene is being used to surface a road in Oxfordshire

Posted by in category: materials

Potholes may soon reach the end of the road, as an Oxfordshire village hosts the first UK trial of a graphene-based wonder material designed to prevent cracks forming.

Graphene is a super-strong material made of specially-structured carbon.

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Dec 12, 2020

Downfall of Bitcoin by Owners’ Death

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, futurism

Bitcoin has been hyped as the currency of the future. And it does have its advantages, as we discussed in the previous video. However, Bitcoin is far from perfect. Because of its finite supply, there is the real possibility of “lost Bitcoins” leading to lost fortunes. These lost fortunes may lead to the erosion of public trust in Bitcoin.

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Dec 12, 2020

Genetic Engineering Might Help Pave Humanity’s Way to Mars

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, space travel

A future manned mission to Mars might require mankind not just to improve its technological capabilities but also to tweak human DNA a bit in order to help them cope with inhospitable conditions there, space.com reports.