SN20 continues to prep for a landmark orbital test flight.
The Starship SN20 vehicle performed a “static fire” test today (Dec. 29) at the company’s South Texas site, briefly igniting its Raptor engines while remaining anchored to the ground.
A Virginia family received the keys to their new 3D-printed home just in time for Christmas. The home is Habitat for Humanity’s first 3D-printed home in the nation, according to a Habitat news release. The 1,200-square-foot home has three bedrooms, two full baths and was built from concrete.
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The first known magnetic field around an exoplanet has been detected, surrounding the hot Neptune HAT-P-11b.
“The fungus in these experiments showed spatial recognition, memory and intelligence. It’s a conscious organism.”
Article: https://psyche.co/ideas/the-fungal-mind-on-the-evidence-for-…telligence.
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Nicholas P Money is a professor of biology and Western programme director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
(See also my book wherein I postulated that mycelium has a consciousness: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World.)
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878614621000246
Putting aside interactive filters and fantasy games, augmented reality has the potential to be a vital tool for future innovation.
The telescope will join the worldwide effort.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully launched on Saturday, and it will soon be ready to reveal parts of the universe that have never been seen before including a very large, but very broody, cosmic object at the center of the galaxy.
JWST will be joining in the ongoing, worldwide efforts to observe Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This elusive beast has been inferred from its gravitational effects, but imaging the black hole itself has proven elusive.
TuSimple has stated that its “Driver Out” program is the first vital step in scaling its autonomous trucking operations on the TuSimple Autonomous Freight Network (AFN).
A robust AFN is now one step closer, following a successful 80-mile, driverless run in Arizona last week.
TuSimple announced its successful driverless ride via a recent press release, along with YouTube footage of the entire one-hour twenty-minute drive.
Austrian Verbund AG is acquiring the Illora photovoltaic project in southern Spain from BayWa r.e. The solar park, with a planned total capacity of 147.6 MW, is scheduled to go into operation in the first quarter of 2022.
Chinese scientists are celebrating the success of a new hypersonic engine, according to reports. The past few months have been important for China in terms of the success of its hypersonic technologies.
Not only did the country get a new wind tunnel ready for tests of hypersonic weapons but it is also developing a hypersonic passenger plane. The fact that the country is in possession of a nuclear-capable hypersonic weapon system that is orbital in nature was also revealed less than a month ago.
Now, the successful testing of this engine will pave way for more advanced developments in components used for hypersonic flight, SCMP reported.