Feb 17, 2021
Blickling Hall: Wasps deployed to protect mansion from moths
Posted by Muhammad Furqan in category: futurism
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Pests and moulds are thriving at historic properties in lockdown, the National Trust says.
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Feb 17, 2021
First baby born after uterus transplant in France
Posted by Dan Lovy in category: biotech/medical
A baby has been born following a uterus transplant for the first time ever in France, the hospital treating mother and infant said Wednesday. Such births are extremely rare but not unprecedented, and come after a cutting-edge procedure to transplant a healthy uterus into a woman whose own is damaged or missing. The baby, a girl weighing 1.845 kilogrammes (4.059 pounds), was born on Friday, according to the team at the Foch hospital outside Paris.
Feb 17, 2021
This new map of ice on Mars could guide future astronauts
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: futurism, space
There seem to be many good possible locales for a crewed Mars base.
Large swaths of the Martian mid-latitudes show evidence of buried but accessible water ice, a new study reports.
Feb 17, 2021
SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 on landing in first of two Starlink missions this week
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: internet, satellites
The booster appeared to miss the landing pad of the company’s droneship in the Atlantic Monday night.
Feb 17, 2021
US Army Considering Rifle That Only Fires When Hit Is Guaranteed
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: innovation
OEC promoting innovative technology in Africa.
The SMASH “allows the weapon to fire only when it’s a guaranteed hit.”
Feb 16, 2021
Bill Gates: Unlike Elon Musk, I’m not a Mars person
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, space travel
Gates wants to focus on fixing problems on earth instead of traveling into space.
Gates said he’d rather spend money on measles vaccines than traveling to space in a rocket.
Feb 16, 2021
What Elon Musk’s 42,000 Starlink satellites could do for — and to — planet Earth
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites
SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb and others want to bring high-speed internet to every part of the world. But experts worry this could cost space exploration.
Feb 16, 2021
Imperial College expert warns against lifting restrictions too soon
Posted by Poopeh Morakkabati in category: biotech/medical
Imperial College expert warns new coronavirus wave could kill tens of thousands of Britons by late summer if lockdown is completely lifted too early.
Professor Azra Ghani revealed how a new model made at Imperial College London forecasts a wave of deaths by summer 2021 if restrictions are eased in July — even despite a successful vaccine rollout.
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Feb 16, 2021
NASA Picks SpaceX For a $99 Million Mission😲😲
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space travel
Feb 16, 2021
Counter-Intuitive Quantum Mechanics: State of Vibration That Exists Simultaneously at Two Different Times
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
When Light and Atoms Share a Common Vibe
An especially counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics is that a single event can exist in a state of superposition — happening both here and there, or both today and tomorrow.
Such superpositions are hard to create, as they are destroyed if any kind of information about the place and time of the event leaks into the surrounding — and even if nobody actually records this information. But when superpositions do occur, they lead to observations that are very different from that of classical physics, questioning down to our very understanding of space and time.
