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Jun 29, 2020

Mice ‘cured’ of Parkinson’s in accidental scientific discovery

Posted by in category: futurism

Existing treatments focus on easing symptoms and improving quality of life.

Jun 29, 2020

GM Defense Chevy Colorado ISV and Ricardo Ford Ranger Demonstrator

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View detailed pictures that accompany our GM Defense Chevy Colorado ISV and Ricardo Ford Ranger Demonstrator article with close-up photos of exterior and interior features. (14 photos)

Jun 29, 2020

NASA’s New Moon-Bound Space Suits Will Get a Boost From AI

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI, space

Engineers are turning to generative design algorithms to build components for NASA’s next-generation space suit—the first major update in decades.

Jun 29, 2020

US Solar Plants Now Expected to Run for More Than 30 Years: Berkeley Lab

Posted by in category: futurism

Cheaper modules brought solar plants into the energy mainstream. Longer operating lives are making them better investments.

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Justin Gerdes

Jun 29, 2020

McDonald’s announces plans to introduce ‘rapid charging’ for electric vehicles at new UK drive-thrus

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Infrastructure will be installed at new drive-thrus “as standard.”

Jun 29, 2020

India’s $18,000 Tata Nexon EV points to global EV affordability

Posted by in category: energy

The Tata Nexon EV’s approach – reduced range, less power, and basic amenities – could bring the price down to $14,000 after incentives.

Jun 29, 2020

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population

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The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children.

While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of “demographic genocide.”

The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang.

Jun 29, 2020

Russia denies its atomic plants are responsible for radiation leak

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Jun 29, 2020

First measurement of spin-orbit alignment on planet Beta Pictoris b

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Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant ‘super-Jupiter’ planet, demonstrating a technique that could enable breakthroughs in the quest to understand how exoplanetary systems form and evolved.

An international team of scientists, led by Professor Stefan Kraus from the University of Exeter, has carried out the measurements for the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b—located 63 light years from Earth.

The planet, found in the Pictor constellation, has a mass of around 11 times that of Jupiter and orbits a young star on a similar as Saturn in our solar system.

Jun 29, 2020

Will the Air Force’s New Stealth Fighter Use AI?

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

There are risks and rewards for any kind of new weapon, and how the Air Force buiilds its next plane is a big question.

By Kris Osborn

Should the Air Force and Navy prioritize the engineering of an entirely new platform with paradigm-changing technologies for a 6th-Generation fighter, or simply keep upgrading the state of the art 5th-Gen aircraft in the near term?