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Aug 31, 2020

Gabriel Byrne Are We Ready For the Coming ‘Age of Abundance’

Posted by in category: media & arts

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Aug 31, 2020

Genetics Remains Paramount for Moving Rare Cancers Forward

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The evolving understanding of cancer genetics is allowing for clinicians to look at how to move rare cancer treatments, and identifications, forward.

Aug 31, 2020

Rocket Lab returns to service with successful launch for Capella

Posted by in category: satellites

Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches Capella’s first commercial radar satellite – Spaceflight Now.


Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying Capella Space’s Sequoia radar remote sensing satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

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Aug 31, 2020

Elon Musk’s SpaceX vs Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin: Which Space Project Will Dominate the Cosmos?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

Elon musk’s spacex vs jeff bezos’s blue origin: which space project will dominate the cosmos?

Aug 31, 2020

How Covid-19 Pandemic Could Stymie Near-Term Space Tourism

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Humans’ natural immune response is at least partly a behavioral response of avoidance. If so, the psychological ramifications of such ingrained behavior could mean trouble for space entrepreneurs.

Aug 31, 2020

KitoTech raises $3M as demand soars for its at-home no-stitch wound closure kit

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business

Seattle healthcare startup KitoTech Medical faced a challenge at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was difficult to pitch the company’s microMend wound closure device to new hospitals and clinics, limiting the ability to grow its business.

So in response, KitoTech quickly pivoted and developed two new consumer-focused products — and the results have been “remarkable,” according to CEO Ron Berenson.

KitoTech just raised $3 million to help support its growth. The company is known for its microMend device, which was made from technology originally developed at the University of Washington. It uses tiny staples that poke into the skin on either side of a wound and is applied over a cut like a traditional butterfly bandage. The process is painless and can heal wounds up to three times faster than those closed with traditional sutures, according to the company.

Aug 30, 2020

Scientists create a robot made entirely of living cells

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Scientists have unveiled the first ever “living robot,” an organism made up of living cells, which can move around, carry payloads, and even heal itself.

“All of the computational people on the project, myself included, were flabbergasted,” said Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist at the University of Vermont.

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Aug 30, 2020

China again boosts R&D spending

Posted by in category: policy

China continued its yearslong run of double-digit percentage increases in spending on R&D in 2019, but the nation is likely to fall short of a long-standing goal of increasing R&D expenditures to 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) by this year. But not hitting the target “should not be considered a failure, as China has been increasing its R&D expenditure over the past several decades at a rate higher than GDP growth,” says Cao Cong, a science policy specialist at the University of Nottingham’s Ningbo, China, campus.


But nation likely to miss 2020 goal of spending 2.5% of GDP on R&D.

Aug 30, 2020

Falcon 9 launches with SAOCOM 1B

Posted by in category: satellites

SpaceX launched Argentina’s SAOCOM 1B radar observation satellite from Cape Canaveral at 7:18 p.m. EDT (2318 GMT) Sunday.

A Falcon 9 rocket headed toward the south on a trajectory hugging the Florida East Coast on the first flight into polar orbit from Cape Canaveral since 1969, and the first stage booster returned to the spaceport for an onshore landing minutes after liftoff.

Continuing coverage: https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2020\/08\/30\/falcon-9-saocom-1b-mission-status-center\/

Aug 30, 2020

FRAMOS Launches an Industrial 3D GigE Camera Based on Intel’s® RealSense™ Technology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

FRAMOS, the global partner for Vision Technologies, has developed an industrial grade version of Intel’s® RealSense™ Suite to provide Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and an IP66 rated housing. The D435e industrial 3D GigE Vision camera leverages the advantages of easy-to-integrate 3D vision in rugged environments; enabling real-time positioning, orientation and tracking of robots, automated guided vehicles, and smart machines.

Christopher Scheubel, Product Manager for Intel at FRAMOS, says: “Providing an ethernet solution in combination with Intel’s® RealSense™ Technology is key to enabling 3D vision applications for industry that require longer cable lengths, dust and water resistance, and locked connections. Applications like robotic pick and place systems, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), retail observation, or automatic patient positioning, benefit from the very robust implementation and high usability.”