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Jul 22, 2020
Watch SpaceX ships finally catch a whole Falcon 9 rocket nose cone
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
SpaceX triumphed with its first full fairing catch in a pair of giant nets at sea.
Jul 22, 2020
Researchers seek to advance predictive AI for engineers with CAD model data set
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
SketchGraphs is a data set of 15 million sketches from CAD models which researchers say can help make predictions that help humans creating CAD designs.
Jul 22, 2020
China alert: Japan prepares to scramble fighter jets against Beijing
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
JAPAN is now ready to scramble jets against any Chinese military aircraft taking off in from a crucial airbase as tensions reach crisis levels between the two.
Jul 22, 2020
How Extremophile Bacteria Living In Nuclear Reactors Might Help Us Make Vaccines
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, nuclear energy
Extremophiles like the bacterium D. radiodurans that can withstand levels of radiation thousands of times what most animals can, are able to help us make vaccines faster, cheaper and safer. They use special molecular protectors to shield their repair proteins but not their DNA or RNA.
Jul 22, 2020
German NGO Cites Passive Cooling as Vital to Sustainable Buildings
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: sustainability
German Sustainable Building Council also highlighted importance of NatRefs in ACs at ATMO/DTI Conference.
Using shading for passive cooling, © Simy27, 2020.
Passive cooling design, as well as natural refrigerant-based air conditioning, are vital to achieving sustainable cooling in buildings, according to Anna Braune, Director of Research and Development at the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), a Stuttgart, Germany-based NGO.
Jul 22, 2020
Ford unveils electric Mustang Mach-E race car with 1,400 horsepower
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: sustainability, transportation
Ford Motor has developed a racing version of its upcoming all-electric Mustang Mach-E crossover with 1,400 horsepower and a top speed that’s not street legal.
The company plans to use the prototype vehicle, which it’s calling the Mustang Mach-E 1400, to show off the potential performance of all-electric vehicles as the new crossover begins arriving in dealerships later this year.
“It’s an all-around athlete,” Mark Rushbrook, motorsports director of Ford Performance, told CNBC. He called the vehicle a “learning platform” for the company to utilize aspects of for its future all-electric vehicles.
Jul 22, 2020
US Navy’s next warship will have an Italian accent
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
Jul 22, 2020
Miami chemists’ breakthrough technique enables design at the interface of chemistry and biology
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biological, chemistry, sustainability
A technique developed by Miami University associate professors of chemistry and biochemistry Dominik Konkolewicz and Rick Page may help enable more rapid and efficient development of new materials for use in pharmaceuticals, biofuels, and other applications.
Konkolewicz’s and Page’s technique uses nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology to illuminate how proteins and synthetic polymers interact in chemical substances known as bioconjugates.
Jul 22, 2020
New antibody mix could form ‘very potent’ Covid-19 treatment, say scientists
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Scientists at Columbia University in New York screened antibodies from 40 Covid-19 patients and identified 61 types from five individuals that effectively wiped out coronavirus. Among them were nine that displayed “exquisite potency” for neutralising the pathogen.
Tests on cells showed that the antibodies killed off the virus, while experiments with hamsters revealed that an infusion of one of the more potent antibodies protected the animals from disease. “It shut off infectious virus completely in the lung tissue of the hamsters we treated,” said David Ho, a professor of medicine at Columbia who led the research.
“We specifically isolated very potent antibodies that can be mass produced and then administered,” Ho said. “We would assume that these could be used to prevent or treat Sars-Cov-2. We’d be looking to treat early in the course of infection, particularly those at risk of developing severe disease such as the elderly and those with underlying illness.”