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Aug 21, 2020

‘DiceKeys’ Creates a Master Password for Life With One Roll

Posted by in category: materials

A new kit leaves your cryptographic destiny up to 25 cubes in a plastic box.

Aug 21, 2020

Cashew Molecule Promotes Remyelination, Halts Disease Progression in MS Mice

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Anacardic acid, a compound found in cashew nuts, promoted myelin regeneration and eased neuronal damage and disability in two mouse models of multiple sclerosis (MS).

These protective effects were associated with maturation of myelin-producing cells and production of IL-33, an immune-related molecule with a neuroreparative role in the central nervous system (CNS, the brain and spinal cord).

Aug 21, 2020

Satellite snaps rare photo appearing to show Chinese submarine using secretive underwater cave at South China Sea base

Posted by in category: military

The mysterious tunnels where China hides its strategic assets from the watchful eyes of potential adversaries offer several important advantages.

Aug 21, 2020

An asteroid is on possible collision course with Earth this November: Should we be worried?

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

As if there wasn’t enough to think about these days, now there is talk of an asteroid, which is supposedly heading directly for Earth.

Aug 21, 2020

Electric 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom Is The Most Fitting EV Conversion Ever

Posted by in categories: energy, transportation

The only slight hitch is it costs as much as a brand new Rolls-Royce Phantom, so it’s for millionaires.

We wrote earlier this year that because the demand for electrified classics was on the rise, Lunaz, U.K.-based company that specializes in EV conversions had doubled its workforce to keep up with demand. The company’s first product was a pure-electric 1953 Jaguar XK120, but if that was not opulent enough, it now offers a car that makes a lot of sense on paper: an electric 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V.

In fact, an old electric Roller is about as fitting as an EV converted classic could get, simply because no internal combustion engine can match the blend of smoothness, quietness and power provided by an electric motor. To top it all off, the guys from Lunaz equip their electric Phantom with a really big 120 kWh battery pack that is said to provide enough juice for a range of 300+ miles (480+ km).

Aug 21, 2020

‘Severe inhumanity’: California prisons overwhelmed by Covid outbreaks and approaching fires

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, law enforcement

Families of prisoners declare public health and human rights catastrophes as officials resist calls to evacuate as virus spreads.

Aug 21, 2020

New internet speed record downloads Netflix library less than a second

Posted by in category: internet

Engineers in London just smashed the world’s data transmission rate with a speed a fifth faster than the previous record. They hit a rate of 178 terabits a second, beating the previous 172 terabits.

Aug 21, 2020

Surviving bacteria in space

Posted by in categories: government, space travel

Research has shown that bacteria are surprisingly resistant organisms, both on Earth and in space, especially when they form ‘biofilms’. The relative isolation of astronaut crews poses a particular challenge to the field of biohazard management and this will only increase for future missions to the Moon and Mars. This article, based on a presentation at the Asgardia Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC) in Darmstadt, Germany, in October, explains some of the issues and describes the state of play in this research.


The potential of ionising radiation to manage biofilm contamination.

Aug 21, 2020

Researchers generate attosecond light from industrial laser

Posted by in category: particle physics

University of Central Florida researchers are making the cutting-edge field of attosecond science more accessible to researchers from all disciplines.

Their method to help open up the field is detailed in a new study published today in the journal Science Advances.

An is one billionth of a billionth of a second, and the ability to make measurements with attosecond precision allows researchers to study the fast motion of electrons inside atoms and molecules at their natural time scale.

Aug 21, 2020

Engineers set new world record internet speed

Posted by in categories: engineering, internet

The world’s fastest data transmission rate has been achieved by a team of University College London engineers who achieved internet transmission speed a fifth faster than the previous record.

Working with two companies, Xtera and KDDI Research, the research team led by Dr. Lidia Galdino (UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering), achieved a data transmission rate of 178 terabits a second (178,000,000 megabits a second) – a speed at which it would be possible to download the entire Netflix library in less than a second.

The record, which is double the capacity of any system currently deployed in the world, was achieved by transmitting data through a much wider range of colors of light, or wavelengths, than is typically used in optical fiber. (Current infrastructure uses a limited spectrum bandwidth of 4.5THz, with 9THz commercial bandwidth systems entering the market, whereas the researchers used a bandwidth of 16.8THz.)