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Jun 29, 2020

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule looked ‘pretty awesome’ in spacewalk, astronaut says

Posted by in category: space travel

NASA astronauts got a “pretty awesome” view of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicle docked with the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Friday (June 29).

Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken got the view of a lifetime when they stepped outside the space station to replace the outpost’s old solar array batteries. The star of that view was Endeavour, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that delivered Behnken and his fellow NASA astronaut Doug Hurley to the station May 30 on their Demo-2 mission.

Jun 29, 2020

Molten-Salt Fusion Reactors and Molten-Salt Fission Reactors — Dr. Charles Forsberg @ ORNL MSRW 2019

Posted by in categories: innovation, nuclear energy

Dr. Charles Forsberg observes technological overlap between Molten-Salt Reactor (fission) development and Fusion Reactors due to manufacturing breakthrough of Rare-Earth Barium Copper Oxide (REBCO) Superconducting Magnets onto steel tape.

REBCO superconducting tape enables doubling magnetic fields.

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Jun 29, 2020

Electron accelerator recycles energy

Posted by in category: particle physics

Device sends particles repeatedly through superconducting cavities.

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

Posted by in category: futurism

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

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government

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.