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Jan 8, 2021

This Recycling Robot Uses AI To Recycle Better

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability

This robot helps with the sorting of trash for recycling through AI. 😃

https://youtu.be/z_TBFRnzIiw


The Max-AI by Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) is a collaborative recycling robot that uses artificial intelligence and deep learning to help humans recycle more efficiently and reliably. (More info: https://youtu.be/z_TBFRnzIiw)

Jan 8, 2021

Scientists Propose Permanent Human Habitat Built Orbiting Ceres

Posted by in categories: habitats, space

Would you like to live on a space station? 😃


If that sounds familiar to fans of the popular sci-fi book and TV series “The Expanse,” that’s because in that fictional universe, Ceres Station plays a pivotal role as one of humanity’s first human off-world colonies. In the series, however, the space rock itself was spun up to create a crewed habitat on its surface with artificial gravity.

In a paper uploaded to the prewrite repository arXiv this week, the team argues that Ceres would be prime real estate because it has nitrogen, which could enable the creation of an Earth-like atmosphere.

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Jan 8, 2021

Japan is developing wooden satellites to reduce space junk

Posted by in category: satellites

Jan 7, 2021

Researchers Microwave Coal Powder Into Nano-Graphite

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

University of Wyoming researchers demonstrated their method using a traditional microwave oven. Read it here.

Jan 7, 2021

SpaceX Launches First Mission of 2021

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX successfully launches first 2021 mission, Turksat 5A. (Launch/Landing)

Jan 7, 2021

Extinct Predator Cave Lions Could be Brought Back to Life

Posted by in category: military

Ten thousands of years ago, the cave lion Panthera spelaea, a very intriguing subspecies of the modern-day lion which thrived on the Eurasian plateau, went extinct for reasons unknown.

A powerful ruler of the European steppe, the cave lion roamed territories from Spain to the far-off east of Russia. Fossils and bones have been dug out even in Alaska.

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Jan 7, 2021

Researchers question fundamental study on the Kondo effect

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

The Kondo effect influences the electrical resistance of metals at low temperatures and generates complex electronic and magnetic orders. Novel concepts for data storage and processing, such as using quantum dots, are based on this. In 1998, researchers from the United States published spectroscopic studies on the Kondo effect using scanning tunneling microscopy, which are considered ground-breaking and have triggered countless others of a similar kind. Many of these studies may have to be re-examined now that JĂŒlich researchers have shown that the Kondo effect cannot be proven beyond doubt by this method. Instead, another phenomenon is creating precisely the spectroscopic ‘fingerprint’ that was previously attributed to the Kondo effect.

Normally the resistance of metals decreases as the temperature drops. The Kondo effect causes it to rise again below a threshold value typical to the material in question, the so-called Kondo temperature. This phenomenon occurs when magnetic foreign atoms, such as iron, contaminate non-magnetic host metals, such as copper. Simply put, when a current flows, the atomic nuclei are engulfed by electrons. The iron atoms have a quantum mechanical magnetic moment. This causes the electrons in the vicinity to align their spin antiparallel to the moment of the atom at low temperatures and to hang around the cobalt atom like a cloud on a mountaintop. This hinders the flow of the electrons—the electrical resistance then increases. In physics, this is known as entanglement, the strong coupling of the moment of the impurity with the spins of the surrounding electrons.

Jan 7, 2021

After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they?

Posted by in category: cosmology

Scientists hope to answer three specific questions: Do the observed black holes really have event horizons? Are they as featureless as the no-hair theorem says? And do they distort spacetime exactly as the Kerr metric predicts?


How do you prove that you’re observing a bizarre, featureless hole in the fabric of space and time?

Jan 7, 2021

Pneumatic Tubes Transport Trash

Posted by in category: futurism

This waste system cuts emissions and runs underground!

Jan 7, 2021

Ryland Engelhart — Kiss The Ground — Regenerative Agriculture For Planetary Regeneration

Posted by in categories: business, education, food, sustainability

Executive director & co-founder of kiss the ground, and producer of kiss the ground the movie, discussing regenerative agriculture for planetary regeneration.


Ryland Engelhart, is Executive Director & Co-Founder of Kiss The Ground (https://kisstheground.com/), a non-profit organization dedicated to planetary regeneration, and is the producer of Kiss The Ground, the Movie, recently released on Netflix.

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