Jun 22, 2021
This third thumb could change how your brain works
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: neuroscience
This third thumb is a flexible, 3D-printed extention that’s wirelessly controlled by the user’s big toe.
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This guy is selling land on the Moon.
I didn’t know if it was a gimmick, a scam, or a real thing…so we had to track him down and tell you his story from the beginning!
Jun 22, 2021
‘Why Does NASA Exist?’ – William Shatner Reads Ray Bradbury
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: futurism
“To see, to know, and to tell what the Cosmos has to offer.”
In a special appearance from this year’s # StateOfNASA, William Shatner reads Ray Bradbury’s poem “Witness and Celebrate NASA’s Future.” Watch: youtu.be/8xs98fr0M6M
Jun 22, 2021
Making Progress on Our Artemis Moon Rocket on This Week @NASA – June 11, 2021
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
How do you teach a robot dog new tricks? Spot’s API makes it simple to create new behaviors like this machine learning-inspired game of fetch. Read the blog to see how it works. https://bit.ly/34GAJTe
Jun 22, 2021
Modern farming: Coronavirus outbreak spurs high-tech greenhouse boom in China
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, sustainability
China is seeing a high-tech greenhouse boom as food supply disruptions sparked by coronavirus lockdowns accelerated the development of modern farming techniques.
SHANGHAI, June 4 (Reuters) — At Chongming Island just outside Shanghai, China’s most populous city, workers collect and pack tomatoes and cucumbers at a glass greenhouse operated by Dutch company FoodVentures, which harvested their first batch of produce at the site in May.
The facility is one of dozens sprouting up on the outskirts of China’s megacities that utilise high-end technology to manage irrigation, temperature and lighting systems to grow vegetables within easy reach of a large and affluent consumer base.
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Jun 22, 2021
Harvesting food using sunlight and seawater
Posted by Randy Campbell in categories: food, sustainability
Get a deck of Critical Thinking Cards featuring 24 common fallacies, 24 cognitive biases, plus 3 game cards.
Jun 22, 2021
Electric Plane of The Future!
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: sustainability, transportation
Jun 22, 2021
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Boeing MQ-25 Stingray!
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The U.S. Navy successfully conducted its first-ever aerial refueling between a manned aircraft and an unmanned tanker. The unmanned tanker was being flown from the ground control station.
The Illinois-based mission lasted about four and a half hours and validated that an unmanned tanker could successfully use the Navy’s standard probe-and-drogue aerial refueling method.
