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Why are innovation cycles and business growth linked so closely? We explore waves of creative destruction across history.
Take a closer look at the complex choreography involved in building NASAâs Europa Clipper as the mission to explore Jupiterâs moon Europa approaches its 2,024 launch date.
The hardware that makes up NASAâs Europa Clipper spacecraft is rapidly taking shape, as engineering components and instruments are prepared for delivery to the main clean room at the agencyâs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. In workshops and labs across the country and in Europe, teams are crafting the complex pieces that make up the whole as mission leaders direct the elaborate choreography of building a flagship mission.
The massive 10-foot-tall (3-meter-tall) propulsion module recently moved from NASAâs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, where engineers will install electronics, radios, antennas, and cabling. The spacecraftâs thick aluminum vault, which will protect Europa Clipperâs electronics from Jupiterâs intense radiation, is nearing completion at JPL. The building and testing of the science instruments at universities and partner institutions across the country continue as well.
âSome forms of encryption used today can be broken by future large-scale quantum computers, which drives a search for alternativesâ
âSome forms of encryption used today can be broken by future large-scale quantum computers, which also drives a search for alternatives,â Ling said.
In a canned statement, the NUS said AWS will gain access to the universityâs National Quantum-Safe Network, a vendor-neutral platform for developing technology and integrating some of it into local fiber networks.
âThe understanding that we are using quantum communications technology to support experiments using existing fiber is correct,â AWS ASEAN managing director Tan Lee Chew told The Register.
ADS Codex translates binary data into nucleotides that can be sequenced in molecules as files for later retrieval, bringing potential cost savings and compact âcold storage.â
In support of a major collaborative project to store massive amounts of data in DNA
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a personâs body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).
Itâs the stuff of science fiction: Solar panels in space that beam power directly to Earth equipping the planet with clean renewable and affordable energy. Yet, it could soon be reality.
Caltech has just received $100 million in funding for their Space Solar Power Project (SSPP). The project is described by Caltech as: âCollecting solar power in space and transmitting the energy wirelessly to Earth through microwaves enables terrestrial power availability unaffected by weather or time of day. Solar power could be continuously available anywhere on earth.â
âThis ambitious project is a transformative approach to large-scale solar energy harvesting for the Earth that overcomes this intermittency and the need for energy storage,â said SSPP researcher Harry Atwater in the Caltech press release on the matter.
Through a process known as RNA interference (RNAi), scientists have been able to modify the genetic make-up of the daddy long-legs arachnid so that its distinctive spindly limbs become twice as short.
This process â which uses a geneâs own DNA sequence and small fragments of RNA to turn the gene off â was applied to the Phalangium opilio species, one of the most common species of daddy long-legs in the world.
The result is effectively a daddy short-legs instead of a daddy long-legs. The team behind the work is hoping that the experiments can teach us more about how these elongated limbs evolved in the first place.
Lurking in the background of the quest for true quantum supremacy hangs an awkward possibility â hyper-fast number crunching tasks based on quantum trickery might just be a load of hype.
Now, a pair of physicists from Ăcole Polytechnique FĂ©dĂ©rale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Columbia University in the US have come up with a better way to judge the potential of near-term quantum devices â by simulating the quantum mechanics they rely upon on more traditional hardware.
Their study made use of a neural network developed by EPFLâs Giuseppe Carleo and his colleague Matthias Troyer back in 2,016 using machine learning to come up with an approximation of a quantum system tasked with running a specific process.
Gene-editing technique CRISPR may deliver new treatments for genetic diseasesâand itâs already being tested on patients.
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In one of the first clinical applications of the technique, last month researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that CRISPR had stopped a genetic disease called amyloidosis, which occurs when an abnormal protein accumulates in your organs. Theyâre not the only group moving toward using CRISPR on humans; recently, the FDA approved a human clinical trial that will use the technique to edit genes responsible for sickle cell disease.
The download speed is 100 Mbps and the upload speed is 13.89 Mbps.
âStarlinkâ is a satellite internet project of SpaceX. From 2,019 to 2,024 SpaceX plans to use five years to send thousands of satellites needed for networking into low-Earth orbit to form a âStarlinkâ network to provide internet services. Currently, there are 1,650 satellites on the âStarlinkâ network.
The Speedtest report shows that in the second quarter of this year, the average download speed of Starlink satellite internet services in the US market was 97.23 Mbps. This is not far from the average download speed of fixed broadband in the US, which is 115.22 Mbps.