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Sep 1, 2020
Virus Protection Surface Spray May Work for 7 Days on Planes
Posted by Marcia Wiegand in category: biotech/medical
As an added safety measure, American Airlines is testing an antimicrobial surface coating that could make the coronavirus inactive for up to a week.
Sep 1, 2020
Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: media & arts
Scientists created a scale model one-twelfth the size of the ancient stone circle to study its acoustics.
Aug 31, 2020
How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astronomy images
Posted by Derick Lee in category: satellites
‘Megaconstellations’ of satellites increasingly launching into orbit around Earth will contaminate the data astronomers collect — and profoundly shift humanity’s view of the night skies. That’s the conclusion of the most detailed assessment yet of how these satellite networks, launched by companies including Amazon and SpaceX, might affect astronomical observations from Earth.
Most detailed report yet about the impact of giant satellite clusters says damage to observations is unavoidable — and offers mitigation strategies. Most detailed report yet about the impact of giant satellite clusters says damage to observations is unavoidable.
Aug 31, 2020
Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s startup is already recycling scrap from Gigafactory Nevada
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, sustainability
Straubel was an early founding member of Tesla and the company Chief Technology Officer until last summer.
He officially moved to an advisory role at the company, but it is believed to have been a symbolic move to soften the blow of Tesla’s longtime technology leader leaving the company.
As we reported at the time, Straubel was already becoming less present at Tesla months prior to the announcement and spending more time on his startup: Redwood Materials.
Aug 31, 2020
Are Radioactive Diamond Batteries a Cure for Nuclear Waste?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, nuclear energy
Researchers are developing a new battery powered by lab-grown gems made from reformed nuclear waste. If it works, it will last thousands of years.
Aug 31, 2020
Unexpected Findings Result in New Origin Theory for Earth’s Water
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, space
Enstatite chondrite meteorites, once considered ‘dry,’ contain enough water to fill the oceans — and then some.
A new study finds that Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the time the planet formed — instead of far-reaching comets or asteroids delivering such water. The findings published on August 28, 2020, in Science suggest that Earth may have always been wet.
Researchers from the Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques (CRPG, CNRS/Universite de Lorraine) in Nancy, France, including one who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, determined that a type of meteorite called an enstatite chondrite contains sufficient hydrogen to deliver at least three times the amount of water contained in the Earth’s oceans, and probably much more.
Aug 31, 2020
Amazon wins FAA approval to deliver packages by drone
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: drones
NEW YORK (AP) — Getting an Amazon package delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it had granted Amazon approval to deliver packages by drones.
Amazon said that the approval is an “important step,” but added that it is still testing and flying the drones. It did not say when it expected drones to make deliveries to shoppers.
Aug 31, 2020
New Zealand startup eyes global wireless electrical grid
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: energy
A startup energy company in New Zealand believes it can power the world with a wireless electric transmission system that can bring power to hard-to-reach areas and do so at lower cost than with traditional power lines.
The startup, Emrod, has teamed up with a leading power supply company to test power transmission using a series of antennas. The only limiting factor is the antennas must be within line of sight with each other.
The system consists of a power source, a transmitting antenna, multiple relay stations, and a receiving antenna, often referred to as a “rectenna.”