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Oct 16, 2020
US highways have significant solar potential
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: energy, sustainability, transportation
Utilizing lands for Right of Ways of Interstate Highways offer a lot of solar potential.
From pv magazine USA
As more states establish renewable energy mandates and expand the penetration of solar onto their grids, officials and developers are finding that locating land for these projects can be tricky. A new study released by the University of Texas at Austin’s Webber Energy Group looks to solve some of these siting issues by using publicly available and underutilized land at interstate exits.
Oct 16, 2020
Graphene ‘Wonder Material’ Can Now Be Made Using Trash
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: innovation, materials
Graphene out garbage?
A recent breakthrough promises to make graphene out of garbage in a flash.
Oct 16, 2020
New jets promise to revive supersonic travel
Posted by Raphael Ramos in category: transportation
Is supersonic travel coming back?
Almost 20 years after Concorde was retired, new supersonic passenger aircraft are finally emerging.
Oct 16, 2020
Weather Broadcast AR with Unreal Engine
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: augmented reality, climatology
Oct 16, 2020
Big global study finds remdesivir doesn’t help Covid-19 patients
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: biotech/medical
🤔 (CNN)In a study it described as both conclusive and disappointing, the World Health Organization said the antiviral drug remdesivir has “little or no effect on mortality” for patients hospitalized with coronavirus and it doesn’t seem to help patients recover any faster, either.
Until now, remdesivir has been the only drug that appeared to have specific effects for coronavirus. It was the only drug with an Emergency Use Authorization for Covid-19 from the US Food and Drug Administration.
Results of the WHO study have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.🙄 But WHO posted them to a pre-print server.
Oct 16, 2020
Israeli robotic bee hive startup Beewise raises $10 million in series A funding
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
:oooooo.
The Israeli Beewise hopes to replace the old hives and make them smarter so that bees can be monitored remotely and treated without human contact.
Oct 16, 2020
Enzymatic DNA synthesis enters new phase
Posted by Paul M. Vittay in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry
Several startups are now pursuing the potential of enzymatic synthesis as a faster and more efficient route for synthesizing longer DNA sequences than is possible with traditional chemical means.
Oct 16, 2020
#51 Longevity Dialogues Part 1, The Long View. With Sergey Young, David Wood, and Jose Cordeiro
Posted by Mark Sackler in categories: innovation, life extension
First in a series of Longevity Dialogues. Suggestions for future focus encouraged.
Host Mark Sackler conducts a lively discussion on issues involved with the anticipated implementation and implications of radical life extension. With XPrize innovation board member Sergey Young, and futurist authors David Wood and Jose Cordeiro.
Oct 16, 2020
For The First Time, Physicists Have Achieved Superconductivity at Room Temperature
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: materials, physics
A major new milestone has just been achieved in the quest for superconductivity. For the first time, physicists have achieved the resistance-free flow of an electrical current at room temperature — a positively balmy 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit).
This has smashed the previous record of −23 degrees Celsius (−9.4 degrees Fahrenheit), and has brought the prospect of functional superconductivity a huge step forward.