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Oct 8, 2020

China selects 18 new astronauts in preparation for space station launch

Posted by in category: space

Chinese has selected a third group of astronauts for the nation’s coming space station, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Oct. 1.

Oct 8, 2020

Amazon unveils its new electric delivery vans built by Rivian

Posted by in categories: biological, transportation

Amazon unveiled the electric delivery van that is being built by Michigan-based EV startup Rivian. The delivery giant aims to have 10,000 vehicles on the road by 2022 and 100,000 by 2030.

Oct 8, 2020

The world’s first Gattaca baby tests are finally here

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Anxious couples are approaching fertility doctors in the US with requests for a hotly debated new genetic test being called “23andMe, but on embryos.”

The baby-picking test is being offered by a New Jersey startup company, Genomic Prediction, whose plans we first reported on two years ago.

The company says it can use DNA measurements to predict which embryos from an IVF procedure are least likely to end up with any of 11 different common diseases. In the next few weeks it’s set to release case studies on its first clients.

Oct 8, 2020

Aerodynamicists reveal link between fish scales and aircraft drag

Posted by in categories: biological, engineering, sustainability, transportation

The team’s findings have been published in Nature: Scientific Reports: “Transition delay using biomimetic fish scale arrays,” and in the Journal of Experimental Biology: “Streak formation in flow over biomimetic fish scale arrays.”

Reducing drag means faster aircraft speeds and less fuel consumption—an important area of study for aerodynamicists such as Professor Bruecker, City’s Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Nature-Inspired Sensing and Flow Control for Sustainable Transport, and City’s Sir Richard Oliver BAE Systems Chair for Aeronautical Engineering.

Through their biomimetic study, Professor Bruecker’s team has discovered that the fish-scale array produces a zig-zag motion of fluid in overlapping regions of the surface of the fish, which in turn causes periodic velocity modulation and a streaky flow that can eliminate Tollmien-Schlichting wave induced transition to reduce by more than 25 percent.

Oct 8, 2020

Virgin Hyperloop selects West Virginia to test its futuristic transport system

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

Virgin Hyperloop One will test its futuristic technology in West Virginia, where it will build its first certification center. The center will be a proving ground for a hyperloop system designed to whisk floating pods packed with passengers and cargo through vacuum tubes at 600 mph or faster.

Oct 8, 2020

SpaceX Starship: Stunning fan render draws the attention of Elon Musk

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded to a fan-made rendering of the company’s most ambitious ship.

Oct 8, 2020

Meet The New Billionaire Who Dropped Out Of High School And Flies Fighter Jets For Fun

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, military

Jared Isaacman made a small fortune training fighter pilots but his wealth soared this summer when he took his payments processing business public amid the pandemic.

Oct 8, 2020

Suspected Chinese Hackers Unleash Malware That Can Survive OS Reinstalls

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

“This attack demonstrates that, albeit rarely, in exceptional cases, actors are willing to go to great lengths in order to gain the highest level of persistence on a victim’s machine,” said Kaspersky Lab researcher Mark Lechtik in a statement.

The company discovered the UEFI-based malware on machines belonging to two victims. It works to create a Trojan file called “IntelUpdate.exe” in the Startup Folder, which will reinstall itself even if the user finds it and deletes it.

Oct 8, 2020

Another universe existed before ours – and energy from it is coming out of black holes, says Nobel Prize winner

Posted by in category: cosmology

Sir Roger Penrose also claims that another universe will exist after this one.

Oct 8, 2020

Optical Matter Machine: Nanoscale Machines Convert Light Into Work

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics

Based on optical matter, new machines could be used to move and manipulate tiny particles.

Researchers have developed a tiny new machine that converts laser light into work. These optically powered machines self-assemble and could be used for nanoscale manipulation of tiny cargo for applications such as nanofluidics and particle sorting.

“Our work addresses a long-standing goal in the nanoscience community to create self-assembling nanoscale machines that can perform work in conventional environments such as room temperature liquids,” said research team leader Norbert F. Scherer from the University of Chicago.