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Nov 11, 2020
The Thermal Nuclear Engine That Could Get Us to Mars in Just 3 Months
Posted by Eamon Everall in categories: chemistry, space travel
It’s twice as efficient as a chemical rocket.
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has designed a new thermal nuclear engine it says could carry astronauts to Mars in just three months—and back to Earth in the same amount of time. By using ceramic microcapsules of high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel, USNC’s thermal nuclear engine could cut the trip in half even from optimistic estimates.
🌌You like our badass universe. So do we. Let’s explore it together.
Nov 11, 2020
Astrocytes Play a Vital Role in Preventing Acidification of the Brain
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Summary: Astrocytes play a vital role in maintaining the pH balance within the brain.
Source: UCL
Brain cells called astrocytes play a vital role in preventing acidification of the brain, according to a new study in mice led by UCL researchers.
Nov 11, 2020
NASA certifies SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft ahead of Crew-1 launch
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
WASHINGTON — NASA formally certified SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft for transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station, clearing the way for a Nov. 14 launch.
Agency officials completed the certification of the spacecraft by signing a document known as a Human Rating Certification Plan during a flight readiness review for the Crew-1 mission Nov. 10. That confirmed that SpaceX met all of NASA’s requirements for safely carrying astronauts on the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
“It’s just a tremendous day that is a culmination of a ton of work,” said Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations, at a Nov. 10 briefing about the flight readiness review. Lueders managed the commercial crew program at NASA for several years before being promoted to her current position in June. “It’s NASA saying to SpaceX you have shown us you can deliver a crew transportation capability that meets our requirements.”
Nov 11, 2020
Physicists say they’ve found a ‘tetraquark’
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cosmology, particle physics
The finding marks a major breakthrough in a search of almost 20 years, carried out in particle physics labs all over the world.
To understand what a tetraquark is and why the discovery is important, we need to step back in time to 1964, when particle physics was in the midst of a revolution. Beatlemania had just exploded, the Vietnam war was raging and two young radio astronomers in New Jersey had just discovered the strongest evidence ever for the Big Bang theory.
On the other side of the U.S., at the California Institute of Technology, and on the other side of the Atlantic, at CERN in Switzerland, two particle physicists were publishing two independent papers on the same subject. Both were about how to make sense of the enormous number of new particles that had been discovered over the past two decades.
Here’s my latest video, “Longevity Genes: APOE”!
A reduced mortality risk and an increased lifespan has been reported for people who have APOE2 alleles, when compared with APOE3 or APOE4, but beyond associations, data for lifespan in APOE-expressing mice was recently reported, evidence that supports a causative role for APOE on longevity.
Nov 11, 2020
First-Ever Hyperloop Passenger Test
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: futurism, transportation
For those interested in the hyperloop. Here is a video of some people testing it out.
Very interesting. Could it be the future of transportation? How will it fair against trains and aircraft?
The first-ever hyperloop passenger test has just been conducted by Virgin Hyperloop.
Nov 11, 2020
Compassion in World Farming: Protecting Animals Means Protecting People and the Planet
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in category: food
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and CEO of Bioquark, interviews Philip Lymbery, award winning author of books Farmageddon and Dead Zone and CEO of Compassion in World Farming.
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Nov 11, 2020
BMW RiderLess Self-Balancing MoToRBike wiTH SuPeRCaR BLonDiE
Posted by Muhammad Furqan in category: futurism
Would you like to have this in your home?
They are maximizing natural light for your home. I think this would help anyone’s electricity bill.