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Jul 12, 2020

5G is accelerating factory automation that could add trillions to the global economy

Posted by in categories: economics, internet, robotics/AI

Imagine a manufacturing plant in which all the production equipment is continually changing in response to market needs. Robots churning out widgets, for instance, would reconfigure themselves based on data coming in from all points of the widget supply chain, as well as sensors monitoring the factory itself. The result is a smart factory that’s more agile and autonomous than previous generations of automation.

Also known as Industry 4.0, the smart factory runs on data and artificial intelligence, but connectivity forms the backbone of operations. The new fifth generation of mobile networks (5G) is a catalyst for this new industrial revolution because it offers much greater speed and bandwidth than previous networks, as well as low latency, or time required for data to travel between two points. 5G will work with and in some cases replace existing fixed, wired connections, making manufacturing more flexible and ready to implement innovations.

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Jul 12, 2020

Scientists Revive 32,000-Year-Old Plant Right Out of the Pleistocene

Posted by in category: time travel

Reviving a Pleistocene Plant

Thanks Kim K.


A real little time traveler.

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Jul 12, 2020

The Space Renaissance Academy Mentorship Programme

Posted by in category: space

The Space Renaissance Academy kicked-off a very ambitious initiative: to build the greatest planetary mentorship programme.

The programme is made by two main parts:

Jul 12, 2020

COVID-19: What’s RNA research got to do with it?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

In mammals, such as humans, DNA contains genetic instructions that are transcribed—or copied—into RNA. While DNA remains in the cell’s nucleus, RNA carries the copies of genetic information to the rest of the cell by way of various combinations of amino acids, which it delivers to ribosomes. The ribosomes link the amino acids together to form proteins that then carry out functions within the human body.

The viral RNA is sneaky: its features cause the protein synthesis machinery of our cells to mistake it for RNA produced by our own DNA.

COVID-19 enters the body through the nose, mouth, or eyes and attaches to our cells. Once the virus is inside our cells, it releases its RNA. Our hijacked cells serve as virus factories, reading the virus’s RNA and making long viral proteins to compromise the immune system. The virus assembles new copies of itself and spreads to more parts of the body and—by way of saliva, sweat, and other bodily fluids—to other humans.

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Jul 12, 2020

Our next Mars Rover gets closer to launch on This Week @NASA – July 10, 2020

Posted by in category: space

This week:

🚀 Our NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover gets closer to launch ☄️ Comet NEOWISE spotted from the International Space Station 🛰️ Building a spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid.

Jul 12, 2020

Quantum Dots Encode Vaccine History in the Skin

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones, quantum physics

face_with_colon_three circa 2019.


Invisible to the eye, the dots glow under infrared light from modified smartphones.

Jul 12, 2020

Meganeura : The largest insect ever existed was a giant dragonfly

Posted by in category: futurism

What Was the Biggest Insect That Ever Lived? The largest known insect of all time was a predator resembling a dragonfly but was only distantly related to them. Its name is Meganeura.

Jul 12, 2020

What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?

Posted by in categories: education, neuroscience, particle physics

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This video was made possible by a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation.

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Jul 12, 2020

New details about U.S. Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle revealed

Posted by in category: transportation

Last month, the U.S. Department of Defense and GM Defense LLC announced an agreement worth about $214,3 million to build, field and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV).

The ISV program will provide Infantry Brigade Combat Teams an additive lightweight vehicle to move Soldiers and their equipment quickly over complex and difficult cross-country terrain. Designed to provide rapid ground mobility, the expeditionary ISV is a light and agile all-terrain troop carrier intended to transport a nine-Soldier infantry squad moving throughout the battlefield.

The total production ISV contract award value is $214.3 million to procure the initial Army Procurement Objective of 649. The approved Army Acquisition Objective is 2,065 vehicles.

Jul 12, 2020

Hundreds of Marine Recruits Have Now Tested Positive for COVID-19 at Boot Camp

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

The Marine Corps has seen hundreds of new recruits at boot camp test positive for the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, but their symptoms have been so mild that it hasn’t disrupted training, a two-star general said this week.

Fewer than 2% of the Marine recruits who’ve reported to boot camp since the start of the pandemic have tested positive for COVID-19, Maj. Gen. Bill Mullen, head of Training and Education Command, said Tuesday.

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