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Jun 8, 2020

Falcon Heavy

Posted by in category: space travel

Flight Test (Watch till the end)

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Jun 8, 2020

Family seeking help for Kato mother of eight with rare brain tumour

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Almost a year after being diagnosed with a rare brain tumour, a mother of eight of Kato Village, in Region Eight, is now slated to undergo the first phase of her treatment tomorrow.

Junita Gomes, a former teacher, was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma on March 5th, 2019. She is currently bedridden and unable to see, speak, eat, or hear.

Jun 8, 2020

How ‘microgravity’ changes the bodies of astronauts

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Being an astronaut looks like an exciting and glamorous career. But have you ever thought about the dangers that these people face by being exposed to extreme conditions, such as radiation and microgravity?

Living and working in microgravity can impact your whole body in different ways. On the other hand, the human body is capable of adapting its physiology to survive in diverse conditions.

Jun 8, 2020

‘Whispering gallery’ effect controls electron beams with light

Posted by in category: futurism

When you speak softly in one of the galleries of St Paul’s cathedral, the sound runs so easily around the dome that visitors anywhere on its circumference can hear it. This striking phenomenon has been termed the ‘whispering gallery’ effect, and variants of it appear in many scenarios where a wave can travel nearly perfectly around a structure. Researchers from the University of Göttingen have now harnessed the effect to control the beam of an electron microscope by light. The results were published in Nature.

Jun 8, 2020

Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors—silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain.

The researchers borrowed from principles of metallurgy to fabricate each memristor from alloys of silver and copper, along with silicon. When they ran the chip through several , the chip was able to “remember” stored images and reproduce them many times over, in versions that were crisper and cleaner compared with existing memristor designs made with unalloyed elements.

Their results, published today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, demonstrate a promising new memristor design for neuromorphic devices—electronics that are based on a new type of circuit that processes information in a way that mimics the brain’s neural architecture. Such brain-inspired circuits could be built into small, , and would carry out complex computational tasks that only today’s supercomputers can handle.

Jun 8, 2020

Lamborghini’s 217-mph Sián supercar is powered by a battery breakthrough

Posted by in categories: innovation, transportation

The Italian sports-car company teamed up with MIT researchers to produce custom supercapacitors, an alternative to lithium batteries.

Jun 8, 2020

How big would Jupiter be if it were stripped of all its gases?

Posted by in category: space

Asked by: Shannon Ripsher.

Jun 8, 2020

Transformational Challenge Nuclear Reactor: Microreactor Built Using 3D Printing

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, nuclear energy

At the Department of Energy Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL, this part for a scaled-down prototype of a reactor was produced for industry partner Kairos Power. Credit: Kairos Power.

Jun 8, 2020

The Design of the SpaceX Spacesuit Explained

Posted by in category: space travel

On Saturday, May 30 at 3:22pm, for a glorious moment we were given a glimpse of the future of space travel. The successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 reorbital rocket system carrying the Crew Dragon to the International Space Station was historic in successfully sending NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley within a privately developed spacecraft. The mission also revealed the next generation of astronautical wear, the SpaceX spacesuit.

Alongside the amount of life-supporting technologies tethered from seat to suit via “umbilical cord”, each spacesuit is bespoke to its wearers for optimal safety and comfort, as described by SpaceX spacesuits and crew equipment manager, Chris Trigg:

Jun 8, 2020

This wearable robotic arm can hold tools, pick fruit, and punch through walls

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, wearables

We’ve always had a soft spot for supernumerary robotic limbs here at The Verge, but this latest example of the genre is one of the most impressive we’ve seen to date. Designed by researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, it’s a hydraulic arm that sits on the wearer’s hip and uses a three-fingered manipulator to carry out a range of tasks.