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May 30, 2020

Siemens delivers first super grid transformer to Moray East onshore site

Posted by in category: futurism

SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM – Following a 932-mile journey by river, sea and road, the first of three super grid transformers was delivered by Siemens to the onshore substation at New Deer in North East Scotland for the Moray East offshore windfarm development.

The transformer was moved from the port at Peterhead, Scotland to the substation site by a 230-foot long 20 Axle 350Te Girder Frame transporter with a police escort, due to its size and weight.

Each of the three transformers is around 40 feet in length and weighing in at 270 tonnes.

May 30, 2020

Hall thruster a serious contender to get humans to Mars

Posted by in category: space travel

The spacecraft engine that will help take humans to Mars may be based on a University of Michigan prototype.

May 30, 2020

Denver Police To Test Gunshot Detection System

Posted by in category: weapons

| Denver, CO Patch


Expect to hear gunshot testing in downtown Denver Wednesday evening.

May 30, 2020

We publish scientific and engineering peer-reviewed academic journals and book series | Scientific.Net

Posted by in categories: engineering, materials

Research of landmine detection using terahertz technology.


Scientific. Net, the trademark of Trans Tech Publications Ltd., is one of the largest web resources, publishes peer-reviewed academic journals and book series in field of materials science and engineering.

May 30, 2020

Oil giant joins Bill Gates-backed nuclear fusion plan for ‘game-changing zero-carbon energy’

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

Equinor among latest round of investors in MIT spin-off that aims to help show ‘net energy gain’ nuclear fusion by 2025.

May 30, 2020

Smart metamaterials that sense and reprogram themselves

Posted by in categories: engineering, materials

Materials scientists aim to engineer intelligence into the fabric of materials or metamaterials for programmable functions. Engineering efforts can vary from passive to active forms to develop programmable metasurfaces using dynamic and arbitrary electromagnetic (EM) wavefields. Such metasurfaces, however, require manual control to switch between functions. In a new study now published on Light: Science & Applications, Qian Ma and an interdisciplinary research team in the State Key Laboratory, Cyberspace Science and Technology, and the Department of Electronics in China engineered a smart metasurface for self-adaptive programmability.

May 30, 2020

Recycled plastic roads ready for rollout after bike paths prove successful

Posted by in category: transportation

Two successful trial runs of cycle paths made from recycled plastic waste have paved the way for larger scale projects in the Netherlands and abroad, the developers have said.

KWS, plastic pipe maker Wavin and Total oil said on Thursday that after a 18 months of testing and developing, they now have a design suited for industrial production and that the technology is ready to be launched on the market in the first quarter of 2021.

The first plastic cycle paths, which were built in Zwolle and Giethoorn with local council support, have proved to be able manage excessive water from rain, severe drought and everything in between, the makers said.

May 30, 2020

Making History: NASA and SpaceX Launch Astronauts to Space!

Posted by in category: space travel

Watch history unfold on Saturday, May 30, as NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. This mission marks the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that humans will fly to the space station from U.S. soil. The mission’s first launch attempt on Wednesday, May 27 was scrubbed due to weather conditions.

Tune in starting at 11 a.m. EDT as NASA and SpaceX provide joint, live coverage from launch to arrival at the space station. Teams are targeting 3:22 p.m. EDT for the launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew Dragon is scheduled to dock to the space station on Sunday, May 31.

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May 30, 2020

Disrupting death: Could we really live forever in digital form?

Posted by in categories: holograms, life extension, robotics/AI, virtual reality

We’re getting closer to technologies that let us exist forever in some way — using data to power our existence in VR, robots, chatbots and holograms. Should we do it?

May 30, 2020

New type of Trojan asteroid discovered near Jupiter has an orbit like an asteroid but the tail of a comet

Posted by in category: space

It is believed that Trojan asteroids have large amounts of ice beneath their surfaces, but there was never any evidence untill now.