Every few thousand years, the Sun unleashes a burst of high-energy particles that can have serious consequences for life on Earth.
As the modern world faces various environmental challenges, city dwellers are increasingly looking for more sustainable and energy-efficient mobility solutions for their daily commutes.
With a partially-enclosed body, comfy seats, and a steering wheel, this electric three-wheeler is much comfier and more stable than a regular bike.
With another emulator capable of running 3D PlayStation 4 games, good PS4 emulation might arrive sooner than a PC port of Bloodborne.
Microbes that are used for health, agricultural, or other applications need to be able to withstand extreme conditions, and ideally the manufacturing processes used to make tablets for long-term storage. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to make microbes hardy enough to withstand these extreme conditions.
Their method involves mixing bacteria with food and drug additives from a list of compounds that the FDA classifies as “generally regarded as safe.” The researchers identified formulations that help to stabilize several different types of microbes, including yeast and bacteria, and they showed that these formulations could withstand high temperatures, radiation, and industrial processing that can damage unprotected microbes.
In an even more extreme test, some of the microbes recently returned from a trip to the International Space Station, coordinated by Space Center Houston Manager of Science and Research Phyllis Friello, and the researchers are now analyzing how well the microbes were able to withstand those conditions.
The first commercial spacewalk mission looks to be back on schedule with Polaris Dawn saying that it will launch no earlier than July 31, 2024. The Dragon spacecraft is slated to carry the four-person crew farther from Earth than any mission in over 50 years.
Commercial space flights mean a lot more than private firms filling government space contracts. Though most private missions today carry cargo and crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS), the future will see more and more private visits to orbit that have nothing to do with national governments.
On September 15, 2021, the first completely private mission in history, a privately owned and operated rocket putting a privately owned and operated spacecraft into orbit with private astronauts aboard on a private charter, lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The craft was a SpaceX Crew Dragon and the launch vehicle a Falcon 9 rocket that boosted the Inspiration4 mission to an altitude of 357 miles (575 km).
[2023 APCTP Spring Colloquium] Wormholes and quantum entanglement.
Date: 10 March, 2023
Speaker: Prof. Juan Maldacena.
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Generations of scientists have compared the universe to a giant, complex game, raising questions about who is doing the playing – and what it would mean to win.
This insightful video essay about the late great Iian M Banks and his extraordinary series of books known as “The Culture” gives us a glimpse of the potential we have now as a species, set in a future where we have not just met that potential, but EXCEEDED it.
When Google announced this week that its climate emissions had risen by 48 percent since 2019, it pointed the finger at artificial intelligence.
US tech firms are building vast networks of data centers across the globe and say AI is fueling the growth, throwing the spotlight on the amount of energy the technology is sucking up and its impact on the environment.
