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Feb 2, 2019
Blue Origin inks deal to launch internet satellite constellation
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: internet, satellites
An artist’s rendering of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during its ascent into orbit. Image Credit: Blue Origin.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has been selected by Canadian-based Telesat to send a fleet of satellites into orbit. The payload for these flights could help improve web services around the globe.
The satellites, designed to provide internet services across the globe, will be sent to low-Earth orbit by Texas-based Blue Origin’s New Glenn over the course of multiple launches.
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Feb 2, 2019
First Private Lunar Lander Passes Launch Tests at SpaceX Facility
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Feb 2, 2019
Cluster of ‘super-Earths’ found hiding in dust
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Feb 2, 2019
Weathersbee: To build a nuclear reactor, the ‘nuclear kid’ had to become a welder first
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: education, nuclear energy
Feb 2, 2019
“Sun in a Box”: A New Way to Store Renewable Energy for the Grid
Posted by Jeffrey L. Lee in categories: energy, sustainability
The new design stores heat generated by excess electricity from solar or wind power in large tanks of white-hot molten silicon, and then converts the light from the glowing metal back into electricity when it’s needed. The researchers estimate that such a system would be much more affordable than lithium-ion batteries, which have been proposed as a viable, though expensive, method to store renewable energy. They also estimate that the system would cost about half as much as pumped hydroelectric storage—the cheapest form of grid-scale energy storage so far.
Delivering solar- or wind-generated power on demand, the system, which uses molten silicon, should be cheaper than other leading options.
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Feb 2, 2019
A Woman Gave Birth to a Healthy Child Using a Deceased Donor’s Uterus
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
A baby unlike any other is about to celebrate her first birthday.
The reason she’s so unique: she was born from a uterus transplanted into her mother from a deceased donor.
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Feb 2, 2019
A New Kind of Doctor’s Office
Posted by Mary Jain in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, privacy
Hey New York, meet Forward. A new kind of doctor’s office with unlimited visits & no copays. Ever. Forward has two locations in NoMad & Midtown featuring unlimited access to world-class doctors, biometric body scans, genetic testing and so much more. Learn why The New Yorker called us “the doctor’s office of the future” → https://bit.ly/2sVXtfa
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Feb 2, 2019
No Chemo, No Cancer: Trial Eradicates All Signs of Breast Tumors in Only 11 Days
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, neuroscience
Despite unbelievable advances in medical science in recent decades, breast cancer kills. Approximately 1 in 8 American women will develop breast cancer cells during the course of their lifetime.
Finding a cure is imperative, and as such, fervent research continues. At the European Breast Cancer Conference in Amsterdam, scientists presented a pair of drugs with an astounding claim: this treatment can eradicate some types of breast cancer in only 11 days, eliminating the need for chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy, whilst an amazing feat of medical-scientific engineering, is known for its uncomfortable and sometimes debilitating side effects. Women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer treatment may lose their hair, suffer extreme fatigue, and even loss of cognitive function.
Feb 2, 2019
Listening to the music you love will make your brain release more dopamine, study finds
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: media & arts, neuroscience
A new study has found that dopamine — a neurotransmitter that plays an important role in our cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning — plays a direct role in the reward experience induced by music. The new findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“In everyday life, humans regularly seek participation in highly complex and pleasurable experiences such as music listening, singing, or playing, that do not seem to have any specific survival advantage. Understanding how the brain translates a structured sequence of sounds, such as music, into a pleasant and rewarding experience is thus a challenging and fascinating question,” said study author Laura Ferreri, an associate professor in cognitive psychology at Lyon University.
“In the scientific literature, there was a lack of direct evidence showing that dopamine function is causally related to music-evoked pleasure. Therefore in this study, through a pharmacological approach, we wanted to investigate whether dopamine, which plays a major role in regulating pleasure experiences and motivation to engage in certain behaviors, plays a direct role in the experience of pleasure induced by music.”
