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Oct 23, 2019

On #Artemis missions, astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion Spacecraft will travel from Earth to the Gateway lunar outpost and use a lunar lander to descend to the Moon’s surface

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They’ll return to the Gateway and board Orion once again to go home to Earth. Astronaut Randy Bresnik explains: https://go.nasa.gov/2qu3Bx8

Oct 23, 2019

A green light for our NASA Solar System Exploration mission Lucy, following a successful critical design review on Oct. 18

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The team can now begin building the spacecraft. Lucy will be the first-ever mission to visit the swarms of Trojan asteroids — “fossils of planet formation” — that orbit in tandem with Jupiter. Details: https://go.nasa.gov/2qyeHRW

Oct 23, 2019

Four in five EU coal plants are unprofitable: research

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LONDON (Reuters) — Four in five coal plants in the European Union are unprofitable and utilities could face losses of nearly 6.6 billion euros ($7.3 billion) this year, a report by think tank the Carbon Tracker Initiative said on Thursday.

Oct 23, 2019

Amazon buys healthcare start-up Health Navigator

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Marketing always starts with Demand (Reuters) — http://Amazon.com/ Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry.


(Reuters) — Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry.

The deal comes after the company acquired online pharmacy PillPack last year, pitting itself against drugstore chains, drug distributors and pharmacy benefit managers. (reut.rs/31DSU8k)

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Oct 23, 2019

You don’t need to be a speed freak to appreciate Razer’s stellar Viper Ultimate wireless gaming mouse

Posted by in category: entertainment

You don’t need to be a speed freak to appreciate this stellar gaming mouse, with its new 20,000 dpi sensor, class-leading 650 IPS speed rating and improved wireless.

Oct 23, 2019

First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision

Posted by in categories: physics, space

For the first time, a freshly made heavy element, strontium, has been detected in space, in the aftermath of a merger of two neutron stars. This finding was observed by ESO’s X-shooter spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and is published today in Nature. The detection confirms that the heavier elements in the Universe can form in neutron star mergers, providing a missing piece of the puzzle of chemical element formation.

In 2017, following the detection of gravitational waves passing the Earth, ESO pointed its telescopes in Chile, including the VLT, to the source: a star merger named GW170817. Astronomers suspected that, if did form in neutron star collisions, signatures of those elements could be detected in kilonovae, the explosive aftermaths of these mergers. This is what a team of European researchers has now done, using data from the X-shooter instrument on ESO’s VLT.

Following the GW170817 merger, ESO’s fleet of telescopes began monitoring the emerging kilonova explosion over a wide range of wavelengths. X-shooter in particular took a series of spectra from the ultraviolet to the near infrared. Initial analysis of these spectra suggested the presence of heavy elements in the kilonova, but astronomers could not pinpoint individual elements until now.

Oct 23, 2019

Alien hunters, NASA team up to scan planets for signs of intelligent life

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The teams behind TESS and the Breakthrough Listen SETI search are collaborating to look for nearby “technosignatures.”

Oct 23, 2019

Could gut bacteria help us deal with fear and stress?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Scientists have discovered that resident bacteria of the intestine, collectively known as the gut microbiome, can influence the ability to overcome fear.


New study expands understanding of the ‘gut-brain axis’. Paul Biegler reports.

Oct 23, 2019

Heat camera at tourist attraction spots woman’s breast cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, electronics

A trip to a tourist attraction in Scotland turned out to be a life-changing moment for one woman after a thermal camera detected she had breast cancer.

Bal Gill, 41, was looking back over images from her trip to Camera Obscura and World of Illusions, in Edinburgh, when she noticed a heat patch over her breast.

Oct 23, 2019

The Ouroboros Code: Self-Reference is the Name of the Game

Posted by in categories: computing, cosmology, mathematics, neuroscience, quantum physics

“If you are not convinced by the idea of reductive materialists that consciousness magically emerges from complexity in material structures or processes or if you are not satisfied with the viewpoint of idealists that matter is a mere thought form, then the present hypothesis may be something for you,” writes Dr. Antonin Tuynman when presenting his new book The Ouroboros Code. https://www.ecstadelic.net/top-stories/the-ouroboros-code-se…f-the-game #OuroborosCode


In “The Ouroboros Code” I will address the cybernetic dynamics of consciousness. Starting from the premise that Consciousness is the Ontological Primitive, I will propose mechanisms which may explain how a digital mathematical and material existence can be generated. Digging into Category Theory, Computational Simulacra and Quantum Computing, I will explore the mechanics of self-sustaining self-referential feedback loops as the Modus Operandi of Consciousness.

Let’s dive in the vortex of kaleidoscopic reflections, the wormhole of a dazzling “mise-en abyme” of recursiveness and the roller-coaster of the quantum non-locality. Explore the map which is the territory simultaneously by drawing your map of maps. Discover the non-dual bridge closing the gap between Science and Spirituality.

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