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Sep 21, 2018
Why NASA Needs a New Logo
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: chemistry, health, space
Do you think NASA needs a new logo?
Michael D. Shaw is a biochemist and freelance writer. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and a protégé of the late Willard Libby, winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in chemistry, Shaw also did postgraduate work at MIT. Based in Virginia, he covers technology, health care and entrepreneurship, among other issues.
Sep 21, 2018
Build Small Nuclear Reactors for Battlefield Power
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: nuclear energy, physics
Sep 21, 2018
Building on New Shepard, Blue Origin to pump a billion dollars into New Glenn readiness
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Blue Origin is making the final preparations for crewed spaceflight in West Texas. Meanwhile, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the company is continuing to push towards achieving orbit and entering the commercial launch market. During a speech this week, Jeff Bezos confirmed the company has already invested $1 Billion in space coast facilities and another $1 billion will be fed into the New Glenn rocket next year.
The New Shepard rocket, named after the first American in space Alan Shepard, is designed for suborbital space tourism. Passengers can experience a few minutes of weightless as the spacecraft flies up to 107 km, 7 km above the officially recognized Karman Line between Earth’s atmosphere and space. New Shepard first reached this altitude on Flight 8 in April.
Sep 21, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Unlimited Realities Podcast — Ira S. Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biological, biotech/medical, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, life extension, transhumanism
Sep 21, 2018
How AI Can Help Stop Cyberattacks
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
As corporations struggle to fight off hackers and contain data breaches, some are looking to artificial intelligence for a solution.
They’re using machine learning to sort through millions of malware files, searching for common characteristics that will help them identify new attacks. They’re analyzing people’s voices, fingerprints and typing styles to make sure that only authorized users get into their systems. And they’re hunting for clues to figure out who launched cyberattacks—and make sure they can’t do it again.
As hackers get smarter and more determined, artificial intelligence is going to be an important part of the solution.
Sep 20, 2018
Paging Mr. Spock: ‘Star Trek’ planet Vulcan found?
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
A planet has been found right where the creator of “Star Trek” and three astronomers thought Vulcan would be.
(CNN)Maybe the final frontier isn’t so far out of reach. Astronomers have found an exoplanet reminiscent of the planet Vulcan from “Star Trek,” orbiting a star in a system only 16 light-years from Earth.
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Sep 20, 2018
Astronauts Going to Mars Will Absorb Crazy Amounts of Radiation. Now We Know How Much
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Sep 20, 2018
Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
AS MISMATCHES go, it’s a big one. When physicists bring the Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity together they get a clear prediction. In the very early universe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have come into being. Since the one famously annihilates the other, the result should be a universe full of radiation, but without the stars, planets and nebulae that make up galaxies. Yet stars, planets and nebulae do exist. The inference is that matter and antimatter are not quite as equal and opposite as the models predict.
This problem has troubled physics for the past half-century, but it may now be approaching resolution. At CERN, a particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, three teams of researchers are applying different methods to answer the same question: does antimatter fall down, or up? Relativity predicts “down”, just like matter. If it falls up, that could hint at a difference between the two that allowed a matter-dominated universe to form.
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