Lifeboat Foundation

Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he’s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of conveniences can save a half million lives and deliver $200 billion-plus in savings.

The billionaire philanthropist, whose Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million over seven years funding sanitation research, showcased some 20 novel toilet and sludge-processing designs that eliminate harmful pathogens and convert bodily waste into clean water and fertilizer.

“The technologies you’ll see here are the most significant advances in sanitation in nearly 200 years,” Gates, 63, told the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing on Tuesday.

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U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab completed its first successful commercial launch on Saturday, sending seven spacecraft including “six tiny satellites and a drag sail demonstrator” into orbit aboard a relatively small Electron rocket designed primarily for smallsats and cubesats, Spaceflight Now reported.

That title though… https://ascienceenthusiast.com/nasa-plans-probe-uranus-search-gas/

A group at NASA has taken aim at Uranus and Neptune in search of gas, heavy metals, and to understand more about the planets’ atmospheres.

Forget your car, this is awesome, via Jet Capsule.

Good thing there are no traffic cameras in space! The #ParkerSolarProbe spacecraft reached a top speed of 213,200 miles per hour relative to the Sun during its first close approach to our closest star, setting a new record for spacecraft speed.☀️Learn more from NASA Sun Science about this mission of solar discovery: https://go.nasa.gov/2FgIky6

THREE giant asteroids will barrel past the planet this weekend on a so-called Close Earth Approach, NASA has warned.

Polish astronomers just discovered two new planets in our galaxy. That’s cool news on its own, but these planets are different from most. Unlike almost all known planets, New Scientist reports, these two planets don’t orbit a star.

Instead, they drift aimlessly through the cold, dead void of space — and presumably spend their time writing angsty poetry.

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor planted ‘Red Russian’ kale and ‘Dragoon’ lettuce in a special garden last month and if all goes well, they will be ready to enjoy for Thanksgiving! Dig in: https://go.nasa.gov/2F45vvj

A technological tango between 2 telescopes in the Australian outback has added an important piece to the puzzle of fast radio bursts.