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Jul 4, 2018

Mark your calendar Photo

Posted by in category: space

A lunar phenomenon will be visible in the country on July 28. The eclipse begins at 1:13 a.m. www.cnn.ph

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Jul 4, 2018

A portable source of energy

Posted by in category: energy

This turbine can charge your USB device anywhere. 😀

✌ via Waterlily.

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Jul 4, 2018

The momentous transition to multicellular life may not have been so hard after all

Posted by in category: biological

https://scim.ag/2lGwujY

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Jul 4, 2018

Look, up in the sky! It’s Disney’s new autonomous acrobatic robot

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Disney’s animatronics are coming a long way from drunken pirates waving flagons of ale or hippos that wiggle their ears. In the (relatively) near future, robotic versions of Iron Man or Buzz Lightyear could be performing autonomous acrobatics overhead in Disney theme parks, thanks to the newly-unveiled Stuntronics robot.

Animatronic characters have populated Disney parks for more than half a century, albeit often just looping a specific movement over and over. In recent years Disney Research has tried to make the robots more agile and interactive, developing versions that can grab objects more naturally, and even juggle and play catch with visitors.

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Jul 4, 2018

The Philippines’ first CubeSat just launched into space

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Jul 4, 2018

President Trump’s Message to Americans on July 4th

Posted by in category: futurism

Happy Independence Day to all my American friends!

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Jul 4, 2018

Chinese Physicists’ Quantum Achievement Signals Dawn of Supercomputer

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, supercomputing

Chinese physicists realized a genuine entanglement of 18 quantum particles, beating their own world record set in 2016, while the team has set their next goal at 50-qubit entanglement.

The result of the study was published in the US journal Physical Review Letters on June 28. Chinese leading quantum physicist Pan Jianwei led the project. Together with his team, Pan earlier demonstrated quantum entanglement with 10 quantum bits, or “qubits,” in 2016, according to a report sent by Pan’s team to Global Times on Tuesday.

Quantum entanglement is a weird phenomenon which Einstein called “spooky action at a distance” where quantum particles are connected “even if they are at opposite ends of the universe,” an Australia-based Cosmos Magazine reported.

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Jul 4, 2018

What If the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collided?

Posted by in category: space

This galactic collision might be more impactful than you think.

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Jul 4, 2018

Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement

Posted by in category: space travel

Charania told GeekWire that the first Blue Moon landing could take place even before 2023.


Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is laying out a plan to support the creation of permanent settlements on the moon, starting with a lunar landing mission within the next five years.

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Jul 4, 2018

Asia’s mysterious role in the early origins of humanity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution

Bizarre fossils from China are revealing our species’ Asian origins and rewriting the story of human evolution.

By Kate Douglas

DECEMBER 1941. Japan has just entered the second world war. China, already fighting its neighbour, is in the firing line. At the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Hu Chengzhi carefully packs two wooden crates with the world’s most precious anthropological artefacts. Peking Man – in reality some 200 fossilised teeth and bones, including six skulls – is to be shipped to the US for safekeeping. This is the last anyone ever sees of him.

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