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May 8, 2019

Germany opens first electric highway that lets trucks draw power from overhead cables

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Germany spent 84 million euros developing the Siemens-made eHighway and a hybrid truck, which Siemens say will massively lower fuel costs.

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May 8, 2019

Experimental cosmologist group launches its first iterations of space-traveling ‘wafercraft’

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These are the adventures of the “StarChip Wafersize.”

UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, a prototype miniature spacecraft that might eventually become the “wafercraft” that researchers posit could be propelled by lasers to achieve at relativistic speeds to reach nearby star systems and exoplanets.

So begins a journey, funded by NASA and several private foundations, that may one day lead to .

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May 8, 2019

Fermat’s Library — Posts Photo

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These diagrams show the paths traced by Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as seen from Earth.

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May 8, 2019

Anti-Aging Gene Therapy for Dogs Coming This Fall

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, life extension

In an article last May, we covered how Rejuvenate Bio, a startup biotech company led by Professor George Church, was planning to reverse aging in dogs as a step towards bringing these therapies to us. Those plans are now starting to move forward with news of a trial launch in the fall later this year.

Developing anti-aging therapies in dogs is the first step

Back in 2015, the Church lab at Harvard began testing a variety of therapies focused on age reversal using CRISPR, a gene editing system that was much easier and faster to use than older techniques. Since then, Professor Church and his lab have conducted a myriad of experiments and gathered lots of data with which to plan future strategies for tackling aging.

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May 8, 2019

Squishy robots can drop from a helicopter and land safely

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space, transportation

“Tensegrity” robots could safely explore disaster zones, or even the surface of Saturn’s moon.

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May 8, 2019

UC awarded third CRISPR patent, expanding its gene-editing portfolio

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Fourth patent for CRISPR-Cas9 expected in coming months as patent board works its way through past UC applications.

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May 8, 2019

Chandra X-ray Observatory Photo 3

Posted by in category: cosmology

Right now Chandra is studying the core of a galaxy in Fornax! Nearby in the sky is NGC 1097, a galaxy with copious clusters of young, blue stars speckling its spiral arms. This galaxy contains a central black hole about 100 million times the mass of our Sun!

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May 8, 2019

Python for Beginners 23: Python Dictionary #machinelearning #datascience

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Module 3 — python data structure


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May 8, 2019

Photo 6

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📣Discovery Alert: These three new planets are 🔥🔥🔥.


📣 Discovery Alert: These three new planets are 🔥 🔥 🔥

Qatar-8b, 9b and 10b are all gas giants like our own Jupiter and Saturn, but in such tight orbits \xE2\x95️ around their parent stars ☀️ that they hover between 1,457 degrees to 3,000 degrees F.

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May 8, 2019

THIS is computer music: Ge Wang at TEDxStanford

Posted by in categories: computing, education, media & arts, mobile phones

Art for humanity via technology, for the music geek in you Enjoy:-)


Ge Wang is an assistant professor at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
His research focuses on programming languages and interactive software design for computer music, mobile and social music, laptop orchestras and education at the intersection of computer science and music. Wang is the author of the ChucK audio programming language, as well as the founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO). He is also the co-founder of Smule (which makes social music making apps and has over 100 million users) and the designer of the iPhone’s Ocarina and Magic Piano.

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