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Mar 3, 2019

Imagine this: Your artwork 🎹 is one of the LAST things astronauts see before heading to space!

Posted by in category: space

Find out how you can submit original artwork for our Astronaut Crew Quarters, one of the places where crew members will spend time before heading out to the launch pad: https://go.nasa.gov/2TxmBYq

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Mar 3, 2019

Stay on top of the latest engineering news

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering

A protein has been identified that once neutralized can see the activation of dormant stem cells.

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Mar 3, 2019

Can Anti-Aging Treatments Offer Abundant Life?

Posted by in category: life extension

Science seeks to fix aging and death. But a Christian vision of the good life might actually embrace them.

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Mar 3, 2019

Ninja-like Black Hole Discovered Gobbling up a Gas Cloud

Posted by in category: cosmology

How do you find something you can’t see? Japanese astronomers have hunted a hidden black hole by observing the movement of a cloud of gas it is consuming, located 25,000 light-years away from Earth. This is the first intermediate-sized black hole ever found, giving clues to how black holes merge and grow.

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Mar 3, 2019

Lightning could protect power grids from hackers

Posted by in category: climatology

Scientists have figured out how to use lightning signals from thousands of miles away to prevent hackers from sabotaging critical infrastructures.

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Mar 3, 2019

New Carbon Capture System Generates Electricity

Posted by in category: futurism

Maybe the future of energy and the environment isn’t so bleak.

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Mar 3, 2019

This young nuclear engineer has a new plan for clean energy

Posted by in categories: climatology, nuclear energy, sustainability

Leslie Dewan wants to revive technology from the 1960s to solve the problem of climate change today.

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Mar 3, 2019

Solomon Islands deal with oil spill from cargo ship in UNESCO sanctuary

Posted by in category: transportation

Three weeks after a cargo ship ran aground, efforts are being made to prevent an oil leak onto the world’s largest raised coral atoll becoming an ecological disaster in the Solomon Islands. The area is a UNESCO site.

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Mar 3, 2019

Quantum computing: Testing qubits has been put in a faster lane

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, finance, quantum physics, sustainability

A way to speed up quantum computer tech progress has arrived from Intel. If you are interested in following the waves and advances in quantum computing, then get familiar with this word trio: Cryogenic Wafer Prober. Before their design, the electrical characterization of qubits was slower than with traditional transistors. Even small subsets of data might take days to collect.

Drug development. Chemistry. Climate change. Financial modeling. Scientists in all areas look forward to more advancements to push quantum computers to the frontlines. Speeding progress could also mean speeding up advancements in science and industry.

“Quantum computing, in essence, is the ultimate in , with the potential to tackle problems conventional computers can’t handle,” said Intel.

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Mar 3, 2019

Beautiful First Image Captured by a new telescope in the Chilean desert

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

The Atacama Desert in Chile has been a hotbed of astronomical activity of late. Not only is it the site of Martian environmental simulations to test rover capabilities, it is also home to an project called SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars).

SPECULOOS is part of the ESO, the European Southern Observatory, and involves the use of four robotic telescopes for planet hunting. In particular, the telescopes look near to ultracool stars and brown dwarfs to search for Earth-sized exoplanets which can then be investigated in more detail by another telescope such as ESO’s forthcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

The four telescopes of SPECULOOS are named after Jupiter’s moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, and each has a one meter primary mirror with cameras that are sensitive to near-infrared wavelengths. This accords with the type of light given off by the ultracool stars and brown dwarfs which are the telescopes’ targets.

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