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Jan 20, 2024
Japan makes history with tense, successful moon landing
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
HELSINKI — Japan’s SLIM “Moon Sniper” spacecraft made a successful lunar landing Friday, making the country just the fifth to robotically land on the moon.
The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft began its descent from a 15-kilometer perilune shortly after 10:00 a.m. Eastern, Jan. 19 (1500 UTC), decelerating from a speed of around 1,700 meters per second.
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Jan 20, 2024
Cancer vaccine with minimal side effects nearing Phase 3 clinical trials
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Melanoma cancer vaccine with minimal side effects nearing Phase 3 in clinical trials, according to experts.
Jan 20, 2024
Rethinking Death: Exploring What Happens When We Die
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
The full recording of Parnia’s Lab’s premiere film, Rethinking Death: Exploring What Happens When We Die. In Rethinking Death, scientists, physicians, and survivors of cardiac arrest explore the liminal space between life and death, breaking down these stunning scientific breakthroughs to tell the remarkable, scientific story of what happens after we die.
Special thank you to Stellaris Productions, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, and of course, the researchers and survivors without whom this story could not be told:
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Jan 20, 2024
Innovations in recycling
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: innovation, sustainability
Scientists are looking for new ways to recycle plastic in an endless loop, so it never becomes waste. Now, revolutionary technology is advancing the movement.
Jan 20, 2024
Ultimate_computing_Biomolecular_consciou-4.pdf
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, nanotechnology, neuroscience
Ultimate computing and biomolecular consciousness and nanotechnology.
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Jan 20, 2024
30TB hard drives are nearly here — Seagate’s Mozaic 3+ HAMR platform to provide the next jump in HDD capacities
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: computing
Jan 20, 2024
Microsoft AI discovers 18 new battery materials in two weeks
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
Using AI and cloud computing, Microsoft was able to identify promising new battery materials for the Department of Energy (DoE) — in a fraction of the time it would usually take.
The challenge: Batteries are an essential part of the clean energy future. We need them to power electric vehicles and to store energy from solar and wind.
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Jan 20, 2024
Lee Smolin — How Can Space and Time be the Same Thing?
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
What does it mean for space and time to be the same thing? Not related to each other, but literally two descriptions of precisely the same entity: \.
