Lifeboat Foundation

The Jet Capsule isn’t an ugly duckling by any means, but designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini imagines a beautiful swan with his latest creation, the Avanguardia. The mega-yacht would feature a small watercraft that would serve as a removable cockpit in this ambitious conceptual project.

The Avanguardia (Vanguard in English) is inspired by an unspecified Japanese Manga from the 1970s and its defining feature is that long “neck.” The idea is that the neck would serve as a crane and could be used to safely deposit a smaller craft in the water when anchor’s dropped, allowing it to be used to reach shore, for example. Interestingly, the neck would actually be placed in a lowered back position while sailing – so presumably the raised position depicted above would end up mostly being used for showing off at port.

“Due to an extendable crane/bridge located in the bow (front) in this case named ‘neck,’ the head can be dropped off and used as an auxiliary 16-meter [52-ft] boat,” explains Lazzarini Design Studio. “During the sailing, the head ‘control tower cockpit’ adjusts its position by lowering in the middle of the mega-yacht body (like a swan, the neck goes in the middle of the wings).”

Mid-infrared lasers have been widely used in imaging, detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, medicine, industry, defense and others. For mid-infrared laser systems, low phonon energy gain materials are key factors.

Among these mid-infrared materials, Er³⁺-doped CaF₂ transparent ceramics are promising candidate materials because of their ultra-low phonon energy as well as excellent physical, chemical, and optical properties, which quickly attract the attention of researchers. However, traditional preparation methods can’t obtain high-quality Er³⁺-doped CaF₂ transparent ceramics.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Zhang Long from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a high quality Er³⁺-doped CaF₂ transparent ceramics by single crystal ceramization. Their study was published in Journal of the European Ceramic Society.

Circa 2018 o,.o!

Dental fillings may soon be left in the ash heap of history, thanks to a recent discovery about a drug called Tideglusib.

Developed for and trialled to treat Alzheimer’s disease, last year scientists found the drug also happens to promote the natural tooth regrowth mechanism in mice, allowing the tooth to repair cavities.

Continue reading “An Alzheimer’s Drug Has Been Shown to Help Teeth Repair Cavities Naturally” »

It’s a bit of a stretch.

WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman announced it will not move forward with the development of the OmegA rocket. The vehicle was designed for the sole purpose of competing for a National Security Space Launch contract award but didn’t make the cut.

“We have chosen not to continue development of the OmegA launch system at this time,” Northrop Grumman spokeswoman Jennifer Bowman said in a statement. “We look forward to continuing to play a key role in National Security Space Launch missions and leveraging our OmegA investments in other activities across our business.”

Bowman said the company will not be protesting the U.S. Space Force’s decision to select United Launch Alliance and SpaceX for the NSSL contracts.

The pandemic has worsened the plight of postdoctoral researchers. Funders need to be offering more than moral support.

One of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – could be doing a lot more than simply taking the edge off your headache, new evidence suggests.

Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol and sold widely under the brand names Tylenol and Panadol, also increases risk-taking, according to a new study that measured changes in people’s behaviour when under the influence of the common over-the-counter medication.

“Acetaminophen seems to make people feel less negative emotion when they consider risky activities – they just don’t feel as scared,” says neuroscientist Baldwin Way from The Ohio State University.

Welcome to the future of work!

Changing times demand disruptive solutions, and we know that digital experiences are key to boost human connections and improvements. That’s why we’ve created a brand new way of coding that will shake your world.

Continue reading “Converge Plus | Globant corporate” »

The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible as twin dusty smears in the Southern Hemisphere.

As the Magellanic Clouds began circling the Milky Way billions of years ago, an enormous stream of gas known as the Magellanic Stream was ripped from them. The stream now stretches across more than half of the night sky. But astronomers have been at a loss to explain how the stream became as massive at it is, over a billion times the mass of the sun.

Continue reading “Massive Magellanic Cloud Halo Discovery Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way” »