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Sep 23, 2018
Stephen Drives NASA’s Mars Rover With Neil deGrasse Tyson
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Stephen and Neil deGrasse Tyson take NASA’s Mars Rover for a ride around Midtown Manhattan.
Sep 23, 2018
Rings Shadows, and Rhea and Epimetheus,… — Planetary Landscapes
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Sep 23, 2018
Elon Musk Just Gave The Most Revealing Look Yet at The Rocket That’ll Fly to The Moon And Mars
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Elon Musk has provided several new, rare, and telling glimpses into how his rocket company, SpaceX, is building a spacecraft to reach Mars.
On September 17, Musk announced that SpaceX would fly Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon on the company’s Big Falcon Rocket or BFR. During that event, Musk showed off new renderings of the launch system, along with a few photos of the work going on inside SpaceX’s spaceship-building tent at the Port of Los Angeles.
These were the first new details about SpaceX’s rocket construction we’d gotten since April, when Musk posted a photo that revealed SpaceX was building the spacecraft using a 40-foot-long, 30-foot-wide cylindrical tool.
Sep 23, 2018
Google, JPMorgan Chase & Co, IBM, Other Key Companies To Attend White House Quantum Computing Meeting
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI, transportation
Quantum computing ‘will enable us to predict and improve chemical reactions, new materials and their properties, as well as provide new understandings of spacetime and the emergence of our universe,’ the White House said.
Google, IBM, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and other key U.S. companies are set to attend a White House quantum computing meeting to be held on Monday, Reuters reports.
A groundbreaking technology still in its infancy, quantum computing could have a major impact on transportation, healthcare, communications, weather forecasting, artificial intelligence, and other areas. Quantum computing could, experts claim, revolutionize our society.
Sep 23, 2018
The Looking Glass — Um Display Holográfico Interativo
Posted by Paul Gonçalves in category: futurism
Esse é o “The Looking Glass”, que clama ser um display holográfico interativo. Apesar de achar que o mesmo é um display 3D volumétrico e não um holograma real, isso não tira a graça dele.
Esse é o “The Looking Glass”, que clama ser um display holográfico interativo.
Apesar de achar que o mesmo é um display 3D volumétrico e não um holograma real, isso não tira a graça dele.
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Sep 23, 2018
An Eye Infection Found in Contact Lens Wearers Can Cause Blindness
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Doctors at England’s Moorfields Eye Hospital identified an outbreak of Acanthamoeba keratitis, an eye disease that can cause blindness. This team thinks that the amoeba can travel through the water supply and infect contact wearers who aren’t careful.
Sep 23, 2018
Biggest Test Yet Shows Einstein Was Wrong About ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: physics
Sep 23, 2018
Study of one million people leads to world’s biggest advance in blood pressure genetics
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Over 500 new gene regions that influence people’s blood pressure have been discovered in the largest global genetic study of blood pressure to date, led by Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London.
Involving more than one million participants, the results more than triple the number of blood pressure gene regions to over 1,000 and means that almost a third of the estimated heritability for blood pressure is now explained.
The study, published in Nature Genetics and supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Medical Research Council and British Heart Foundation, also reports a strong role of these genes, not only in blood vessels, but also within the adrenal glands above the kidney, and in body fat.