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Dec 11, 2024

Ancient Egyptians Got High to Seek Transcendence Through Altered States of Consciousness, Archaeologists Say

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Now we have proof that people drank psychotropic compounds in a carefully prepared concoction, to connect with the deity called Bes.

Dec 11, 2024

NASA battery offers 30,000 cycles, 30-year life for renewable storage

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability

A German firm tests NASA-developed nickel-hydrogen batteries in a renewable energy project for efficient, long-lasting storage.

Dec 11, 2024

A test stand for the High-Luminosity LHC

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

An impressive operation recently took place in CERN’s magnet test hall. The innovative cold powering system has been successfully installed in the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Inner Triplet (IT) String test stand. This novel system comprises a long electrical transmission line, which has been specially developed to transport currents to the magnets across a wide range of temperatures. Its installation in the IT String follows on from the installation of the novel protection system and is an important milestone in the development of the HL-LHC.

The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is a major upgrade of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which aims to increase the number of particle collisions (luminosity) and consequently boost the amount of physics data that can be collected, allowing further discoveries to be made.

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Dec 11, 2024

Mercedes’ highly efficient solar paint to offer 7,456-mile range boost

Posted by in category: energy

Mercedes-Benz’s new PV coating is expected to generate energy for up to 7,456 miles (12,000 km) a year under ideal conditions.

Dec 11, 2024

Schaeffler 3D Scanned 48 Of Its Factories, Efficiency Surged 80%

Posted by in category: futurism

For giant manufacturers, such as Germany-based Schaeffler Group with nearly 100 factories worldwide, 10 in the U.S., streamlining production of precision industrial components is paramount. When it began to digitize its operations in 2016 to get more real-time data from the shop floor, Schaeffler realized that it wasn’t enough to digitize the manufacturing processes, inventory, workforce, and logistics; it also had to digitize the physical manufacturing environment itself.

Its efforts to 3D scan each facility and create full-color lifelike digital twins, has, so far, resulted in significant time and cost savings. “Project lead times for data capture are up to 80% shorter compared to traditional methods,” says Roberto Henkel, Schaeffler’s senior VP of digitalization and operations IT. The full-color digital twins of its factories enables “far more efficient communication and planning among departments and third-party vendors.”

As the company accelerates its factory relocation to shorten supply chains and move production closer to customers, accurate factory digital twins have played a key role and also delivered some unexpected benefits.

Dec 11, 2024

Bastrop County approves incentives for billion-dollar data center campus

Posted by in category: computing

The project is described in public documents as a “four-building data center campus facility,” with the costs of improvements estimated at $1.4 billion.

Dec 11, 2024

Sionic Energy Unveils 100-Percent Silicon Anode Battery

Posted by in category: energy

The graphite alternative promises to give EVs a big boost.

Dec 11, 2024

How To See The Last ‘Major Lunar Standstill’ This Weekend Until 2043

Posted by in category: space

This week’s ‘Cold Moon’ is the highest full moon of the year, but will also rise and set at its most extreme northerly points on the horizon. Here’s why.

Dec 11, 2024

Thousands of children exposed in major data breach — including names, addresses and social security numbers

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

All it takes is one employee falling for a phishing email.

Dec 11, 2024

Ultrafast electron imaging captures never-before-seen nuclear motions in hydrocarbon molecules excited by light

Posted by in categories: chemistry, environmental

The interactions between light and nitroaromatic hydrocarbon molecules have important implications for chemical processes in our atmosphere that can lead to smog and pollution. However, changes in molecular geometry due to interactions with light can be very difficult to measure because they occur at sub-Angstrom length scales and femtosecond time scales.

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