Dec 9, 2022
What dangers must we overcome before we can live on Mars?
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: space
Dust storms, long distances and freezing temperatures make living on Mars magnificently challenging. How will we do it?
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Dec 9, 2022
Earth has been hit by an ‘unusual, intense blast of energy’ from a nearby galaxy
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: energy, space
And the galaxy from which the GRB came from is also strange. It is young and still forming stars – the opposite of the only other known nearby galaxy that has played host to such an event.
“This event looks unlike anything else we have seen before from a long gamma-ray burst,” said Jillian Rastinejad, from Northwestern University, who led the study. “Its gamma rays resemble those of bursts produced by the collapse of massive stars.
Given that all other confirmed neutron star mergers we have observed have been accompanied by bursts lasting less than two seconds, we had every reason to expect this 50-second GRB was created by the collapse of a massive star. This event represents an exciting paradigm shift for gamma-ray burst astronomy.
Dec 9, 2022
Is Information the Fifth State of Matter in the Universe?
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biological, mathematics, particle physics, space
Avi Shporer, Research Scientist, with the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research via Chris Adami, Paul Davies, AIP Advances, EurekaAlert and University of Portsmouth
“Information,” wrote Arizona State University astrophysicist Paul Davies in an email to The Daily Galaxy, “is a concept that is both abstract and mathematical. It lies at the foundation of both biology and physics.”
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Dec 9, 2022
The new space race will drive innovation. Here’s where it goes next
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: innovation, space travel
Sixty years after JFK declared the US would go to the moon, America’s bold ambitions for space are back.
Dec 9, 2022
3 Lessons From Digital Natives to Boost Companies’ Transformation Journeys
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, business, economics
Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now.
Effects from the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic disruption still loom large over businesses around the world.
Digital-native organizations (DNOs) already using cloud infrastructures and mobile apps to conduct business with customers adapted quickly to the new digital normal. However, despite their best efforts, some established enterprises remain stuck in their digital transformations and cloud adoption journeys. Companies that have struggled to adapt face a huge — and perhaps existential — challenge on how to remain relevant in this new digitally-oriented world.
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The Universe is immense. Does it have an edge out beyond the Cosmological Event Horizon? Or in time, before the Big Bang? Or in higher dimensions like Hyperspace?
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Dec 9, 2022
The Megastructure Compendium
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, engineering, nanotechnology, nuclear energy, sustainability
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In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival planets or even be of greater scope. This episode catalogs roughly 100 major types of Megastructure, from those that are cities in space to those that rival galaxies.
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Dec 9, 2022
Chinese Scientists Build an Atom-sized Quantum Engine to Our Planet’s Eight Billion People (Planet Earth Report)
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, space
Today’s stories include Why a Puzzling New Image Of Jupiter Could Help Us Find Life Beyond Earth to Scientists Test Einstein’s Relativity On A Cosmological Scale…
Dec 9, 2022
Scientists have provided a solution for humans to achieve immortality and come back from the dead
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biological, life extension, solar power, sustainability
A Dyson Sphere is a megastructure that has not yet been built. Scientists conceive of it as a giant shell that encloses the sun.
Hypothetically, the Dyson Sphere will be lined with mirrors and solar panels that will collect the energy from the sun. This would be an unimaginable amount of energy.
In theory, the Dyson Sphere would be large enough that it could be a habitable place for humans and it would act as an artificial biosphere in the case that Earth’s supplies have dwindled. It would be a way to ensure survival for the human race.
Dec 9, 2022
A “Quantum Brain” Could Solve The Hard Problem of Consciousness, New Research Suggests
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: chemistry, neuroscience, quantum physics
One of the most enduring human mysteries is why we possess sentient awareness, a paradox known to science as the “hard problem of consciousness.”
At the physiological level, we have a good understanding that consciousness is driven by electrical impulses and chemical signals between neurons in the brain. Though precisely what regions of the brain are responsible for thoughtful experience is still a matter of debate.
However, scientists still do not understand why the same essential elements of the universe can come together to form an inanimate object like a rock or a highly complex organic structure like the human brain.
