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Nov 25, 2021

Kayak on Titan? Soar past exoplanets? Epic new NASA video envisions future space travel

Posted by in category: space travel

A new NASA video advertises a suite of its real-life missions as previewing an “Exoplanet Travel Bureau” of the future.

Nov 25, 2021

This Synthetic DNA Factory Is Building New Forms of Life

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode, food, robotics/AI

In this DNA factory, organism engineers are using robots and automation to build completely new forms of life.
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Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston company specializing in “engineering custom organisms,” aims to reinvent manufacturing, agriculture, biodesign, and more.

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Nov 25, 2021

How Science Can Help Us to Understand the Past but also Tackle Earth´s Future Challenges

Posted by in categories: science, space

Breakthrough Initiatives held an exciting scientific meeting at the beginning of this week, from exoplanets to technosignatures and the future of life on Earth:


Earlier this week, the Breakthrough Initiatives held the scientific meeting Life in the Universe 2021: Our Past, Present, and Future Selves.

Nov 25, 2021

Martian dust storms parch the planet

Posted by in category: space

Orbiters spy potential ongoing planetary “death spiral”.

Nov 25, 2021

Hubble witnesses shock wave of colliding gases in Running Man Nebula

Posted by in category: futurism

Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45.

Herbig-Haro objects are a rarely seen type of nebula that occurs when hot gas ejected by a collides with the gas and dust around it at hundreds of miles per second, creating bright shock waves. In this image, blue indicates ionized oxygen (O II) and purple shows ionized magnesium (Mg II). Researchers were particularly interested in these elements because they can be used to identify shocks and ionization fronts.

This is located in the nebula NGC 1977, which itself is part of a complex of three nebulae called The Running Man. NGC 1977—like its companions NGC 1975 and NGC 1973—is a reflection nebula, which means that it doesn’t emit light on its own, but reflects light from , like a streetlight illuminating fog.

Nov 25, 2021

Implantable Electronics: Can Nanotechnology Help?

Posted by in categories: habitats, nanotechnology

Speaker: Swarup Bhunia.

http://www.eecs.case.edu/doku.php?id=eecs: home: seminar_series:upcoming_seminars.

Nov 25, 2021

Russia launches new docking node to space station

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

Roscosmos launched a new docking node module to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, November 24 at 13:06 UTC / 8:06 am EST.

Launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the module will add additional docking ports to the Russian Segment of the station to provide options for future expansion but is the final Russian model planned for the outpost.

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Nov 25, 2021

NASA’s Curiosity rover sends a ‘picture postcard’ from Mars

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

NASA’s Curiosity rover has marked the 10th anniversary of its launch to Mars by sending back a spectacular ‘picture postcard’ from the Red Planet.

The robotic explorer snapped two black and white images of the Martian landscape which were then combined and had colour added to them to produce the remarkable composite.

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Nov 25, 2021

Why we need to return to Uranus and Neptune

Posted by in category: space

As Neptune and Uranus could solve the mysteries of planet formation, we need to go back and study them in depth.


Sending a spacecraft to study Uranus and Neptune could give planetary scientists better clues about the formation of ice giants.

Nov 25, 2021

Arduino Celebrates 10 Million UNOs, Launches the Tiny Collectable Arduino UNO Mini Limited Edition

Posted by in category: futurism

Major sales milestone gives birth to a compact UNO clone, finished in eye-catching black and gold — and even boasting castellated pins.