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Feb 3, 2021

SpaceX will launch billionaire Jared Isaacman on a private spaceflight this year

Posted by in category: space travel

The 37-year-old Isaacman, who’s also an accomplished pilot, will command the four-person “Inspiration4” mission aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, he and SpaceX announced today (Feb. 1). There will be no professional astronauts aboard; Isaacman is donating the other three seats.


Isaacman chartered a Crew Dragon flight and is donating the other three seats.

Feb 3, 2021

New arm extension allows robot dog ‘Spot’ to open a door for you

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

“Spot” the robot dog can now pick things up, open doors, charge itself … and dance.

Feb 3, 2021

U.S. extends New START nuclear treaty with Russia for 5 years

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, military, treaties

“Especially during times of tension, verifiable limits on Russia’s intercontinental-range nuclear weapons are vitally important,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

Feb 3, 2021

Marine biologists discover 4 new types of photoreceptor

Posted by in category: futurism

How do these little beasties detect light anyway?

Feb 3, 2021

Viscoelastic control of spatiotemporal order in bacterial active matter

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Introducing viscoelasticity by addition of DNA into the fluid surrounding a suspension of Escherichia coli produces a giant oscillating vortex with a period controllable through the DNA concentration.

Feb 3, 2021

An atomic Boltzmann machine capable of self-adaption

Posted by in category: particle physics

Stochastic orbital dynamics of individually coupled Co atoms on black phosphorus enables the realization of a Boltzmann machine capable of self-adaption.

Feb 3, 2021

‘New chance at life’: Man gets face, hands in rare surgery

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

NEW YORK (AP) — Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze.

The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash.

“I knew it would be baby steps all the way,” DiMeo told The Associated Press. “You’ve got to have a lot of motivation, a lot of patience. And you’ve got to stay strong through everything.”

Feb 3, 2021

Scientists Achieve ‘Transformational’ Breakthrough in Scaling Quantum Computers

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Scientists have developed a new kind of cryogenic computer chip capable of functioning at temperatures so cold, it approaches the theoretical limit of absolute zero.

Feb 3, 2021

A Promising Avenue to Restore Cognitive Function Impaired by Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

ISRIB, a synthetic molecule capable of boosting protein synthesis, restored memory function in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and restored protein synthesis in the hippocampus.

Feb 3, 2021

Chemists create and capture einsteinium, the elusive 99th element

Posted by in category: chemistry

Scientists have finally uncovered some of the basic chemical properties of einsteinium — one of the hardest elements to study.