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Jan 17, 2020
Here’s how just four satellites could provide worldwide internet
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: internet, satellites
New models show how to keep turn forces that usually degrade satellite orbits into supportive ones that keep them propped up in space.
Jan 17, 2020
Stealth space startup SpinLaunch snares another $35 million from investors
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, space
The secretive California-based startup, which is developing a novel kinetic-energy-based launch system, has received an additional $35 million from investors, bringing its total investment haul to $80 million.
Jan 17, 2020
China could release emergency pork reserves after losing 100 million pigs to swine fever
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: food, government, sustainability
African swine fever has wiped out a third of China’s pig population. Now government officials are discussing dramatic steps to stabilize the world’s largest pork market.
Pork is a huge deal in China. The country is home to half of all the pigs on the planet. The meat is a staple of the Chinese diet, which means its scarcity could damage China’s social stability. The outbreak of swine fever also threatens to upend the global pork supply chain.
While Chinese authorities have already made plans to shore up the pig market — including subsidies for pig farms and families who may struggle with soaring prices — they’re stepping up efforts to deal with the crisis.
Jan 17, 2020
Study finds billions of quantum entangled electrons in ‘strange metal’
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: materials, quantum physics
In a new study, U.S. and Austrian physicists have observed quantum entanglement among “billions of billions” of flowing electrons in a quantum critical material.
The research, which appears this week in Science, examined the electronic and magnetic behavior of a “strange metal” compound of ytterbium, rhodium and silicon as it both neared and passed through a critical transition at the boundary between two well-studied quantum phases.
The study at Rice University and Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) provides the strongest direct evidence to date of entanglement’s role in bringing about quantum criticality, said study co-author Qimiao Si of Rice.
Jan 17, 2020
Elon Musk Says He’ll Put A Million People on Mars By 2050
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: Elon Musk, employment, space travel
Musk: “There will be a lot of jobs on Mars!”
According to Musk, you’ll need a crazy amount of cargo capacity to build a human colony on a faraway planet.
“Megatons per year to orbit are needed for life to become multiplanetary,” he tweeted.
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Jan 17, 2020
DeepMind found an AI learning technique also works in human brains
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Researchers at tech firm DeepMind have found that a learning technique used by AI is also used by dopamine neurons in the brain.
Jan 17, 2020
Antiaging Treatments that are Closest to FDA Approval
Posted by Kevin Huang in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
There are a few dozen antiaging rejuvenation treatments that are progressing through pre-clinical and clinical trials.
Lifespan.io is tracking the antiaging rejuvenation treatments on a rejuvenation roadmap.
Two treatments are in phase 3 clinical trial.
Jan 17, 2020
The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A ‘Poisoner In Chief’
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
‘Poisoner In Chief’ Details The CIA’s Secret Quest For Mind Control Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early ’60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxins that could be used against enemies.
Jan 17, 2020
Quantum properties of water discovered — water is like a hologram
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: holograms, quantum physics
Water is special even based on its simple physical properties since it is the only substance on earth that can be found in all three states (liquid, solid, gas). However, scientists at the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have discovered new properties of water that go beyond the known laws of classical physics says the phys.org scientific news portal.
Passes through solid walls.