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Jan 1, 2019
What the SpaceX Mirror Polished Stainless Steel Starship Will Look Like
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
William Falconer-Beach has rendered some images of the SpaceX Starship with a mirror polished stainless steel body.
Elon Musk has reported that SpaceX is building the body of the Starship out of stainless steel and that it will be polished to a mirror finish.
A hopper version of the Starship should have its first test flights by April 2019. The Super Heavy should reach orbit in 2020.
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Jan 1, 2019
Startup Is Growing Disposable, Biodegradable Cups
Posted by Victoria Generao in category: materials
Jan 1, 2019
60 Cybersecurity Predictions For 2019
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
Just like last year, this year’s 60 predictions reveal the state-of-mind of key participants in the cybersecurity industry (on the defense team, of course) and cover all that’s hot today. Topics include the use and misuse of data; artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning as a double-edge sword helping both attackers and defenders; whether we are going to finally “get over privacy” or see our data finally being treated as a private and protected asset; how the cloud changes everything and how connected and moving devices add numerous security risks; the emerging global cyber war conducted by terrorists, criminals, and countries; and the changing skills and landscape of cybersecurity.
Jan 1, 2019
The immune system’s fountain of youth
Posted by Jacob Anderson in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Weizmann Institute of Science. (2018, December 31). The immune system’s fountain of youth: Helping the immune system clear away old cells in aging mice helped restore youthful characteristics. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 1, 2019 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181231103951.htm
Jan 1, 2019
The Latest: NASA spacecraft dashes by world beyond Pluto
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
The Latest on NASA’s New Horizons’ New Year rendezvous (all times local):
12:33 a.m.
A NASA spacecraft opens the new year at the most distant world ever explored, a billion miles beyond Pluto.
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Jan 1, 2019
Birthday tribute to Satyendra Nath Bose, the physicist after whom Higgs boson particle is named
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
On his 125th birth anniversary, ThePrint celebrates one of India’s greatest physicists.
New Delhi: Bose-Einstein statistics, Bose-Einstein Condensate, Bosons — these are terms that even casual observers of physics have heard regardless of whether they actually know about them or not. These nomenclatures, based upon Satyendra Nath Bose’s surname (along with Einstein’s in the first two cases), both commemorate and signify his immense contribution to physics.
Bose’s novel derivation of Planck’s formula without relying upon classical electrodynamics resolved a conceptual inconsistency which had troubled all famous scientists of the day.
Jan 1, 2019
Space probe Osiris-Rex makes closest ever orbit of smallest ever object
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Jan 1, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg-Funded Researchers Test Implantable Brain Devices
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: biotech/medical, computing, Elon Musk, mobile phones, neuroscience
Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife Priscilla Chan have sold close to 30 million shares of Facebook to fund an ambitious biomedical research project, called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), with a goal of curing all disease within a generation. A less publicized component of that US$5 billion program includes work on brain-machine interfaces, devices that essentially translate thoughts into commands.
From a report: One recent project is a wireless brain implant that can record, stimulate and disrupt the movement of a monkey in real time. In a paper published in the highly cited scientific journal Nature on Monday, researchers detail a wireless brain device implanted in a primate that records, stimulates, and modifies its brain activity in real time, sensing a normal movement and stopping it immediately. Those researchers are part of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a non-profit medical research group within the CZI. Scientists refer to the interference as “therapy” because it is designed to be used to treat diseases like epilepsy or Parkinson’s by stopping a seizure or other disruptive motion just as it starts.
“Our device is able to monitor the primate’s brain while it’s providing the therapy so you know exactly what’s happening,” Rikky Muller, a co-author of the new study, told Business Insider. A professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Muller is also a Biohub investigator. The applications of brain-machine interfaces are far-reaching: while some researchers focus on using them to help assist people with spinal cord injuries or other illnesses that affect movement, others aim to see them transform how everyone interacts with laptops and smartphones. Both a division at Facebook formerly called Building 8 as well as an Elon Musk-founded company called Neuralink have said they are working on the latter.
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