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Why Scientists Are Exploring Earth’s Dangerous Twin
NASA and the ISRO are planning on venturing to Venus for the first time in years because knowing this “Evil Twin” could be the key to understanding our planet’s future. Sunshields & Nukes: What We Need to Terraform Venus and Mars https://youtu.be/XvNbliFXmUM Read More: Can Venus Teach Us to Take Climate Change Seriously? https://www.space.com/42570-venus-mod… “That world is Venus, Earth’s “evil twin,” which was once nice enough — until something went wrong and the atmosphere began trapping a little too much heat.” Why Is NASA Neglecting Venus? https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a… “In the 18th century, Venus was the organizing force in international science. When humanity was finally able to stretch its arms toward the…
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The Secret to Planet Formation Might Be Hiding in the Fulton Gap
There are over 2,300 exoplanets that have been discovered, but there seems to be a gap in the data. Why is this and what can it tell us about our universe? Read More: Weird Worlds? Yes — by the Trillion https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/blog/1555… “It’s been dubbed the Fulton gap, after Benjamin Fulton, lead author on a paper describing it. The Kepler data show that planets of a certain size-range are rare – those between 1.5 and 2 times the size of Earth.” As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern https://www.quantamagazine.org/as-pla… “Dragomir said the radius gap points to possible rules both about how planets are formed, and what happens…
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The Dilemma Of Public School Funding – Lizeth Ramirez
Editors Note: This may seem like an odd speech but the issue of Public School funding is an issue across the nation and it ripples across all walks of life. All throughout her time in high school, Lizeth was made aware of the connection between attendance and funding for schools, since it is a concern of most public school campuses in Texas. That led Lizeth to inquire about the details of the “ADA” system of attendance utilized by the State of Texas – she comes to the TEDx stage to share what she’s discovered and to challenge the current format. All throughout her time in high school, Lizeth was made…
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How Close Are We to Controlling Machines With Our Minds?
From outsmarting the self check-out to providing options for patients with communication disorders, merging mind with machine could be the next frontier for humanity. How close are we to controlling machines with our minds? This New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Works Without a Brain Implant https://www.sciencealert.com/new-robo… “A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is… creating the first noninvasive mind-controlled robot arm that exhibits the kind of smooth, continuous motion previously reserved only for systems involving brain implants – putting us one step closer to a future in which we can all use our minds to control the tech around us.” China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading https://futurism.com/the-byte/brain-c… “The signals…
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Why Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
Quantum theory may seem like an obscure subject of questionable relevance to the average person. But in fact, much of our technological world depends on our understanding of the quantum properties of the subatomic universe. And soon, perhaps very soon, we’ll be interacting with the weirdness of quantum mechanics even more directly – with the coming of quantum computing and the quantum internet. Quantum computing is a topic that’s that has been well covered, so we’re going to be talking about the quantum internet. Specifically quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution – the foundations of the prospective quantum internet. We may come back to the quantum computer in detail –…
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Scientists Created a Plastic That’s Infinitely Recyclable
Plastic is suffocating the planet, but what if we could make recycling plastic more efficient? This Lawrence Berkeley National Lab team has created a brand new kind of plastic that can be recycled endlessly. Are You Seasoning Your Food With Microplastics? – https://youtu.be/ZFgpudNSArI Read More: Closed-loop recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155… “The closed-loop polymer life cycles enabled by PDKs contrast with those for conventional polymers, which are synthesized using irreversible bond-forming reactions that make it difficult and costly to recover the original monomers in high purity. Furthermore, while dynamic covalent polymers have been designed, in principle, around the ability to exchange bonds27, examples of energy-efficient…
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The Newest Form of Water Is Hot and Black, Wait What?
It only took diamonds, x-rays, and a bunch of ultra-powerful lasers to create our newest form of water, Ice XVIII. And it might be the key to unlocking what’s inside the mysterious ice planets of our solar system. This New State of Matter Is a Liquid and a Solid at the Same Time! – https://youtu.be/Quuc9_qDMWs Read More: Nanosecond X-ray diffraction of shock-compressed superionic water ice https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… “The atomic structure of dynamically compressed H2O is characterized in situ using angular dispersive XRD recorded on multiple image plate detector panels (Fig. 1b). Focusing 16 laser beams on an iron (Fe) foil generates an intense X-ray pulse at 6.7 keV resulting from helium…
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There Are Gravity Pulses Hiding in the Universe’s Most MASSIVE Stars
Blue supergiant stars some of the hottest, biggest young stars in the universe, and their molten cores can reveal more about the formation of everything. How Scientists Found the Universe’s First Type of Molecule – https://youtu.be/lxepnATltvU Blue supergiant stars open doors to a concert in space https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content… “Stars come in different shapes, sizes and colours. Some stars are similar to our Sun and live calmly for billions of years. More massive stars, those born with ten times or more the mass of the Sun, live significantly shorter and active lives before they explode and expel their material into space in what is called a supernova. Blue supergiants belong to this…
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How NASA Mission Designers Invent Futuristic Spacecraft
From journeying to distant worlds to catching asteroids, this NASA conceptual design team turns the spacecraft of your dreams into reality. Watch more Focal Point! | https://bit.ly/2VOJIQv Read More: This Jumping Probe Might Explore Neptune’s Biggest Moon https://www.popsci.com/this-jumping-p… “After the probe (called the Triton Hopper) lands on Triton, it would use radioactive isotopes to heat ice that it mined from the moon to drive rocket-powered jumps up to a kilometer high and five kilometers long. Steven Oleson, the principal investigator on the Triton Hopper, says the probe has the potential to explore a large portion of the moon’s surface. “We want to go from the equator to the pole.”” A…
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Giant Flow Batteries Could Power Your City In The Future
China is building vanadium redox flow batteries to power its cities in the future, but what exactly are they and how do they work? Diamond Nuclear Batteries Are Forever… Sort Of- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj7z8… Read More: The Better Batteries That Will Power Your Phone — and a Green Future https://news.usc.edu/trojan-family/ba… ““One of the major problems with lithium-ion batteries is that lithium is not an abundant material, so it’s just not sustainable” says Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and a scientific co-director at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. “In fact, if you look into the distant future, we could run out of…
