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May 15, 2023
Archer Rolls Out First Midnight Aircraft; Prepares for Flight Test
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
After a successful flight test campaign over the last two years with its two Maker aircraft, final assembly is now complete on Archer’s first Midnight aircraft and Archer is now preparing for its planned first flight this summer.
May 15, 2023
Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped”
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
The associate director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to “late-stage” teens.
Researchers say advancements like 5G could soon raise Earth’s radio profile to eavesdropping aliens.
May 15, 2023
He likes to be, under the sea: Florida man sets record for living underwater
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, education, engineering
But Dituri isn’t just settling for the record and resurfacing: He plans to stay at the lodge until June 9, when he reaches 100 days and completes an underwater mission dubbed Project Neptune 100.
The mission combines medical and ocean research along with educational outreach and was organized by the Marine Resources Development Foundation, owner of the habitat.
“The record is a small bump and I really appreciate it,” said Dituri, a University of South Florida educator who holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering and is a retired U.S. Naval officer. “I’m honored to have it, but we still have more science to do.”
May 15, 2023
Scientists created a shining ring around the black hole in the lab
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
May 15, 2023
Startup Vast plans first commercial space station for launch in 2025
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, space travel
Space startup Vast has announced that it intends to launch what it calls the world’s first commercial space station, Haven-1, sometime after August 2025 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as the first element of a 100-m (330 ft) rotating station.
With its increasing emphasis on lunar and deep-space missions, NASA has decided to leave low-Earth orbit to private companies when it comes to human spaceflight. The idea is that when the International Space Station (ISS) is retired in 2030, the space agency will buy time on some of the commercial stations currently on the drawing board.
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May 15, 2023
SpaceX launches 56 new Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: internet, satellites
SpaceX launched a batch of 56 Starlink satellites into orbit early Sunday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and successfully landed a rocket in the sea.
May 15, 2023
Stunning photo of Earth captured by Europe’s new weather satellite
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: satellites
This animation was created by using one day’s worth of data from Europe’s Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 (MTG-I1) between March 18–19, 2023. Images of the full Earth disc are produced by MTG-I1 every 10 minutes. Credit: EUMETSAT/ESA
The Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 (MTG-I1) was launched on an Ariane 5 rocket on Dec. 13, 2022, and is the first of a new generation of satellites set to revolutionize weather forecasting in Europe, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
Rockefeller University researchers have discovered a new organelle inside the gut cells of the fruit fly — a surprise discovery, staring us in the face, in one of the most well-studied animals in all of science.
The new organelle stockpiles phosphate, an electrolyte essential to life. When faced with a shortage, it releases its reservoir in the form of phospholipids, which are a key component of the membrane structure of cells.
“This is one of the first studies to actually find phosphate storage in an animal cell,” Rebekka Wild told Nature’s Gemma Conroy. A structural biologist at French state research organization the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Wild was not involved with the study.