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Feb 18, 2019
France Becomes First Country In Europe To Ban All Pesticides Linked To Bee Deaths
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: food
The excessive use of pesticides has brought about numerous disastrous effects on the environment, and among them, it has recently drastically reduced the bee population in various areas of the world. Yet, not many countries took remedial measures, even after realizing the dangers, but this was not the case with France.
It is on track to becoming the first European country to ban five pesticide varieties, as scientists believe that these neonicotinoids are extremely dangerous since they kill bees.
However, while bee-keepers and environmentalists are extremely happy with this decision, sugar beet and cereal farmers are not very excited about it, since they are afraid that in this way, their crops will be more prone to pests and insects.
Feb 18, 2019
Scientists May Have Finally Found the Universe’s Missing Matter
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Feb 18, 2019
Why Twisted Light Holds the Key to Radically Faster Internet
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, engineering, internet
With this new nanophotonic device, scientists might have just unlocked how to harness the data transfer potential of “twisted light”.
How Ferroelectricity Could Change the Way We Store Data- https://youtu.be/watch?v=IwT_ECJ1TEY
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Feb 18, 2019
3 Technologies That Could Create Trillion Dollar Markets Over the Next Decade
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
3 technologies that have the potential to create trillion dollar markets over the next decade.
Feb 18, 2019
In France, the Force is strong with lightsaber dueling
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: computing, weapons
BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France (AP) — Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must.
It’s now easier than ever in France to act out “Star Wars” fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy far, far away and officially recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport, granting the iconic weapon from George Lucas’ saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.
Of course, the LED-lit, rigid polycarbonate lightsaber replicas can’t slice a Sith lord in half. But they look and, with the more expensive sabers equipped with a chip in their hilt that emits a throaty electric rumble, even sound remarkably like the silver screen blades that Yoda and other characters wield in the blockbuster movies.
Feb 18, 2019
Biggest supermoon of the year is here this week
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Stargazers will get a close-up look at Earth’s natural satellite this week thanks to the brightest supermoon event of the year.
A supermoon phenomenon occurs when a full moon, on its oval-shaped orbit, is at its closest to us, known as perigee, which is about 356,000 kilometres as measured from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the moon.
It takes place when the moon’s orbit brings it to the closest point to Earth while at the same time bathed in sunlight, giving the moon its bright appearance.
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Feb 18, 2019
Asteroid the size of Big Ben is hurtling towards Earth, NASA warns
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks
Uh oh…
(Via Mirror Tech)
The space rock, dubbed 2013 MD8 will make a ‘close approach’ to our planet tomorrow afternoon.
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Feb 18, 2019
Plans for first Chinese solar power station in space revealed
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: energy, space, sustainability, transportation
Electric cars could be charged at any time and any place.
It could reliably supply energy 99 per cent of the time, at six-times the intensity of solar farms on earth, he said.
Chinese scientists first plan to build and launch small to medium-sized solar power stations to be launched into the stratosphere to generate electricity, between 2021 and 2025.
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Feb 18, 2019
AI system four times better at predicting ovarian cancer patient survival than other methods
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
An international team of researchers, from Imperial College London and the University of Melbourne in Australia, has demonstrated a new AI system that can effectively predict survival rates from ovarian cancer better than any current conventional method available to doctors.