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Nov 4, 2018
Scientists are trying to bottle solar energy and turn it into liquid fuel
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: solar power, sustainability
What if we could bottle solar energy so it could be used to power our homes and factories even when the sun doesn’t shine?
Scientists have spent decades looking for a way do just that, and now researchers in Sweden are reporting significant progress. They’ve developed a specialized fluid that absorbs a bit of sunlight’s energy, holds it for months or even years and then releases it when needed. If this so-called solar thermal fuel can be perfected, it might drive another nail in the coffin of fossil fuels — and help solve our global-warming crisis.
Unlike oil, coal and natural gas, solar thermal fuels are reusable and environmentally friendly. They release energy without spewing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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Nov 4, 2018
Soyuz 2.1b launches new GLONASS-M navigation satellite
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Russia has continued the expansion of its GLONASS constellation with the Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 launch of a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome located in northern Russia.
The GLONASS-M (GLONASS-M No. 757) spacecraft that was sent aloft will now become part of Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). The rocket and its payload took to the late evening’s skies at 11:17 p.m. Moscow time (20:17 GMT / 3:17 p.m. EST) from Plesetsk’s Pad 4 at Site 43.
Nov 4, 2018
Blockchain company buys asteroid mining firm Planetary Resources
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bitcoin, space
Nov 4, 2018
Will Italy’s Ominous Supervolcano Erupt Soon?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Phlegrean Fields is waking up. Scientists are trying to predict what it will do next, and what its unrest means for volcanoes worldwide.
- By Barbie Latza Nadeau on October 12, 2017
Nov 4, 2018
Photos: the “awesomeness” of the International Space Station
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Nov 4, 2018
This Is Why Some People Are Creative — And Others Really Aren’t
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Nov 4, 2018
What the general theory of relativity doesn’t explain
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: physics, space
Nov 4, 2018
Sydney Uni follows the light and steps closer to quantum computing
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, quantum physics
Nov 4, 2018
“Alien Invasion” −99% of the Microbes Inside the Human Body are Unknown to Science
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, science
“There was something else, too – something weirder. Of all the non-human DNA fragments the team gathered, 99 percent of them failed to match anything in existing genetic databases the researchers examined. We found a whole new class of human-infecting ones that are closer to the animal class than to the previously known human ones, so quite divergent on the evolutionary scale.”
A landmark Stanford 2017 study indicates that more than 99 percent of the microbes inside us are unknown to science. The survey of DNA fragments circulating in the blood suggests the microbes living within us are vastly more diverse than previously known. In fact, 99 percent of that DNA has never been seen before.
A new survey of DNA fragments circulating in human blood suggests our bodies contain vastly more diverse microbes than anyone previously understood. What’s more, the overwhelming majority of those microbes have never been seen before, let alone classified and named, Stanford researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
