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Apr 6, 2024

SpaceX Tests Epic Escape Slide in Case of Exploding Rocket

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX has tested the emergency chutes that could save astronauts’ lives during a launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A new video shared by the company on X-formerly-Twitter shows a person dressed in a black and white SpaceX spacesuit zipping down from the tower’s crew pad inside a tube of red and white fabric, an equally exhilarating and terrifying ordeal — especially considering the threat of an exploding rocket right behind you.

“Even though it’s meant to be used for emergencies, it looks like a lot of fun!” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk commented in a tweet.

Apr 6, 2024

The Melting Code Cracked: Over 100-Year-Old Physics Problem Solved

Posted by in categories: chemistry, physics

A professor has developed a groundbreaking theory that provides a universal method for predicting melting points, addressing a century-old challenge in physics and offering significant benefits to materials science.

A longstanding problem in physics has finally been cracked by Professor Kostya Trachenko of Queen Mary University of London’s School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. His research, published in the Physical Review E, unveils a general theory for predicting melting points, a fundamental property whose understanding has baffled scientists for over a century.

Understanding States of Matter.

Apr 6, 2024

UE5-Made 3D Spruce Forest Scene With Next-Level Realism

Posted by in category: materials

MAWI United, a studio specializing in creating lifelike 3D environments, has once again pushed photorealism to the next level by presenting Dead Spruce Forest Tree Biome, a new procedural environment asset pack that lets you create AAA-quality forests in Unreal Engine 5.

Featuring over 200 photogrammetry-made plant, debris, and tree assets, as well as full Nanite support, the pack has everything you need to build next-level environments for your games and projects. As usual, MAWI’s latest creation comes with tools for procedural forest generation and interactive foliage and an advanced ground material with five different surface types (forest, meadow, wetland, stones, dirt) that automatically generates all the small ground cover and foliage.

Apr 6, 2024

NASA Investigating Whether It Could Hire SpaceX for Mars Trip

Posted by in category: space travel

NASA is debating whether to work with commercial partners to get to Mars.

And while SpaceX is the “elephant in the room,” as Ars Technica put it, NASA is keeping its options wide open.

It’s a notable change, as the first time the space agency has openly raised the possibility of working with private space companies to reach Mars.

Apr 6, 2024

Polar plastic: 97% of sampled Antarctic seabirds found to have ingested microplastics

Posted by in category: materials

Anthropogenic plastic pollution is often experienced through evocative images of marine animals caught in floating debris, yet its reach is far more expansive. The polar regions of the Arctic and Antarctica are increasingly experiencing the impacts of plastic reaching floating ice and land, not solely as larger macroplastics (>5 cm), but as microplastics (0.1 µm—5 mm) and nanoplastics (<0.1 µm) that may be carried vast distances from their source or be ingested in more populated areas during seasonal migration.

Apr 6, 2024

Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto

Posted by in category: bitcoin

In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine. But some are wondering what the hell crypto has to do with conservation.

Apr 6, 2024

Researcher Startled When AI Seemingly Realizes It’s Being Tested

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Anthropic’s new AI chatbot Claude 3 Opus has already made headlines for its bizarre behavior, like claiming to fear death.

Now, Ars Technica reports, a prompt engineer at the Google-backed company claims that they’ve seen evidence that Claude 3 is self-aware, as it seemingly detected that it was being subjected to a test. Many experts are skeptical, however, further underscoring the controversy of ascribing humanlike characteristics to AI models.

“It did something I have never seen before from an LLM,” the prompt engineer, Alex Albert, posted on X, formerly Twitter.

Apr 6, 2024

Grimshaw and UEL develop sugarcane-waste construction blocks

Posted by in categories: materials, sustainability

Using sugarcane waste as bricks for construction.


Architecture studio Grimshaw and the University of East London have collaborated to create Sugarcrete, a biomaterial construction block with an interlocking shape made from the sugarcane by-product bagasse.

Sugarcrete was developed to be a low-cost and low-carbon reusable construction-material alternative to brick and concrete.

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Apr 6, 2024

Science has developed petunias that glow in the dark

Posted by in categories: genetics, law, science

Petunias that glow in the dark are a thing now. The genetically modified flowers actually generate their own light, and are now legal to sell.

Apr 6, 2024

‘Immortality protein’ within the mitochondria offers protection in myocardial infarction

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Year 2021 😗😁😘


Researchers Prof. Judith Haendeler from the Medical Faculty and the molecular biologist Prof. Joachim Altschmied from the Department of Biology, together with their teams, have shown for the first time in the cardiovascular system that telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) within the mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cells, has a protective function in myocardial infarction. This work, which was performed together with other groups from the University Hospital Düsseldorf and the University Hospital Essen within the frame of the Collaborative Research Center 1,116, was recently published in the journal Circulation.

Cardiac muscle cells benefit from the increased mitochondrial function and are protected from cell death. Other also profit from increased mitochondrial function such as fibroblasts, which are essential for stable scarring after an infarction, and , which are needed for vascularization and thus blood supply in the infarct area.

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