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To get to the Moon, Mars and beyond: we’re going to need a bigger boat. NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, will be the largest rocket ever assembled. So how do you build a rocket of unprecedented size? Find out: https://go.nasa.gov/2FiWoam.
Nov 12, 2018
What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: biotech/medical
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New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.
Credit Credit Photo illustration by Paul Sahre.
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Nov 12, 2018
This Is How The Genius Elon Musk Will Give Free WiFi To The Entire Planet
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites, sustainability
The very same guy, who invented PayPal, created the Tesla Cars, plans to create “SolarCities” and developed cars that will make money for you when you don’t use them, has ANOTHER brilliant idea. Elon Musk plans to launch 4,000 low-orbit satellites in order to give free internet access worldwide, two of them has already been launched a month ago.
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Nov 12, 2018
The Risk That Ebola Will Spread to Uganda Is Now ‘Very High’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
With the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continuing to spread, neighboring Uganda deploys its health care defenses.
Nov 12, 2018
Dutch man, 69, starts legal fight to identify as 20 years younger
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: law
Nov 12, 2018
How Bill Gates Aims to Save $233 Billion by Reinventing the Toilet
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: business, innovation
Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he’s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of conveniences can save a half million lives and deliver $200 billion-plus in savings.
The billionaire philanthropist, whose Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million over seven years funding sanitation research, showcased some 20 novel toilet and sludge-processing designs that eliminate harmful pathogens and convert bodily waste into clean water and fertilizer.
“The technologies you’ll see here are the most significant advances in sanitation in nearly 200 years,” Gates, 63, told the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing on Tuesday.
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Nov 11, 2018
Rocket Lab Completes First Commercial Launch of Its Electron Rocket
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: satellites
U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab completed its first successful commercial launch on Saturday, sending seven spacecraft including “six tiny satellites and a drag sail demonstrator” into orbit aboard a relatively small Electron rocket designed primarily for smallsats and cubesats, Spaceflight Now reported.
Nov 11, 2018
NASA has plans to probe Uranus in search of gas
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
That title though… https://ascienceenthusiast.com/nasa-plans-probe-uranus-search-gas/
A group at NASA has taken aim at Uranus and Neptune in search of gas, heavy metals, and to understand more about the planets’ atmospheres.