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Dec 3, 2020

Big cat ‘spotted’ prowling UK town centre three times in the last week

Posted by in category: futurism

The terrifying beast has purportedly been seen in Halifax, West Yorkshire, three times since Wednesday, November 25, with residents left mystified as to what the animal could be dailystar.

Dec 3, 2020

This Solar-Powered Luxury RV Has A Balcony & Can Charge Your Tesla!

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

RV life has never appealed a great deal to me. It has had a slight appeal, but it always looked a bit too compromising for my tastes. Until I discovered the Living Vehicle today.

Granted, there are still some benefits to a more fixed living situation, and an important thing to note is the Living Vehicle is certainly not cheap. It starts at $229,995 and various options will add thousands more (each). But the thing is wicked, offers the core luxuries of life that I feel I need, and allows you to travel all over the place and have different amazing views out your window and your front door as you wish — the kind of views, I presume, that can cost millions of dollars on their own.

Dec 3, 2020

How to make Tesla Tower at home

Posted by in categories: energy, materials

Transmit Electricity wirelessly and surprise everyone. Make your own Tesla tower to transmit power wireless. The tower uses a tesla coil that is based on the concept of Electromagnetic force and resonance to transmit energy.
However, it doesn’t actually transmit electricity, all it does is excite the electrons on the walls of fluorescent or neon lights to make them glow.

For principle of operation and material links visit:
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Mini-Tesla-Tower/

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Dec 3, 2020

Moon May Hold Billions of Tons of Subterranean Ice at Its Poles

Posted by in category: space

New research indicates that if even a moderate amount of the water delivered by asteroids to the Moon was sequestered, the lunar poles would contain gigaton deposits (1 billion metric tons) of ice in sheltered craters and beneath its surface.

By modeling over 4 billion years of the Moon’s impact history, researchers were able to track the origin and potential quantity of ice that might be obscured from view beneath the lunar surface.

“We looked at the entire time history of ice deposition on the Moon,” said Kevin Cannon, a planetary scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and lead author of the new study in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Dec 3, 2020

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Posted by in category: quantum physics

Quantum tools in python.


Quantum Toolbox in Python. QuTiP has 12 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Dec 3, 2020

Tractebel Develops New Floating Wind, Large-Scale Hydrogen Production Platforms

Posted by in category: sustainability

Tractebel Overdick has developed a new floating wind foundation concept for 15+ MW wind turbines with a “hydrogen ready” option, and an offshore hydrogen production platform which can utilise the potential of large-scale offshore wind farms at an industrial scale of up to 800 MW.

The new floater design is said to have been optimised to reduce the overall costs of the floating foundation, through all major fabrication, installation, and operational aspects. In the case of the new hydrogen platform, the company has also highlighted that the new design – for which the system configuration and platform layout have been optimised based on the company’s previous design for a 400 MW system – can now lead to an overall cost reduction and competitive levelized cost of hydrogen.

The floating wind foundation, based on triangular arrangement of the main load carrying members, does not require any moving parts or wires, thus reducing risks and allowing for easier transport and installation operations, according to Tractebel Overdick. Moreover, the floater can be fabricated without using large heavy lift cranes or similar infrastructure, which might not be available in remote areas of the world.

Dec 3, 2020

Psilocybin Treatment for Mental Health Gets Legal Framework

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, law, neuroscience

Oregon became the first state to legalize therapeutic use of the drug, as new research affirms its benefits for treating depression.

Dec 3, 2020

Scientists just mapped 1 million new galaxies, in 300 hours

Posted by in categories: mapping, space

All-sky surveys usually take years. This one took weeks.


Australian scientists tested all 36 receivers on the ASKAP radio telescope for the first time ever, mapping 85% of the sky in 300 hours.

Dec 3, 2020

Astronomers Discover Hidden Black Hole “Near” Earth – Closest Ever Found to Our Solar System

Posted by in categories: cosmology, futurism

An antimatter laser can turn matter in the black hole into energy.


Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye.

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Dec 3, 2020

Research leads to better modeling of hypersonic flow

Posted by in categories: engineering, military, particle physics

Hypersonic flight is conventionally referred to as the ability to fly at speeds significantly faster than the speed of sound and presents an extraordinary set of technical challenges. As an example, when a space capsule re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, it reaches hypersonic speeds—more than five times the speed of sound—and generates temperatures over 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit on its exterior surface. Designing a thermal protection system to keep astronauts and cargo safe requires an understanding at the molecular level of the complicated physics going on in the gas that flows around the vehicle.

Recent research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign added new knowledge about the physical phenomena that occur as atoms vibrate, rotate, and collide in this extreme environment.

“Due to the relative velocity of the flow surrounding the vehicle, a shock is formed in front of the capsule. When the gas molecules cross the shock, some of their properties change almost instantaneously. Instead, others don’t have enough time to adjust to the abrupt changes, and they don’t reach their equilibrium values before arriving at the surface of the vehicle. The layer between the shock and heat shield is then found in nonequilibrium. There is a lot that we don’t understand yet about the reactions that happen in this type of flow,” said Simone Venturi. He is a graduate student studying with Marco Panesi in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at UIUC.