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Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup

 

In a solar system called TRAPPIST-1, 40 light years from the sun, seven Earth-sized planets revolve around a cold star.

 

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

 

As part of the Strategic Capabilities Office initiative Project Pele, the DOD awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC of Rockville, Md., to develop an enhanced engineering design for a

 

OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.

 

China offered multiple countries help with COVID-19 testing during the pandemic. The payoff for Beijing included access to the DNA of millions of people.

 

Scientists in China have developed a method to produce spider silk from genetically modified silkworms, offering a strong, sustainable alternative to synthetic fibers with applications in various industries. Researchers have synthesized spider silk from genetically modified silkworms, producing f

 

A 420-pound, 5-foot-2 robocop with a giant camera for a face will begin patrolling the Times Square subway station overnight, the NYPD has announced.

 

Novel vaccine includes NIH-funded technology in development since 2004. A trial of a preventive HIV vaccine candidate has begun enrollment in the United States and South Africa. The Phase 1 trial will evaluate a novel vaccine known as VIR-1388 for its safety and ability to induce an HIV-specific

 

CISA highlights the importance of open source software and our efforts to help secure it.

 

Astronomers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy surface of Jupiters moon Europa.

 

Researchers now hope to use the environmental engineering success to combat climate change.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

TIL: There was something called Google Flights.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

~~tougher~~ ~~thinner~~

pricier

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

@waspentalive Weird. Shows up just fine for me. I have never seen a captcha on archive.is. But here is the original, but it is paywalled: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2388697-plastic-bottles-can-be-recycled-into-energy-storing-supercapacitors/

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Sounds like they need their own mastodon server.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Go home #Xitter, you're drunk.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

The biggest thing to note about the new messenger, by far, is that the developer intends to provide end-to-end encryption. More impressively, the app is intended to work with any Fediverse account.

This would make cross communication across the fediverse easier and may even interest others to join. It gives a leg up to the InstaRedFaceXTwitThreadApps since you can just use your one fediverse account.

There are definitely some open questions about how Sup works with the rest of the Fediverse. Do users just sign in to a service via an OAuth dance with their Fediverse accounts? Do the messages federate over ActivityPub? Does my server store my messages, or does just the app store those?

These questions and more would have to be answered before I signed up though.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A save function would be great if implemented. NGL, I just send things I want to save to Google Keep.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

@JoBo I just googled it and Kenya came up as the first hit in Search and in Bard.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Well, if some sort of artificial gravity is not implemented:

"The level of gravity on the moon—about 17 percent that of Earth’s—could wreak havoc on bones, muscles, and other organs. And then there are the psychological aspects of what one NASA astronaut described as the “vast loneliness” of the moon."

source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/moondust-radiation-and-low-gravity-the-health-risks-of-living-on-the-moon

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Seems like there are two schools of thought on this:

"We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans. If you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria." --Stephen Hawking

"While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to conquer or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree," Tarter said in a statement in 2012. "If aliens were to come here, it would be simply to explore. Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn't be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either.

"If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets," she added. --Jill Tarter, former director of the Center for SETI

Source: https://www.space.com/29999-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-danger.html

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Space.com would probably appreciate the clicks.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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