Inspired by a desire to be good and help others during the pandemic, novelist Sarah Perry trained to vaccinate people. But what does it mean to be good when there is so much bad faith?Earlier this year – lockdown three: no sign of spring – I travelled …
Eutelsat Quantum: breakthrough reprogrammable satellite launches
Transmission beams can be reconfigured from the ground, whereas most commercial satellites are hard-wired before launchThe world’s first commercial fully reprogrammable satellite has been launched, ushering in a new era of more flexible communications….
New Exotic Matter Particle, a Tetraquark, Discovered
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN is presenting a new discovery at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP). The new particle discovered by LHCb, labeled as Tcc+, is a…
Evolutionary chaos as butterflies, wasps, and viruses have a three-way war
The evolutionary pressures result in some pretty complicated host interactions.
This 900-person delta cluster in Mass. has CDC freaked out—74% are vaccinated [Updated]
CDC estimates 35K symptomatic infections in US per week among 162 million vaccinated.
Rocket Report: Ariane V returns after long layoff, Rocket Lab’s tough culture
“Pete told us that key contributors would be driving Ferraris to work in a year.”
ついに動き出した政府と残る謎：ペンタゴンはUFOの存在にいかにして向き合ったか (4)
2004年に米西海岸沖でパイロットがUAP（未確認空中現象）を目撃した「ニミッツの遭遇」が17年暮れに映像と共に『ニューヨークタイムズ』で記事になると、もはやペンタゴンのUAP関連のプロジェクトは「公然の秘密」となった。軍は公式にガイドラインを改定し、上院軍事委員会が正式に調査を求めたことで、ついに米国家情報長官室がUAPの調査報告書を公開するに至ったのだ。科学者やUFO研究者たちとペンタゴンとの半世紀におよぶ駆け引きに迫ったシリーズ最終回。
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Russian module suddenly fires thrusters after docking with space station
“Until you exhaust all your contingency plans, you’re not really starting to worry.”
This 3D-printed soft robotic hand beat the first level of Super Mario Bros.
The hand has integrated fluidic transistors, so it only requires one pressure input.
Second lab worker with deadly prion disease prompts research pause in France
A lab worker died of prion disease in 2019, nine years after a lab accident.