Category: Science
Cryogenic Chips supercharge Quantum Computing (science news).
Commercially viable quantum computing could be here sooner than you think, thanks to a new innovation that shrinks quantum tech down onto a chip: a distinctly science fiction-sounding cryochip.
Daniel Schmachtenberger: Avoiding Planetary Apocalypse (video interview).
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a human rights activist and social engineer blogging at civilizationemerging.com, where he is focused on the future of our human civilization, and how we might survive unlocking the God-like power of both Cell and Atom without the God-like wisdom to use it. In this video interview, as a leader of the growing […]
SpaceX and NASA partner for human astronaut launch (space news).
SpaceX and NASA are getting together for a May 27th 2020 Falcon s launch of the Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first two NASA astronauts to fly […]
Strange hidden world uncovered by NASA (science news).
A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered a strange Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Scientists discovered this odd planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which the agency […]
Bill Gates-backed COVID-19 vaccine ugently rushed to human testing (science news).
Bill Gates-backed INOVIO Pharmaceuticals said yesterday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now accepted the company’s DNA vaccine designed to prevent COVID-19 infection, paving the way for urgent Phase 1 priority clinical testing of their INO-4800 vaccine in volunteers beginning this week. The first dosing of brave human volunteers went ahead on Monday […]
Stop the Earth, I want to get off (science news).
Around 12,000 people have applied to join NASA’s next class of astronauts, to take part in America’s plans to explore the Moon and take humanity’s next giant leap – human missions to Mars. Applications were received from every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. territories. However, the process is just beginning for […]
U.S. Space Force launches Space Fence (because anything sounds better with Space in it).
The newly formed wing of the US military, Space Force, has now launched its Space Fence orbital sensor system, because anything sounds better, and frankly more sexy, with the word ‘Space’ attached to it. The Space Fence orbital sensor system is located on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands … but just […]
Do Gamma Ray bursts solve the Fermi Paradox? (science video).
Dr. James Annis of Fermi Lab speaks with John Michael Godier about the possibility of Gamma Ray Bursts being a filter for intelligent life. Do Gamma Ray Bursts kill off alien civilizations before they can travel into space and are they an astrophysical explanation for the great silence, aka the Fermi Paradox?
All Of This Could Have Been Prevented: Author Max Brooks On COVID-19 (science audio).
Apocalyptic genre novelist Max Brooks has researched planning for pandemics and other disasters for his novels. The author, whose books include World War Z, Germ Warfare and his forthcoming Devolution, has toured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has reviewed government response plans related to various emergencies — all in the course of […]
Bill Gates: on winning the war against COVID-19 (science video).
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates offers his take on the COVID-19 pandemic, discussing why testing and self-isolation are essential, which medical advancements show promise and what it will take for the world to endure this crisis. This is an hour-long video on the important subject.
