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My dad the organic chemist would have loved this breakthrough.
Polyethylene contains approximately 46 megajoules of chemical energy per kilogram (about ten times the energy content of TNT by mass) stored stably in its carbon-hydrogen bonds rather than as explosive potential.
The Oak Ridge molten-salt process announced this week is essentially an engineered way to release that energy as liquid fuel rather than letting it sit in a landfill.
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Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).
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Complete innumeracy to ban solar geoengineering experiments. It’s like a few grams of sulfur dioxide. Think about everything else we pump into the atmosphere. theverge.com/2023/1/18/23560…
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🗓 July 12 — Save the date!
Count down with us to the big reveal of Webb’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data: go.nasa.gov/3M9PeT1
Want a hint on how Webb will #UnfoldTheUniverse? Read more: go.nasa.gov/3aeMupU
ALT Webb's golden mirror is reflecting the light in a dim room with a blue background. A person in a cleanroom suit stands on an orange lift in front of the mirror.
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Small but mighty! This is a video of a killer T cell of the immune system destroying a monstrous ovarian cancer cell. I recently captured this data on a spinning disc confocal microscope.
What is the algorithm?
Welcome to the future. Cop pulls over driverless car (because no lights?) Then Cruise goes on the lamb. (via instagram.com/tv/Cb1q-vggFn9…)
Just amazing
Today's Ax-1 mission provides one of the best SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage landing as an uninterrupted time lapse from the onboard camera [full coverage: buff.ly/3NRTJnn]
Great demonstration video. Basically same principle by which an induction stove works. As someone said, the levitation is useful to avoid using a crucible that could contaminate the material.
Levitation melting suspends and melts metal with induction heating inside a magnetic field.
Full video: bit.ly/35FjEui
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Are you willing to wait for it? Semiconductor wait times stretching further as supply chain woes continue
@Bloomberg
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Read more about this fascinating remnant of the early Milky Way and view the original full-size images here: esahubble.org/news/heic1617/
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I spent more than 2 years trying to figure how to improve the institutions of basic science. I decided we need new ones.
Please welcome New Science into the world.
+@MarkLutter & @AdamMarblestone
newscience.org
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Stunning timelapse of the Earth rising over the Moon captured by Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. Credit: JAXA/NHK
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New blog post:
Is the Great Stagnation ending?
What technologies am I watching in the decade ahead?
Are we going to get life extension treatments soon?
5700+ words on all of this. Please read and share!
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Wow, this is an amazing advancement. Sight restored by turning back the epigenetic clock nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Starlink works amazingly well in all different types of adverse weather conditions ... This is the goal of Starlink, to offer reliable & stable Internet connection w/ good speeds & low latency to the most remote locations on the Earth for affordable prices 🛰️💫 @elonmusk
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Three of my favorite sites for learning new things.
brilliant.org: math and physics courses on the go.
projecteuler.net: challenging programming problems with numerical answers.
exercism.io: interactive learning of new programming languages.