Tag: science
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Commonwealth Fusion’s 20 Tesla Magnet: A Bright SPARC Towards Fusion’s Future
After decades of nuclear fusion power being always ten years away, suddenly we are looking at a handful of endeavours striving to be the first to Q > 1, the moment when a nuclear fusion reactor will produce more power than is required to drive the fusion process in the first place. At this point…
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Elon Musk wishes Richard Branson well ahead of his space flight, implies he will be there to watch the Virgin Galactic launch
Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images, Drew Angerer/Getty Images Virgin Galactic plans to fly its first full crew to the edge of space on Sunday, including founder Richard Branson. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk implied on Twitter he would be at the launch to watch the flight. Virgin Galactic's space plane is set to fly with…
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CureVac’s COVID-19 shot just failed in a large trial, a major setback for the Gates-backed biotech
An employee of German biopharmaceutical firm CureVac. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert CureVac's experimental COVID-19 vaccine failed in a critical clinical studythat the biotech said Wednesday. It's the first late-stage study to flop, with CureVac's medication demonstrating 47% effectiveness. The German biotech saw its stock price fall by over 50 percent in post-market trading. See more information on…
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Grimes Says She’s ‘Ready To Die On Mars’
grimes/Instagram Canadian musician Grimes has said she’s ready to expire on Mars at a new Instagram post. The 33-year-old posted image of herself standing tall next to a Starship rocket Starbase at Texas, with the caption: ‘Ready to die with all the red dirt of Mars under my toes. ’ Grimes’ ambitions aren’t surprising, since…
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Elon Musk once again says SpaceX’s Starlink internet service will IPO once its cash flow is more predictable
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke SpaceX’s Starlink internet service will go public once its cash flow is predictable, Elon Musk said Tuesday. SpaceX must endure “a deep chasm of negative cash flow” over the next year to make Starlink financially viable, Musk said. Both Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s COO, have…
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Looking up, and looking ahead. On NASA’s remembrance day, a sign of the future
This is a week for remembrance. Some of those remembrances are for millions who died because of intolerance and cruel hate in a tragedy the world cannot afford to forget. Some are for the thousands dying every day in a disaster that is still unfolding. But today is also the day for remembering a relative handful of people who…
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Handheld Slayer Exciter Wand Makes For Easy High Voltage Magic
It’s often said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and if a DIY device lets you light up electrical bulbs with a flick of the wrist, it’s certainly not tough to see why. The latest creation from [Jay Bowles], this high voltage wand is actually a Slayer Exciter coil that’s able to…
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Elon Musk Says He Tested Positive And Negative For Covid In The Same Day
PA Elon Musk says he’s tested positive and negative for COVID-19 twice each within the past day, claiming that ‘something bogus is going on’. Posting on Twitter, the Tesla and SpaceX founder wrote, ‘Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse.’…
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Valve’s Gabe Newell Is Sending A Gnome To Space For Charity
PA/Valve Many will remember the Gnome that featured in Half-Life 2: Episode 2 because of its remarkable rise to prominence in popular culture. Now, a model of that Gnome is now being sent to space for charity. The president of video game distributor Valve, Gabe Newell, is going to be sending the Gnome into space…
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Royal Mail, Tesla, Next, and Rio Tinto among hundreds of companies urged by investors to set science-based climate goals
More than 1,800 companies have been asked to set science-based climate targets thanks to a major new push from 137 global investors More than 130 investors holding nearly $20tr in assets have joined forces today to call on many of the world’s most high-emitting companies to set science-based climate targets. Tesla, Gazprom, Rio Tinto, Royal…