Private space company Blue Origin had a doubly successful outing with its New Shepard rocket today, reusing the same booster for a record seventh time and doing so with a particularly important payload onboard. The return trip to space was used to test out a suite of lunar landing sensors for NASA for the first time, which will be key to the agency’s ambitions to return to the Moon.Continue Readi
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set to start in 2023, the drone-like volocopters will significantly improve emergency care, especially in rural areas.
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Scania tests out solar panel-covered plug-in tractor-trailer
Posted by ArielTechGeek 13 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
While other major truck companies look at fuel cells and electrics with massive batteries, Scania is experimenting with the possibility of solarized plug-in hybrid trucks. As the "hybrid" part makes clear, the solar panels won't be able to power the full journey — or anywhere close — but Scania believes its solar panel-decorated trailer will be able to deliver fuel savings between 5 and 20 percen
James Webb Space Telescope completes prelaunch environmental tests
Posted by ArielTechGeek 14 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed a major milestone, completing its prelaunch environmental testing. The space agency and primary contractor Northrop Grumman subjected the fully assembled spacecraft to several weeks of acoustic and sine-vibration tests to determine whether it can withstand the rigors of a rocket launch and its journey to orbit.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTa
New drug candidate "shreds" cancer-causing protein in early lab tests
Posted by ArielTechGeek 18 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Researchers in Germany have developed a new drug that can act like a “shredder” for proteins implicated in causing cancer. In tests on lab-grown cancer cells, the drug worked to kill the tumors, suggesting a new pathway to a treatment for the disease.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Cancer, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, Tumor, Tumors, Drug, Drugs, Protein, New Atlas Audio
Autonomous Airbus aces autopilot taxi, takeoff and landing tests
Posted by ArielTechGeek 78 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Autopilot has been around longer than you think. Indeed, in 1914, just 11 years after the Wright Brothers first ushered humanity into the aviation age, a fellow named Lawrence Sperry built a gyroscopic self-stabilization system into a Curtiss C-2. It was capable, he claimed, of keeping an aircraft straight and level and pointed in a consistent direction on the compass, and he put on a spectacular
Further expanding the scope of its international competitions designed to solve global problems through technology, XPrize has launched a contest to develop new and improved testing methods for COVID-19. With millions of dollars of prize money up for grabs, the contest aims to usher in new technologies that allow for cheap, wide-spread testing with rapid results.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical,
Panasonic tests autonomous tracking robots at Tokyo railway station
Posted by ArielTechGeek 99 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Panasonic is trialing a new robotic mobility system that uses three electric wheelchairs equipped with autonomous "follow-the-leader" tracking functionality.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Panasonic, Robotics, Tokyo
‘the architecture quiz’ book tests your knowledge with 1000 trivia questions
Posted by judy82 133 days ago (https://www.designboom.com)
the book asks questions on over 50 different topics, including: architecture in movies, stirling prize winners, world’s ugliest buildings, architects' quotes and many more.
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What do you do when you're a photo and video gear rental house with thousands upon thousands of pieces of equipment, and then suddenly a global pandemic hits? Well, people stop renting gear, and you begin to see your warehouse shelves filling up with equipment. Fortunately, the folks over at Lensrentals have been able to keep the lights on, and keep their employees paid, during this time. How
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