How can future lunar astronauts have power on a future lunar settlement without needing to have it delivered from Earth? This is what a recent study published in Device hopes to address as a team of…
Category: 3. Tech
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The Download: Dethroning SpaceX, and air-conditioning’s energy demands
SpaceX is a space launch juggernaut. In just two decades, the company has managed to edge out former aerospace heavyweights Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman to gain near-monopoly status over rocket launches in the US. It is now also the…
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We should talk more about air-conditioning
Another piece of this whole thing: It’s not just about how much total electricity we need to run air conditioners but about when that demand tends to come. As we’ve covered in this newsletter before, your air-conditioning habits aren’t…
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Rivals are rising to challenge the dominance of SpaceX
Some of these companies are taking aim at SpaceX’s Falcon 9, which can lift as much as 20,000 kilograms into orbit and is used for sending multiple satellites or the crewed Dragon into space. “There is a practical monopoly in the medium-lift…
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The Exotic Particle That Might Finally Make Quantum Computers Reliable
Scientists have developed a more stable platform for Majorana zero modes, exotic particles that could revolutionize quantum computing. Using a carefully engineered three-site Kitaev chain composed of quantum dots and superconducting links, the…
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Brain implant helps woman with paralysis speak with her own voice again
Researchers have developed a new method for intercepting neural signals from the brain of a person with paralysis and translating them into audible speech—all in near real-time. The result is a brain-computer interface (BCI) system similar…
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Starfish-Inspired Wearable Tracks Your Heart – Even When You’re on the Move
Inspired by how starfish flip themselves over, researchers have developed a unique wearable heart monitor with five flexible arms that stay in better contact with the skin, even during movement. This biomimetic device tracks both electrical and…
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The machines are rising — but developers still hold the keys
This means software developers are going to become more important to how the world builds and maintains software. Yes, there are many ways their practices will evolve thanks to AI coding assistance, but in a world of proliferating…
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World’s smallest pacemaker is the size of a grain of rice
A dissolvable pacemaker that’s smaller than a grain of rice and powered by light could become an invaluable tool for saving the lives of newborn infants., The device can be implanted noninvasively via syringe, and may also be useful for…
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The Download: how to make better cooling systems, and farming on Mars
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
How 3D printing could make better cooling systems
A new 3D-printed design could make an integral…
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