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• Landsat 9, NASA's most powerful Landsat satellite ever, is 'go' for launch on Monday - Space.com

  25-09-2021 23:34 via news.google.com
  Landsat 9, NASA's most powerful Landsat satellite ever, is 'go' for launch on Monday  Space.com9 Things About Landsat 9  NASA GoddardAtlas V Rocket on Track for Liftoff from Vandenberg SFB with Latest Landsat  NoozhawkLandsat 9 Satellite Launch On-Target for Monday  WeatherboyPhotos: Landsat 9 encapsulated inside Atlas payload shroud – Spaceflight Now  Spaceflight NowView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Teams check destruction from Northern California forest fire

  25-09-2021 23:18
  
  A forest fire has displaced thousands of residents in Northern California.
  
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• New Estimate Makes Groundwater – Not Ice Sheets – Earth’s Largest Water Reservoir on Land

  25-09-2021 23:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research doubles volume of salty water two to 10 kilometers beneath the surface that could store waste fluids, sequester carbon, and direct our search...
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• La Palma volcano eruption forces airport to shutdown - New York Post

  25-09-2021 21:58 via news.google.com
  La Palma volcano eruption forces airport to shutdown  New York Post Spanish volcano eruption intensifies and suspends flights  CNNLa Palma volcano blows open new vent, threatens to collapse | DW News  DW NewsA 'Miracle House' Surrounded By A Volcano's Lava Is Still Standing  NPREmergency team monitors La Palma lava destruction  Associated PressView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Carbon Dioxide Reactor Synthesizes Martian Fuel

  25-09-2021 21:51 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A gas station on Mars? Chemical engineers envision the possibilities. Engineers at the University of Cincinnati are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to...
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• Framework for Engineering Living Cells Inspired by the Math That Describes How Bubbles Form in a Glass of Champagne

  25-09-2021 20:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Theory of Bubbles Lifts Cell Biology Into a New, More Quantitative Era A study published on September 22, 2021, in the journal Nature details how...
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• MIT Biologists Identify New Targets for Cancer Vaccines

  25-09-2021 19:29 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Vaccinating against certain proteins found on cancer cells could help to enhance the T cell response to tumors. Over the past decade, scientists have been...
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• An alarm went off on SpaceX's all-tourist space flight. The problem was the toilet - CNN

  25-09-2021 19:06 via news.google.com
  An alarm went off on SpaceX's all-tourist space flight. The problem was the toilet  CNNSpace Tourist Toilet Issues Were So Bad That They Set Off an Alarm  FuturismSpaceX considers increasing Crew Dragon fleet after Inspiration4  SlashGearA Tale of Two Spaceflights  National ReviewInspiration4 Commander Sees More Humans 'Working in Space'  Bloomberg Markets and FinanceView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• What we learned this week in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes

  25-09-2021 18:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It was an eventful week in the closely-watched trial of Elizabeth Holmes, with witnesses who included scientists, medical professionals, a patient and even the former US Secretary of Defense laying out how the promise of Holmes' blood testing company Theranos fell apart.
  
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• Child’s Play: Are Tibetan Hand and Foot Traces From 200,000 Years Ago the Earliest Example of Parietal Art?

  25-09-2021 18:19 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Fossilized footprints, and more rarely, handprints, can be found around the world left as people went about their daily business, preserved by freak acts of...
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• DJI Mavic 3 drone looks beefy and brilliant in new leaked photos - DroneDJ

  25-09-2021 17:27 via news.google.com
  
  DJI Mavic 3 drone looks beefy and brilliant in new leaked photos  DroneDJView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• NASA’s Perseverance Rover Cameras Capture Mars Like Never Before – “A Huge Piece of Everything”

  25-09-2021 17:09 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists tap into an array of imagers aboard the six-wheeled explorer to get a big picture of the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover has been...
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• Galaxy S22 Ultra leak suggests Samsung will include the Note's S-Pen slot - Engadget

  25-09-2021 16:48 via news.google.com
  Galaxy S22 Ultra leak suggests Samsung will include the Note's S-Pen slot  EngadgetThe Galaxy Note might be back, just not in the way you thought  SamMobileSamsung Galaxy S22 unofficial renders appear — here’s your first look  Tom's GuideSamsung Galaxy S22 and S22 renders leak out, hint at a Galaxy Note 22 Ultra  TechRadarTrifecta complete as design of Samsung Galaxy S22 also leaks - MSPoweruser  MSPoweruserView Full Coverage on Googl
  
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• Could Low-Altitude Magnetic Reconnection Power Jupiter’s Polar Aurorae?

  25-09-2021 15:48 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Magnetic reconnection events less than 2 Jovian radii above the planet’s cloud tops could explain why Juno has yet to observe a source for Jupiter’s...
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• An alarm went off on SpaceX's all-tourist space flight. The problem was the toilet

  25-09-2021 15:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As Jared Isaacman and his three fellow crewmates were freeflying through Earth's orbit, shielded from the unforgiving vacuum of space by nothing but a 13-foot-wide carbon-fiber capsule, an alarm started blaring.
  
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• Flu basically disappeared last season; this season, it might not, Michigan doctors warn - MLive.com

  25-09-2021 15:00 via news.google.com
  Flu basically disappeared last season; this season, it might not, Michigan doctors warn  MLive.comShoreline clinic offers the flu shot alongside the COVID-19 vaccine  KING 5Chattanooga experts say severity of flu season depends on how we follow COVID guidelines  WTVCLincoln’s nonprofits reach out to protect the city’s health  Lincoln Journal StarArizona health officials explain COVID-19 booster rollout  AZFamilyView Full Coverage on G
  
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• Maya Rulers Transformed Cities, Put Their Personal Stamp on Monumental Complexes

  25-09-2021 14:36 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Maya rulers transformed cities, forging new memories of the landscape. Early Maya cities featured monumental complexes, which centered on a shared form of religion but...
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• The Changing Climate’s Snowball Effect – Can New Technologies Help?

  25-09-2021 13:26 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Shrinking snowpack, thawing permafrost, and shifting precipitation patterns have widespread consequences. Can new technologies—and public policies—help communities adapt? It begins at the height of winter...
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• Potential Remnants of Original Dinosaur DNA Discovered in Exquisitely Preserved Dinosaur Cells

  25-09-2021 12:15 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Organic molecule remnants found in nuclei of 125-million-year-old dinosaur cells. A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the...
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• It takes a lot of energy to mine Bitcoin. That's good news for states like Texas, Kentucky.

  25-09-2021 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  “When people don’t see pollution, they don’t think it’s there,” one expert said.
  
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• Israel says US booster plan supports its own aggressive push

  25-09-2021 11:30
  Israel is pressing ahead with its aggressive campaign of offering coronavirus boosters to almost anyone over 12 and says its approach was further vindicated by a U.S. decision to give the shots to older patients or those at higher risk
  
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• 3D Printed Vaccine Patch Offers Vaccination Without a Shot – Outperforms Needle Jab in Boosting Immunity

  25-09-2021 10:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Stanford University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill develop microneedle vaccine patch that outperforms needle jab to boost immunity. Scientists at Stanford University...
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• Physicists Find “Magnon” Origins in 2D Magnet – Could Prove Useful for Encoding Information

  25-09-2021 07:27 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Topological feature could prove useful for encoding information in electron spins. Rice physicists have confirmed the topological origins of magnons, magnetic features they discovered three...
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• Legos in the Lab

  25-09-2021 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The toys both delight children and aid groundbreaking research — Lego figures have even ventured into space.
  
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• Plant Patch Enables Continuous Monitoring for Crop Stress and Diseases

  25-09-2021 06:47 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a patch that plants can “wear” to monitor continuously for plant diseases or other stresses, such as...
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• New Extremely Energy-Efficient Optical “Transistor” Speeds Up Computation Up to 1,000 Times

  25-09-2021 01:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation...
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• GLIMPSES: Phone in hand, Barbados PM dials into issues at UN

  25-09-2021 00:53
  
  Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley didn’t phone in her speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday
  
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• Forget 5G, China Is Ramping Up For 6G

  25-09-2021 00:52 via technocracy.news
  
  It’s not just a question of faster, but of the unleashing of other technologies, such as AI, augmented reality and the metaverse. The 6G “pipe” will be stratified into several layers, some reserved for audio, some for data and some for the Internet of Everything and some for police/military communication.
  Any layer can turned off at will. Consider selectively turning off the civilian Internet band, or civilian phone service. All other services would continue to connect and comm
  
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• Crypto Equated To Toxic Pre-Crisis Derivative Swaps

  25-09-2021 00:37 via technocracy.news
  
  In the 2007-2008 financial meltdown, it was so-called ‘derivative’ market that almost toppled the world. Derivatives are bets on future market or economic behavior and loose no consequences until certain triggers are pulled. Estimates of the size of the derivatives market are in the quadtrillions. ⁃ TN EditorThe U.S. agency that had once been the great hope of the cryptocurrency world is now issuing strong warnings to the industry that it’s in danger of echoing the toxic
  
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• Invisible Colors: Why Astronomers Use Different Radio Bands To Observe the Universe

  25-09-2021 00:35 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Radio light comes in a rainbow of colors. We see these colors with radio bands, and each band has a story to tell about the...
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• Boom: China Declares All Virtual Currency Transactions “Illegal”

  25-09-2021 00:20 via technocracy.news
  
  As a Technocracy, it is no surprise that China would summarily wipe out any and all competition for its own central bank issued currency. Secondly, this is a form of capital controls because many citizens were moving their wealth offshore with Bitcoin and Ether. That avenue is now closed. ⁃ TN EditorChina expanded its escalating crackdown on cryptocurrencies on Friday when its central bank declared that all activities related to digital coins are “illegal” and must be banned.
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