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Asteroid 1998 OR2 to Safely Fly Past Earth This Week

“A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail. The asteroid, called 1998 OR2, will make its closest approach at …

Bose-Einstein condensate: magnetic particles behave repulsively

“New findings by physicists from Münster University may be relevant for future information technologies / Study in “Nature Communications” Data transmission that works by means of magnetic waves instead of electric currents – for many scientists, this is the basis of future …

‘Breathable’ Electronics Pave the Way for More Functional Wearable Tech

“Engineering researchers have created ultrathin, stretchable electronic material that is gas permeable, allowing the material to “breathe.” The material was designed specifically for use in biomedical or wearable technologies, since the gas permeability allows sweat and volatile organic compounds to …

Elon Musk says Starlink internet private beta to begin in roughly three months, public beta in six

“SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk has shared more details about when in 2020 we can expect the company’s Starlink low-latency, high-bandwidth satellite internet service to actually be available to customers. He said on Twitter that a private beta …

Fedora 32 is officially here!

“It’s here! We’re proud to announce the release of Fedora 32. Thanks to the hard work of thousands of Fedora community members and contributors, we’re celebrating yet another on-time release. If you just want to get to …

FSU researchers discover new structure for promising class of materials

“Florida State University researchers have discovered a novel structure for organic-inorganic hybrid materials that shows potential for more efficient technologies. Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Biwu Ma and his team have published a new study in the journal Science Advances …

Hubble Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary With A Tapestry Of Blazing Starbirth

“The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s iconic images and scientific breakthroughs have redefined our view of the Universe. To commemorate three decades of scientific discoveries, this image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar …

Intel Delivers World’s Fastest Gaming Processor

“Intel introduced today the 10th Gen Intel® Core™ S-series desktop processors, including Intel’s flagship Core i9-10900K processor, the world’s fastest gaming processor1. With speeds reaching up to a maximum of 5.3 GHz with Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost2 …

Micron Unveils World’s First Open-Source Storage Engine Designed for SSDs and Storage Class Memory

“Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced the first open-source, heterogeneous-memory storage engine (HSE), designed specifically for solid-state drives (SSDs) and storage-class memory (SCM). Legacy storage engines born in the era of hard disk drives (HDDs) failed to architecturally provide …

Muscle signals can pilot a robot

“CSAIL’s Conduct-A-Bot system uses muscle signals to cue a drone’s movement, enabling more natural human-robot communication. Albert Einstein famously postulated that “the only real valuable thing is intuition,” arguably one of the most important keys to understanding intention …