VIDEO // Scientists are stunned that bacteria attached to the outside of the International Space Station survived for three years. The experiment, led by a team of Japanese researchers, involved the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans, also known as Conan the Bacterium due to its extreme hardiness. More about, read Source
After a flight failure in 2019, the Vega rocket executes a flawless deployment of 53 satellites. The development of the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser used on Wednesday’s mission was largely funded by the European Space Agency. « This enhanced ability to access space for innovative small satellites will deliver a range of positive results …
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Gertrude the pig is a prototype of a brain-to-machine interface. Mr Musk said the original Neuralink device, revealed just over a year ago, had been simplified and made smaller. « It actually fits quite nicely in your skull. It could be under your hair and you wouldn’t know. » More about, read Source
A central hub ? The key point has often been a unifying framework platform, capable of pulling these discrete data silos (*) information into one metadatabase. New applications can see the bigger picture and work from a “canonical source of truth” from that centralized lake. Unfortunately, that can put companies back to square one, whereby …
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Upbeat US industrial data send dollar climbing ahead of central bank meeting “We’ve passed the peak of negative economic data,” said Grant Bowers, an equity portfolio manager with Franklin Templeton. “You have to look through the canyon of the economic impact of Covid and look toward 2021, 2022 in terms of the earnings outlook.” More …
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The Mars 2020 mission is scheduled to launch. Its goal is to land the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet and collect samples in the hope of finding signs of past life … More about : View Source news.cnrs.fr/…/a-new-rover-to-land-on-mars
The sociologist Michel Dubois expresses his views on the findings of a survey conducted in late May to assess the public’s perception of scientific research. the inquiry reveals significant variations of opinion depending on the respondents’ age. The 18-29 group seems to agree on scrupulous compliance with scientific methodology, while those aged 60 and over, …
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