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Category: futurism
The Language Of Calculus
Mathematician Steven Strogatz argues that “humans have used calculus to remake the world.”
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ID-Cap System uses tiny ingestible pill sensors to monitor patients
In the future, some commonly prescribed medication may have tiny trackers built into each capsule that monitor patients who take them. The technology is part of the ID-Cap system created by etectRx, a Florida company. The system has been submitted to the FDA for review and will undergo a 90-day study with Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Fenway Institute.
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Exquisite fossil finds shed new light on the ‘Cambrian explosion’, when oceans first filled with complex animal life
Exceptionally well preserved 500m year old fossils show Cambrian seas were more diverse than scientists had thought.
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Remote-Controlled Insect Ornithopter Developed
Aeronautical engineer Edwin Van Ruymbeke has developed a remote-controlled insect ornithopter called MetaFly.
Capable of reaching a top speed of 18 km/h (11 mph) and a maximum range of 100 metres (328 ft), the wings are flapped using a mechanical coreless motor and an aluminum heat sink that is powered by a rechargeable lithium-polymer battery.
Weighing 10 grams (0.35 oz), MetaFly measures 19 cm long (7.5 in) with a 29-cm (11.4-in) wingspan. The patented wings are made from carbon fibre, liquid crystal polymer and oriented polypropylene.
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German Professor Who Is A Hardcore Star Wars Fan Has Just Repainted An Observatory Into R2-D2
Maybe one of our observatory domes can be painted to look like this? :-D.
In a galaxy far far away (Germany) Hubert Zitt, professor at the Zweibrücken University of Applied Sciences and known for Star Trek and Star Wars lectures, along with a small team, transformed the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association into a giant R2-D2 – and it is out of this world.
The sci-fi professor completed the project in September 2018, aided by his father-in-law Horst Helle, the master painter Klaus Ruffing and several helping students and it has caught the eyes of Star Wars fans everywhere. The most notable fan of the re-design was Star Wars actor Mark Hamill who tweeted about it, “R2-D2 Observatory Transformed Germans Into Giant Nerds.”
While spectacular, Zitt and his team aren’t the first fans to complete a Star Wars design challenge. Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College in Minnesota was also transformed into an R2-D2 back in 2010.
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The High-Tech, Humane Ways Biologists Can Identify Individual Animals
Humans have driver’s licenses and fingerprints, but cows have nose-prints and zebras have “StripeCodes”.
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