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15 hours agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Physicists just rewrote a foundational rule for nuclear fusion reactors that could unleash twice the power
Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could produce much more energy than previously thought, thanks to groundbreaking new research that found a foundational law for such reactors was wrong.
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4 days agoAnalysis TheSpirit
Women withhold honest sexual communication to protect their partner's perceived masculinity, study finds
Women who are concerned about threatening their male partner’s masculinity are more likely to fake orgasms and less likely to communicate honestly about their sexual needs, according to new research published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. The findings shed new light on how relationships can be impacted by precarious manhood — the belief that one’s status as a “real man” is hard to attain but easily lost.
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9 days agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Switzerland votes for default organ donations to save more lives in the country
Switzerland has voted for a new ‘presumed consent’ system on organ donations, which makes everyone a potential donor after their death—unless ‘opted out’ by the individual during their lifetime. The Federal Council and Parliament proposed the legal change on 15 May 2022, which was approved by over 60 per cent of voters with the aim to boost chances of patients on the waiting list and save more lives in the country.
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12 days agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Europe’s largest floating solar panel farm built in Portugal
A floating solar farm of 12,000 solar panels will be ready to produce power in July of this year in Portugal’s Alqueva reservoir on the Guadiana River in Alentejo. This will be Europe’s largest floating solar park on a reservoir in Europe, the size of four football pitches. Built by EDP, a Portuguese electric utility company will generate 7.5 GWh a year and power around 1,500 households in the region, more than 30% of the families in the region. The project involves a total investment of 6 m...
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
This gaming keyboard turned gaming PC uses an Nvidia GTX 1650 Ti GPU
Nowadays, your gaming PC doesn’t have to be a hulking tower that dominates your desk, as there are plenty of alternatives on the market. You can get small form factor PC cases, go handheld with Valve’s Steam Deck, or mod a mechanical keyboard with a laptop motherboard, dedicated graphics, and Windows 11… just because.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Why NASA plans to crash the International Space Station into the middle of the sea by 2031
The International Space Station (ISS) has helped expand our knowledge of the universe, fostered the birth of the space industry, and led the international community's scientific collaboration.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Could electric vehicles put an end to wars over oil?
Climate scientists have been clear that if we want to reduce carbon emissions and slow the pace of global warming, one crucial step is moving from a transportation system run on fossil fuels to one powered by electricity. But it's possible that doing so might neutralize other toxic aspects of the petroleum industry, such as volatile prices and armed conflict.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction
A judge concluded Friday that there was enough evidence to convict British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, but she also gave Maxwell a legal victory by concluding that three conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she can only be sentenced for one.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Here's Why Hibernation in Space May Not Be Possible For Future Space Travelers
Sending humans virtually anywhere in space beyond the Moon pushes logistics of health, food, and psychology to limits we're only just beginning to grasp. A staple solution to these problems in science fiction is to simply put the void-travelers to bed for a while. In a sleep-like state akin to hibernation or torpor, metabolism drops, and the mind is spared the boredom of waiting out endless empty hours.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Chip startups using light instead of wires gaining speed and investments
Computers using light rather than electric currents for processing, only years ago seen as research projects, are gaining traction and startups that have solved the engineering challenge of using photons in chips are getting big funding.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Sony’s next flagship headphones appear to have a sleek new design
Sony’s WH-1000XM4 noise-canceling headphones have been one of the best options since they debuted in 2020, but it appears the company is gearing up to release the next generation. German tech news site TechnikNews has published some images and specs of the successor, seemingly called the WH-1000XM5 (via Gizmodo).
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Incredibly, your Apple HomePod may now be worth more than its $299 MSRP
I thought it was really strange when Apple kept selling the original $299 HomePod months after it got discontinued. But now, it’s starting to make sense — not only are some people still willing to pay a premium for the somewhat smart speaker, they’re willing to pay more than Apple charged for it.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Apple Scrapped Plans to Let Users Use Siri to Make Purchases Due to Privacy Concerns
Three years ago, Apple explored letting users use Siri to make purchases for apps and services, similar to how users can use Amazon's Alexa to place orders online, but engineers scrapped the idea following privacy concerns, according to a new report today by The Information.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
MS reversed by transplanted immune cells that fight Epstein-Barr virus
In a small trial, immune cells that fight the Epstein-Barr virus have stopped the progression of multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune condition that can lead to symptoms, such as difficulty walking, that worsen over time...
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Elon Musk's Hostile Takeover: Here's How it Will Happen
In just one-week’s time, Elon Musk has positioned himself to potentially stage a hostile takeover of one of the world’s preeminent social media platforms, Twitter. If the self-made billionaire and Telsa CEO is to make a move, that move will be made within days, Aron Solomon told The Western Journal.
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1 month agoCurrent Event TheSpirit
Capacity crunch may abort U.S. satellite boom as sanctions threaten Russia launches
U.S. rocket companies are facing the daunting task of ferrying hundreds of satellites to space in the coming years as sanctions sideline the Russian space launch industry.