Air breathing satellites, deployable launch platforms, mapping the mantle with neutrino emissions, rescuing LINK's rescue mission, flying with sound, ceramic piezoelectric devices, and forecasting solar weather with machine learning.
Announcing: Weekly Science and Technology Newsletter
I am announcing a weekly update post/newsletter, primarily focused on science and technology, but with flexibility for me to include other content if I come across something interesting.
Counting Languages
Far from being a modern phenomenon, the declining diversity of language owes more to broad, civilizational factors, like the onset of agriculture and settlement of large city-states, than it does to the dominance of English in the current international system.
Tracing 3I/ATLAS’ Formation
The authors were able to determine what the ancient solar system from which the comet originated might have been like.
Impact Enclaves
This was no secret cavern full of dinosaurs lasting long past the demise of the rest of their kind. Rather, the paper explores how the energy associated with asteroid impacts generates hydrothermal environments which are ideal for the sustainment of life.
An Update on Fusion Challenges
The timing of the release is deliberately designed to build excitement and a surge in momentum for a project. It goes hand-in-hand with what is probably an unrealistic timeline.
Designing Experiments
Design of experiments lets us be far more efficient in our experimental approach, reducing the number of runs we need to do to acquire insights, while offering techniques for gaining more insights than we could from just running a bunch of trials.
Aurora Review
It disappointed all my expectations in a thoroughly pessimistic reinterpretation of core science fiction genre tropes adorned by mediocre prose and little in the way of creativity.
Science in Science Fiction
this post explores the importance of getting little details right, consideration of the audience in the inclusion of such details, and the role of science in, well, science fiction.
Self-Assembly and Repair for In-Situ Resource Utilization
This review will address the state of the art in self-assembly and self-repair technologies and understanding, with an emphasis on applicability to a durable space presence and space resource extraction and utilization.
