Flight passengers may soon have the ability to link to their family members and colleagues on land through low-orbit telecommunication satellites. Speeds will likely approach those on land, significantly improving the service currently offered by geostationary satellites. On March 19, 2021, communications company OneWeb confirmed a contract to provide Wi-Fi on airplanes with SatixFy, a British...
the Eutelsat Quantum concluding its radio-frequency test at a specialized facility in Toulouse. Credit: ESA An advanced telecommunications satellite that is capable of being completely reprogrammed while in orbit has launched, designed under an ESA Collaboration Project with satellite provider Eutelsat and main manufacturer Airbus, Eutelsat Quantum has spearheaded a new era of satellites with...
Griffith-type transonic airfoil inside an wind tunnel test section. Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Armando Collazo Garcia III received more than he anticipated from a graduate course he took last spring. He gained a new understanding of the physics of transonic shocks generated throughout a laminar flow airfoil with boundary-layer suction and included a published...
The Vehicle Fleet Positioning, Sizing, and Routing Problem with Stochastic Customers (VFSPRP-SC) is a method that consists of pairing strategic warehouse positioning and fleet sizing solutions with operational vehicle routing decisions while considering intrinsic demand uncertainty. The issue (VFSPRP-SC) was successfully settled using a methodology composed of two principal blocks: a scenario generatiING phase; a two-stage...
Illustration of Mansa Musa's caravan. Credit: Sutori According to the 2019 Forbes billionaires list, announced in March 2019, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest individual on the planet. With a fortune of around $131 billion (99 billion), he is the richest man in modern history. He is not, however, the wealthiest individual who has...
An international group of scientists made a tiny chemistry lab for a rover that will drill below the Martian surface, searching for previous or existing life signs. For ExoMars Reconnaissance is a joint venture involving the European Space Agency and the Russian aerospace company Roscosmos. NASA made a significant contribution to MOMA, the laboratory...
Recent research reveals evidence that nursing mothers do not transmit COVID through breastmilk. A research study conducted by scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)– in partnership with numerous other universities– implies that nursing females with COVID-19 do not transfer the SARS-CoV-2 virus with their milk. However, they do give milk-borne antibodies that...
A pair of scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has published a viewpoint piece in the journal Science describing the efforts conducted this decade to learn if Mars once hosted life. In their post, Ryuki Hyodo and also Tomohiro Usui describe the three main initiatives that are involved in trying to find...
Some believe that the issuance of central bank digital currencies will change the international monetary status quo by eroding the US dollar's supremacy of cross-border payments and considerably reducing transaction costs. However, this is unlikely to happen. Berkeley - August 13-15 stamps the 50th anniversary of "the weekend that transformed the world," when Richard Nixon,...
Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and 20 other hospitals worldwide and healthcare technology leader NVIDIA have utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to anticipate Covid patients' oxygen needs on a global scale. The pandemic triggered the research study and set out to develop an AI tool to forecast how much additional oxygen a Covid-19 patient may require in...
