Category Archives: Science and Technology
MRIs On Crop Roots Open New Doors For Agriculture
Scientists examine plant roots to make improvements, enhance water-use efficiency
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What Will The James Webb Space Telescope Find? [VIDEO]
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The James Webb Space Telescope is now ready. One of the most advanced telescopes it is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope. The video in the article explains the full potential and how the James Webb Space Telescope will hopefully lead to some new breakthroughs in man’s space knowledge.
Read moreAgriLife Extension Brings New Experience To Texas’ Organic Production Scene
Whitney has worldwide agricultural expertise
Read moreTexas A&M AgriLife’s Simpson Honored For Lifetime Dedication To Peanuts
More than 50 years building extensive germplasm collection
Read moreThousands Of Asteroids Whizz Past Earth
NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies keeps an eye on the sky, surveying more than 26,000 asteroids and a much smaller number of comets that pass near Earth. Near Earth Asteroids, or NEAs, also include more than 2,000 potentially dangerous specimen, of which 158 have a diameter of more than one kilometer, making them 2.5 times as tall as the Empire State Building.
Read moreTesting Safety, Shelf Life Of Food For Entrepreneurs
Texas A&M AgriLife lab protects Texans from foodborne-illness, helps Texas economy
Read moreWilliam Dalzell, Influential Lecturer In Chemical Engineering At MIT, Dies at 84
Known for his quick wit, the MIT alumnus spent his career fostering hands-on learning for generations of chemical engineering students.
Read moreNASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight [VIDEO]
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On April 30, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft on another planet. During Ingenuity’s fourth flight, a microphone included with the SuperCam instrument aboard Perseverance captured the humming sound of the blades and the din of wind.
Read moreSpaceX Crew-2 Docks With Space Station in These Awesome Views [VIDEO]
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Watch the soft capture of the SpaceX Crew-2’s Crew Dragon Endeavour on April 24, 2021 in these International Space Station camera views.
Read moreNASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight [VIDEO]
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Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Read moreWhat Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage? [VIDEO]
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When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and finger-pointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. In this great video by Practical Engineering, they provide a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm with no political spin in the explanation.
Read moreTesla Killer? Spy Photos Of First Ford F-150 All-Electric Pickup Emerge
Ford is set to introduce an all-new model for the Ford truck lineup, called F-150 Electric. Details have been limited so far, but new spy pictures from Autoblog show the truck is the “real deal.”
Read moreHow To Fight Deplatforming: Decentralize [VIDEO]
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Meet the visionaries building a new, un-censorable, peer-to-peer web using the tools of encryption and cryptocurrency.
Read moreNASA Announces New Role of Senior Climate Advisor
In an effort to ensure effective fulfillment of the Biden Administration’s climate science objectives for NASA, the agency has established a new position of senior climate advisor and selected Gavin Schmidt, to serve in the role in an acting capacity until a permanent appointment is made.
Read moreBlinn Alumnus, aerospace scientist Michael Harrison to Speak on Dark Matter
Blinn College District alumnus/aerospace scientist Michael Harrison will demystify the mysterious realm of dark matter during a Zoom presentation on Monday, Feb. 8.
Read moreNASA TV Coverage Set for Upcoming Spacewalks
Two NASA astronauts are scheduled to venture outside the International Space Station Wednesday, Jan. 27, and Monday, Feb. 1, for a pair of spacewalks
Read moreIn “Staggering” Lack Of Self-Awareness, Twitter Lectures Uganda On Principles Of ‘Open Internet’ [VIDEO]
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In a “Staggering” Lack Of Self-Awareness, Twitter Lectured Uganda On Principles Of ‘an Open Internet’ after being on a days-long massive purge of pro-Trump accounts in the US which began when the president himself was permanently banned.
Read moreFacebook Played Major Role Coordinating ‘Capitol Riot’ As Sandberg Deflects Blame
We are now learning that Facebook also had a giant role in coordinating the so-called ‘Capitol Riots’ which President Trump was just impeached over on Wednesday for allegedly inciting the incident. According to the Washington Post, a “growing body of evidence shows that Facebook played a much larger role” than COO Sharyl Sandberg claimed in a Monday interview livestreamed by Reuters, in what the Post described as ‘deflecting blame.’
Read moreWalmart To Expand Autonomous Box Truck Deliveries In Louisiana [VIDEO]
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Walmart is set to expand its autonomous vehicle program with Gatik, a Palo Alto-based technology company, to make deliveries between New Orleans and Metairie, Louisiana, in 2021, according to a Walmart corporate update. Walmart’s autonomous vehicle program began last year when it started picking up customers’ orders on a two-mile route between a warehouse and store in Bentonville, Arkansas. The autonomous vehicles have safely recorded more than 70,000 operational miles in autonomous mode with a safety driver.
Read moreFeds and 46 States File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook [VIDEO]
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The federal government and 46 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook on Wednesday. The social media giant is being accused of using illegal tactics to squash competition.
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