Tag: superpowers

The No-Code Generation is Arriving

An anonymous reader shares a column: In the distant past, there was a proverbial “digital divide” that bifurcated workers into those who knew how to use computers and those who didn’t. Young Gen Xers and their later millennial companions grew up with Power Macs and Wintel boxes, and that experience made them native users on how to make these technologies do…

The First Room-Temperature Superconductor Has Finally Been Found

Joe2020 shares a report from Science News: Now, scientists have found the first superconductor that operates at room temperature — at least given a fairly chilly room. The material is superconducting below temperatures of about 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit), physicist Ranga Dias of the University of Rochester in New York and colleagues report October 14 in Nature. The team’s…

China is building a floating spaceport for rocket launches

In the near future, launch facilities located at sea are expected to be a lot more common. SpaceX announced that it is hoping to create offshore facilities in the near future for the sake of launching the Starship away from populated areas. And China, the latest member of the superpowers-in-space club, is currently building the “Eastern Aerospace Port” off the coast…

Live Science podcast “Life’s Little Mysteries” 18: Mysterious Animal Superpowers

From breathing underwater to surviving radiation and extreme temperatures, some animal abilities are so incredible they might as well be superpowers. Source: https://www.livescience.com/llm-podcast-18-animal-superpowers.html

A woman with half a brain offers more proof of the organ’s superpowers

From a teenager excelling with half a brain to the organ’s visual areas being co-opted in people who are blind, our brain’s ability to adapt continues to amaze Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532693-800-a-woman-with-half-a-brain-offers-more-proof-of-the-organs-superpowers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Reindeer’s real superpowers could help us beat depression and cancer

So what if Rudolph can’t really fly? He and the herd have some truly amazing evolutionary adaptations that could inspire new treatments for human diseases Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432610-700-reindeers-real-superpowers-could-help-us-beat-depression-and-cancer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…