September 2020 – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:23:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 India pushes bold ‘one nation, one subscription’ journal-access plan https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/india-pushes-bold-one-nation-one-subscription-journal-access-plan Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:23:15 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/india-pushes-bold-one-nation-one-subscription-journal-access-plan

India is not proposing the same open-access terms for articles that its researchers publish. Instead, the researchers advising the government want authors to archive their accepted manuscripts in public online repositories. This is often described as ‘green’ open access, which differs from the ‘gold’ route of publishing in open-access journals.


Researchers will also recommend an open-access policy that promotes research being shared in online repositories.

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How the Brain Processes Color https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/how-the-brain-processes-color Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:22:36 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/how-the-brain-processes-color

Summary: Novel technology allows researchers to understand how a fruit fly’s brain processes color.

Source: University of Minnesota

Through the development of new technology, University of Minnesota researchers have developed a method that allows scientists to understand how a fruit fly’s brain responds to seeing color. Prior to this, being able to determine how a brain responds to color was limited to humans and animals with slower visual systems. A fruit fly, when compared to a human, has a visual system that is five times faster. Some predatory insects see ten times faster than humans.

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SpaceX has busy manifest of Dragon missions https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/spacex-has-busy-manifest-of-dragon-missions Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:22:29 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/spacex-has-busy-manifest-of-dragon-missions

SpaceX has a busy schedule of Dragon missions carrying cargo and crew to the ISS through next year, with some use of reused spacecraft.


WASHINGTON — SpaceX is preparing for a busy schedule of Dragon missions carrying cargo and crew to the International Space Station through next year, a manifest that will make at least some use of reused spacecraft.

At a Sept. 29 NASA briefing, Benji Reed, senior director of human spaceflight programs at SpaceX, said that schedule of missions means there will be at least one Dragon spacecraft, and sometimes two, docked to the station continuously through the end of 2021 after the launch of the Crew-1 Crew Dragon mission, currently scheduled for Oct. 31.

“This really is a new era for us as a company at SpaceX, and also for commercial space in general,” he said.

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Another Starship Test Tank is Pushed to the Limit and Explodes https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/another-starship-test-tank-is-pushed-to-the-limit-and-explodes Thu, 01 Oct 2020 04:22:20 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/another-starship-test-tank-is-pushed-to-the-limit-and-explodes

SpaceX just passed another milestone with the SN7.1 test tank, which they tested to failure by pressurizing it until it exploded.


They say that failure can be the greatest teacher of all, and it’s easy to see why. Those who learn from their mistakes become informed as to what can go wrong, and will develop the necessary strategies to avoid making the same mistake in the future. This philosophy is also at the core of SpaceX rapid-prototyping process, where full-scale models of the Starship and its components are tested to the point of failure.

At Boca Chica, SpaceX ground crews continue to follow this process in order to get the Starship ready for orbital testing. The latest piece of hardware that was tested to failure was the SN7.1 Test Tank, which was pressurized until it exploded. This test took place a week ago (on the evening of September 23rd) shortly after the SN5 and SN6 prototypes both completed a 150 m (~500 ft) hop test.

News and footage of the pressure test were shared via Twitter by Chris Bergin, the Managing Editor of NASA Spaceflight. The test, which began shortly before 10:30 PM local time (08:30 PM PDT; 11:30 PM EDT), was recorded on-site by Mary McConnahay (@BocaChicaGal) and broadcast via live stream on the NASA Spaceflight Youtube channel.

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Life On Venus — How Could It Have Gotten There? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/life-on-venus-how-could-it-have-gotten-there Thu, 01 Oct 2020 02:36:07 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/life-on-venus-how-could-it-have-gotten-there

Does phosphine and other signs indicate life in the clouds of Venus? If so how did it get there? Did life originate on Venus? Did Earth life originate on Venus? What is Panspermia?

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Structural Forms Of DNA https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/structural-forms-of-dna Thu, 01 Oct 2020 02:28:04 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/structural-forms-of-dna

This video explains the structural forms of DNA, why DNA have different forms and what are the differences present between each form.

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Quantitative Analysis Of Protein https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/quantitative-analysis-of-protein Thu, 01 Oct 2020 02:27:55 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/quantitative-analysis-of-protein

This video explains the quantitative analysis of protein.

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Cruise Crews and ISS News https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/cruise-crews-and-iss-news Thu, 01 Oct 2020 01:52:26 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/cruise-crews-and-iss-news

Cruise to cruise to crew the International Space Station (ISS) to film a movie in space! The latest on the leak being isolated (almost found), ISS debris dodging, Chinese challenge to ISS with their own ISS, and two crew launches to ISS and a cargo launch this month. Also see how the ISS commercial crew and cargo programs have played a strong role in spurring further space development and settlement to include SpaceX’s Starship program with ambitions to settle Mars!

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National Weather Service Warns of “Zombie Storms” https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/national-weather-service-warns-of-zombie-storms Thu, 01 Oct 2020 01:22:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/national-weather-service-warns-of-zombie-storms

Experts are warning global warming could make them more intense and more frequent.

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Sensity: deepfakes and visual threats detection | Deeptrace https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/sensity-deepfakes-and-visual-threats-detection-deeptrace Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:25:57 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/09/sensity-deepfakes-and-visual-threats-detection-deeptrace

Sensity provides a Visual Threat Intelligence Platform with actionable insights to detect and monitor deepfakes and other visual threats.

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