In the first half of 2020, life expectancy at birth for the total U.S. population was 77.8 years, declining by 1.0 year from 78.8 in 2019 according to the CDC. There has not been a full-year drop in life expectancy in the US since WW2. The pandemic still continues so there has been a continuing …
Content management is becoming increasingly important as organizations invest more heavily in both internal and external content. Broadly defined, content management refers to all the processes, systems, and workflows associated with creating, organizing, distributing, and securing content within an organization. Organizations are beginning to realize that content management cannot exist as a mere afterthought; it …
The SpaceX SN10 Starship prototype could launch today. It is going through a countdown but has some delays. UPDATE: 12:15PM aborted, might try again in a few hours. May scrub today. Not Known. Final checkouts are being performed. Propellant still has to be loaded before the possible test flight. SOURCES – What About It?, Everyday …
The Malta energy storage system takes electricity, converts and stores that electricity as heat, and then converts it back to electricity to be redistributed on the electric grid. In charge mode, the system operates as a heat pump, storing electricity as heat in molten salt. In discharge mode, the system operates as a heat engine, …
Rocketlabs is in second place for making reusable rockets after SpaceX. Blue Origin is not in second place. Rocketlabs has recovered the first stage already. Neutron wll feature a reusable first stage designed to land on an ocean platform, enabling a high launch cadence and decreased launch costs for customers. Rocketlabs has launched 97 satellites …
John Hopkins reported 471,567 total US COVID deaths as of February 10, 2021 and reports 514,700 as of March 1, 2021. This was an additional 43,000 deaths over 19 days. The seven-day moving average of daily deaths is still about 2,000 per day in the USA. The March 6, 2021 total cumulative deaths is tracking …
IBM has created low-loss (0.3% loss over 10 microns) silicon waveguide could enable new photonic chip designs for applications that rely on visible light, and could lead to more efficient lasers and modulators used in telecoms. Above – Illustration of a pair of silicon high contrast gratings that can be used to guide visible light …