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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

New microscope technique reveals details of droplet...

Nucleation is a ubiquitous phenomenon that governs the formation of both droplets and bubbles in systems used for condensation, desalination, water splitting, crystal growth, and many other important industrial processes. Now, for the first time, a new microscopy technique developed at MIT and elsewhere allows the process to be observed directly in detail, which could facilitate the design of improved, more efficient surfaces for a variety of such processes. The innovation uses conventional scanning electron microscope equipment but adds……

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MIT opens childcare center in Graduate Tower...

On Nov. 9, the Institute welcomed some of its youngest students to the new MIT Technology Childcare Center (TCC) Kendall in the Graduate Tower at Site 4 (Building E37), in accordance with Massachusetts’ Department of Early Education and Care and Department of Public Health regulations and safety protocols. Located at 45 Hayward Street, the approximately 8,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility is designed to serve 58 toddler and preschool children. TCC Kendall’s infant classroom will remain in the Koch Biology Building (Building……

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Teen banking service Step raises $50M, adds...

Step, a mobile banking service aimed at teens, announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing to over 500,000 users only two months after its official launch. The round was led by Coatue, with returning investors from Stripe, Crosslink Capital, Collaborative Fund, and Will Smith’s Dreamers VC. The startup also added some celeb investors to this round, including Charli D’Amelio, Justin Timberlake, The Chainsmokers, as well as big names from the world of……

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Borromini's Perspective Gallery of Palazzo Spada in...

Palazzo Spada is a magnificent, yet lesser-known, palace located in the Regola district of Rome in the city’s historic center. It features an extraordinary art collection (Galleria Spada) which showcases works by the likes of Guido Reni, Titian, Guercino, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Artemisia Gentileschi to name a few. The collection was assembled by the two brothers, Cardinal Bernardino and Virginio of the Spada family during the 17th-century. As visitors enter the building, they are greeted by the extraordinary Mannerist……

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Bandundu Water Jazz Band in Tervuren, Belgium

Brussels is notable for its whimsical public art displays, including the world-famous Manneken Pis. Lesser known is the “Bandundu Water Jazz Band” in the Flemish Brabant city of Tervuren. The installation is located about eight miles from Brussels.  Created by Belgian artist Tom Frantzen, this sculptural fountain was installed in a roundabout and depicts various African water animals playing jazz. The band consists of crocodiles, frogs, a hippopotamus, pelican, lizard, and a turtle. The fountain is located opposite the……

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Found: Cases of ‘Trench Fever’ in Ancient...

In October 2018, Davide Tanasi was off the coast of Italy, pulling teeth. His dental patients were 34 Sicilians who had been dead for the better part of 2,000 years. These Roman Christians were buried in the catacombs of St. Lucia in Syracuse, an underground city of some 8,000 dead stretched across an area about the size of the White House. Concealed among their no-longer-so-pearly whites was Bartonella quintana, a bacteria that causes a disease called trench fever, and……

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Hilton Prepares to Double Portugal Portfolio

LISBON and MACLEAN, Va. – Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today announced plans to double its portfolio in Portugal with agreements to open three new hotels, representing a combined investment of around EUR 60 million. The additions of Hilton Porto Gaia, Legacy Hotel Cascais, Curio Collection by Hilton and DoubleTree by Hilton Lagoa Azores mark a significant The post Hilton Prepares to Double Portugal Portfolio appeared first on Revfine.com….

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Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank, picks up...

Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank now with more than 4.8 million customers, has closed another £60 million in funding, priced the same as and effectively an extension of the its previous top-up round in June. This saw Monzo valued by private investors at around £1.2 billion, marked by industry observers as a down round. It was lower than the upstart bank’s previous — perhaps overheated — valuation, before the Coronavirus pandemic skewed leverage in favour of investors or forced……

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Revolut launches early salary feature in the...

Fintech startup Revolut has two new features this week. First, the company is launching a web app for its regular users — not just business users. Second, in the U.K., Revolut has partnered with Modulr to let you receive your salary a day early. Revolut has historically focused its efforts on its mobile app. If you have a business account with Revolut, you know that you can see your past transactions and access your account from a regular web……

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This 3D printer doesn’t gloss over the...

Shape, color, and gloss. Those are an object’s three most salient visual features. Currently, 3D printers can reproduce shape and color reasonably well. Gloss, however, remains a challenge. That’s because 3D printing hardware isn’t designed to deal with the different viscosities of the varnishes that lend surfaces a glossy or matte look. MIT researcher Michael Foshey and his colleagues may have a solution. They’ve developed a combined hardware and software printing system that uses off-the-shelf varnishes to finish objects……

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Why Archaeologists Are Brewing Ancient Beers

This work first appeared on SAPIENS under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here. One morning in May 2019, a crowd of journalists gathered around the Biratenu bar in Jerusalem, snapping photos as a bartender poured golden, frothy beer into plastic cups. The story of the beer was both new and very old: The yeast that fermented it came from a 3,000-year-old jug found at a nearby archaeological site. “It’s actually a pretty good beer,” says Aren……

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Happy 100th Birthday to the Theremin, Instrument...

Unlike other future virtuosos, Grégoire Blanc didn’t take up his instrument after hearing a symphony, eyeing a glossy magazine, or catching The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Blanc’s path to musical prowess went through science class. It was there that a teenage Blanc, now 24, learned about a curious contraption called the theremin. Consisting of two antennae, arranged perpendicular to each other, the theremin makes music out of inaudible sound waves traveling between the two poles, with the player touching……

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3 Questions: Hessam AzariJafari on mitigating climate...

Extreme heat events — like those seen in California in 2020 — are expected to worsen over the century due to climate change and urban heat islands (UHIs). Cities will likely experience the brunt of those effects. To help cities mitigate UHI and extreme heat, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub postdoc Hessam AzariJafari is studying one of the most abundant urban surfaces: pavements. He has found that it’s possible to significantly lower urban air temperatures and greenhouse gas emissions by……

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Study examines role of mobile health technology...

A 60-person task force, including MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers, has published a study reviewing mobile health (mHealth) technologies and examining their use in monitoring and mitigating the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. They found that mHealth technologies are viable options to monitor Covid-19 patients and predict symptom escalation for earlier intervention. The study, “Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID 19 Pandemic?”, is published in the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. The……

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Marriott International Named One of the Top...

BETHESDA, 1 December 2020 – Marriott International has been named one of the 2020+ Top 10 Companies for Executive Women by Working Mother Media, for the 17th year. The list celebrates companies that champion women’s advancement, with a focus on succession planning, profit-and-loss roles, gender pay parity, and programs that support work-life integration. Marriott International’s The post Marriott International Named One of the Top 10 Companies for Executive Women appeared first on Revfine.com….

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