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EUVsVirus Hackathon

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The European Commission are hosting a hackathon on April 24 to 26 to develop solutions to 37 COVID-19 challenges across Health & Life, Business Continuity, Social & Political Cohesion, Remote Working & Education, Digital Finance and other categories. Individuals, teams, mentors and organisations can participate to offer development, design & management skills to name but a few. (H/T to Mikael Fernström for sharing).
Innovation
Life
Tech

Sun Plasma

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Researchers at the University of Central Lanchashire (UCLan) released the highest-ever resolution images of the sun, taken using NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C). The images show magentic strands of million-degree 500km wide plasma on the sun! Check out their Flickr gallery here.
Innovation
Photo
Space

Ternary State Data Molecule

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Professor Damien Thompson and a team at the Bernel Institute at the University of Limerick have co-discovered a molecule that can maintain three seperate and stable asymmetric states within a broad temperature range of -100 to +100 °C. The discovery means that the molecule can be exploited to enhance current data storage technologies that operate on just two asymmetric states (0 and 1).
Innovation
Science

Reboot Your 787

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The FAA has ordered all Boeing 787 aircraft to be turned off and on again every 51 days to prevent "stale data" from misleading pilots! The data that could be affected include airspeed, attitude and altitute! Oh and the stall warning horn might also stop working. WTF! Spot the multinational aircraft manufacturer without a working QA department.
Life
Tech

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