Today, the price of full genome sequencing is less than USD 1,000 and takes a day or two.30 This decline in cost has allowed for wide-spread use in healthcare and enabled private companies like 23&me to build a commercial business on genetic sequencing. These businesses offer everything ...
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While a year earlier the Soviets first had the K-5, a short-range radar-guided missile which China acquired for license production after the crisis under the designation Thunderbolt-1 (or PL-1), its short range and inflexible radar-guidance system led PL-1 production to end early in 1970...
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Oh please. The rest of nature isn’t some paragon of pacifism. Humans will build whatever they can figure out how to build, because they are a curious and resourceful creature. And we managed to resist thermonuclear war despite having all the bombs, didn’t we?
Ramjets take the basic principles of other jets and crank them up to 11, all without major moving parts. Air enters a ramjet's diffuser at supersonic speeds, assaulting it with shock waves that help build ram pressure. A diamond-shaped center body in the intake further squeezes the air ...
Course correction would be important, but all missiles fired from rail gun artillery would be guided by satellite. It would be more difficult to engineer small arm rail guns, mainly because of recoil. Recoil, the backward action of a firearm upon discharge, is determined by the momentum of ...
Although it required a lot of innovation, the parts of Gutenberg’s printing press were all in existence when he decided to build one, and his RAS led him to the pieces of a solution. The parts necessary to make an automobile were all in place when Henry Ford decided to make one. And...
Storing the Charge - What Is a Capacitor? A great bolt of lightning crashes to earth with an ear-splitting clap of thunder. This is perhaps the . most dramatic demonstration of capacitance at work. A guided missile streaks into the heavens on a column of flame. Witho...
Biden said in a statement the US was well-prepared to help defend Israel against the Iranian attack. “To support the defense of Israel, the US military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week,” the US president said in a st...