Tesla Motors announced that its Gigafactory started its operations. It’s the huge factory of lithium-ion battery cells to be used for the batteries of electric cars produced by the company and its power storage products. This is just the beginning for the company founded by Elon Musk because the Gigafactory is active only in part but can already take advantage of the agreement signed with Panasonic.
An article published in the journal “Current Biology” describes a research on a dinosaur with characteristics similar to birds called Limusaurus inextricabilis. A team of researchers studied 19 specimens ranging from babies to adults discovered in today’s Xinjiang province in China to analyze how they developed teeth and then lost them over time.
The novel “The Arrows of Time” by Greg Egan was published for the first time in 2013. It’s the third book in the Orthogonal trilogy and is the sequel of “The Eternal Flame”.
The generation starship Peerless is traveling through space in search of a technology that can save its crew’s homeworld taking advantage of the fact that on the starship time flows differently than the planet. However, after some generations, some people are not interested in working to save a world they have never even seen.
The many scientific and technological advances have also led to profound social changes, not without problems. When an instrument that allows to communicate with the future is created, the reactions are very different. It’s decided to put its use to vote but there are those who want to prevent that possibility by any means.
