Short Takes – 11-22-23

Mucus-Covered Jellyfish Hint at Dangers of Deep-Sea Mining. NYTimes.com article. Pull quote: “Dr. Drazen noted that the species the researchers chose for the study was hardier than many of its relatives. “This is a really robust jellyfish. You can catch this thing in a net and it doesn’t turn into goo,” he said, and its stress response to the sediment indicates that other soft-bodied sea creatures exposed to sediment for longer periods of time might fare even worse.”

In 2024, Space Coast gears up for most astronaut launches since '09. Phys.org article. Pull quote: “But 2024 could see three more crewed vehicles flying from the Space Coast on SpaceX commercial crew and private flights. Al,so the first crewed flight of NASA's Artemis program and its Orion spacecraft and the long-delayed first crewed test flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner could happen.”

KERI's metamaterial, stretchable and efficient wearable thermoelectric energy harvester! Newswise.com article. Pull quote: “This achievement is expected to receive great attention in the field of IoT and AI-based wearable devices. Existing wearable devices had the disadvantage as it had to have a separate power supply such as a battery, but with KERI thermal energy harvesting technology, they can simply be attached to the body to produce electricity using body heat, and even supply power directly through the module. It can also be applied to the next-generation medical field.” Journal article here.

Virginia Tech opens world’s first fully automated AI and cyberbiosecurity water lab. Newswise.com article. Pull quote: ““ACWA lab is aimed at creating a test bed for water supply systems, water distribution systems, and water treatment plants in the United States to test potential incidents, like cyberattacks, and protect against them,” Batarseh said. “The lab is able to provide data sets that are not easily created anywhere else in the world by combining the cyber components and computational components with water quality and quantity aspects, such as water flow, pH and nitrogen rates, and so on.” Article starts off with the Oldsmar attack myth… Hope the lab has better info.

Requests for Comments; Clearance of a Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Unmanned Aircraft Remote Identification Message Elements. Federal Register FAA 60-day ICR notice. Annual Burden Estimate: “The collection of information through the broadcasting of the remote identification message elements is entirely automatic, therefore there is no annual burden associated with the broadcast of the remote identification message elements.”