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Jan 24, 2018

Scientists Just Cloned Monkeys. Humans Could Be Next

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Since the birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996, scientists across the globe have used the same technique to clone nearly two dozen other animal species, including cats, dogs, rats, and cattle. Primates, however, had proven resistant to the process — until now.

In a new study published in Cell, a team of Chinese researchers led by Qiang Sun at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai reveal that they’ve found a way to tweak the Dolly cloning technique to make it work in primates. Their efforts have resulted in the birth of two cloned female macaques: Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.

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Jan 24, 2018

IBand+: This device lets you control your dreams

Posted by in category: futurism

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Jan 24, 2018

Self-driving delivery robot carries packages

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Now you can have items delivered to you wherever you are.

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Jan 24, 2018

Finland is designing the perfect school

Posted by in category: education

These lessons have no boundaries.

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Jan 24, 2018

GM Plans To Release Cars With No Steering Wheel In 2019

Posted by in category: transportation

This new car model has no steering wheel or pedals.

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Jan 24, 2018

Amazon has opened a store that has no checkouts

Posted by in category: futurism

Walk in, pick up, walk out.

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Jan 24, 2018

The first 5G smartphones should be available by 2019

Posted by in categories: internet, mobile phones

“Virtually every industry will be impacted by 5G ”.

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Jan 24, 2018

Smart Windows Use Iron Nanoparticles to Harvest Heat

Posted by in categories: internet, nanotechnology, particle physics

Many of the previously dumb devices in our homes are getting smarter with the advent of internet-connected lights, thermostats, and more. Surely the windows can’t be smart, can they? A team of engineers from the German Friedrich-Schiller University Jena have created just that — a smart window that can alter its opacity and harvest energy from the sun’s rays.

There have been a number of “smart” electrochromatic window designs over the years, but these are mostly aimed at changing tint or opacity only. The windows designed by Friedrich-Schiller University researchers are vastly more functional. The so-called Large-Area Fluidic Windows (LaWin) design uses a fluid suspension of iron particles. This fluid is contained within the window in a series of long vertical channels. These “functional fluids” allow the window to change opacity, but also absorb and distribute heat.

The iron-infused fluid remains diffused until you switch the window on — the nanoparticles cloud up the channels and block light. When you flip the switch, magnets drag the nanoparticles out of the liquid to make the window fully transparent. When the magnet is switched off, the nanoparticles are resuspended to darken the panel. In general, the more nanoparticles you add, the darker the window becomes. You can even completely black it out with enough iron.

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Jan 24, 2018

See why NASA is calling next week’s supermoon ‘extra special’

Posted by in category: space

2018’s second supermoon is a triple treat.

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Jan 24, 2018

Physicists are planning to build lasers so powerful they could rip apart empty space

Posted by in category: physics

China’s ‘Station of Extreme Light’ could be first laser to reach 100 petawatts.

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