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Dec 11, 2016
Yale Neuroscientists Can Now Determine Human Intelligence Through Brain Scans
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: neuroscience
Dec 11, 2016
The future just arrived, first state legalizes driverless cars (5 Photos)
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: law, robotics/AI, transportation
Michigan just made it into the history books today after Governor Rick Snyder signed 4 bills into law, all governing the legality of the autonomous car, making Michigan the first state to officially sign off on driverless cars on the roads.
Many states have allowed testing of driverless vehicles, but Michigan just officially put them on the road for consumers.
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Dec 11, 2016
Microsoft is developing its own quantum computer hardware
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, quantum physics
Microsoft has been working on quantum computing for years, but the company is coming out of stealth mode now and taking a more active role in quantum computer development. It wants to build a theoretical type of machine known as a topological quantum computer, despite the difficulty of doing so.
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Dec 11, 2016
CellAge: A New Startup Targeting Senescent Cells With Synthetic Biology — Longevity Reporter
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, life extension
Check out the The Longevity Reporter interview with CellAge as they talk about rejuvenation biotechnology.
Innovative new startup Cell Age is using synthetic biology to develop new ways of targeting and removing senescent cells. We caught up with CEO Mantas Matjusaitis for an interview as their first fundraiser goes live on Lifespan.io (find it here)
Dec 11, 2016
Exercise Improves Arterial Resilience to Age-Related Increases in Oxidative Stress
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension, nanotechnology
Excercise is the best low cost activity you can do as part of your personal longevity strategy. Here we see data showing it can improve resistance to oxidative stress.
Researchers digging deeper into the mechanisms by which exercise produces benefits have found that it improves the resistance of blood vessels to oxidative stress. With age the presence of oxidizing molecules and oxidative modification of proteins, preventing correct function, increases for reasons that include damage to mitochondria, the power plants of the cell. Oxidative damage to molecular machinery is somewhere in the middle of the chain of cause and effect that starts with fundamental forms of damage to cells and tissues and spirals down into age-related diseases. Near all of this oxidation is repaired very quickly, the damaged molecules dismantled and recycled, but in most contexts more of it over the long term is worse than less of it.
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Dec 11, 2016
HoloMaps 3D map explorer for Microsoft HoloLens
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: augmented reality, virtual reality
Dec 11, 2016
Magic Leap’s amazing augmented reality looks too good to be true—and it might be
Posted by Elmar Arunov in category: augmented reality
Dec 10, 2016
Thermoelectric paint generates electricity from almost any heat source
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: materials, particle physics
Thermoelectric generators convert heat or cold to electricity (and vice-versa). Normally solid-state devices, they can be used in such things as power plants to convert waste heat into additional electrical power, or in small cooling systems that do not need compressors or liquid coolant. However the rigid construction of these devices generally limits their use to flat, even surfaces. In an effort to apply thermal generation capabilities to almost any shape, scientists at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea claim to have created a thermoelectric coating that can be directly painted onto most surfaces.
Variously known as the Peltier, Seebeck, or Thomson effect, the thermoelectric effect is seen in semiconductor devices that create a voltage when a different temperature is present on each side or, when a voltage is applied to the device, it creates a temperature difference between the two sides. In this instance, the new paint created by the UNIST researchers is used specifically to heat a surface when a voltage is applied.
The specially-formulated inorganic thermoelectric paint was created using Bi2Te3 (bismuth telluride) and Sb2Te3 (antimony telluride) particles to create two types of semiconducting material. To test the resultant mixture, the researchers applied alternate p-type (positive) and n-type (negative) layers of the thermoelectric semiconductor paint on a metal dome with electrodes at the top and the base of the dome.
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