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Oct 28, 2016
Ultra-low-power transistors could function for years without a battery
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: computing
“If we were to draw energy from a typical AA battery based on this design, it would last for a billion years.” — Sungsik Lee, PhD, in the journal Science.
The transistors can be produced at low temperatures and can be printed on almost any material, such as glass, plastic, polyester fabrics, and paper.
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Oct 28, 2016
Future Asteroid Miners Seek Solid Space Rock Plan
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, space
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pIY_fmvFDhM
Once thought of as a pipe-dream, exploitation of the solar system’s asteroids is being planned by a growing community of asteroid mining companies and scientists.
NASA.
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Oct 28, 2016
Scientists say weird signals from space are ‘probably’ aliens
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: alien life
A team of astronomers believes that strange signals emanating from a cluster of stars are actually aliens trying to tell the universe they exist.
The study, which appeared in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, analyzed the odd beams of light from 234 stars — a fraction of the 2.5 million that were observed.
The bizarre beacons led the paper’s authors, Ermanno F. Borra and Eric Trottier from Laval University in Quebec, to conclude that it’s “probably” aliens.
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Oct 27, 2016
Mevo: The first camera to stream to facebook live
Posted by Elmar Arunov in category: electronics
Oct 27, 2016
Scientists identify fossilized dinosaur brain tissue for first time ever
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: neuroscience
A brown pebble discovered on an English beach more a decade ago is actually the world’s first known example of a fossilized dinosaur brain, scientists have confirmed.
The remarkable find is thought to have come from a large plant-eater such as the Iguanodon, which walked the earth about 133 million years ago.
It is believed the creature must have died near water with its head buried in sediment in a swamp or boggy ground, allowing its brain to be “pickled” and preserved.
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Oct 27, 2016
Scientists discover elixir of youth — for mice — and begin tests on humans
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Scientists in the US claim to have discovered a natural compound found in avocado, broccoli and cucumber that has “remarkable anti-ageing effects in mice” — and could also work on humans.
The researchers, who have started clinical trials involving a small group of people, said older mice given the compound, called NMN, in their water saw an array of beneficial effects.
Their level of physical activity increased, bone density and muscles improved, the immune system and liver performed better, their eyesight improved and they even lost weight.
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Oct 27, 2016
The Future Is Now: The DeLorean Will Be Back And This Is How You Get One
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: engineering, transportation
On October 19 in 1982, John DeLorean, the man behind one of the most sought after cars ever made, was arrested with 55 pounds of cocaine worth $24 million.
However, what could have been the end for his DMC-12 was only the beginning of a journey that literally stood the test of time and 1985 brought this car _Back to the Future_.
Ten years later, in 1995, the new DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) started to restore and repair the originals using the leftover parts. They also streamlined designs based on the original engineering drawings. But these days, DMC is finally trying to produce new, but very familiar DMC-12s.
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Oct 27, 2016
Uber has a plan to make flying cars a reality
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: transportation
Oct 27, 2016
Wiring the brain with artificial senses and limb control
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, robotics/AI
There have been significant advances in developing new prostheses with a simple sense of touch, but researchers are looking to go further. Scientists and engineers are working on a way to provide prosthetic users and those suffering from spinal cord injuries with the ability to both feel and control their limbs or robotic replacements by means of directly stimulating the cortex of the brain.
For decades, a major goal of neuroscientists has been to develop new technologies to create more advanced prostheses or ways to help people who have suffered spinal cord injuries to regain the use of their limbs. Part of this has involved creating a means of sending brain signals to disconnected nerves in damaged limbs or to robotic prostheses, so they can be moved by thought, so control is simple and natural.
However, all this had only limited application because as well as being able to tell a robotic or natural limb to move, a sense of touch was also required, so the patient would know if something has been grasped properly or if the hand or arm is in the right position. Without this feedback, it’s very difficult to control an artificial limb properly even with constant concentration or computer assistance.
