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Nov 25, 2021

Scientists produce new antibiotics

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Scientists have discovered a new route to produce complex antibiotics exploiting gene editing to re-program pathways to future medicines urgently required to combat antimicrobial resistance, treat neglected diseases and tackle future pandemics.

Researchers from The University of Manchester have discovered a new way of manipulating key assembly line enzymes in bacteria which could pave the way for a new generation of antibiotic treatments.

New research published today in Nature Communications, describes how CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing can be used to create new nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) enzymes that deliver clinically important antibiotics. NRPS enzymes are prolific producers of natural antibiotics such as penicillin. However, up until now, manipulating these complex enzymes to produce new and more effective antibiotics has been a major challenge.

Nov 25, 2021

This is what buildings of the future will look like: and 5 ways to get there

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, health, policy, sustainability

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The gigantic roof regulates heat and light, drawing on ancient Mayan design.

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Nov 25, 2021

Man Keeps Mysterious Indestructible Rock That Turns Out to be a Scientific Marvel More Precious Than Gold

Posted by in category: futurism

After finding a mysterious indestructible rock in 2015, Hole’s rock has finally been carbon-dated to roughly 100–1,000 years old meteorite.

Nov 25, 2021

How NASA Technology Is Improving Air Travel

Posted by in categories: energy, transportation

NASA’s aircraft flight scheduling technology will start rolling out in 2023 to better coordinate aircraft movements at airports across the United States. It follows almost four years of research and testing by NASA and the FAA.

NASA’s surface metering technology is being integrated into the FAA’s airport surface management technology called the Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM) that will get implemented at 27 airports around the US.

The platform aims to improve efficiency, shift departure wait times from the taxiway to the gate, save fuel, reduce emissions, and give airlines and passengers more flexibility in the period before leaving the gate.

Nov 25, 2021

I Tasted The (Delicious) Meat Grown in These Vats

Posted by in categories: business, futurism

Upside Foods opened the largest synthetic meat factory in the world. It’s designed to grow thousands of pounds of chicken, beef and pork. Backed by Bill Gates and Richard Branson, Upside is betting consumers will go for vat-grown meat.

#Food #HelloWorld #BloombergQuicktake.

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Nov 25, 2021

China has a missile that was previously thought impossible, report claims

Posted by in categories: innovation, military

China has tested a weapon that was previously thought impossible, according to a new report.

The hypersonic weapon test saw the country fire a missile from another spacecraft that was already flying at least five times the speed of sound, the report claimed. Such technology was previously thought impossible and US experts are unsure how China was able to actually conduct the test, it said.

Though the test happened in July, and was reported closer to the time, the nature of the breakthrough was first revealed in a new report from the Financial Times. The paper reported that experts have been poring through data in an attempt to understand how China was able to build the technology – as well as what exactly the missile was intended to do.

Nov 25, 2021

New Particles Discovered that Provide Answers to Dark Matter Comsic Riddle

Posted by in categories: cosmology, education, particle physics

#Universe #Documentary #Space.

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Nov 25, 2021

‘Super jelly’ made from 80 per cent water can survive being run over

Posted by in categories: chemistry, robotics/AI, transportation

It could replace cartilage in knees and even help create soft robots 🤯


Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s ‘super jelly’ — a bizarre new material that can survive being run over by a car even though it’s composed of 80 per cent water.

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Nov 25, 2021

Neuroscience explains exactly why we should be grateful for…our brains

Posted by in category: neuroscience

All these bequests of your bigger brain cortex mean you can gather four generations around a meal to exchange banter and gossip, turn information into knowledge and even practice the art of what-not-to-say-when.

You may even want to be thankful for another achievement of our neuron-crammed human cortices: All the technology that allows people spread over the globe to come together in person, on screens, or through words whispered directly into your ears long distance.

Nov 25, 2021

The secret of human intelligence

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

I continue to introduce you to a series of articles on the nature of human intelligence and the future of artificial intelligence systems. In the previous article “Artificial intelligence vs neurophysiology: Why the difference matters” we found out that the basis of the work of any biological nervous system is not a computational function (like in a computer), but a reflex or a prepared answer.

But how then did our intelligence come about? How did a biological system repeating pre-prepared reactions become a powerful creative machine?

In this article, we will answer this question in the language of facts. Creating our intelligence, nature has found a simple and at the same time ingenious solution, which is not devoid of a great mystery, which we will also touch.