A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the Universität Mainz has developed the world’s smallest engine.
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In a backyard shed in a small US town, a ‘frozen dead guy’ sits in a homemade cryogenic chamber
In a backyard shed in the snowy town of Nederland in the United States lies the frozen corpse of Bredo Morstoel.
The Norwegian man died 30 years ago. If plans go accordingly, he may one day walk again.
Inside Bredo’s timber mausoleum, a man named Brad Wickham throws bricks of dry ice onto a metal casket.
The Bomb-Proof Miracle Materials That Will Make the Future Safer
Circa 2013
When a bomb explodes, you can’t outmaneuver it; you probably can’t even take cover quickly enough to protect yourself. Instead, you have to hope that there’s something—anything—already in the way that can shield you from the blast. Here are five of the best future bomb-proof materials that could end up saving lives in our increasingly uncertain future.
Bubonic Plague Is on the Rise in the US, but We Finally Know How to Treat It
Yes, bubonic plague—the Black Death that killed millions in the Middle Ages— is still out there. It even infects and kills people in the United States. Without treatment, half the people infected die, but the Food and Drug Administration approved ciprofloxacin in 2015 to treat plague, and it has just successfully been used to stop the infection in five people.
Before ciprofloxacin was approved for use, people infected with Yersinia pestis, the plague-causing bacteria, were treated with streptomycin or doxycycline. Streptomycin kills the bacteria, but has serious side effects, and doxycycline inhibits the bacteria, but doesn’t completely kill it.
Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the Y. pestis bacteria. Rock squirrels, wood rats, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, chipmunks, mice, voles, and rabbits also can become infected with plague from a flea bite, and fleas that bite them can, in turn, transmit the infection to humans by biting them.
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⏪🕰 2009 – Using a new modeling program, Lab researchers predict the collision between the defunct Russian Cosmos 2251 and privately-owned American Iridium 33 satellite months before it happened.
Learn more 🛰→ https://str.llnl.gov/content/pages/past-issues-pdfs/2009.07.pdf
Living Smart: The City of the Future
In the coming decades, the planet’s most heavily concentrated populations may occupy city environments where a digital blanket of sensors, devices, and cloud connected data are orchestrated to enhance humanity’s living experience. A variety of smart concepts are forming key elements of what enable city ecosystems to function effectively – from traffic control and environmental protection to the management of energy, sanitation, healthcare, security, and buildings. In this article, we reflect on the potential personal impacts of the smart city, and its technologies, on the individuals residing there.
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Conspiracy theories are dangerous—here’s how to crush them
GONE ARE the days when conspiracy-mongers had to find shards of evidence and contort it to convince people. Now, just their malevolence is needed. If a concocted scenario can’t be proved, then perhaps it can’t be disproved either. That is toxic for a stable society and politics. So how did we get here, and how do we get out?
Nancy L. Rosenblum of Harvard University and Russell Muirhead of Dartmouth College are the authors of “A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy” (Princeton, 2019). Though conspiracy theories have always existed, they note that today something is different and dangerous: “Conspiracy without the theory.”