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Human Cyborgs Are No Longer Science Fiction! (Insane Breakthroughs)

Are human cyborgs the future? You won’t believe how close we are to merging humans with machines! This video uncovers groundbreaking advancements in cyborg technology, from bionic limbs and brain-computer interfaces to biological robots like anthrobots and exoskeletons. Discover how these innovations are reshaping healthcare, military, and even space exploration.

Learn about real-world examples, like Neil Harbisson, the colorblind cyborg artist, and the latest developments in brain-on-a-chip technology, combining human cells with artificial intelligence. Explore how cyborg soldiers could revolutionize the battlefield and how genetic engineering might complement robotic enhancements.

The future of human augmentation is here. Could we be on the verge of transforming humanity itself? Dive in to find out how science fiction is quickly becoming reality.

How do human cyborgs work? What are the latest AI breakthroughs in cyborg technology? How are cyborgs being used today? Could humans evolve into hybrid beings? This video answers all your questions. Don’t miss it!

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China’s new 2.47kW portable laser works in Arctic cold, Saharan desert

Chinese scientists have developed a portable 2-kilowatt (kW) fiber laser weapon that can operate in extreme temperatures. Reportedly capable of functioning in conditions between −58°F (−50°C) and 122°F (50°C), the new laser does not require cooling or heating systems. This breakthrough means the laser can be used anywhere on Earth, from the Arctic to the Sahara, without the need for bulky infrastructure.

If true, the innovation is an impressive feat as most lasers of this power class require massive cooling units (like air conditioners in a shipping container) to avoid overheating or freezing. The device has been developed to cater to defense and industrial sectors.

“We have achieved a technological breakthrough in the performance of wide-temperature operating fibre lasers,” Chen Jinbao, vice-president of the National University of Defence Technology which led the development of the laser, explained in the paper published in the Chinese-language journal Higher Power Laser and Particle Beams in July.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-2-47…ert-arctic Particle Beams in July.


The laser beams enough power to disable drones and cut through several kinds of materials from over 0.62 miles (1 km) away.

Post-Alcubierre Warp-Drives

Researchers are actively exploring and revising the concept of Alcubierre warp drive, as well as alternative approaches, to potentially make superluminal travel feasible with reduced energy requirements and advanced technologies ## ## Questions to inspire discussion.

Practical Warp Drive Concepts.

🚀 Q: What is the Alcubierre warp drive? A: The Alcubierre warp drive (1994) is a superluminal travel concept within general relativity, using a warp bubble that contracts space in front and expands behind the spacecraft.

🌌 Q: How does Jose Natario’s warp drive differ from Alcubierre’s? A: Natario’s warp drive (2001) describes the warp bubble as a soliton and vector field, making it harder to visualize but potentially more mathematically robust.

🔬 Q: What is unique about Chris Van Den Broeck’s warp drive? A: Van Den Broeck’s warp drive (1999) uses a nested warp field, creating a larger interior than exterior, similar to a TARDIS, while remaining a physical solution within general relativity. Energy Requirements and Solutions.

💡 Q: How do Eric Lent’s hyperfast positive energy warp drives work? A: Lent’s warp drives (2020) are solitons capable of superluminal travel using purely positive energy densities, reopening discussions on conventional physics-based superluminal mechanisms.

DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

Previously, the greatest reported distance records for an appreciable amount of optical power (1 microwatt) were 230 watts of average power at 1.7 kilometers for 25 seconds and a lesser (but undisclosed) amount of power at 3.7 kilometers.

“It is beyond a doubt that we absolutely obliterated all previously reported optical power beaming demonstrations for power and distance,” said POWER Program Manager Paul Jaffe after the results were confirmed. The DARPA-led team brought together industry and government, including the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF) at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range.

Energy is a fundamental requirement for military operations, and traditional means of getting energy to the edge (battlefields, disaster zones, etc.) are often incredibly slow, risky, and resource intensive. These tests, referred to as PRAD (POWER Receiver Array Demo), mark an important step towards the POWER program’s long-term goal of being able to instantly beam power from a location where it can be easily generated to wherever it’s needed, opening a novel design space for platform capabilities unbounded by fuel limitations.

What is uranium enrichment and how is it used for nuclear bombs? A scientist explains

Late last week, Israel targeted three of Iran’s key nuclear facilities—Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely underground, and there are conflicting reports of how much damage has been done.

Natanz and Fordow are Iran’s uranium enrichment sites, and Isfahan provides the raw materials, so any damage to these sites would limit Iran’s ability to produce .

But what exactly is and why does it raise concerns?

Star Trek’s Biggest Plot Hole: UFOs and the Prime Directive

In the grand cosmology of Star Trek, the Prime Directive stands as both a legal doctrine and a quasi-religious tenet, the sacred cow of Federation ethics. It is the non-interference policy that governs Starfleet’s engagement with pre-warp civilizations, the bright line between enlightenment and colonial impulse. And yet, if one tilts their head and squints just a little, a glaring inconsistency emerges: UFOs. Our own real-world history teems with sightings, leaked military footage, close encounters of the caffeinated late-night internet variety — yet in the Star Trek universe, these are, at best, unacknowledged background noise. This omission, this gaping lacuna in Trek’s otherwise meticulous world-building, raises a disturbing implication: If the Prime Directive were real, then the galaxy is full of alien civilizations thumbing their ridged noses at it.

To be fair, Star Trek often operates under what scholars of narrative theory might call “selective realism.” It chooses which elements of contemporary history to incorporate and which to quietly ignore, much like the way a Klingon would selectively recount a battle story, omitting any unfortunate pratfalls. When the series does engage with Earth’s past, it prefers a grand mythos — World War III, the Eugenics Wars, Zephram Cochrane’s Phoenix breaking the warp barrier — rather than grappling with the more untidy fringes of historical record. And yet, our own era’s escalating catalog of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs, as the rebranding now insists) would seem to demand at least a passing acknowledgment. After all, a civilization governed by the Prime Directive would have had to enforce a strict policy of never being seen, yet our skies have been, apparently, a traffic jam of unidentified blips, metallic tic-tacs, and unexplained glowing orbs.

This contradiction has been largely unspoken in official Trek canon. The closest the franchise has come to addressing the issue is in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), where we see a Vulcan survey ship observing post-war Earth, waiting for Cochrane’s historic flight to justify first contact. But let’s consider the narrative implication here: If Vulcans were watching in 2063, were they also watching in 1963? If Cochrane’s flight was the green light for formal engagement, were the preceding decades a period of silent surveillance, with Romulan warbirds peeking through the ozone layer like celestial Peeping Toms?

Iron powder outperforms activated carbon as adsorbent for PFOS—even when it rusts

PFOS, also known as “forever chemicals,” are synthetic compounds popular for several commercial applications, like making products resistant to stains, fire, grease, soil and water. They have been used in non-stick cookware, carpets, rugs, upholstered furniture, food packaging and firefighting foams deployed at airports and military airfields.

PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate or perfluorooctane ) are part of the larger class of forever chemicals called PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances.) Both types have been linked to a variety of health issues, including , immune system malfunction, developmental issues and cancer.

Because of their widespread use, PFOS are found in soil, agricultural products and drinking water sources, presenting a health risk. Xiaoguang Meng and Christos Christodoulatos, professors at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. student Meng Ji working in their lab, wanted to identify the most efficient way to remove these toxins from the water.

UC San Diego a Key Part of New Project Led by General Atomics to Advance Fusion Energy

The University of California San Diego is part of a new research partnership led by San Diego-based General Atomics that was recently awarded funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The project, called the Target Injector Nexus for Experimental Development (TINEX), aims to overcome critical obstacles in developing and scaling up inertial fusion power plants.

It is one of six awards, collectively totalling $107 million, made by the DOE as part of the Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives.

“The TINEX project will be important for our collective efforts to make inertial fusion energy practical,” said mechanical engineering professor Javier E. Garay, director of the Fusion Engineering Institute at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.