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Jul 30, 2016
Mars City Design wants to 3D-print prototypes of Martian habitats in the Mojave Desert
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, habitats, space
Growing up in Jakarta’s polluted slums, Vera Mulyani loved building things. As a child, she dreamed of becoming an architect.
More than two decades later, Mulyani is a self-proclaimed “Marschitect,” and spends her time brainstorming how human life might be sustained on the red planet. After studying at École d’Architecture de Nantes in France and at New York Film Academy, in January 2015 she founded Mars City Design, a think tank of sorts aimed at developing blueprints for the first self-sustaining city on Mars.
Earlier this month, Mars City Design raised $30,382 on Kickstarter to realize the next phase of its mission: Within the next three years, the group wants to 3D-print three to-scale habitat prototypes of Martian cities at Reaction Research Society’s test area in the Mojave Desert.
Jul 30, 2016
Tesla Launches Gigafactory | Tesla Motors
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, Elon Musk, energy, environmental, physics, solar power, transportation
Tag: Tesla
Jul 30, 2016
Aubrey de Grey — An End to Aging?
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsNNUEx5OkU&t=0s
A fairly recent video where Aubrey de Grey talks about the future of regenerative medicine and how we will treat age related diseases.
Dr. Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation gives a lecture and answers questions in Spain, April 2016.
Jul 30, 2016
Norway to build world’s first floating underwater traffic tunnels
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Norway has hatched ambitious plans to install the world’s first floating underwater tunnels to help travelers easily cross the nation’s many fjords. At present, the only way to travel across the bodies of water involves taking a series of ferries – an inconvenient and time-consuming process. The “submerged floating bridges” would consist of large tubes suspended under 100 feet of water, and each one will be wide enough for two lanes of traffic.
Jul 30, 2016
Pancreatic cell transplantation: a breakthrough for type 1 diabetes?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
In a new study, pancreatic islet cell transplantation has shown promise as an effective treatment alternative for type 1 diabetes patients with severe hypoglycemia.
Jul 30, 2016
An artificial pancreas is crowdfunding’s first $100 million unicorn
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: cyborgs, internet, transhumanism
Jul 30, 2016
Researchers find a male hormone that reversed cell aging in a clinical trial — “Cellular elixir of youth”
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Telomerase, an enzyme naturally found in the human organism, is the closest of all known substances to a “cellular elixir of youth.” In a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Brazilian and US researchers show that sex hormones can stimulate production of this enzyme.
The strategy was tested in patients with genetic diseases associated with mutations in the gene that codes for telomerase, such as aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosis.