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Sep 16, 2015
Swarms of smart nano-satellites may offer global connectivity (With video)
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: internet
One day we may have global connectivity — even in the remotest parts of the world — thanks to teams of tiny, intelligent, swarming satellites called CubeSats.
In an industry that doesn’t like change and definitely doesn’t like to rely on the latest and greatest in technology, CubeSats appear to be changing the game for the space industry.
And one of the things these cube-shaped satellites could be changing in the next 10 years is how to help people in impoverished or remote parts of the world get long-sought Internet access.
Sep 16, 2015
The Duke, the Landscape Architect and the World’s Most Ambitious Attempt to Bring the Cosmos to Earth — By Alina Simone | Atlas Obscura
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: innovation, science
“Last fall, a hand-picked group of the world’s top theoretical physicists received an invitation to a conference about the multiverse, a subject to which many of them had devoted the majority of their careers.”
Sep 16, 2015
In The Genes: Longevity Secrets From Long-Lived Smokers
Posted by Roy in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
If you want to increase your risk of multiple diseases, then smoking is one of surest ways to do it; it can even accelerate aging. So how do some long-term smokers beat the odds?
Long-lived smokers are fascinating. Not only do they live a long time, but they also appear unaffected by their habit. For most of us, smoking has been confirmed to be ‘toxic’, but these outliers somehow overcome this. So how can these people reach old age despite having smoked most of their life? Scientists predicted they must have some unusual genes, and they were right.
Sep 16, 2015
‘Super-antenna’ could let Mars rover talk directly with Earth
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space
An amazing new antenna prototype from UCLA has the potential to make Mars missions a whole lot easier to run.
Sep 16, 2015
Filling a void in stem cell therapy
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, materials
Stem cells coming along nicely, Stanford demonstrate how creating artificial stem cell niches improve grafting and regeneration of bone and it should have a broad application for other tissues. Properly developed we could regenerate organs and tissues by injecting enough stem cells in these manufactured protective niches.
One could potentially take it a stage further and modify the stem cells with genes of interest to make them more robust. Ex-vivo cell manipulation is also considerably cheaper than in-vivo therapy.
New porous hydrogel could boost success of some stem cell-based tissue regeneration, researchers say.
Sep 16, 2015
Mercedes-Benz: Concept IAA (Intelligent Aerodynamic Automobile).
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
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Take a look at the Mercedes-Benz: Concept IAA (Intelligent Aerodynamic Automobile) for a peep into our plans for the future of automotive.
Sep 16, 2015
How 5G will Power the Future Internet of Things
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, mobile phones, transportation
At Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco August 18th – 20th, two Intel executives discuss how 5G network capabilities will transform the way we live.
Imagine taking a trip to a cabin in the woods to get some work done and have a mini-vacation. Today, given our need for wireless connection, that’s a sketchy proposition.
You’ve got GPS in your rental car, plus your laptop, your smartphone, maybe a tablet or a smartwatch. But what if there’s no cable? What if there’s no Wi-Fi connection? What if the cellular connection is weak?
Sep 16, 2015
Scientists Have Created a System That Absorbs 99.7% of All Sound
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: materials
Is this thing on? That’s likely what Hong Kong University of Science and Technology scientists thought, shortly after they’d developed a new system that absorbs 99.7 percent of all the sound that hits it.
Many systems use sonic insulators to deaden sound: materials which absorb sound, typically over a small range of frequencies. By combining different insulators into a composite, it’s possible to absorb a large range of sounds — but it’s difficult to create such a material that absorbs all the the frequencies. It would just be too big and complex. That means that there’s a limit to the amount of sound they can absorb.
