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Nov 30, 2022

Kongsberg precision-strike missiles to replace Harpoons on UK warships

Posted by in category: military

The first three warships are being rapidly modified to accept the weapon with the first ready for operation in a little over 12 months the U.K. Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace revealed the deal during a visit of the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to Norway this week.

The surface-to-surface strike weapon is being rushed into service in time to meet next year’s pensioning off of the Harpoon missile originally built by McDonnell Douglas before the company was acquired by Boeing.

Nov 30, 2022

Researchers discover new form of antimicrobial resistance

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Australian researchers have uncovered a new form of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), undetectable using traditional laboratory testing methods, in a discovery set to challenge existing efforts to monitor and tackle one of the world’s greatest health threats.

AMR is expected to claim 10 million lives a year by 2050, with scientists racing to understand and get ahead of the diminishing benefits of antibiotics.

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Nov 30, 2022

New quantum computing feat is a modern twist on a 150-year-old thought experiment

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A team of quantum engineers at UNSW Sydney has developed a method to reset a quantum computer—that is, to prepare a quantum bit in the ‘0’ state—with very high confidence, as needed for reliable quantum computations. The method is surprisingly simple: it is related to the old concept of ‘Maxwell’s demon’, an omniscient being that can separate a gas into hot and cold by watching the speed of the individual molecules.

“Here we used a much more modern ‘demon’—a fast digital voltmeter—to watch the temperature of an electron drawn at random from a warm pool of electrons. In doing so, we made it much colder than the pool it came from, and this corresponds to a high certainty of it being in the ‘0’ computational state,” says Professor Andrea Morello of UNSW, who led the team.

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Nov 30, 2022

Dr Katcher’s E5 Experiment November 2022 Update

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, media & arts

Short version: One treated rat is sill alive and equivalent to a 110 year old human.


In this video we review the latest updates from Dr Katcher’s Lifespan trials and NEEL clinical trials.
NTZ Newsletter.
https://www.ntzplural.com/newsletter.
NEEL website.
https://www.neel.bio.

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Nov 30, 2022

China-Shenzhou-15/Thermal Management

Posted by in category: futurism

Measures taken to guarantee Shenzhou-15 launch at ultra-low temperature.

Nov 30, 2022

Can ‘Blueprint’ make you biologically younger?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, health

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I saw a Twitter thread about Bryan Johnson’s ‘Blueprint’, claiming that he’d made himself biologically younger with a highly optimised combination of diet, supplements and exercise. What could that mean? And should we all start chugging 25 pills a day to start on the Blueprint ourselves? Probably not…but the biology behind it is surprisingly interesting.

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Nov 30, 2022

Engineers use quantum computing to develop transparent window coating that blocks heat

Posted by in categories: climatology, computing, quantum physics

Cooling accounts for about 15 percent of global energy consumption. Conventional clear windows allow the sun to heat up interior spaces, which energy-guzzling air-conditioners must then cool down. But what if a window could help cool the room, use no energy and preserve the view?

Tengfei Luo, the Dorini Family Professor of Energy Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and postdoctoral associate Seongmin Kim have devised a transparent coating for windows that does just that (ACS Energy Letters, “High-Performance Transparent Radiative Cooler Designed by Quantum Computing”).

The coating, or transparent radiative cooler (TRC), allows visible light to come in and keeps other heat-producing light out. The researchers estimate that this invention can reduce electric cooling costs by one-third in hot climates compared to conventional glass windows.

Nov 30, 2022

Novel bulk metal alloy boasts the largest tensile elastic strain at room temperature

Posted by in category: futurism

New alloy showed a large elastic limiting strain greater than 4.3%.

Nov 30, 2022

New Flaw in Acer Laptops Could Let Attackers Disable Secure Boot Protection

Posted by in category: computing

Researchers have reported a new vulnerability in Acer laptops that could be potentially weaponized to disable UEFI Secure Boot protection.

Nov 30, 2022

New study maps the development of the 20 most common psychiatric disorders

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

“Let’s see how things go.”

So psychiatrists often say to one another after a patient has been diagnosed with the first disorder—not because the diagnosis is not correct, but because psychiatrists know that have a tendency to change over the years.

In fact, 47% of psychiatric patients are diagnosed with a different diagnose within 10 years of receiving their first diagnosis.