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Aug 8, 2024
The End of Aging episode 1: Is it possible to live to 120?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: life extension
Is it possible to live to 120? Yes, according to the burgeoning field of longevity science. Over twelve weeks, reporter Darren Mara puts his own body to the test to find out if aging really is a thing of the past.
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Aug 8, 2024
Anduril to open software-based manufacturing hub to scale production
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI
As the Pentagon makes a push toward scaling production of autonomous systems and weapons, Anduril Industries is accelerating its own manufacturing capabilities through a new software-based production hub called Arsenal.
The California-based defense technology company announced Wednesday it will build the first Arsenal facility in the U.S., using funding from a recent $1.5 billion Series F investment round. Chris Brose, Anduril’s chief strategy officer, told reporters the firm’s goal is to consolidate manufacturing in order to “hyperscale” production across its product lines, including uncrewed combat drones and autonomous underwater vehicles.
“When we say hyperscale, we mean the ability to produce tens of thousands of a given system,” he said in a briefing. “This is the target that we’re setting for ourselves right now.”
Aug 8, 2024
Air Force Research Lab eyes space data transport demo in 2026
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: innovation
The Air Force Research Lab is working with the Space Warfighting Analysis Center and the Defense Innovation Unit to test space data transport concepts.
Aug 8, 2024
Metalenses phase characterization by multi-distance phase retrieval
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: transportation
Metalens is a kind of optical metasurface composed of metaatoms for manipulating incoming light’s amplitude, phase, and polarization. Unlike traditional refractive lenses, metalens can modulate the wavefront from plane to spherical at an interface. It has garnered widespread attention due to its novel physical properties and promising potential applications.
Aug 8, 2024
Research confirms importance of symmetry in pre-ignition fusion experiments
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have retrospectively confirmed that implosion asymmetry was a major aspect of fusion experiments before achieving ignition for the first time at the Lab’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world’s most energetic laser.
Aug 8, 2024
New research challenges conventional wisdom on wet surface adhesion
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Scientists at the University of Akron and the University of Pittsburgh have overturned long-held assumptions in new research that finds water can be a help for adhesion.
Aug 8, 2024
X-ray imagery of vibrating diamond opens avenues for quantum sensing
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: entertainment, quantum physics
When it comes to materials for quantum sensors, diamond is the best game in town, says Cornell University professor Gregory Fuchs. Now he and a team of scientists have upped diamond’s game by generating exquisite imagery of diamond undergoing microscopic vibrations.
Aug 8, 2024
Glimpse into the nanoworld: Microscope reveals tiniest cell processes
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: biotech/medical
What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Oxford, in collaboration with the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), have succeeded in developing a microscope with resolutions better than five nanometers (five billionths of a meter). This is roughly equivalent to the width of a hair split into 10,000 strands. Their new method was published in Nature Photonics.
Aug 8, 2024
Lasers deliver powerful shocking punch in material experiments
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: materials
Shock experiments are widely used to understand the mechanical and electronic properties of matter under extreme conditions, like planetary impacts by meteorites. However, after the shock occurs, a clear description of the post-shock thermal state and its impacts on material properties is still lacking.