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May 3, 2021

New Metal-Air Battery Design Offers a Potential Boost to Electric Vehicles

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability, transportation

Billy Hurley, Digital Editorial Manager.

Metal-air batteries are light, compact power sources with a high energy density, but they have had a major limitation: They corrode.

A new design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology uses oil to reduce the corrosion and extend the shelf life of single-use metal-air batteries.

May 3, 2021

Making a Solenoid Boxer 4 Engine

Posted by in category: futurism

In this video I’m making a 4 cylinder solenoid boxer engine.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I do!

Continue reading “Making a Solenoid Boxer 4 Engine” »

May 3, 2021

Six new coronavirus symptoms just officially added to CDC list. What are they?

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

New symptoms for the disease now include “chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell,” the CDC said.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tripled the number of coronavirus symptoms it lists on its website.

The federal organization previously listed fever, cough and shortness of breath as symptoms of COVID-19. The CDC has added six additional symptoms as people “have had a wide range of symptoms reported,” it says on its website.

May 3, 2021

First Look at the Insane Virgin Galactic VSS Imagine Spaceship

Posted by in categories: business, space travel

The Virgin Galactic spaceship, VSS Imagine has been unveiled, revealing a more modular spacecraft designed to resolve challenges.


“For us to make the business start to scale, at the places that we’re aspiring towards, we need two things,” says Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier. “We need many more ships than we have right now and we also need the ships that we bring forward to be built in a way that they’re able to be maintained in a way that we can have much quicker than what we have with Unity.” In order to achieve those two elements of success, Virgin Atlantic has unveiled their latest spacecraft, the VSS Imagine. The new addition to the fleet is the third spacecraft built by Virgin Galactic and “has been designed in a way that’s taken the learnings we’ve had from all the flight testing on Unity.”

May 3, 2021

How Tesla pivoted to avoid the global chip shortage that could last years

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing

Tesla explained how it pivoted to avoid the global microchip shortage that Intel now says could last for several more years.

The pandemic has resulted in an increase in demand for many electronics and computers that the supply chain couldn’t handle, especially the semiconductor industry.

This microchip shortage, in turn, affected the automotive industry, which has increasingly become a big consumer of microchips.

May 3, 2021

Light Therapy Helps Veterans Treated for Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted by in categories: biological, health, neuroscience

Summary: Morning bright light therapy improved both physical and mental health symptoms, including cognitive function and sleep quality, in veterans who suffered TBI.

Source: Experimental Biology.

A new study by researchers at the VA Portland Health Care System in Oregon found that augmenting traditional treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI) with morning bright light therapy (MBLT) improved physical and mental symptoms for participants.

May 3, 2021

Six dementia patients got an unapproved gene therapy, CEO says

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

The study is part of an effort by entrepreneurs and scientists, dreamers and schemers, to demonstrate aging is not inevitable.

May 3, 2021

Astronauts have been enjoying a fresh supply of vegetables to keep them healthy in space. Two NASA scientists explain how the crop-growing experiments worked

Posted by in category: space travel

Of the many challenges astronauts will face in future missions to the Moon and Mars, keeping healthy is one of the most crucial.

But, in recent days, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) found startling solutions to sustain them on long-lasting missions. They recently enjoyed a fresh supply of vegetables due in large part to the efforts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission commander and Expedition 64 crew member, Michael Hopkins.

Insider spoke to two NASA scientists, Matt Romeyn and Gioia Massa, who work on the crop-production experiments, known as Veg-03Kand VEG-03L. Romeyn is the lead scientist on the experiments and Gioia is a Kennedy Space Centre plant scientist.

May 3, 2021

Dogecoin Now Valued Higher than Twitter and Ford

Posted by in category: cryptocurrencies

Dogecoin is being valued at $49.8 billion which means it is valued higher than automaker Ford ($45.2 billion) and Twitter ($44.1 billion).

May 3, 2021

Meet the first all-civilian crew about to orbit Earth in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, space travel

Who could resist such an opportunity?


The iconic Launch Pad 39A will help take four Americans — a billionaire, a childhood cancer survivor, a science instructor and an engineer — into orbit.