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Jun 29, 2021

Prevailing Alzheimer’s Theory in Question With New Discovery

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Summary: Study finds amyloid-beta plaques may not be the cause of memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease, but instead a consequence of the disease. Regardless of the levels of amyloid plaques, researchers found individuals with high levels of amyloid peptide were cognitively normal. Higher levels of soluble amyloid beta peptide were also linked to people having a larger hippocampus.

Source: University of Cincinnati.

Experts estimate more than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s dementia. But a recent study, led by the University of Cincinnati, sheds new light on the disease and a highly debated new drug therapy.

Jun 29, 2021

Artificial Photosynthesis Machine Turns Water Into Fuel

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability, transportation

Now, researchers are homing in on an artificial photosynthesis device that could let us do the same trick, turning sunlight and water into clean-burning hydrogen fuel for our cars, homes, and more.

Solar cells already let us convert sunlight into electricity. Artificial photosynthesis devices, however, use sunlight to turn water or carbon dioxide into liquid fuels, such as hydrogen or ethanol.

These can be stored more easily than electricity and used in different ways, allowing them to substitute for fossil fuels like oil and gas.

Jun 29, 2021

Microsoft approved a Windows driver booby-trapped with rootkit malware

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Redmond’s legendary QA strikes again.

Jun 29, 2021

‘Edge of chaos’ opens pathway to artificial intelligence discoveries

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, robotics/AI

Scientists at the University of Sydney and Japan’s National Institute for Material Science (NIMS) have discovered that an artificial network of nanowires can be tuned to respond in a brain-like way when electrically stimulated.

The international team, led by Joel Hochstetter with Professor Zdenka Kuncic and Professor Tomonobu Nakayama, found that by keeping the network of in a brain-like state “at the edge of chaos”, it performed tasks at an optimal level.

This, they say, suggests the underlying nature of neural intelligence is physical, and their discovery opens an exciting avenue for the development of artificial intelligence.

Jun 29, 2021

Happy birthday, Mr. Technoking: Stories that made Elon Musk’s 50th year

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, food, sustainability

Shocking developments and futuristic cheese farms were just icing on the cake.

Jun 29, 2021

Blood Plasma Dilution w/Saline-Albumin | Drs. Irina & Mike Conboy Interview Series Ep 2

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

In this video, Drs Irina and Mike Conboy talk about the procedure of Neutral Blood Exchange. How it is done and how much blood of the blood is exchanged.

Our guests today are Drs. Irina and Michael Conboy of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California Berkeley. their discovery of the rejuvenating effects of young blood through parabiosis in a seminal paper published in Nature in 2005 paved the way for a thriving field of rejuvenation biology. The Conboy lab currently focuses on broad rejuvenation of tissue maintenance and repair, stem cell niche engineering, elucidating the mechanisms underlying muscle stem cell aging, directed organogenesis, and making CRISPR a therapeutic reality.

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Jun 29, 2021

China Is Secretly Testing Super Powerful Ion Thruster

Posted by in category: space travel

Where are the Chinese going to get the energy for this?Not too long ago, China announced an ambitious…


Where are the Chinese going to get the energy for this?

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Jun 29, 2021

SpaceX aiming for first orbital test launch of Starship in July

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX is hoping to attempt to fly its in-development spacecraft Starship to orbit for the first time in July, according to company president Gwynne Shotwell shared the timeline at the International Space Development conference during a virtual speaking engagement.

Starship has been in development for the past several years, and it has been making shorter test flights, but remaining within Earth’s atmosphere, since last year. Its most recent flight also included its first fully successful landing, which is a key ingredient in the development of the Starship launch system, which is designed to be SpaceX’s first that is fully reusable.

July (aka next month) is an ambitious timeline for making the first orbital flight attempt of Starship, but in May SpaceX filed its planned course for the flight, which would lift off from the company’s Starship development site in south Texas near Brownsville (known as ‘Starbase’) and then eventually return to Earth with a splash down in the Pacific Ocean somewhere off the cost of Hawaii.

Jun 28, 2021

Engineer Removes the Spokes From the Wheels of His Bike to Create an Incredible ‘Hubless Bicycle’

Posted by in category: transportation

The Q engineer (previously) who likes to fiddle around with bicycle tires, decided to remove the entire internal hub (spokes and frame) from the wheel of his bicycle. He then crafted, molded, and welded an entire external system to ensure the ride would be smooth.

Jun 28, 2021

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have claimed the world’s first use of AI & supercomputing in war!

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing, transportation

I doubt they were the first to use artificial intelligence in war. But it does discuss the AI technologies used in the recent conflict.

They used AI technology to identify targets for air strikes, specifically to counter the extensive tunnel network of their opponents.

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