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Sep 23, 2020

Goodyear’s New Tire Concept Can Regenerate Tread on the Go

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

You might never have to replace your tires again.


When all-electric vehicles eventually complete their global takeover, they’ll collectively require much less maintenance than their oiled up, transmission-based counterparts. As for the tires? That’s a different story.

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Sep 23, 2020

COOR™, a 3-in-1 versatile and functional high-tech jacket

Posted by in category: sustainability

Launching soon on Kickstarter.


Wake up and smell the coffee: introducing™ 3-in-1 jacket — an inner & outer jacket which are high-performing, sustainable, and versatile.

We have been manufacturing jackets for the market leaders for years. It is now our turn to use what we have learned to create the highest-quality jacket and cut out the middleman saving you money.

Sep 23, 2020

Is Aging a Disease You Can Reverse? A Look at the Science Behind the Longevity Movement

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

We all want to know how to live longer, but is a prolonged life a healthy, happy one? One Vogue writer looks at the science that says it might be possible.

Sep 23, 2020

Quantumlib/Cirq

Posted by in category: quantum physics

A python framework for creating, editing, and invoking Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits. — quantumlib/Cirq.

Sep 23, 2020

Juno spacecraft snaps ‘dramatic image’ of 2,200 mile eclipse on Jupiter

Posted by in category: space

NASA’S Juno spacecraft snapped this “dramatic image” of an eclipse shadow passing over Jupiter, caused by its volcanic moon Io.

Sep 23, 2020

I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

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Sep 23, 2020

New 3D printing method could jump-start creation of tiny medical devices for the body

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3D-printing gels and other soft materials. Published in a new paper, it has the potential to create complex structures with nanometer-scale precision. Because many gels are compatible with living cells, the new method could jump-start the production of soft tiny medical devices such as drug delivery systems or flexible electrodes that can be inserted into the human body.

A standard 3D printer makes solid structures by creating sheets of material—typically plastic or rubber—and building them up layer by layer, like a lasagna, until the entire object is created.

Using a 3D printer to fabricate an object made of gel is a “bit more of a delicate cooking process,” said NIST researcher Andrei Kolmakov. In the standard method, the 3D printer chamber is filled with a soup of long-chain polymers—long groups of molecules bonded together—dissolved in water. Then “spices” are added—special molecules that are sensitive to light. When light from the 3D printer activates those special molecules, they stitch together the chains of polymers so that they form a fluffy weblike . This scaffolding, still surrounded by , is the gel.

Sep 23, 2020

OSIRIS-REx Meets Bennu’s Surprises

Posted by in category: space

Even though it’s a month away from completing its primary task of capturing a sample, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission has already set records and revealed some surprising things about the asteroid Bennu: youtu.be/j_hSNBmpuqY

Sep 23, 2020

David Sinclair talks about human rejuvenation (Excerpt with S/T in Spanish)

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Short excerpt of a recent interview with Dr. David Sinclair published in the Youtube channel “Think Inc.”


Short excerpt of an interview with Dr. David Sinclair published in the Youtube channel “Think Inc.“
During the interview, Dr. Sinclair referres to the possibility of turning back the biological aging clock of the entire human body, through partial cellular reprograming in the not so distant future.

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Sep 23, 2020

Scientists create world’s smallest ‘refrigerator’

Posted by in category: innovation

How do you keep the world’s tiniest soda cold? UCLA scientists may have the answer.

A team led by UCLA physics professor Chris Regan has succeeded in creating thermoelectric coolers that are only 100 nanometers thick—roughly one ten-millionth of a meter—and have developed an innovative new technique for measuring their cooling performance.

“We have made the world’s smallest refrigerator,” said Regan, the lead author of a paper on the research published recently in the journal ACS Nano.