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May 5, 2020

SpaceX Crew Dragon Trunk Secured to Spacecraft for Demo-2

Posted by in category: space travel

The SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk was secured to the spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, in preparation for launch of NASAfs SpaceX Demo-2 mission.The SpaceX Crew Dragon trunk was secured to the spacecraft on Thursday, April 30, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, in preparation for launch of NASAfs SpaceX Demo-2 mission.

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A is slated for May 27 at 4:32 p.m. EDT.

Demo-2 will serve as an end-to-end test of SpaceX’s crew transportation system, paving the way for NASA to certify the system for regular crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory as a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission will be the first crewed flight to launch from U.S. soil since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.

May 5, 2020

This Is How Physics, Not Math, Finally Resolves Zeno’s Famous Paradox

Posted by in categories: mathematics, physics

Zeno’s paradox stumped philosophers, mathematicians, and intellectuals for millennia. It took physics to finally solve it.

May 5, 2020

Ex-Green Beret claims he led foiled raid into Venezuela

Posted by in categories: government, security

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A former Green Beret has taken responsibility for what he claimed was a failed attack Sunday aimed at overthrowing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that the socialist government said ended with eight dead.

Jordan Goudreau’s comments in an interview with an exiled Venezuelan journalist capped a bizarre day that started with reports of a predawn amphibious raid near the South American country’s heavily guarded capital.

An AP investigation published Friday found that Goudreau had been working with a retired Venezuelan army general now facing U.S. narcotics charges to train dozens of deserters from Venezuela’s security forces at secret camps inside neighboring Colombia. The goal was to mount a cross-border raid that would end in Maduro’s arrest.

May 5, 2020

NASA Selects Companies to Develop Human Lunar Landers

Posted by in category: space travel

Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX will each design and build spacecraft that could return astronauts to the Moon.

May 5, 2020

Brain–spleen connection aids antibody production

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

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Elucidating how the brain controls peripheral organs in the fight against infection is crucial for our understanding of brain–body interactions. A study in mice reveals one such pathway worthy of further investigation. Neurons in stress-responsive brain regions boost plasma-cell formation.

May 5, 2020

Please joining me in congratulating a world-class anti-aging researcher — Dr. Lu

Posted by in category: life extension

“I became Dr. Lu on May.4th.2020 🎓Feel blessed. #HarvardPhD #Sinclairlab #AntiAging #InVivoReprogramming”

May 5, 2020

Could Deep Breathing Exercises Protect You From the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Deep Breathing alone will not create new lung cells, but combined with deep relaxation, guided visualizations, and therapeutic messages (Your stem cells are going to transform themselves into new lung cells to replace those lung cells infected by the Coronavirus. Your stem cells are going to change themselves into T-Cells, B-Cells, and Natural Killer Cells which are going to seek out, identify, attack, and destroy all the Coronavirus cells in your entire body), it will eliminate the coughing, fever, headaches, inflammation, and breathing problems.

While there is no hard evidence that lung exercises can help ease the discomfort and the progression of symptoms of COVID-19, there are techniques that will restore your lungs to optimal health.

May 5, 2020

Boeing’s Stealth YF-118G ‘Bird of Prey’ Was Straight Out of Science Fiction

Posted by in category: futurism

Boeing donated the sole YF-118G Bird of Prey to the museum in 2002 and it has been on display since 2003 – where despite its stealthy technology is ready to be seen and photographed by visitors.

By Peter Suciu

May 5, 2020

How a mycologist is making ‘living’ bricks out of mushrooms that are stronger than concrete

Posted by in categories: materials, sustainability

Circa 2017 o.,o.


Philip Ross is an artist and lecturer at Stanford University who focuses on an unlikely sustainable design element: mushrooms. After years of growing mushrooms, Ross has learned that there’s far more than meets the eye to mycelium — the extensive and tangled network of rootlike fibers that grow beneath the ground. According to our fungus expert, when left to dry the mycelium can become an excellent raw material for various constructions. For instance, Ross used the mycelium to fashion bricks out of.

Among its many properties, the mycelium bricks are:

May 5, 2020

Environmentally friendly ‘living concrete’ capable of self-healing

Posted by in categories: biological, materials

Researchers said this building material has structural load-bearing function, is capable of self-healing and is more environmentally friendly than concrete – which is the second most-consumed material on Earth after water.

The team from the University of Colorado Boulder believe their work paves the way for future building structures that could “heal their own cracks, suck up dangerous toxins from the air or even glow on command”.

Wil Srubar, who heads the Living Materials Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder and is one of the study authors, said: “We already use biological materials in our buildings, like wood, but those materials are no longer alive.