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Apr 30, 2020
Grandfather miraculously beats coronavirus on his 107th birthday
Posted by TJ Wass in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Rudolph Heider who survived the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, and World War Two has beaten Coronavirus on his 107th birthday.
A great-great-grandfather who lived through the Spanish Flu, Great Depression and World War II has now conquered coronavirus — just in time for his 107th birthday.
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Apr 30, 2020
NASA creates a KNIFE that will never need to be sharpened
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: innovation, neuroscience
The cutting-edge ‘KNasa Chef Knife’ is twice as sharp as other blades and stays sharp for five times longer.
The brains behind it claim it is the first true innovation in knife making in over 200 years.
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Apr 30, 2020
Hidden symmetry found in chemical kinetic equations
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, information science, mathematics
Rice University researchers have discovered a hidden symmetry in the chemical kinetic equations scientists have long used to model and study many of the chemical processes essential for life.
The find has implications for drug design, genetics and biomedical research and is described in a study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. To illustrate the biological ramifications, study co-authors Oleg Igoshin, Anatoly Kolomeisky and Joel Mallory of Rice’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) used three wide-ranging examples: protein folding, enzyme catalysis and motor protein efficiency.
In each case, the researchers demonstrated that a simple mathematical ratio shows that the likelihood of errors is controlled by kinetics rather than thermodynamics.
Apr 30, 2020
New research shows the Army could soon develop a rifle with hyper-velocity rounds
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: military, weapons
Circa 2019
But perhaps soldiers should be glad that the Army didn’t go with the infamous Heckler & Koch G11 or the futuristic XM29 OICW, or the ill-fated XM8 assault rifle.
Instead of a very conventional rifle firing the 5.56 NATO round, the Army is now rapidly progressing towards developing and field-testing a new weapon that can double the muzzle speeds of a bullet.
Apr 30, 2020
New Engines Will Keep the B-52 Bomber Flying for 100 Years
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
The U.S. Air Force’s fleet of B-52H heavy strategic bombers are on track to becoming a fleet of flying centenarians. The service wants to purchase over 600 new engines for its B-52s, ensuring that the “Big Ugly Fat Fella” can fly on to 2050 or later. This will practically ensure that some bombers, delivered in the early 1960s, will still be dropping bombs in the early 2060s.
Apr 30, 2020
An LA creative studio has designed a pandemic-proof raving suit
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: biotech/medical
The high-tech outfit’s features includes compatibility with vaping and a subwoofer soundsystem.
Apr 30, 2020
Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Human Intel Analysts In a Key Area
Posted by TJ Wass in categories: military, robotics/AI
The Pentagon has created top secret military artificial intelligence that has a higher intellect than humans.
A Defense Intelligence Agency experiment shows AI and humans have different risk tolerances when data is scarce.
In the 1983 movie WarGames, the world is brought to the edge of nuclear destruction when a military computer using artificial intelligence interprets false data as an imminent Soviet missile strike. Its human overseers in the Defense Department, unsure whether the data is real, can’t convince the AI that it may be wrong. A recent finding from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, suggests that in a real situation where humans and AI were looking at enemy activity, those positions would be reversed.
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Apr 30, 2020
Russian sub hunters worry air traffic controllers. Norway scrambled F-16s and F-35s
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
British Air Traffic Control says Russia’s long-range military aviation, flying south outside Norway towards the North Sea, is posing a hazard to civilian air traffic.
Apr 30, 2020
GE Power Plays: Wind Might Blow Coal, Gas And Nuclear Away
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: business, nuclear energy
GE offshore wind: massive offshore turbine Haliade-X 12MW looks like a winner.
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy may be a receding opportunity.
GE might sell its steam power business and rationalise its fossil fuel interests.
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