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Feb 4, 2020
Handheld Device “Prints” New Skin Directly Onto Wounds
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: biotech/medical
Feb 4, 2020
Drugmaker Regeneron working with U.S. HHS to develop coronavirus treatment
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: biotech/medical
(Reuters) — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc ( REGN.O ) is working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a treatment for the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 400 people in China, the HHS said on Tuesday.
The company will use the same technology that was used to develop an experimental drug to treat Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said.
Feb 4, 2020
Indian oil giant, Israeli start-up to develop metal-air batteries
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: energy, transportation
India’s largest commercial oil company, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., will partner with Lod-based energy start-up Phinergy to develop and produce innovative metal-air batteries, often regarded as the solution for long-distance electric-vehicle travel.
Indian Oil said it had bought a minority stake in Phinergy on Tuesday, which specializes in aluminum-air (Al-air) and zinc-air technologies. Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries that carry oxygen within a heavy electrode, metal-air systems produce energy by combining aluminum, water and oxygen from the air.
The future incorporation of the long-pursued battery solution into electric vehicles, Phinergy said, will enable long-range driving, five-minute energy recharges and lowering the cost of electric vehicles.
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Feb 4, 2020
This 7,000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, archaeologists say
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: futurism
Its design shines a light on technical skills that researchers didn’t think Neolithic people possessed.
Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old Neolithic well in eastern Europe, which they believe is the oldest wooden structure in the world.
The square well was built with oak by farmers around 5256 B.C., according to researchers who pinpointed its origin after analyzing the tree rings in the wood, which is the scientific method known as dendrochronology. The well’s age makes it the oldest dendrochronologically dated archaeological wooden construction worldwide, according to the researchers in the Czech Republic.
Feb 4, 2020
Breakthrough creates tough material able to stretch, heal and defend itself
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biological, food
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While eating takeout one day, University of Chicago scientists Bozhi Tian and Yin Fang started thinking about the noodles—specifically, their elasticity. A specialty of Xi’an, Tian’s hometown in China, is wheat noodles stretched by hand until they become chewy—strong and elastic. Why, the two materials scientists wondered, didn’t they get thin and weak instead?
They started experimenting, ordering pounds and pounds of noodles from the restaurant. “They got very suspicious,” Fang said. “I think they thought we wanted to steal their secrets to open a rival restaurant.”
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Feb 4, 2020
Researchers Link Autism To A System That Insulates Brain Wiring
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: health, neuroscience
Study Links Autism To ‘Insulation’ That Coats Brain Cells And Speeds Signals : Shots — Health News Brains affected by autism appear to share a problem with cells that make myelin, the insulating coating surrounding nerve fibers that controls the speed at which the fibers convey electrical signals.
Feb 4, 2020
Could ‘young’ blood stop us getting old?
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
US biotech companies are working towards plasma therapies to tackle age-related diseases in humans.
Feb 4, 2020
Wright Electric To Develop 1.5 MW Motor For 186-Seat Wright 1
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: transportation
It’s hard to imagine today, but Wright Electric is trying to build an electric aircraft for 186 passengers.
Wright Electric announced the start of the electric propulsion development program for the 186-seat electric aircraft — Wright 1.
Feb 4, 2020
A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold the key to quantum gravity
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cosmology, information science, quantum physics
A new Einsteinian equation, ER=EPR, may be the clue physicists need to merge quantum mechanics with general relativity.