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Oct 11, 2019

Flint schools receive water stations, filtration systems from billionaire Elon Musk

Posted by in categories: education, Elon Musk

The school district tweeted about the donation and Musk replied that he hopes “to do more help in the future.”

UPDATE: Water filters from Elon Musk being installed, tested in Flint Community Schools

The district says it will use Musk’s donation to replace drinking fountains with water stations using ultraviolet filtration equipment. The drinking fountains have been out of service since the Flint water crisis in 2015.

Oct 11, 2019

A NASA Engineer Wants to Use a Particle Accelerator to Power Rockets

Posted by in category: particle physics

It’s a pretty far-fetched idea.

Oct 11, 2019

Lazareth LMV 496 Transforming Jet Hover Bike

Posted by in categories: computing, transportation

This is the Lazareth LMV 496, which the world’s first transforming flying electric motorbike.

Lazareth have a jet engine in the hub of each wheel, and hydraulic actuators that tilt the four wheels out and up, forming a configuration something like a jet-powered hoverbike.

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Oct 11, 2019

For $150,000 you can now order your own Hoverbike

Posted by in categories: engineering, law, transportation

Circa 2018


After first spotting this crazy looking motorcycle-styled hoverbike in early 2017, we were skeptical the contraption would ever move beyond just an odd engineering curiosity. However, Russian company Hoversurf has just revealed its hoverbikes are now ready for production and preorders are open, with delivery scheduled for sometime in 2019.

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Oct 11, 2019

The Navy Just Patented a Compact Fusion Reactor, but Will It Work?

Posted by in categories: innovation, nuclear energy

The Navy just patented a major potential breakthrough on compact fusion reactors, but the patent is long on claims and short on implementation specifics.

Oct 11, 2019

Quantum Teleportation on the Nanoscale Using a Chemical Reaction

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, encryption, nanotechnology, quantum physics

A team of Northwestern University researchers is the first to document the role chemistry will play in next generation computing and communication. By applying their expertise to the field of Quantum Information Science (QIS), they discovered how to move quantum information on the nanoscale through quantum teleportation—an emerging topic within the field of QIS. Their findings were published in the journal, Nature Chemistry, on September 23, 2019, and have untold potential to influence future research and application.

Quantum teleportation allows for the transfer of quantum information from one location to another, in addition to a more secure delivery of that information through significantly improved encryption.

The QIS field of research has long been the domain of physicists, and only in the past decade has drawn the attention and involvement of chemists who have applied their expertise to exploit the quantum nature of molecules for QIS applications.

Oct 11, 2019

DNA Damage Leads to Epigenetic Alterations

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

A team of researchers, including Dr. David Sinclair, has recently made a new study available as a preprint prior to peer review and publication in the journal Cell.

DNA damage and the double-strand break

Two of the primary hallmarks of aging are genomic instability, which consists of damage to our DNA, and epigenetic alterations, which are the changes in gene expression that occur with aging and are harmful to normal cell function.

Oct 11, 2019

Forever Young Lyrics

Posted by in category: futurism

Do you really want to be forever young?


Song from Alphaville.

Oct 11, 2019

Mini Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Probe Dark Matter

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

A miniature gravitational wave detector under development would measure higher-frequency waves than LIGO.

Oct 11, 2019

Forever Young — our exclusive with Sergey Young

Posted by in category: life extension

As the longevity investor’s new fund turns 8 months old this month, we went five for five with Sergey Young.