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Apr 6, 2019
‘Molecular surgery’ gives pain-free operations
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Usually, this kind of surgery involves cutting and suturing, which is painful and leaves scars. Now, researchers at Occidental College in Los Angeles and the University of California, Irvine, have reshaped tissue with no incisions or scarring, and minimal recovery time.
It could be useful for cosmetic surgery – such as reshaping a nose or ear – but also for problems such as immobile joints and poor eyesight.
Apr 6, 2019
Cryonics Institute Members Newsletter — Issue One, 2019
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: cryonics, life extension
The new issue of the Cryonics Institute Newsletter is now available. Get the latest news and updates about CI and the cryonics movement!
Not sure how to post only a segment, but I found the first segment of this video interesting on the discussion of regulatory oversight of Facebook.
Facebook looks to the government for help censoring viewpoints, the old guard Democrats clash with the socialists, and we check the mailbag!
Apr 6, 2019
How the Army plans to use Microsoft’s high-tech HoloLens goggles on the battlefield
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: augmented reality
CNBC flew to Fort Pickett with Under Secretary Ryan McCarthy to test the Army’s IVAS headset, which it’s building with Microsoft.
Apr 6, 2019
Research holds key to China science push
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: food, government, science
Scientists called for a bigger say over research funding under a stifling bureaucratic application system. Yuan Zhiming, an agricultural scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, said he spent so much time filling out funding applications that he did not have time for any research. Senior officials responded that they understood the need to speed up research for China to transform itself into an innovation powerhouse. Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang said the government would overhaul funding management to give researchers more incentives.
The country has to address a lot of shortcomings, but when it sets course to remedy them and commits a bigger share of resources, it could become a leading scientific power within a decade.
Apr 6, 2019
Link Observatory Space Science Institute
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: science, space travel
Apr 5, 2019
New plane wing moves like a bird’s and could radically change aircraft design
Posted by Michael Lance in category: transportation
Plane wings are traditionally strong, thick and sturdy but a team of researchers led by NASA has created a flexible wing that morphs as it flies.
Measuring 14 feet or four meters wide, the new wing is constructed from thousands of units that fit together and function in a similar way to a bird’s wing, says one of the report’s authors, NASA research engineer, Nick Cramer.