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Apr 27, 2019

Scientist: “Alien Life Now Seems Inevitable and Possibly Imminent”

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, alien life, bioprinting

The cosmos are filled with roughly Earth-sized exoplanets. Various moons, comets, and planets have stores of water, organic molecules, and amino acids like those that make up life on Earth.

Cathal O’Donnell, a 3D bioprinting researcher at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbournethose odds — he argues in The Conversation that the abundance of potentially habitable worlds out there makes the discovery of extraterrestrial life “inevitable and possibly imminent.”

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Apr 27, 2019

What happened almost exactly 400 years ago that has produced a tremendous “Butterfly Effect” on us modern humans?

Posted by in category: futurism

By Alex Vikoulov

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Apr 27, 2019

Fusion power start-ups go small in effort to bring commercial reactors to life

Posted by in category: space travel

After decades of research and development, fusion may be poised for its “SpaceX moment.”

A visualization of SPARC, a compact, experimental fusion facility now under construction on MIT’s campus. Ken Filar / PSFC Research Affiliate.

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Apr 27, 2019

The insiders guide to Autism and Aspergers: Is the epidemic real and are vaccines the cause? via Ian Hale

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

This book demystifies and rectifies the problems inherent in autism by examining in clear terms the whole panorama of the subject, not just individual bits, beginning with its history and including practical advice at every level, yet without being an overblown medical-type textbook.

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Apr 27, 2019

More Than 700 at 2 California Universities Under Quarantine Amid Measles Outbreak

Posted by in category: futurism

The number of staff members and students who were under quarantine on Friday was up by about 400 from the day before, according to the authorities.

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Apr 27, 2019

DARPA is reportedly eyeing a high-tech contact lens straight out of ‘Mission: Impossible’

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JCWbdpysGu4

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is reportedly interested in a new wirelessly-connected contact lens recently unveiled in France, the latest in the agency’s ongoing search for small-scale technology to augment U.S. service members’ visual capabilities in the field.

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Apr 27, 2019

Blue Origin tweeted a cryptic photo of explorer Shackleton’s ship – here’s what it likely means

Posted by in category: space travel

Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos, shared a cryptic photo of famed explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition in a tweet on Friday.

But, with only the date of May 9 in the photo’s caption, the company left the context for the post unexplained. One likely meaning is the possible connection between Shackleton’s expedition and Blue Origin’s bid to send astronauts back to the surface of the moon.

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Apr 27, 2019

The U.S. Military: Like the French at Agincourt?

Posted by in categories: business, energy, military

“The traditional model of U.S. military power is being disrupted, the way Blockbuster’s business model was amid the rise of Amazon and Netflix,” Brose writes. “A military made up of small numbers of large, expensive, heavily manned, and hard-to-replace systems will not survive on future battlefields, where swarms of intelligent machines will deliver violence at a greater volume and higher velocity than ever before.”


America risks a catastrophic defeat if it doesn’t radically change the way it thinks about war.

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Apr 26, 2019

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award

Posted by in categories: food, space

The hydroponic structure could allow astronauts to grow their own food on the desolate Martian surface. It’d cultivate up to eight food crops could be grown inside a rotating system that could serve up 3100 calories per day for four astronauts over a 600 day excursion to the Red Planet.

It’d grow kale, soy, sweet potato, potato, broccoli, strawberry, wheat, and chufa. A massive tank filled with a nutrient solution under the ceiling feeds a circular system of crop trays with the help of gravity. LEDs make sure that the plants get enough sunlight.

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Apr 26, 2019

Unprecedented insight into two-dimensional magnets using diamond quantum sensors

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum physics

For the first time, physicists at the University of Basel have succeeded in measuring the magnetic properties of atomically thin van der Waals materials on the nanoscale. They used diamond quantum sensors to determine the strength of the magnetization of individual atomic layers of the material chromium triiodide. In addition, they found a long-sought explanation for the unusual magnetic properties of the material. The journal Science has published the findings.

The use of atomically thin, two-dimensional van der Waals promises innovations in numerous fields in science and technology. Scientists around the world are constantly exploring new ways to stack different single atomic layers and thus engineer new materials with unique, emerging properties.

These super-thin composite materials are held together by van der Waals forces and often behave differently to bulk crystals of the same material. Atomically thin van der Waals materials include insulators, semiconductors, superconductors and a few materials with magnetic properties. Their use in spintronics or ultra-compact magnetic memory media is highly promising.

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