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Nov 17, 2017

3 Ways Science Might Help You to Live Longer

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

Today, we take a look at three key emerging technologies that might add extra healthy years to your life by addressing the aging processes directly to prevent or delay age-related diseases.

Senolytics – Removing aged dysfunctional cells to promote tissue regeneration

As we age, increasing amounts of our cells enter into a state known as senescence. Normally, these cells destroy themselves by a self-destruct process known as apoptosis and are disposed of by the immune system. Unfortunately, as we age, increasing numbers of these cells evade apoptosis and linger in the body.

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Nov 17, 2017

World’s first human head transplant a success, controversial scientist claims

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

T he world’s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China in an 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels.

At a press conference in Vienna on Friday morning, Italian Professor Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, announced that a team at Harbin Medical University had “realised the first human head transplant” and said an operation on a live human will take place “imminently”.

The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully grafted a head onto the body of a monkey.

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Nov 17, 2017

China builds world’s fastest wind tunnel to test weapons that could strike US within 14 minutes

Posted by in category: military

Other countries including Russia, India and Australia have also tested some early prototypes of the aircraft, which could be used to deliver missiles including nuclear weapons.


Researchers want new facility to be up and running by 2020 as race to develop hypersonic technology intensifies.

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Nov 16, 2017

War between Iran & Saudi Arabia could send oil to $300 per barrel & impoverish the world

Posted by in category: economics

A war between Iran and Saudi Arabia would have a major impact on oil markets and the global economy. Crude will jump fivefold to $300 per barrel.

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Nov 16, 2017

Traveling back in time could be possible, physicist says

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics, robotics/AI, time travel, transportation

As the common tropes of science fiction continue to break out into reality, from humanoid robots to self-driving cars, there’s one concept that has seemingly remained beyond our grasp: time travel.

But, jumping through time might not be impossible, after all, according to one astrophysicist.

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Nov 16, 2017

What’s new, Atlas?

Posted by in categories: education, finance, robotics/AI

They taught ATLAS Kung Fu 😮

Really impressive, only things that need to be worked on. Shrink the Torso A Lot, so it’s comparable to a person. And, someone is going to have finance coming up with a set of robotic human like hands.

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Nov 16, 2017

Keystone pipeline shut down after spilling 5,000 barrels of oil in South Dakota

Posted by in categories: energy, materials

Not good!


Workers took the Keystone oil pipeline offline on Thursday after it spilled 5,000 barrels of oil in rural South Dakota, officials said.

A TransCanada crew shut down the pipeline at 6 a.m. Thursday morning after detecting an oil leak along the line, the company said. The leak was detected along a stretch of the pipeline about 35 miles south of a pumping station in Marshall County, South Dakota.

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Nov 16, 2017

The Devel Sixteen hypercar, and its 5,000-hp engine, are real

Posted by in category: military

Devel revealed the final concept version of the Sixteen, a jet fighter-inspired dragster that takes aim at 300 mph, thanks to a 5,000-hp engine.

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Nov 16, 2017

World’s first ‘space nation’ Asgardia launches satellite into space

Posted by in category: satellites

Coming soon: a nation in space for humans.

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Nov 16, 2017

LHC achieves record luminosity

Posted by in category: physics

It’s the end of the road for the protons this year after a magnificent performance from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). On Friday, the final beams of the 2017 proton run circulated in the LHC. The run ended, as it does every year, with a round up of the luminosity performance, the indicator by which the effectiveness of a collider is measured and on which the operators keep a constant eye.

The LHC has far exceeded its target for 2017. It has provided its two major experiments, ATLAS and CMS, with 50 inverse femtobarns of data, i.e. 5 billion million million collisions. The inverse femtobarn (fb-1) is the unit used to measure integrated luminosity, or the cumulative number of potential collisions over a given period.

This result is all the more remarkable because the machine experts had to overcome a serious setback. A vacuum problem in the pipe of a magnet cell limited the number of bunches that could circulate in the machine. Several teams were brought in to find a solution. Notably, the arrangement of the bunches in the beams was changed. After a few weeks, luminosity started to increase again.

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