After twenty five years of research, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think that they have finally cracked the code for the commercialization for nuclear fusion reactions.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is the fruit of that research. Itâs a startup building on decades of research and development that plans to harness the power of the sun to create a cleaner, stable source of energy for consumers. And the company just raised another $50 million in funding from some of the countryâs deepest pocketed private investors to continue on its path to commercialization.
The company unveiled its technology and a first $64 million in financing from investors including the Italian energy company, Eni; Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the investment consortium established by the worldâs richest men and women, and The Engine, MITâs own investment vehicle for frontier technologies.
Photography measures how much light of different color hits the photographic film. However, light is also a wave, and is therefore characterized by the phase. Phase specifies the position of a point within the wave cycle and correlates to depth of information, meaning that recording the phase of light scattered by an object can retrieve its full 3D shape, which cannot be obtained with a simple photograph. This is the basis of optical holography, popularized by fancy holograms in sci-fi movies like Star Wars.
But the problem is that the spatial resolution of the photo/hologram is limited by the wavelength of light, around or just-below 1 ÎŒm (0.001 mm). Thatâs fine for macroscopic objects, but it starts to fail when entering the realm of nanotechnology.
Now researchers from Fabrizio Carboneâs lab at EPFL have developed a method to see how light behaves on tiniest scale, well beyond wavelength limitations. The researchers used the most unusual photographic media: freely propagating electrons. Used in their ultrafast electron microscope, the method can encode quantum information in a holographic light pattern trapped in a nanostructure, and is based on an exotic aspect of electron and light interaction.
Nutrition for Longevity
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An all-star panel of experts in nutritional studies with an emphasis on longevity. At some point in your life, you have heard the following. âEat the right food. It will help you live longer.â What if I told you the right food could help you heal as well. This panel of longevity driven nutritionist will give you a broad range of fact-based regiments and compelling individual opinions on Nutrition and longevity.
This segment will cover many diverse understandable methods that can make a change in longevity for you or your loved ones. Fill yourself with the knowledge of proper nutrition for longevity.
Speakers Will Include:
Brian Clement â Plant-Based & founder of âHippocrates Health Instituteâ
A typical American growing up in the New Jersey/New York area, Brian likes to joke that he was a pioneer in the field of obesityâhe was fat even before many Americans were fat! Raised in an Irish household on the standard American diet of meat, processed foods, and sugary sodas, he was unfit and gasping for air every few steps. When he was 20 years old, he was dating a girl whose best friendâs boyfriend was 30âand a vegetarian. Despite the fact he had been more or less educated by his family that the body would die without animal-based foods, the lure of an influential peer inspired him to give up meat in one fell swoop. For the first year and a half, he kept his vegetarian diet a secret from his family. Yet after losing 120 pounds and experiencing the difference in his health, he came out of the proverbial closet (much to his familyâs dismay!) and became a complete vegan three years later.
Scott Joseph â Fruitarian & author of âPerfect Human Foodâ
Perfect [Human] Food â Written by Scott Joseph © 2019 Approx 95% of all illnesses and diseases are âDIET-RELATEDâ so you could cure and prevent virtually all health issues⊠if you simply eat the right FOOD. For example, animals in nature, away from all human interference, do not develop âdiet-relatedâ illnesses and diseases such as; Heart Attacks, Cancers, Strokes, Diabetes, Alzheimerâs, Depression, Anxiety, ADD, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Acne, Psoriasis, Cavities, Tooth Decay, Colds, Flu, Headaches, Glaucoma, Cataracts, Obesity and hundreds of other health issues that humans develop⊠because they instinctively eat the foods that were specifically designed for their species.
Knowing that all other living creatures living in the wild, eat a specific diet and have virtually perfect health, except our pets, it only makes sense that the super healthy natural diet of our closest living relatives is the answer to curing and preventing virtually all of our health issues.
Wendi Blum â Founder of âFounder of Create Your Best Lifeâ
The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown from 32,000-year-old seedsâbeating the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years. (Related: ââMethuselahâ Tree Grew From 2,000-Year-Old Seed.â)
A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River (map). Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the seeds were 32,000 years old.
The mature and immature seeds, which had been entirely encased in ice, were unearthed from 124 feet (38 meters) below the permafrost, surrounded by layers that included mammoth, bison, and woolly rhinoceros bones.
There is so little food in the mud at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that individual microbes living there use just 0.00000000001 joules of energy each year.
Scientists drilling into a New Mexico rock formation deep underground have brought to life four unknown strains of bacteria that have lain entombed in salt crystals for 250 million years.
The bacteria, like many of their kind, form into long-lasting protective spores. The scientists were able to revive the spores until the microbes reproduced.
The report, by a team of biologists and geologists, has already fueled speculation that spores of living organisms might somehow be transported from planet to planet, across the galaxy and over eons. It is a concept known as âpanspermia,â which some see as a possible source for life arising on Earth.