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RB2015: Molecular Networks that Lead to Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease: Philip De Jager

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Neurologist Philip De Jager took us through the challenge of identifying novel targets in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and age-related cognitive decline, understanding the structure of the AD population and understanding each individual’s location along the trajectory leading to AD. Using datasets from Catholic priests, nuns and older Chicago-area individuals who were free of dementia at enrollment, the …

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SR72 hypersonic spy drone could be flying by 2030

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The SR-72 will travel at six times the speed of sound—the fastest military jet ever made—and fly as high as 80,000 feet. The SR-72,will evade assault, take spy photos, and attack targets at speeds of up to Mach 6. That’s twice as fast as its predecessor. Aeronautical engineers at Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocket­dyne have …

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Russian third generation Armata Tank Specfications

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The US Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office has a graphic from the Kremlin Tass translated with specifications of the third generation Russian Armata tank. Large-scale deliveries of the new tanks and infantry vehicles are possible in 2017-2018. The advanced T-14 tank, a heavy infantry vehicle and an armored evacuation vehicle are being designed on the …

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Iron superconductor has a critical temperature above liquid nitrogen

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A single layer film of an Iron superconductor has a critical temperature above liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors are far cheaper to operate than those that require lower temperatures. Recent experiments on ​FeSe films grown on ​SrTiO3 (​STO) suggest that interface effects can be used as a means to reach superconducting critical temperatures (Tc) …

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McKubre review of the their party ecat tests are in general positive

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Dr. Michael McKubre is Director of the Energy Research Center of the Materials Research Laboratory at SRI International. He provides an analysis of the recent third party month long study of the energy catalyzer. On the whole [Dr McKubre is] encouraged. Considerably more work is obviously needed to validate the adopted mode of calorimetry and …

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Baidu hires Google Andrew Ng and plans to compete with Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence and have built a $20000 simulated brain with one billion connections

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[Technology Review]Andrew Ng is the newly appointed chief scientist at Baidu, China’s dominant search company. He has plans to advance deep learning, a powerful new approach to artificial intelligence loosely modeled on the way the brain works. It has already made computers vastly better at recognizing speech, translating languages, and identifying images—and Ng’s work at …

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Micro Chiplets are accurately placed four at a time but in few years it could be millions or billions

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[Technology Review] PARC’s technique of mincing chips into printer ink could revolutionize the way electronics are made. Researchers at PARC, in Palo Alto, California, envision doing something different with the wafers: chopping them up into hairs-width “chiplets,” mixing them into an ink, and guiding the tiny pieces electrostatically to just the right spot and orientation …

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Even with quantum communication and encryption can secrets be kept secret ?

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Quantum communications could soon allow secure communications that is faster and more convenient than one time pads. Physicists have demonstrated the distribution of three entangled photons at three different locations (Alice, Bob and Charlie) several hundreds of meters apart, proving quantum nonlocality for more than two entangled photons. Quantum key distribution (QKD) uses quantum mechanics …

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Unlimited heat conduction in graphene

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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz and the National University of Singapore have attested that the thermal conductivity of graphene diverges with the size of the samples. This discovery challenges the fundamental laws of heat conduction for extended materials. Davide Donadio, head of a Max Planck Research Group at …

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Plasma Jet Magneto Inertial Fusion ARPA-E and Los Alamos National Lab Plans for 2027 relevant gain

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PJMIF involves converging plasma jets that are launched from symmetrically distributed plasma rail-guns (or plasma guns), so as jets come in, they merge and form a plasma liner that compresses the plasmoid target (spheromak or FRC), which reaches fusion conditions at peak compression. There appears to be a sweet spot where the burning plasma density …

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Europa has 201 kilometer tall water plume

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s surface. Previous scientific findings from other sources already point to the existence of an ocean located under Europa’s icy crust. Researchers are not yet fully …

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