Krivit believes Rossi is a Fraud but believes there is legitimate underlying science and Sterling D. Allan with Hank Mills rebut the fraud assertion

1. Steven Krivit at New Energy Times has written another two articles where he asserts that Rossi and his energy catalyzer are a fraud. Energy Catalzyer: Extraordinary Scams Require Extraordinary Claims I [Steven Krivit] don’t doubt the legitimacy of the underlying science — apparently copied from biophysicist Francesco Piantelli — which has been published in …

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Soyuz successfully returns to flight for space station

Spaceflightnow – Two months after a rare Russian launch failure, an unmanned Progress cargo ship loaded with 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station rocketed smoothly into orbit Sunday, clearing the way for the resumption of manned Soyuz flights next month, just in time for the lab’s partners to avoid …

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Humanoid Petman Robot does pushups

CNET – Boston Dynamics has released new video of its Petman robot. The vid below shows the anthropomorphic bot (aka the Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin) walking on a treadmill, doing squats, and pumping out push-ups without breaking a sweat. Boston Dynamics site description of the PETMAN project PETMAN will balance itself and move freely; walking, …

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4 inch wide single cell amoebas are real

Star Trek had pancake sized single cell organisms in the episode Operation: Annihilate Scientists have discovered a community of 4-inch amoebas living at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest known part of the world’s oceans. The neural parasites of Deneva The real organisms are not a hive mind which each cell able to …

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Cornell Study shows Blood Vessels Support Lung Regeneration

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to “turn on” lung regeneration — an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory disorders. The research team reports that they have uncovered the biochemical signals in mice that trigger generation of new lung …

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Femtotech: computing at the femtometer scale using quarks and gluons from Hugo de Garis

Kurzweilai – How the properties of quarks and gluons can be used (in principle) to perform computation at the femtometer (10^-15 meter) scale. An atom is about 10^-10 m in size. The next smallest thing in nature is the nucleus, which is about 100,000 times smaller, i.e., 10^-15 m in size — a femtometer, or …

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Aviation Weeks complete Imagining the future technology list

Aviation Weeks complete Imagining the future technology list 4 of the first 5 were different views of quantum computing and quantum related technology. 1. Quantum Revolution – quantum computers and quantum-related technologies will impact everything we do says Pete Rustan, former deputy director for mission support at the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. 2. Quantum Sensing …

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Aviation Week lists potential technologies in Imagining the Future

Aviation Weeks lists 16 technologies in an Imagining the Future special. Orbitec is working on vortex and electric propulsion, heating vortex plasmas with microwaves [and] using water vapor as propellant. They are working on rocket engines whose thrust chambers are made entirely of electromagnetism, whose nozzles are magnetic lines of force and whose exhaust is …

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First step toward a general method of creating artificial self-replicating materials of arbitrary structure and composition starting with Structural DNA seeds and tiles

New York University scientists have developed artificial structures that can self-replicate, a process that has the potential to yield new types of materials. (H/T Foresight Institute) The discovery in Nature reports the first steps toward a general process for self-replication of a wide variety of arbitrarily designed seeds. The seeds are made from DNA tile …

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