Healthy living into old age can add up to 6 years to your life

Eurekalert – Living a healthy lifestyle into old age can add five years to women’s lives and six years to men’s, finds a study from Sweden published on bmj.com today. The authors say this is the first study that directly provides information about differences in longevity according to several modifiable factors. It is well known …

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China Economic Rebalancing and Goldman’s worst case

1. Barron’s – Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill, the man who will forever be described as the guy who coined the term BRICs, outlines what a Chinese hard landing would look like if nominal economic growth averaged 7% for the remainder of the decade. Many others would not consider economic growth of 7% per year a …

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Parallel Dip-Pen Nanolithography

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new nanolithography technique that is less expensive than other approaches and can be used to create technologies with biomedical applications. “Among other things, this type of lithography can be used to manufacture chips for use in biological sensors that can identify target molecules, such as proteins …

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NASA funding Development of Aneutronic fusion power for Spacecraft Applications

Federal Business Opportunity – NASA/JSC is currently looking at the development of aneutronic fusion power for spacecraft applications. Research focus is radiation protection, architecture utilizing high temperature superconducting magnets, and anuetronic fusion. NASA/JSC intends to purchase research and development services from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) for a continuation of an aneutronic fusion research …

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SRI International will soon Sign Contract with Brillouin Energy

E-catsite – SRI International, a research lab in Menlo Park, CA, one of the largest contract research institutes in the world, will soon sign a contract with Brillouin Energy Corporation of Berkeley, CA, to further evaluate and “scale up” that company’s cold fusion device, the Brillouin Boiler. SRI scientist and long-time cold fusion researcher Michael …

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New Wave of automation and the future of jobs

NY Times – A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here in the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by Apple and other consumer electronics giants, …

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Making the study of aging faster and more affordable through intelligent collaboration

SENS – A new Shared Ageing Research Models (ShARM) will make the testing and development of antiaging faster and more affordable. The new Shared Ageing Research Models (ShARM) resource is now up and running. Headed by CIMA mesenchymal stem cell biologist Dr. Ilaria Bellantuono, ShARM uses a collaborative, decentralized, and “lean” approach to increasing scientists’ …

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Modular Engineering Approach to Extending Lifespan in C. elegans by 130% and a platform for progressive extensions

PLoS Genetics – Stanford University Researchers have taken an engineering approach to extending the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans. Aging stands out as a complex trait, because events that occur in old animals are not under strong natural selection. As a result, lifespan can be lengthened rationally using bioengineering to modulate gene expression or to add …

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Asian collective military spending about to overtake Europe for the first time in modern history

The Economist magazine discusses military spending in Asia. For the first time, in modern history at least, Asia’s military spending is poised to overtake Europe’s, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think-tank in London. China is doubling its defence budget every five years and India has just announced a 17% rise in …

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Rules Out Nuclear Bomb

Voice of America – Iran’s Supreme Leader says his country will never develop an atomic bomb, but will not abandon its controversial nuclear program. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told leaders of developing nations Thursday at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran that Iran will “not give up its national right to peaceful nuclear energy.” If this …

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