Researchers at Mayo Clinic have shown that senescent cells – cells that no longer divide and accumulate with age – negatively impact health and shorten lifespan by as much as 35 percent in normal mice. The results, which appear today in Nature, demonstrate that clearance of senescent cells delays tumor formation, preserves tissue and organ …
Talk Polywell is having a discussion with Dr. Jaeyoung Park who leads EMC2 Fusion. Nextbigfuture had a recent interview with Dr. Jaeyoung Park and is still in active correspondence with him. If there are any questions you have about EMC2 Fusion’s electrostatic fusion process and progress for Dr. Park, then please put that into the …
A newly released Pentagon report on the F35 indicates that every F35 aircraft bought to date requires modifications prior to use in combat. Tthe F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is over three years behind schedule and some $200 billion over its original budget. The fighter jet has been in development for nearly 15 years, weathered …
Ash Carter, the Pentagon chief, said the US has ambitious plans for military spending on sophisticated weaponry for fiscal year 2017. These were partly designed with China in mind. “We’re making all these investments that you see in our defense budget that are specifically oriented towards checking the development of the Chinese military,” Carter said. …
The US Navy (USN) is assessing how best to recapitalise its fleet of Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers (CGs) and eventually Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers (DDGs), the naval staff’s surface warfare head told IHS Jane’s on 7 January that he is seeking modular weapons and radar systems to provide long-range offensive punch, as well as multilayered defensive …
NASA has plans for its first large-scale aircraft demonstrator in decades. Which aircraft? Although a supersonic low-boom flight demonstrator (LBFD) is the most mature concept, NASA has several other potential candidates. Boeing backs a low-boom demo as an essential step toward a future high-speed airliner, but the initial beneficiary of the technology is expected to …
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff went so far as to declare war on Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits Zika. Several technological approaches may start to look appealing to eliminate mosquitos. 1. Cell phones are useful because they record the movements of their owners. That data can be used to track disease hot spots and predict …
MIT researchers have now developed a way to deliver the CRISPR genome repair components more efficiently than previously possible, and they also believe it may be safer for human use. In a study of mice, they found that they could correct the mutated gene that causes a rare liver disorder, in 6 percent of liver …
Researchers at MIT and Bristol University in the United Kingdom have found that these microscopic, mixotrophic organisms may have a large impact on the ocean’s food web and the global carbon cycle. The scientists developed a mixotrophic model of the global ocean food web, at the scale of marine plankton, in which they gave each …
MIT grad students beat out more than 100 other teams with their design for a passenger-carrying Hyperloop “pod,” and will now start building a small-scale prototype to test this summer next to SpaceX’s headquarters The Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands were the next runners-up. Auburn University won in the category of best overall …
The advanced supermaneuverable russian Su-35S multirole fighters have began combat missions in Syria. All Russian warplanes have recently been conducting operations with an obligatory cover provided by Russian and Syrian fighter jets as wells as modern air defense systems including the S-400 Triumf. The fighter has new avionics, a modern radar and advanced engines. It …