Danazol treatment led to telomere elongation in patients with telomere diseases for antiaging effect

Telomerase, an enzyme naturally found in the human organism, is the closest of all known substances to a “cellular elixir of youth.” In a recent study, Brazilian and US researchers show that sex hormones can stimulate production of this enzyme. The strategy was tested in patients with genetic diseases associated with mutations in the gene …

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Avengers 3 and 4 are standalone movies and there will be at least 3 Star Wars Han Solo movies

Marvel Avengers 3 and Avengers 4 will not be a two-parter. The studio will release the first part “Avengers: Infinity War” as a standalone movie on May 4, 2018. The second film, now called “Avengers Untitled,” will hit as planned on May 3, 2019. “The movies are two very different movies,” answered Joe Russo. Directors …

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New Hearable Wearables predicted to be over $15 billion market by 2020

Samsung just introduced hearable wearables devices will at least get a mass-market introduction. Hearables will help people of normal hearing by enhancing their ability to hear in the presence of noise. WiFore Consulting predicts that hearables will be the fastest growing wearable market, exploding upward to over $16 billion by 2020. The reason is that …

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Skin-Like Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for Transparent Displays

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, strong demand has grown for wearable and transparent displays that can be applied to various fields such as augmented reality (AR) and skin-like thin flexible devices. However, previous flexible transparent displays have posed real challenges to overcome, which are, among others, poor transparency and low …

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Solar Cells converts Co2 into hydrocarbon fuel

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight for energy. The finding is reported in the July 29 issue of Science and was funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. …

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Israel receives first customized F35 stealth fighters

Lockheed-Martin delivered Israel’s first F-35 Lightning II “Adir”. It has passed all tests, and is due to be delivered in December. The F-35 Lightning II Adir has top-of-the-line stealth technology, highly sensitive sensors of every kind, and fuel-optimizing computer systems to keep it in the air. Access to the F-35’s software source code remains a …

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Japan likely to restart 19 nuclear reactors by March 2018

Seven Japanese nuclear power reactors are likely to be in operation by the end of next March and 12 more one year later, according to an estimate by the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). Judicial rulings and local consents will influence the rate of restart, it notes. In its Economic and Energy Outlook of …

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Nanoblocks form pixels to enable meta-hologram

By carefully arranging many nanoblocks to form pixels on a metasurface, researchers have demonstrated that they can manipulate incoming visible light in just the right way to create a color “meta-hologram.” The new method of creating holograms has an order of magnitude higher reconstruction efficiency than similar color meta-holograms, and has applications for various types …

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Smart Bricks containing bioreactors will integrate massive-parallel computing processors

Smart bricks capable of recycling wastewater and generating electricity from sunlight are being developed by a team of scientists from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). The bricks will be able to fit together and create ‘bioreactor walls’ which could then be incorporated in housing, public building and office spaces The UWE …

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Vortex laser encodes 10 times more data

Researchers are pushing laser technology forward using another light manipulation technique called orbital angular momentum, which distributes the laser in a corkscrew pattern with a vortex at the center. Usually too large to work on today’s computers, the UB-led team was able to shrink the vortex laser to the point where it is compatible with …

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