There are approximately 1500 asteroids that are close to the earth and relatively easy to access. These asteroids contain substantial quantities of water, as well as precious metals such as platinum. The company Planetary Resources has been operating since 2010 with the primary mission of exploiting these asteroids natural resources. Planetary Resources believes that a …
Rejuvenation Research Journal – Dissecting Mammalian Target of Rapamycin to Promote Longevity Treatment with rapamycin, an inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) can increase mammalian life span. However, extended treatment with rapamycin results in increased hepatic gluconeogenesis concomitant with glucose and insulin insensitivity through inhibition of mTOR complex 2 (C2). Genetic studies …
Ocean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans, caused by the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. About a quarter of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere goes into the oceans, where it forms carbonic acid. As the amount of carbon has risen …
Arxiv – Space-time crystals of trapped ions (6 pages) One of the basic properties of spatial crystals is that they form when a system drops to its lowest possible energy state. They are not the result of adding energy to a system, but of taking it away. All of it. Another basic property is that …
BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) today announced a major breakthrough in clean energy technology, which experts agree holds tremendous promise for a wide range of commercial applications. The announcement comes on the heels of BlackLight’s recent completion of a $5 million round of financing to support commercial development of its new process for producing affordable, reliable …
1. China will continue with research and development into its new generation high-speed trains despite the industry’s tarnished image due to a spate of operation faults last year, according to a plan for the country’s rail traffic equipment manufacturing industry. The new generation trains will run at speeds of more than 300 km an hour, …
A new technique – dubbed a dynamic sensor-regulator system (DSRS) – can detect metabolic changes in microbes during the production of fatty acid-based fuels or chemicals and control the expression of genes affecting that production. The result in one demonstration was a threefold increase in the microbial production of biodiesel from glucose. The DSRS is …
James Cameron’s dive to the deepest point of the Marianna Trench will join other exploration “firsts” in world history. They still have not announced the actual dive. Twitter feed from the deep challenge team If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a …
Better all the Time has an article which has a video that shows the current effectiveness and quality of cybernetic limb replacement. Touch Bionics is the company that makes the i-Limb ultra, which is more advanced than the i-Limb Pulse shown in the first video. With the i-limb ultra, your prosthesis looks and moves more …
Reuters Germany – The USA may provide Israel with more powerful bunker buster bombs and in air refueling planes in exchange for a delayed attach on Iran Maariv – Diplomatic sources said that according to the package deal proposed by Obama and Netanyahu, Israel rejects the attack on Iran in exchange for bunker bombs and …
Brian Wang will be on Fast Forward Radio (the Speculist blog on Blog Talk Radio) I will be speaking with Rand Simberg, Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon about Moon colonies and Newt Gingrich’s proposed permanent moon base. The talk will start at 8pm PST February 1pm and will be recorded. My Recent articles on moon …