Fighting aging reports that loss of myostatin mutations in mice produce extended life spans, but too much suppression of myostatin may remove that benefit due to the cardiac issues that can accompany an overly large heart. Aging Cell Journal -Haploinsufficiency of myostatin protects against aging-related declines in muscle function and enhances the longevity of mice …
Titan is suggested as a target for colonization, because it is the only moon in the Solar System to have a dense atmosphere and is rich in carbon-bearing compounds. Robert Zubrin identified Titan as possessing an abundance of all the elements necessary to support life, making Titan perhaps the most advantageous locale in the outer …
Moscow and New Delhi have agreed to perform design work in India on what Russia claims would be a “fifth generation” version of the Su-35, an agreement that may lead to an Indian variant of the fighter jet, the Russian Military Complex chief said. The announcement makes India the first country to sign a contract, …
Small satellites are becoming increasingly popular tools for Earth-imaging, communications, and other applications. But they have major control issues: Once in space, they can’t accurately point cameras or change orbit, and they usually crash and burn within a few months. What these satellites lack is a viable propulsion system. Accion Systems has developed a commercial …
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has conducted ground demonstration testing of “wireless power transmission,” a new technology presently under development to serve as the core technology of the space solar power systems (SSPS) that are expected to be the power generation systems of the future. With successful completion of the test at the company’s Kobe …
Material and manufacturing cost considerations for thermoelectrics are driving commercialization attempts more than just figures of merit (ZT) Silicide materials cost 100 times less and some can still get a ZT of over 1. Previously it was believed that major commercialization would not happen until ZTs were reached a 3. Interest in thermoelectrics for waste-heat …
ThyssenKrupp develops the world’s first rope-free elevator system to enable the building industry face the challenges of global urbanization. MULTI is ThyssenKrupp’s latest offering in its extensive repertoire of elevator technologies, representing a landmark revolution in the elevator industry and a new and efficient transport solution for mid and high-rise buildings. ThyssenKrupp places linear motors …
Biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for CRISPR-Cas9, a “powerful and general technology” for editing genomes that’s been hailed as a biotechnology breakthrough. Feng Zhang a researcher in Cambridge at the MIT-Harvard Broad Institute won a broad U.S. patent on CRISPR-Cas9 that could give him and his research center …
Observation of abundant heat production from a reactor device and of isotopic changes in the fuel (53 pages) They were running the system at about 2300 watts or power output and putting in about 900 watts. The total net energy obtained during the 32 days run was about 1.5 MWh ABSTRACT New results are presented …
Ukraine on Thursday accused Russia’s armed forces of shooting down one of its fighter jets over Ukrainian territory, marking Kiev’s most direct accusation yet of Moscow’s involvement in the separatist conflict in the country’s east. A Russian military plane fired on and downed a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet that was flying over the town of …
US crude oil production hit another post-1986 production record with 8.592 million barrels per day. North Dakota is expecting to add about 200,000 barrels per day in crude oil production from June, July and August. If there is a similar oil production surge from the Texas oil fields then the US could break 9 million …