The world’s oldest person has died in Italy at the age of 117, reports say. Emma Morano was born on 29 November 1899 in the Piedmont region of Italy. She was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living. She had attributed her longevity to her genetics and a diet of three eggs …
What would be a possible technological path to genome modified adult brains and to genetically enhanced longevity for adults ? There is already improving versions of genetic engineering with improvements to CRISPR gene editing. However, current published research still shows below 50% effectiveness in making the desired edits in invivo human cells. There is billions …
DARPA has a project to have insects spread genes to agricultural crops in one season Overarching Goals and Objectives 1. Select, modify, and optimize a plant virus that can deliver a genetic construct to mature target plants and ultimately express novel and desirable traits 2. Select, culture, and optimize an insect vector of the engineered …
Stephen Hsu at Infoproc reports that we now know enough about the genetic architecture of human intelligence to make predictions based on DNA alone. While it is a well-established scientific fact that variations in human cognitive ability are influenced by genes, many have doubted whether scientists would someday decipher the genetic code sufficiently to be …
The Russian military is buying up jamming devices which it plans to mount on cell phone towers. The idea behind it is simple — the Kremlin could switch on the jammers, known as Pole-21 to confuse American GPS guidance. Russia has about 250,000 cellular base stations. Russia is betting on disrupting a missile’s receiver just enough to …
University of Tennessee Space Institute developing mach 4 wind tunnel and then will upgrade to hypersonic mach 5 wind tunnel The Hypersonic Research Initiative is a large concept within the walls of UTSI, and the institute is looking to bring on a new field of study — never before seen at the institute. Currently, researchers …
IDC presented its annual HPC (High Performance Computing – aka big and small supercomputers) Update 11 percent revenue growth to $11.4 billion in 2015, Projected 5.9% average from 2015 to 2020 Self built supercomputers like the current world’s largest the 93 petaflop Sunway do not fit into the IDC structure. They only track computers that …
The other EU exit campaigns have interesting and amusing names. LOLDamn has some graphics for the exit names Italy – Italeave Portugal – Departugal Austria – Oustria and / or Austria La Vista Belgium – Byegium Finland – Finish Czech Republic – Czechout Netherlands – Nethermind Latvia – Latervia France – Fruckoff Hungary: Donegary EU …
Investigators believe learning why malaria causes acute, potentially lethal disease in some humans and animals, while others are much more resilient or tolerant, could lead them to better intervention strategies for malaria and other diseases, including new and better drugs. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) are supporting …
Scientists have developed a new type of graphene-based transistor and using modelling they have demonstrated that it has ultralow power consumption compared with other similar transistor device. They could eventually achieve 100 gigahertz clock speeds. Building transistors that are capable of switching at low voltages (less than 0.5 volts) is one of the greatest challenges …
Scientists have developed a new type of graphene-based transistor and using modelling they have demonstrated that it has ultralow power consumption compared with other similar transistor device. They could eventually achieve 100 gigahertz clock speeds. Building transistors that are capable of switching at low voltages (less than 0.5 volts) is one of the greatest challenges …