Peter Thiel Invests in 3D Bioprinted Meat Startup

CNET – Peter Thiel’s philanthropic foundation gives up to $350,000 to a company named Modern Meadow, which plans to use 3D bioprinting to create an “edible prototype” that’s a meat replacement. Modern Meadow, is pitching bioprinted meat as a more environmentally-friendly way to satisfy a natural human craving for animal protein. Co-founder Andras Forgacs has …

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Unlocking more of Canada’s Oilsands While Emitting Less Pollution and Using Less Water

1. Wall Street Journal – oil companies here are experimenting with technologies that could unlock even more reserves from what is some of the world’s heaviest and stickiest petroleum. The new technologies could also drive down the cost of producing oil in Canada. One consortium aims to get oil flowing to the surface by sending …

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Iraq Daily Oil Output Reaches 3.2 Million Barrels and will be 3.4 million barrels by the end of 2012

Bloomberg – Iraq’s crude-oil production has risen to 3.2 million barrels a day and will increase as planned to 3.4 million barrels a day by year’s end Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani said. The country’s output has now surpassed that of Iran and Kuwait, al-Shahristani told reporters today in Baghdad. The figure …

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“Theranostic’ Imaging Offers Means of Killing Prostate Cancer Cells Without Harming Other Healthy Cells

Johns Hopkins University – Experimenting with human prostate cancer cells and mice, cancer imaging experts at Johns Hopkins say they have developed a method for finding and killing malignant cells while sparing healthy ones. The method, called theranostic imaging, targets and tracks potent drug therapies directly and only to cancer cells. It relies on binding …

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Fully roll-to-roll gravure printed rectenna on plastic foils

IOP Science – Wireless power transmission to inexpensive and disposable smart electronic devices is one of the key issues for the realization of a ubiquitous society where sensor networks such as RFID tags, price tags, smart logos, signage and sensors could be fully interconnected and utilized by DC power of less than 0.3 W. This …

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Ten years from now, video game graphics are going to be indistinguishable from reality

Visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic expects game graphics to become “indistinguishable from reality” within 10 years. In an interview with CVG, visual effects supervisor Kim Libreri shared his view that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between live action and rendered footage. “The way its going, it’s gonna be pretty …

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Summarizing a cornucopian case for oil

Someone on reddit asked if there was a cornucopian counterpart to the www.oildrum.com About 20% (2400 out of 11,300 articles) of this site are focused on energy with a more cornucopian view. I have also had articles published at theoildrum. Here is a sample of articles from this site that form what the Oildrum would …

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Curiosity Landing Photographed from HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

A NASA satellite in orbit around Mars was able to capture this picture of the split second when Curiosity fell from the skies to its successful landing on the surface of the red planet. In the amazing photograph, the rover’s parachute is fully deployed and the spacecraft is slowing from the screaming speeds of approach …

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Optimising Magnesium diboride superconductors

Magnesium diboride (MgB2), was discovered to be superconducting material in 2001. It has has the highest transition temperature (it becomes superconducting, 39K) for a conventional superconductor. MgB2 could become the superconducting material of choice in numerous medium-range magnetic field applications such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). European companies already play a dominant role in MRI …

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Wearable fabric memristors

Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a …

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