Chief Defence Scientist Dr Alex Zelinsky today congratulated an Australian-United States team on the success of an experimental hypersonic flight at the Woomera Test Range. The experimental rocket reached an apogee of 278 km, achieving the targeted speed of Mach 7.5 (seven and a half times the speed of sound). The team estimates that its …
Even if carbon dioxide levels stopped rising today, the world would still warm by 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels –which is more than three-quarters of the way to the 2 °C limit the world is supposed to be aiming for. That is the implication of two sets of figures announced on Monday. Global average levels …
Greetings from RB2015! My name is Claudia Aguirre and I’ll be live-blogging from the SENS research foundation conference Rejuvenation Biotechnology. A little about me….I have a PhD in neuroscience and am currently a scientific consultant in the health and wellness industries. I mostly focus on science communications and scientific content marketing but I am always …
Russian regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a construction licence for the multipurpose sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor, or MBIR by its Russian acronym. The reactor complex will be located at the site of the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (RIAR), in Dimitrovgrad. In November, Uralenergostroy was selected in an open tender as the general contractor for …
Viable yet damaged cells can accumulate during development and aging. Although eliminating those cells may benefit organ function, identification of this less fit cell population remains challenging. Previously, we identified a molecular mechanism, based on “fitness fingerprints” displayed on cell membranes, which allows direct fitness comparison among cells in Drosophila. Here, we study the physiological …
To fund a Universal Basic Income of $10,000 per year for 300 million Americans would cost $3 trillion per year or require the investment of about $53 trillion. This would be reversing the current US debt and then tripling it in an investment fund. An unconditional basic income [UBI] (also called basic income, basic income …
We are getting new Star Wars movies. Blacklight Power is back and claiming they have made breakthroughs which overcome past problems. The Chicago Pile was the first artificial nuclear reactor. The first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 on 2 December 1942, under the supervision of Enrico Fermi. Fermi described the apparatus …
Scientists for the first time have cloned cells from two adults to create early-stage embryos, and then derived tissue from those embryos that perfectly matched the DNA of the donors. The experiment represents another advance in the quest to make tissue in the laboratory that could treat a range of maladies, from heart attacks to …
Businessweek feature Kevin Feige who is masterminding the Marvel Superhero movies at Disney. Clearly Disney will be making Marvel superhero, Pixar animation and Star Wars on a very regular basis forever. Detailed Roadmap at least out to series 4 of Avengers, Captain America and Iron Man, but maybe out to series 6 and 2028 or …
The semiconductor industry has another thermal problem to sort out. As chip components shrink, the copper wiring that connects them must shrink, too. And as these wires get thinner, they heat up tremendously. A sandwich made of graphene on both sides of a sheet of copper improves the copper’s ability to dissipate heat by 25 …
Vancouver-based Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and the provincially-owned B.C. Innovation Council have organized two tours for TED attendees. Chrysalix, which bills itself as “the most active cleantech venture investor network in the world,” put together a daylong tour of Inventys, D-Wave Systems — creator of the world’s first quantum computers — and General Fusion, which …