In 2016, Russia has twice tested a hypersonic glider meant to replace traditional warheads for new generations of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including the heavy Sarmat ICBM. Military expert Boris Litovkin said that after entering the atmosphere the ultra-maneuverable hypersonic reentry vehicles are able to shift their targets in flight thus making them extremely hard to …
Modern radar and communications systems can subtly and quickly change their character, making them harder for U.S. aircraft and other platforms to jam or spoof. That reality is prompting DARPA to lead industry teams to apply artificial intelligence to electronic warfare. It’s called “cognitive EW.” The difference between today’s tech and that of the 1970s …
The human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a double-stranded, circular molecule of 16 569 bp and contains 37 genes coding for two rRNAs, 22 tRNAs and 13 polypeptides. Mitochondria genes are outside the nucleus and are more prone to defects and damage. Aubrey de Grey and the SENS research team are looking to move the mitochondria …
The Flash® Bainite system produces the highest overall performing and readily weldable structural metal ever created. It’s lightweight, durable, and has an optimal microstructure. The Flash Bainite process takes regular, off-the-shelf commercial AISI1020 carbon steel, and instead of heat treating it for 10 minutes like costly alloyed steel, you put it through a roller-driven system …
A guest article by Joseph Friedlander When I was a young boy, reading comics, I ran across the DC Comics universe and the concept of the various ‘ages’ of Superman– The Golden Age of the 30s and 40s, and the Silver Age of the 50s and 60s. http://www.superman-through-the-ages.com/a/History/VersionIII.php Summarized very briefly, the publisher rewrote the …
The cutting protein Cas9 can be replaced by a different protein, Cpf1, which Feng Zhang, a researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard says will also work as a versatile editing tool. The background for the Broad announcement is a bruising patent fight with the University of California, Berkeley, over who invented the …
On Friday, a report surfaced claiming that the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) had completed a successful test flight of an unspecified new aircraft, adding that it was a breakthrough in hypersonic aircraft technology. United States, Russia, China and other nations are close to fielding hypersonic missiles that would be fired from jet …
To compete against the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Izumo-class helicopter destroyers, China is planning to build a new class of amphibious assault ship with a displacement of 40,000 tons, according to Kanwa Defense Review, a Canada-based Chinese-language military magazine. China displayed the model of its 40,000-ton super large amphibious assault ship, known as M1, during …
Graduate Summer School: Deep Learning, Feature Learning “Deep Learning, Self-Taught Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning (Part 1 Slides1-68; Part 2 Slides 69-109)” Recent Developments in Deep Learning by Geoff Hinton Geoff Hinton presents as part of the UBC Department of Computer Science’s Distinguished Lecture Series, May 30, 2013. Professor Hinton was awarded the 2011 Herzberg …
The ISS (International Space Station) currently has five Russian-built modules: the Zvezda service module, the Zarya cargo block, the Pirs docking module, the Poisk (“Search”) research module and Rassvet (“Dawn”) research module.” Russia may not be able or want to take all of the existing modules. [via statement made in 2013 by a Russian official] …
Craig Venter’s new company wants to improve human longevity by creating the world’s largest, most comprehensive database of genetic and physiological information. Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) is a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company. HLI will use advances in genomic sequencing, understanding the human microbiome, proteomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy technologies to …