A Second Study Shows Rapamycin Extends Life of Mice and Rapamycin Prevents Alzheimer Effects and another Aging Gene Found

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News &nbsp  Computer Software If research results continue to be repeated and are turned into clinical trials, the drug Rapamycin already approved for some uses could be marshaled — sooner than we expect — to prevent Alzheimer’s disease in humans and improve health to the end of life. A few …

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All Time Inflation Adjusted Movie Box Office Record Predictions

Avatar has a domestic box office of $630 million and will have a final domestic box office of $730-760 million Box Office Mojo Inflation Adjusted totals This will place Avatar 11th-14th on the inflation adjusted all time domestic list. There is talk about re-releasing Titanic in 3D in late 2010 There is no uncertainty that …

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Suborbital Tourism is Stepping Stone to Two Hour Flights Around the World

Spaceshiptwo is being unveiled today and should soon result in thousands of trips from a spaceport to suborbital 60+ mile height and then return to the same launch point for $200,000 per trip This is laying the groundwork for global high-speed air and space travel with two hour flights anywhere in the world (where there …

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Historical Colonization versus Historical Navies and Future Spaceships

In terms of the scale of the effort for colonizing North America, I think it is useful to compare the size of the naval fleets of the time and other historical benchmarks. We know how large the military is today and the share of the total economy that it has. It will be more useful …

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CNN Vital signs – The Clinic with Sanjay Gupta Interviewing Aubrey de Grey and Dan Buettner

Chief Medical Correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta and world-renowned anti-aging experts discussed practical steps for living longer, and cutting-edge research that could dramatically extend human lives. (for about 30 minutes) Geneticist Aubrey de Grey is the Chief Scientific Officer of SENS Foundation, which researches and promotes regenerative medicine. He said that techniques such as stem cell …

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Four Times Current Efficiency for Converting Waste Heat to Electricity

In experiments involving a different new technology, thermal diodes, Peter Hagelstein (MIT) worked with Yan Kucherov, now a consultant for the Naval Research Laboratory, and coworkers to demonstrate efficiency as high as 40 percent of the Carnot Limit. Moreover, the calculations show that this new kind of system could ultimately reach as much as 90 …

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Idaho National Lab Achieves 19% Burn for Nuclear Pebbles

The fuel pellets contain a kernel of enriched uranium surrounded by carbon and carbide layers that act as a containment boundry for the radioactive material. Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists have set a new world record of 19% burn with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs). INL researchers say the …

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Winterbergs Advanced Deuterium Fusion Rocket Propulsion For Manned Deep Space Missions

Winterberg’s design to obtain a high thrust with a high specific impulse, uses propulsion by deuterium micro-bombs, and it is shown that the ignition of deuterium micro-bombs is possible by intense GeV proton beams, generated in space by using the entire spacecraft as a magnetically insulated billion volt capacitor. The design could have exhaust that …

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Winterberg Compares Super Marx Deuterium Fusion Against Laser Fusion-fission Hybrid Concept

Winterberg compares his Super Marx generator pure deuterium micro-detonation ignition concept to the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility (NIF) Laser DT fusion-fission hybrid concept (LiFE) In a Super Marx generator a large number of ordinary Marx generators charge up a much larger second stage ultra-high voltage Marx generator, from which for the ignition of a …

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Extensive Synthetic Biology Coverage at the New Yorker

The New Yorker has a lengthy 8 web page article on synthetic biology Artemisinin (anti-malaria drug that is now produced via synthetic biology) is the first step in what Keasling hopes will become a much larger program. “We ought to be able to make any compound produced by a plant inside a microbe,” he said. …

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Sound Technology Roundup: Sonar Cloaking, Sound laser, Black hole for Sound

1. A new invisibility cloak for sound could help doctors find tiny tumors or hide submarines from enemy sonar. “Our focus is not about dampening noise, but to guide sound waves around structures,” said Nicholas Fang, a professor a the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and coauthor, along with Shu Zhang and Leilei Yin, …

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