Technology Review – Spinal stimulation combined with assisted walking therapy generates new neural circuits and restores voluntary leg movement. Rats paralyzed by spinal-cord injury can learn to control their hind limbs again if they are trained to walk in a rehabilitative device while their lower spine is electrically and chemically stimulated. A clinical trial using …
Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced that they have successfully created contact hole patterns for a wide variety of practical logic and memory devices using a next-generation directed self-assembly (DSA) process. Applying a relatively simple combination of chemical and thermal processes to …
CNIO (Spain) Scientist successfully test the first gene therapy against aging associated decline • The first anti-aging therapy potentially applicable in humans that acts directly on the genes • The research provides a “proof-‐of-‐principle” that this “feasible and safe” approach can effectively “improve healthspan” Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with a single treatment. EMBO …
A study on a handful of people with suspected mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) suggests that a device that sends continuous electrical impulses to specific “memory” regions of the brain appears to increase neuronal activity. Results of the study using deep brain stimulation, a therapy already used in some patients with Parkinson’s disease and depression, may …
Washington Post – Israel’s military chief Major General Benny Gantz said in an interview published Wednesday that he believes Iran will choose not to build a nuclear bomb, an assessment that contrasted with the gloomier statements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pointed to differences over the Iran issue at the top levels of Israeli …
Atomic metallic hydrogen, if metastable at ambient pressure and temperature could be used as the most powerful chemical rocket fuel, as the atoms recombine to form molecular hydrogen. This light-weight high-energy density material would revolutionize rocketry, allowing single-stage rockets to enter orbit and chemically fueled rockets to explore our solar system. To transform solid molecular …
Japan Space agency had the successful solar sail IKAROS. IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) was launched on May 21, 2010 together with the Venus Climate Orbiter, AKATSUKI And IKAROS becomes the world’s first solar powered sail craft employing both photon propulsion and thin film solar power generation during its interplanetary cruise. …
Here is Volvo Vision to achieve totally safe cars and reduced emissions. Our Vision is that no one is killed or injured in a Volvo in the year 2020. * We cannot solve this on our own. Co-operation is necessary! To Reach the Visions we need – Co-operation between different stakeholders: • Vehicle manufacturers • …
Reason – Based on data from hundreds of programs, policy analyst John D. Graham and his colleagues at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis found in 1997 that the median cost for lifesaving expenditures and regulations by the U.S. government in the health care, residential, transportation, and occupational areas ranges from about $1 million to …
There are many supposed “space experts” who say that Newt Gingrich’s proposal for a permanent manned base on the moon by 2020 cannot be done. They claim that the technology is there but not the money to do it. Washington Post – Newt has said that he’d use 10 percent of the NASA budget — …
A guest article for Next Big Future by Joseph Friedlander When history, tech and industrial capacity studies collide, you get an awesome venue for geeky statistical comparisions. I was just comparing the bomber forces of the USA during World War II and the Cold War and trying to come up with a measure of just …