Marines with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion test out the PowerWalk, just one exhibit of energy saving gear at Camp Pendleton’s ExFOB14. The PowerWalk harnesses energy as the user walks, charging batteries and other devices. The PowerWalk may look like a brace, but reviews showed it actually made walking less of a chore while not restricting movement. …
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China is expected to pass a military milestone this year when it sets a different type of sub to sea—a “boomer,” carrying fully armed nuclear missiles for the first time—says the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, or ONI. Chinese already has nuclear-powered submarines and hunter killer submarines. China has fulfilled its four-decade quest to join …
New photos that have appeared on Chinese aviation websites suggest that mass production of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) J-15 carrier-based multirole fighter is gathering pace. Two new J-15 aircraft, numbered 104 and 105, are ready for delivery by SAC to the People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force (PLANAF). The new additions take the total …
Poet Technologies (market value $220 million) is claiming that gallium arsenide computer chips will finally be ready to drive computer performance as silicon is hitting the wall. The gallium arsenide integrated circuit market is forecasted to grow to $8 billion in 2017, according to a new report ‘The GaAs IC Market’ by The Information Network. …
George Church of Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute led the conference off with a summary of progress in CRISPR technology. A questioner asked George about interaction with “chromatin state”. In any given cell, at any given time, some of the DNA is unwrapped and available for expression, called euchromatin, while the rest, called heterochromatin, is spooled …
George Church of Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute led the conference off with a summary of progress in CRISPR technology. A questioner asked George about interaction with “chromatin state”. In any given cell, at any given time, some of the DNA is unwrapped and available for expression, called euchromatin, while the rest, called heterochromatin, is spooled …
[Eurekalert] With the rise of emerging economies around the world and a concomitant upgrade of health care systems, the global population has been rapidly expanding. As a consequence, worldwide demand for agricultural products is also growing. Crops now provide food and the other important resources for seven billion humans. Food supplies are primarily based on …
Golden rice contains enough vitamin A to meet children’s needs. A 2009 study concluded that golden rice is effectively converted into vitamin A in humans. A 2012 study that fed 68 children ages 6 to 8 concluded that golden rice was as good as vitamin A supplements and better than the natural beta-carotene in spinach. …
Patrick Lin discusses the ethical impact of new biological and exoskeleton enhancements to soldiers. Soldiers will soon be able to crawl up and down walls like a real life Gecko or the fictional Spiderhttp://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=17555522#editor/target=post;postID=9032631527705685216man. They will have the technology to stick and unstick with hands and feet to walls. This was also shown in the …
The Carnival of space 242 is up at DearAstronomer. Universe Today – Nearly ten years ago, astronomers were stunned to discover a star that had been apparently flung from its own system and travelling at over a million kilometers per hour. Over the years, a question was brought up: If stars can be ejected at …