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Antiaging Rapamycin used to boost immune response in humans
Mannick and her colleagues decided to investigate whether a rapamycin-like drug could reverse the natural decline that elderly people experience in their ability to fight off infections.In the clinical...
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Annual Smartphone shipments will increase from 1.3 billion in 2014 to 1.9...
IDC forecasts smartphone increasing from 1.3 billion annual shipments in 2014 to 1.9 billion in 2018According to a new mobile phone forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...
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Lasers in space could trap and shape reflective dust into telescopes with...
Here we look in detail at the Phase I report for Orbiting Rainbows. NASA provided the funding for a phase 2 study project. They would use several lasers to trap and shape billions of reflective dust...
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DARPA project for autonomous UAVs that fly 45 mph in compex indoor spaces
DARPA aims to give small unmanned aerial vehicles advanced perception and autonomy to rapidly search buildings or other cluttered environments without teleoperation.Military teams patrolling dangerous...
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China planning three aircraft carriers and eventual path to nuclear carriers...
China's first domestic carrier, like the Liaoning, might be standard (30,000-40,000 tons) in size. Yin Zhuo, a naval expert, said that it cannot be a supercarrier (over 60,000 tons) , since they are...
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Multiferroic heroics put instant-on computing in sight
If data could instead be encoded without current – for example, by an electric field applied across an insulator – it would require much less energy, and make things like low-power, instant-on...
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Improved batteries and Aerodynamics give Tesla Roadster 3.0 400 mile range
The Roadster 3.0 package applies what Tesla has learned in Model S to Roadster. No new Model S battery pack or major range upgrade is expected in the near term.Battery technology has continued a steady...
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NASA proposed 30 day crewed Venus Mssion
NASA Langley researchers want to get a better idea about conditions on our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus, so they have come up with HAVOC or a High Altitude Venus Operational Concept – a...
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Solar power and nuclear power can be built by 2030 to provide non-polluting...
The United States produced 15 TWh of photovoltaic solar power in the 12 months ending in Oct 2014.The U.S. installed 1,354 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the third quarter of 2014 to...
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Ad Block Plus uses more memory and slows computer more than ads
Adblock Plus (ABP), which is by far the most popular add-on for Firefox and Chrome, is actually increasing the amount of memory used by your web browser, rather than decreasing it. Furthermore, ABP...
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China billionaire seeks to beat Tesla with electric cars
Jia Yueting, chairman and founder of Leshi Internet Information and Technology (Beijing) Co. [Jia net worth about $2.3 billion], said at the beginning of December, 2014 that the maker of Web-enabled...
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China making $800-900 billion more funds available for loans and will cut...
hina Cwill broaden the definition of a deposit in 2015, boosting the lending capacity of Chinese banks that have to cap loans at 75 percent of funds held. The relaxation, reported by the official...
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2014 Military Review - DARPA showed off self guided 50 caliber sniper rounds
DARPA's Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program conducted the first successful live-fire tests demonstrating in-flight guidance of .50-caliber bullets in the spring of 2014. This video shows...
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First 3D Metamaterials will enable higher resolution ultrasound, stealth...
Researchers have developed the first three dimensional metamaterials by combining physico-chemical formulation and microfluidics technology. This is a new generation of soft metamaterials that are...
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Carbon nanotubes could make longer duration qubits for quantum memory in...
Researchers from Delft University of Technology studied how decoherence could be measured in mechanical resonators, basically tiny vibrating strings made from carbon nanotubes, and found that the...
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Reducing traffic congestion with artificial intelligence
Traffic congestion can be reduced if people reduce their speed when an obstruction is predicted further down the road. Yet figuring out what the ideal speed is at any given time to maximize flow is a...
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Carnival of nuclear energy 241
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 241 is up at Hiroshima SyndromeNuke Power Talk - The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rule to reduce carbon emissions closed December...
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China new nuclear JL-2 and DF-41 missiles will cover all US territory
China could soon target the United States with sea-based nuclear weapons as it is reinforcing its submarines with long-range nuclear ballistic missiles, a US congressional report has found.China’s...
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Correctly factoring in the more important role of energy corrects economic...
A paper shows that the failure to describe modern economies adequately is not due to the introduction of calculus into economic theory by the so-called 'marginal revolution' during the second half of...
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Russia nuclear modernization with ICBMs on rail, new nuclear submarines and...
President Vladimir Putin says Russia will continue its ambitious military modernization program with a particular emphasis on nuclear strategic forces. Putin said the military is set to receive 50 new...
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