Young blood appears to boost the longevity of mice and gets stem cells to...
Young blood seems to turn back the effects of aging, potentially with few known safety concerns in humans and, so far, with corroborated results from parabiotic aging studies in multiple labs. But...
View ArticleBy 2030 Major breakthroughs will arrive for the worlds poor including...
The 2015 annual report from the Gates Foundation reports excellent prospects on the fight against disease and hunger for the world's poor. The Bill Gates foundation is spending many billions to make it...
View ArticleThe Violent history of property redistribution
Some commenters about the world wealth inbalance have indicated the wish for property redistribution like what was implemented by communist China.It should noted that Singapore achieved economic...
View ArticleReducing Myc gene increases lifespan of mice by 15% on average
A team of scientists based at Brown University has found that reducing expression of a fundamentally important gene called Myc significantly increased the healthy lifespan of laboratory mice, the first...
View ArticleMoon Express tests its MTV-1X flying donut lunar lander
The criteria for winning the grand $20 million Google Lunar XPrize seems fairly straightforward: land on the moon, cross a distance of 500 meters and send back high-definition footage to Earth along...
View ArticleChina's biggest reactor operator will five nuclear reactors into operation...
China's biggest reactor operator, China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), will put another five reactor units into operation this year, company executives said, adding that they remain confident in...
View ArticleLaser Weapons will be mounted on various US navy ship guns
The Laser Weapon System or LaWS is a directed-energy weapon developed by the United States Navy. The weapon was installed on the USS Ponce for field testing in 2014. In December 2014 the United States...
View ArticleNavy Slab Solid State Lasers will scale to 300-500 Kilowatts
The Congressional Research service recently provided a Navy report of Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Background and Issues for Congress.US laser development has reached the...
View ArticleRussian PAK DA next generation stealth strategic bomber designs
The PAK DA is a Russian next-generation strategic bomber design, developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau. The PAK DA was planned to be a new stealthy strategic bomber and is expected to enter service in...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Holographic Goggles brings the era of holographic computing
Microsoft has unveiled a head-mounted holographic computer called Project HoloLens.Microsoft HoloLens goes beyond augmented reality and virtual reality by enabling you to interact with...
View ArticleThe Simpsons Springfield will get transformed into the Elon Musk version of...
This Sunday, Musk, the head honcho at Tesla Motors and SpaceX, will enjoy the rare experience of watching himself in a Simpsons episode called “The Musk Who Fell to Earth.” The episode was inspired by...
View ArticleChina and Russia have now both approved the $242 billion Beijing to Moscow...
China will build a 7,000-kilometer (4,350-mile) high-speed rail link from Beijing to Moscow, at a cost of 1.5 trillion yuan ($242 billion), Beijing’s city government said on the social networking site...
View ArticleTelomere extension turns back aging by decades in cultured human cells
Researchers delivered a modified RNA that encodes a telomere-extending protein to cultured human cells. Cell proliferation capacity was dramatically increased, yielding large numbers of cells for...
View ArticleIndia now expected to have 6.2% GDP growth for 2015
Analysts now expect India to grow 6.2 percent next fiscal year, a slight downgrade from the October survey's forecast of 6.4 percent, but it would still be the first time that growth has exceeded 6.0...
View ArticleChina has new light tank for fighting in mountains in Tibet and other western...
There are pictures of china's new light tank for fighting in mountainous areas. China's has issues with minorities in some of the mountain areas. China has almost 15 million Muslims who live mainly in...
View ArticleGallium nitride is ten times better than silicon now but could become 100 to...
GaN field effect transistors (FETs) are now available as discrete transistors and as monolithic half-bridges, with performance 10 times better than the best commercial silicon MOSFET. But what happens...
View ArticleUK Taranis unmanned combat aircraft demostrator likely basis for post-2030 UK...
Taranis is an unmanned combat aircraft system advanced technology demonstrator programme. The Taranis demonstrator is the result of one-and-a-half-million man hours of work by the UK’s leading...
View ArticleAragoscope is space telescope system that could achieve 1000 times higher...
A new space telescope concept, named the Aragoscope after French scientist Francois Arago who first detected diffracted light waves around a disk, could allow scientists to image space objects like...
View ArticleIndia and Russia have agreed to fast-track the FGFA fighter jet
India and Russia agreed on 21 January to expedite their joint military programmes, particularly the delayed Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) project.Official sources told IHS Jane's that...
View ArticleRussian Navy can only deploy 45 of its 270 ships
The Russian navy is on the edge of a precipitous decline in ship numbers and combat power, owing to huge industrial shortfalls that have been decades in the making. Today the Russian navy possesses...
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