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Commercial Exoskeletons for workers from Panasonic, BMW, Audi and others
The Japanese company Panasonic announced recently that it will start selling an exoskeleton designed to help workers lift and carry objects more easily and with less risk of injury. The suit was...
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CRISPR DNA editing system controlled by light
Japanese researchers led by University of Tokyo chemist Moritoshi Sato have refined the CRISPR-Cas9 method by developing alight-activated Cas9 nuclease, a technological advancement that significantly...
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Memcomputing NP-complete problems in polynomial time using polynomial...
Memcomputing is a novel non-Turing paradigm of computation that uses interacting memory cells (memprocessors for short) to store and process information on the same physical platform. It was recently...
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Star Trek Axanar has an indiegogo fundraiser and a 3-4 minute teaser with a...
Axanar is the first fully-professional, independent Star Trek film. While some may call it a "fan film" as we are not licensed by CBS, Axanar has professionals working in front and behind the camera,...
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Dead galaxies in Coma Cluster may be packed with dark matter
Galaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain as much as 100 times more dark matter than visible matter, according to an Australian study.The research, published today,...
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Japan's aging population has already abandoned 8 million houses and could...
Population decline in Japan is so serious that parts of the country may be ghost towns in less than 20 years.More than 8 million homes are already empty, and that number may reach 21.5 million by 2033,...
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Nano-view of the brain with syringe injectable electronics
Harvard has an electronic device that can be injected directly into the brain, or other body parts, and treat everything from neurodegenerative disorders to paralysis.Led by Charles Lieber, the Mark...
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Focus on practical plasmonic and metamaterial applications
The field of plasmonics and metamaterials has attracted a great deal of interest over the past two decades, but despite the many fundamental breakthroughs and exciting science it has produced, it is...
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Planetary Resources’ First Spacecraft Successfully Deployed, Testing Asteroid...
Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced today that its Arkyd 3 Reflight (A3R) spacecraft deployed successfully from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Kibo airlock and...
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Exosuit soft exoskeleton update
Harvard Biodesign Lab is developing next generation soft wearable robots that use innovative textiles to provide a more conformal, unobtrusive and compliant means to interface to the human body. These...
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New $100 Breakthrough Initiative version of SETI from Yuri Milner and Stephen...
A new $100 million “Breakthrough Initiatives” program from Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, was unveiled today at the Royal Society in London. Drake, as well as Ann Druyan, Martin Rees, Geoff Marcy,...
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130 million person Beijing - Tianjin - Hebei megacity needs a lot of...
Nextbigfuture covered Chinese President Xi's Jing-Jin-ji plan to integrate Beijing with surrounding cities to create a 130 million person megacity in 2014.President Xi Jinping has a signature project...
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India completes Kudankulam 2 nuclear reactor and South Africa begins...
1. Construction of unit 2 of the c nuclear power plant in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu has been completed. In a 14 July statement, AERB also said that it had issued a licence for the regular...
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India will build a 65000 ton aircraft carrier with catapult launch
The size and specifications of the Indian Navy's future aircraft carrier have been officially acknowledged. The navy has written to at least four major global shipbuilders, asking for proposals to help...
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Foundation of Planned Skycity skyscraper being used for Fish Farming
The foundations of what was planned to be the world’s tallest building are being used as fish farm in China two years after the project stalled, according to a Xiaoxiang Chen Bao newspaper...
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Indian Economic Planning think tank believes India can grow at 10% per year...
Over the last few months, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya has made quite a few statements about India's growth forecast in the next five years, ten and fifteen years. In April, he said that...
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M4.2 Earthquake 3 km north of Fremont California
At 2015-07-21 02:41:14 AM PST there was a 4.2 earthquake just north of Fremont CaliforniaRead more »
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Evolvable Lunar Architecture is a well thought plan for lower risk for moon...
A study by NexGen LLC looked at a lower cost approach to explore the moon and Mars.Thestudy’s primary purpose was to assess the feasibility of new approaches for achieving our national goals in space....
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Molecular could boost the yield for an alternative desert rubber plant
Yulex hopes to break the Asian rubber monopoly using gene sequencing and an unassuming desert plant. The plant is called plant called guayule. Under the bark is soft layer called parenchyma. You can...
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Colbert Geeks Out about the New Horizon flyby of Pluto
Stephen discusses the latest news from 4.67 billion miles away.Stephen talks about the Pluto photos and how we will keep getting photos from the spacecraft because of the distance transmission is less...
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