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Gene Therapy Progress is Summarized
Scientific American reports that gene therapy is starting to live up to its early promise. In the past six years the experimental procedure for placing healthy genes wherever they are needed in the...
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Operational Lunar Space Elevator planned by end of 2019
By the end of 2019, Liftport has the goal establish an operational Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure using:* Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Technology* “Sputnik-like Simplicity”* A Single Launch...
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Carnival of Space 343
The Carnival of Space 343 is up at the Urban AstronomerThe Meridiani Journal - Is this new evidence for ancient life on Mars?Studies of a Martian meteorite, known as Yamato 000593 (Y000593), have...
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3D Printing of tissue with blood vessels are a key breakthrough that will...
In what may be a critical breakthrough for creating artificial organs, Harvard researchers say they have created tissue interlaced with blood vessels.Using a custom-built four-head 3-D printer and a...
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Venter and Diamandis Launched an Anti-Aging Company to develop Genomics and...
Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), is a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy, high performance human life span, was announced Mar 4, 2014 by...
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Multiferroic material can increase power efficiency for future computer...
UCLA researchers were able to demonstrate that using multiferroic material to generate spin waves could reduce wasted heat and therefore increase power efficiency for computer processing by up to 1,000...
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Bad relations between Russia and the US and Europe are now guaranteed for...
Regardless of the final outcome of the situation in the Ukraine with Russia. US and European relations with Russia will be bad for many years.Europe will try to have less dependence upon Russian...
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NASA proposes Europa mission by 2025
On Tuesday, NASA released an overview of its $17 billion budget request for fiscal year 2015, which includes funds "for the formulation for a mission to Jupiter's moon, EuropaNASA has been developing...
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Blood test can predict with 90% accuracy the risk of Alzheimer's onset in the...
A blood test can accurately predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease, according to US researchers.They showed that testing levels of 10 fats in the blood could predict - with 90% accuracy - the risk of...
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US Navy will deploy first ship with laser weapon this summer
The Navy is about to take a big step for military-kind; this summer they will add the first ship-mounted laser to their fleet. The USS Ponce will be equipped with a laser weapon. When it puts to sea...
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John Cramer - Exotic Paths to the Stars visa microscopic wormholes
Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science...
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Purchasing power parity statistics delayed
The World Bank International Comparison Program still has not released its results of purchasing power parity. They released a report but no results.At the March, 2014 meeting of the Statistical...
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Foreign aid criticism from 2009 and a shift to 2014 evidence based foreign aid
An article from 2009 discussed how international aid was hurting Africa Money from rich countries has trapped many African nations in a cycle of corruption, slower economic growth and poverty. Cutting...
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NASA plans Mars Sample-Return Mission in 2022 with modified SpaceX Dragon...
Scientists have blueprinted a low-cost Mars sample-return mission that would use a souped-up Dragon capsule from SpaceX and the firm's planned Falcon Heavy rocket to get to the Red Planet by the early...
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Africa likely to have 500 million more people in 2050 than UN 2010 projection
In 1970, there were 360 million Africans and they amounted to a tenth of the world’s population. If fertility were to drop roughly in line with Asia’s 1970-2000 trajectory, there would be 2.1 billion...
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Efficient Gas Storage and Separation - Metal organic frameworks could be the...
Solve for X: People accelerating progress on technology moonshots.Natural gas would be far more useful if we could store it. Now we have to use high pressure or refrigeration.Metal organic frameworks...
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Nuclear thermal rocket
We need the resources of the solar system so that we can afford interstellar travel.The NERVA rocket technology is reviewed in detail by Geoffrey Landis.Russia did some more advanced nuclear thermal...
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Science Fiction Writers discuss the era of starships
Fiction Writers Panel: Envisioning The Starship Eramoderated by Gregory Benford Joe HaldemanDavid BrinLarry NivenVernor VingeJon LombergStarship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C....
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 199
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 199 is up at the ANS Nuclear CafeAtomic Insights – Rod Adams Smoking Gun – Antinuclear Talking Points Coined by Coal InterestsSome of the earliest documented instances of...
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China is back to raising nuclear energy build targets after lowering them...
Before Fukushima in 2011, China was steadily raising its 2020 nuclear energy target. (from 40 GW, to 60 GW, 70 GW, 80-85GW). With Fukushima, China paused its new nuclear reactor approval and had...
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