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First close loop system that can adjust spinal cord signals in real time to...
Swiss scientists severed the spinal cords of a half-dozen rats and then implanted flexible electrodes into the lower part of their spinal cords. The animals were also given a type of drug known as a...
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Economist and Libertarian Theorist David Friedman support for the American...
David Director Friedman is an economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist. He is known for his writings in market anarchist theory, which is the subject of his most popular book, The...
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Asteroid Act could immediately unlock billion dollar in asteroid mining...
Private companies want to mine asteroids for fuel, and build filling stations in space. A bill now in front of the US Congress would help by allowing them to own what they discover - but it might, if...
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Over 110 million views of Nextbigfuture
Nextbigfuture has over 69 million views on Google Plus.Google statistics for Nextbigfuture have over 43 million page views.Combined that is over 110 million pageviews and views.There have been over...
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Hong Kong protests
Thousands of protesters have taken over the business district and are camped outside government offices in Hong Kong.* A student-led protest movement has joined forces with the larger Occupy Central*...
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Revolution in Seamless Intelligence by 2022
Nine technical leaders within the IEEE Computer Society surveying the current states and progressions of 23 different technologies that could change the computer industry by 2022. The technologies...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 228
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 228 is up at Yes Vermont YankeeThe Areva Blog reviews the Department of Energy's online tool for calculating the average amount of energy you consume each year. in...
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Carnival of Space 373
The Carnival of Space 373 is up at Photos to SpaceUniverse Today - What Is This Bizarre Ball That The Curiosity Rover Found On Mars?Read more »
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China, Russia and Canada win big in a warmed world and India and Africa lose big
[Ludwig Maximilians University] Russia, Canada and China are projected to gain farmland this century as the world warms up due to climate change, even as global crop-growing capacity may decline, a...
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Lightbridge planning first full scale nuclear reactor tests for metallic fuel...
Lightbridge, a nuclear engineering company based in Tysons Corner, Virginia, is planning the first tests in a full-scale reactor of new fuel rods that have been engineered to boost power output of...
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Estimated costs of the airwar and a modest ground war in Syria and Iraq
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary assessments has provided an estimated cost for the airwar in Iraq and Syria at between $2.4 to 22 billion per year.The cost of U.S. military operations against...
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Graphene chips are close to significant commercialization
A research team from the University of Texas and German nanotechnology company Aixtron have worked out a way to make wafer-scale graphene measuring between 100 and 300mm.The research offers the...
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China fourth largest arms exporter and has a tank comparable to the 30 year...
With foreign sales of $7.4 billion over the past five years, China overtook France in 2013 to become the world’s fourth-largest arms exporter, according to Stockholm International Peace Research...
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Partial Fermi Paradox Solution - Gamma Ray Bursts could prevent intelligent...
Arxiv - On the role of GRBs on life extinction in the UniverseAs a copious source of gamma-rays, a nearby Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) can be a threat to life. Using recent determinations of the rate...
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EU $1.3 Billion ten year human brain simulation project developing next...
European Union (EU)'s Human Brain Project provided a 32 page report on their progress toward an artificial brain by 2023.The 10-year-long $1 billion euro (US$1.3 billion) Human Brain Project aims to...
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Carbon Copies Dr. Randal Koene believes Fruit Fly Brain Emulation Likely to...
Randal Koene is an expert on brain emulation. He gave a talk in 2013 and discussed 100,000 neuron fruit fly brain emulation.If we see the same sort of development in getting activity data from the...
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NIH $4.5 billion brain 2025 project proposal and there has been $110 million...
To vigorously advance the goals of the BRAIN Initiative, there was a detailed recommendation to invest $400 million per year over the next five years (FY16-20), and continues at $500 million per year...
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New treatments show promise in prolonging human lifespan, when can you get it?
Evidence is emerging that some widely used drugs can prolong lifespan for well people – and insiders have started taking them off-label.Millions of people are taking anti-ageing drugs every day – they...
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How the Terrestrial Energy Integral Molten Salt Reactor is designed for fast...
Terrestrial Energy’s IMSR (Integral Molten Salt Reactor) features a self-contained reactor Core-unit, (the “IMSR Core-unit”), within which all key components are permanently sealed for its operating...
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Brute force Terraforming of Mars, moons and thousands of asteroids in this...
Currently humanity can control about 20 terawatts and this is increasing at 3% per year. As an unintended by-product there is slow climate change over the course of many decades to centuries. There...
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