How a new battery revolution will change your life

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy/2015/0830/How-a-new-battery-revolution-will-change-your-life

The energy revolution comes in layers

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/upfront-blog/2015/0830/A-revolution-comes-in-layers

Working Out Doesn’t Keep Your Brain Young

Alas, not good news:

http://time.com/4009723/brain-exercise-benefits/?xid=newsletter-brief

3D printer prints in 10 materials simultaneously

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/cutting-edge-3d-printer-prints-063531403.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

First human head transplant could happen in two years

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530103.700-first-human-head-transplant-could-happen-in-two-years/#.VUVY87r6cXM

Um...this isn't a head transplant...it's a BODY transplant! Unless the body is more important than the head???

New anti-aging tricks from dietary supplement seen in mice

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/08/pgc_telomeres_alexander/

Making Hydrogen Fuel from Water and Visible Light Highly Efficient

http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2015/august/making-hydrogen-fuel-water-visible-light-highly-efficient.html

Why wind and solar are already better value than fossil fuels

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/why-wind-and-solar-are-already-better-value-than-fossil-fuels-16022

New research paves the way for rechargeable batteries with almost indefinite lifetimes

https://news.mit.edu/2015/solid-state-rechargeable-batteries-safer-longer-lasting-0817

"Solid-state electrolytes could be “a real game-changer,” Ceder says, creating “almost a perfect battery, solving most of the remaining issues” in battery lifetime, safety, and cost."

Most complete human brain model to date is a ‘brain changer'

https://news.osu.edu/news/2015/08/18/human-brain-model/

Surprising results from brain and cognitive studies of a 93-year-old woman athelete

http://www.kurzweilai.net/surprising-results-from-brain-and-cognitive-studies-of-a-93-year-old-woman-athelete?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4c0994f8ad-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-4c0994f8ad-281903081

Discovery in growing graphene nanoribbons could enable faster, more efficient electronics

http://news.wisc.edu/23936

‘Diamonds from the sky’ approach turns CO2 into valuable products

This appears to be the most realistic method for reversing climate change:

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2015/august/co2.html

“We calculate that with a physical area less than 10 percent the size of the Sahara Desert, our process could remove enough CO2 to decrease atmospheric levels to those of the pre-industrial revolution within 10 years,” he says.

New Temperature Record Is Huge Achievement for Superconducting

http://news.yahoo.com/temperature-record-huge-achievement-superconducting-162953981.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

Google's making it easy for you to get solar panels onto your roof

http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/17/google-project-sunroof/

I have almost 2000 hours of usable sunlight a year, and can get 100% of my energy needs from the sun. Not bad! Unfortunately, it's a condo complex with a shared roof.

Solid Electrolyte Paves the Way for Rechargeable Batteries with Almost Indefinite Lifetimes

http://scitechdaily.com/solid-electrolyte-paves-the-way-for-rechargeable-batteries-with-almost-indefinite-lifetimes/

Researchers Reveal Why Black Phosphorus May Surpass Graphene

http://scitechdaily.com/researchers-reveal-why-black-phosphorus-may-surpass-graphene/

Watch a Boston Dynamics humanoid robot wander around outside

http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/15/watch-a-boston-dynamics-humanoid-robot-wander-around-outside/

Humanoid home robots can't be THAT far away....

Optical chip allows for reprogramming quantum computer in seconds

http://www.kurzweilai.net/optical-chip-allows-for-reprogramming-quantum-computer-in-seconds?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=dd52caff08-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-dd52caff08-281903081

The Lowly Lightbulb Outshines Solar and Wind on U.S. Power Grids

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-13/the-lowly-lightbulb-outshines-solar-and-wind-on-u-s-power-grids

Small, modular, efficient fusion power plant could be a decade away

Instead of always being 30 years away, now it'll always be only 10 years away! ;-) Seriously, this looks like another potential game changer, one without the limitations of solar or wind (though still terribly expensive):

https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/small-modular-efficient-fusion-plant-0810

Electro-optical modulator is 100 times smaller, uses 100th of the energy consumption

http://www.kurzweilai.net/electro-optical-modulator-is-100-times-smaller-uses-100th-of-the-energy-consumption?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=da831d8509-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-da831d8509-281903081

Cutting cost and power consumption for big data

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/cutting-cost-power-big-data-0710

Scientists crack the secret of centenarians

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/scientists-crack-the-secret-of-the-centenarians

Unfortunately, there's not yet a clear path to lengthening telomeres or eliminating inflammation for the long haul.

Artificial intelligence will make religion obsolete within our lifetime

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/superintelligence-meets-religion/?fb=dd

Spicy Food Linked with Longer Life

http://www.livescience.com/51743-spicy-food-linked-with-longer-life.html?cmpid=NL_LS_weekly_2015-08-05

Can we reverse the ageing process by putting young blood into older people?

The modern case for vampirism:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/04/can-we-reverse-ageing-process-young-blood-older-people

First Solar Defends Plans To Make Cheaper, Better Solar Panels

http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2015/08/04/first-solar-defends-plans-to-make-cheaper-better-solar-panels/?utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix

The MIND diet may slow brain aging by 7.5 years

I'm already following most of this, but I think I'll try to follow it more rigorously:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-mind-diet-may-slow-brain-aging-by-7-5-years?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2b3ba12420-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-2b3ba12420-281903081

Calculate the cost of installing solar power in your own home

Nifty:

http://geostellar.com/go/credo?utm_source=credo_emailblast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=credo_emailcampaign7a

Sleeping on one's side may clear waste from one's brain most effectively

One possible way to keep one's brain healthy long enough for advancing tech to take over:

http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/general/150804sleeping.php

Meet the High-Performance Single-Molecule Diode

"...outperforms the best of its predecessors by a factor of 50."

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/07/29/high-performance-single-molecule-diode/

Obama signs executive order authorizing development of exascale supercomputers

http://www.kurzweilai.net/obama-signs-executive-order-authorizing-development-of-exascale-supercomputers

IBM Watson Is Helping CVS Fight Chronic Diseases

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cvs-ibm-watson_55ba74b1e4b095423d0e4902

New Capacitor Offers Record-high Energy Storage

http://www.news.gatech.edu/2015/07/29/sol-gel-capacitor-dielectric-offers-record-high-energy-storage

Researchers Reveal Climbing a Tree Can Improve Cognitive Skills by 50%

50%? Wow....

http://www.unf.edu/publicrelations/media_relations/press/2015/UNF_Researchers_Reveal_Climbing_a_Tree_Can_Improve_Cognitive_Skills.aspx

How the Research Community Is Addressing the ‘Reproducibility Crisis’

http://time.com/3978589/research-reproducibility-crisis/

With around 1.8 million articles published in scientific journals each year, a couple hundred cases of fraud isn't bad. But the lack of replication of studies is disturbing.

Hydropower: The Renewable Energy Source That’s About to Boom Again

http://time.com/3978215/hydropower-us-growth/

Precursors of Life Found on a Comet

http://time.com/3980243/organic-comet-philae/

I'd love to see someone model this prebiotic chemistry and run abiogenesis experiments at millions of times the speed of real chemistry to see what might evolve.