Friday, April 8, 2022

Revamped design could take powerful biological computers from the test tube to the cell

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-revamped-powerful-biological-tube-cell.html

Startup Says It’s Created an Actual “Invisibility Shield”

Very impressive:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/startup-invisibility-shield

Cellular 'Rejuvenation' Experiment in Mice Reverses Signs of Aging, Scientists Say

"Although this technique can be used to turn adult cells back into stem cells, the current team had previously shown it can also be used to 'partially reprogram' the cells by reverting them into a more youthful state, but not completely becoming a stem cell again. If the same thing were done to enough cells in an animal's body, this could potentially make the whole organism's body clock seem younger."

https://www.sciencealert.com/making-cells-revert-to-a-younger-state-safely-reversed-signs-of-aging-in-mice?fbclid=IwAR3QBj9J64L7Xjg8ZWfn5jPrAnh0iyUo7LcToI9PcnfuHCA8CT7T80917co

Key Protein Identified That Could Be Harnessed to Extend Healthy Lifespan in Humans

https://scitechdaily.com/key-protein-identified-that-could-be-harnessed-to-extend-healthy-lifespan-in-humans/

Quantum Gravity Sensor Breakthrough Paves Way for Groundbreaking Map of World Under Earth’s Surface

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-gravity-sensor-breakthrough-paves-way-for-groundbreaking-map-of-world-under-earth-surface/

Breakthrough discovery in light interactions with nanoparticles paves the way for advances in optical computing

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-breakthrough-discovery-interactions-nanoparticles-paves.html

Transistors Reach Tipping Point At 3nm

https://semiengineering.com/transistors-reach-tipping-point-at-3nm/

DeepMind scientists say they trained an A.I. to control a nuclear fusion reactor

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/18/deepmind-scientists-trained-an-ai-to-control-nuclear-fusion-.html

Breakthrough Discovery of New Model for “Global” DNA Repair

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-discovery-of-new-model-for-global-dna-repair/

“Time Jump” by 30 Years: Old Skins Cells Reprogrammed To Regain Youthful Function

https://scitechdaily.com/time-jump-by-30-years-old-skins-cells-reprogrammed-to-regain-youthful-function/

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Inside Epic's Unreal Engine 5—and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse

Wow. The photorealism is here, truly indistinguishable from real life. Now they just have to develop an interface that makes it simple to create without a huge learning curve.

https://time.com/6164332/epic-unreal-engine-5-launch/

(Watch the video of the carpenter’s cellar toward the bottom.)

Friday, March 11, 2022

Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy Safely Reverses the Aging Process in Mice

This looks extremely promising:

When the researchers looked at normal signs of aging in the animals that had undergone the treatment, they found that the mice, in many ways, resembled younger animals. In both the kidneys and skin, the epigenetics of treated animals more closely resembled epigenetic patterns seen in younger animals. When injured, the skin cells of treated animals had a greater ability to proliferate and were less likely to form permanent scars—older animals usually show less skin cell proliferation and more scarring. Moreover, metabolic molecules in the blood of treated animals did not show normal age-related changes.

https://scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-breakthrough-cellular-rejuvenation-therapy-safely-reverses-the-aging-process-in-mice/

Saturday, February 19, 2022

What's Her Secret?

A.I. just keeps on advancing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS1m_TIxEW0&feature=youtu.be

Fusion Breakthrough Once Thought Impossible Brings Energy Device Closer to Realization

https://scitechdaily.com/fusion-breakthrough-once-thought-impossible-brings-energy-device-closer-to-realization/

Techno-optimism and the rule-of-threes: why the world will soon enter an era of mass flourishing

Encouraging, although I think the rule of threes sounds a bit forced:

https://bigthink.com/the-future/mass-flourishing-mark-mills/

Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth’s Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below

https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/14/startup-aims-to-drill-12-miles-into-earths-crust-to-tap-the-boundless-energy-below/

Electric Machines on a Molecular Scale: Researchers Create Molecule That Can Pave Way for Mini-Transistors

https://scitechdaily.com/electric-machines-on-a-molecular-scale-researchers-create-molecule-that-can-pave-way-for-mini-transistors/

Turning Trash Into Treasure: Chemists’ Radical Way To Make It Easier, More Profitable To Recycle Plastic

https://scitechdaily.com/turning-trash-into-treasure-chemists-radical-way-to-make-it-easier-more-profitable-to-recycle-plastic/

Department of Energy’s “Fairly Simple” Breakthrough Makes Accessing Stored Hydrogen More Efficient

https://scitechdaily.com/doe-fairly-simple-breakthrough-makes-accessing-stored-hydrogen-more-efficient/

A Simple Eye Test May Identify Risk of Alzheimer’s in Middle Age

https://scitechdaily.com/a-simple-eye-test-may-identify-risk-of-alzheimers-in-middle-age/

Breakthrough in Cathode Chemistry Clears Path for More-Sustainable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-in-cathode-chemistry-clears-path-for-more-sustainable-lithium-sulfur-batteries/

OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-already-sentient

and

https://futurism.com/mit-researcher-conscious-ai

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

Nanodiamonds Are Key to Efficient Hydrogen Purification – And a Zero-Carbon Future

https://scitechdaily.com/nanodiamonds-are-key-to-efficient-hydrogen-purification-and-a-zero-carbon-future/

Game-Changing Carbon Capture Technology To Remove 99% of CO2 From Air

https://scitechdaily.com/game-changing-carbon-capture-technology-to-remove-99-of-co2-from-air/

Company That Put Rifle on Robodog Deploying Anti-Immigrant Bots to Mexico Border

Uh-oh:

https://futurism.com/sniper-rifle-robot-dog

And then:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/rifle-robodog-mexico-border

MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic/

Surprising New Material Invented That Can Absorb and Release Massive Amounts of Energy

https://scitechdaily.com/surprising-new-material-invented-that-can-absorb-and-release-massive-amounts-of-energy/

U.S. Project Reaches Major Milestone toward Practical Fusion Power

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-project-reaches-major-milestone-toward-practical-fusion-power/

Ultrathin Materials Lead to Big Advance in Quantum Computing

https://scitechdaily.com/ultrathin-materials-lead-to-big-advance-in-quantum-computing/

Most “Pathogenic” Genetic Variants Have a Low Risk of Actually Causing Disease

This is encouraging:

https://scitechdaily.com/most-pathogenic-genetic-variants-have-a-low-risk-of-actually-causing-disease/

“Living Walls” Can Reduce Heat Lost From Buildings by Over 30%

https://scitechdaily.com/living-walls-can-reduce-heat-lost-from-buildings-by-over-30/

Researchers achieve milestone on path toward nuclear fusion energy

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/researchers-achieve-milestone-path-toward-nuclear-fusion-energy-2022-01-26/

Impossible Material Made Possible Inside a Graphene Sandwich – “These Are Truly Exciting Times!”

https://scitechdaily.com/impossible-material-made-possible-inside-a-graphene-sandwich-these-are-truly-exciting-times/

Slowing the Aging Process: Two Blood Proteins Could Be Key to a Long and Healthy Life

https://scitechdaily.com/slowing-the-aging-process-two-blood-proteins-could-be-key-to-a-long-and-healthy-life/

Cultivated Meat Trumps the Real Thing, With A Caveat

https://time.com/6140206/cultivated-meat-passes-the-taste-test/

Friday, December 24, 2021

Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-across-globe-are-evolving-to-eat-plastic-study-finds

Physicists create new state of matter from quantum soup of magnetically weird particles

https://www.livescience.com/quantum-spin-liquid-created

MIT Engineers Produce the World’s Longest Lithium-Ion Flexible Fiber Battery

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-produce-the-worlds-longest-lithium-ion-flexible-fiber-battery/

Important Milestone Reached in Quantum Computing With Error Correction

https://scitechdaily.com/important-milestone-reached-in-quantum-computing-with-error-correction/

The Navy’s Fusion Plans Could ‘Make The Hydrogen Bomb Seem Like A Firecracker’

Both cool and scary:

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/12/the-navys-fusion-plans-could-make-the-hydrogen-bomb-seem-like-a-firecracker/

New All-Season Smart-Roof Coating Enables Year-Round Energy Savings

Very cool:

https://scitechdaily.com/new-all-season-smart-roof-coating-enables-year-round-energy-savings/

Amazing Lego-Style HEMP BLOCKS Make Building a House Quick, Easy & Sustainable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqLXXjvQXgI

How real is the multiverse?

I love the implications:

https://www.livescience.com/how-real-is-the-multiverse

Vaccine Successfully Stalls Elements of Aging in Mice

https://futurism.com/neoscope/vaccine-stalls-aging-mice

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

One Zoom interactive evolutionary relationships tool

This is here just because it is very cool for evolution fans:

https://www.onezoom.org/life/@biota=93302

Harvard Warns That Chinese Tech Is Rapidly Overtaking American Capabilities

This isn't good for the world:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/harvard-report-china-tech

Ultrathin Solar Cells Get a Boost – “Efficiencies of Perovskites Have Skyrocketed”

https://scitechdaily.com/ultrathin-solar-cells-get-a-boost-efficiencies-of-perovskites-have-skyrocketed/

Quantum computing nears a quantum leap

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-c7eb0a05-eaa5-4c4b-b3e3-5ff02cb4d355.html

Fusion Experiment Reaches Vital Power Generation Milestone

Cleveland Clinic Research Identifies Sildenafil as Candidate Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease

https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2021/12/06/cleveland-clinic-research-identifies-sildenafil-as-candidate-drug-for-alzheimers-disease/

Ameca Humanoid Robot AI Platform

Just imagine what personal robots a decade from now will likely look like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPukuYb9xWw

Regenerative Nanotransfection: Innovative Nanochip Can Reprogram Biological Tissue in Living Body

https://scitechdaily.com/regenerative-nanotransfection-innovative-nanochip-can-reprogram-biological-tissue-in-living-body/

Stanford’s Simple New Quantum Computer Design: Photonic Computation in a Synthetic Time Dimension

https://scitechdaily.com/stanfords-simple-new-quantum-computer-design-photonic-computation-in-a-synthetic-time-dimension/

IBM’s 127-Qubit Eagle Is the Biggest Quantum Computer Yet

https://singularityhub.com/2021/11/22/ibms-127-qubit-eagle-is-the-biggest-quantum-computer-yet/

Zero-Emissions Rail and Securing the Grid With Big Batteries on Wheels

https://scitechdaily.com/zero-emissions-rail-and-securing-the-grid-with-big-batteries-on-wheels/

Crystals Efficiently Convert Light to More Useful Wavelengths – Paving Way for Better Solar Cells

https://scitechdaily.com/crystals-efficiently-convert-light-to-more-useful-wavelengths-paving-way-for-better-solar-cells/

New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs

https://scitechdaily.com/new-ultrahard-diamond-glass-synthesized-using-carbon-buckyballs/

Time-Reversal Phenomenon: In the Quantum Realm, Not Even Time Flows As You Might Expect

Just because this is cool:

https://scitechdaily.com/time-reversal-phenomenon-in-the-quantum-realm-not-even-time-flows-as-you-might-expect/

New Electrocatalyst Produces Liquid Fuels From Carbon Dioxide

https://scitechdaily.com/new-electrocatalyst-produces-liquid-fuels-from-carbon-dioxide/

Solar Energy Breakthrough: Ultrathin Solar Cells Using 2D Perovskites Get a Boost

https://scitechdaily.com/solar-energy-breakthrough-ultrathin-solar-cells-using-2d-perovskites-get-a-boost/

Beyond Qubits: Cryogenic Chip Is Big Step To Scale Up Quantum Computing

https://scitechdaily.com/beyond-qubits-cryogenic-chip-is-big-step-to-scale-up-quantum-computing/

Reversing Development of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Using Unique Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Protocol

https://scitechdaily.com/reversing-development-of-alzheimers-disease-and-dementia-using-unique-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-protocol/

Saturday, November 20, 2021

Potential Alzheimer’s Treatments Discovered in Analysis of Existing Cancer Drugs

"The scientists identified brain protein changes related to the APOE4 genetic risk variant in young postmortem study participants (average age at death was 39 years) and compared these changes with those in the autopsied brains of people with Alzheimer’s and those without (average age at death was 89 years)." ... "Their findings show an experimental drug for liver cancer and Dasatinib, approved for chronic myeloid leukemia, act upon some of these Alzheimer’s disease related proteins, suggesting they could be potential Alzheimer’s therapies. The drugs also reduced neuroinflammation, amyloid secretion, and tau phosphorylation in cell culture experiments, underscoring their potential as candidates to be tested in Alzheimer’s clinical trials."

https://scitechdaily.com/potential-alzheimers-treatments-discovered-in-analysis-of-existing-cancer-drugs/

AI Can Now Model the Molecular Machines That Govern All Life

https://singularityhub.com/2021/11/16/ai-can-now-model-the-molecular-machines-that-govern-all-life/

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Promising New Approach To Treat Alzheimer’s Disease – And Also Vaccinate Against It

Well, this is promising:

“While the science is currently still at an early stage, if these results were to be replicated in human clinical trials, then it could be transformative. It opens up the possibility to not only treat Alzheimer’s once symptoms are detected, but also to potentially vaccinate against the disease before symptoms appear.”

https://scitechdaily.com/promising-new-approach-to-treat-alzheimers-disease-and-also-vaccinate-against-it/amp/

Mapping the Mouse Brain in Intricate Detail, and by Extension, the Human Brain Too

https://scitechdaily.com/mapping-the-mouse-brain-in-intricate-detail-and-by-extension-the-human-brain-too/

Binding Polymer Discovery Gives 3D-Printed Sand Super Strength

This should have fewer emissions than concrete:

https://scitechdaily.com/binding-polymer-discovery-gives-3d-printed-sand-super-strength/

Nuclear Fusion Is Close Enough to Start Dreaming

So things in fusion are picking up!

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-11/nuclear-fusion-is-close-enough-to-start-dreaming-of-a-new-world

Fusion Breakthrough: At the Brink of Fusion Ignition at National Ignition Facility

Very encouraging:

https://scitechdaily.com/fusion-breakthrough-at-the-brink-of-fusion-ignition-at-national-ignition-facility/

Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Cheap New Way to Do Nuclear Fusion

https://futurism.com/china-cheap-nuclear-fusion

These Houses Are Affordable, Carbon Neutral, and Assembled Like IKEA Furniture

This really could use more pictures:

https://singularityhub.com/2021/11/11/these-earth-friendly-houses-are-assembled-like-ikea-furniture/

This Battery On Wheels Makes Any Diesel Truck Electric In 5 Minutes

This is a brilliant idea too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idhfl-2FHJw