General: Strategic Military Satellites Vulnerable to Attack in Future Space War
• freebeacon.comMilitary studying new system of smaller, survivable satellites
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New Battery Material Could Help Wind Power Go Big
• Technologyreview.comLow-cost materials could make storing hours of power from a wind farm economically feasible.
Sun Goes Wild: NOAA Issues Alert: Earth Directed X-Class Flare Is On Its Way; Chance Of More
• shtfplan.comThis morning The Daily Sheeple reported that the biggest sun spot in recent history had been identified on the sun and that it had moved into position facing earth.
Sandra Aamodt: Why dieting doesn't usually work
• ted.comIn the US, 80% of girls have been on a diet by the time they're 10 years old. In this honest, raw talk, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt uses her personal story to frame an important lesson about how our brains manage our bodies, as she .....
Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research
• ted.comBelieve it or not, about 20 years' worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can't get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high. Roger Stein is a finance guy, and he thinks de
Changes in diet radically reform gut bacteria in just one day
• naturalnews.comA shift in diet can dramatically change the composition of your gut bacteria in just a single day, according to a study published in the journal Nature. This may explain the strong connection between diet and certain diseases.
WaterWheel aims to lighten the load for women in developing nations
• gizmag.comSince landing in India in September of 2011, social venture Wello has carried out extensive research in an effort to improve the efficiency of water transport and storage in developing countries.
Garmin Dash Cam HD driving camera doubles as black box
• http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. WeissAt CES this week, GPS giant Garmin has added a new HD camera to its growing line.
Intel presents wearable technology vision
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Stuart RobartsIntel used its keynote presentation at CES to focus on wearable technology, with Chief Executive Brian Krzanich providing a whistlestop tour of wearable devices that the company will be rolling out.
LG unveils world's first flexible OLED TV
• gizmag.comOLED technology has already enabled LG and Samsung to produce TVs with curved displays, but now LG has gone one step further with the unveiling of an OLED TV with a changeable curvature.
Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboard outed at CES
• http://www.gizmag.com, By James HollowayI don't know about you, but I know that when I pop out on my electric skateboard to do a spot of shopping, I always find myself thinking "hello – this would even more exciting with three fewer wheels."
Corning reveals antimicrobial version of Gorilla Glass
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben CoxworthLast July, Corning announced that germ-killing glass for mobile device screens could be less than two years away.
Moon Rovers Planned for Commercial Lunar Exploration Project
• http://www.space.com, by Laura PoppickThe commercial spaceflight company Golden Spike – which aims fly private missions to the moon by 2020 – has teamed up with the New York-based firm Honeybee Robotics to design robotic rovers for the planned lunar expeditions.
FutureCar: The Skateboard
• http://www.youtube.com, NormanBlogWhat if the next car you buy will be the only car you ever have to buy again?
Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked
• ted.comA spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new method -- combining drugs, electrical stimulation and a robot --
William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
• ted.comHow do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimp
Bill Nye to visit Creation Museum for debate
• The Washington PostBill Nye "The Science Guy" has agreed to debate Ken Ham, founder of Kentucky's Creation Science Museum on the topic of evolution.
ARES system to put energy storage on the right track
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren QuickARES’ technology uses heavy rail cars that are pushed to the top of a grade using excess power from renewable energy plants or when electricity demand is low.
InAiR displays internet content "in the air" between you and your 3D TV
• gizmag.comAre you one of those people who keep your TV and computer on at the same time, simultaneously watching the one while looking things up on the other?
iOptik augmented reality contact lens prototype to be unveiled at CES
• gizmag.comThough most of the attention surrounding the race to commercialize connected eyewear has focused on Google Glass, a lesser known player has been quietly toiling away
Vegas Jackpot: The 8 Coolest Gadgets We Saw on the First Day of CES
• Wired.comThe 2014 International CES is underway. The expo floor doesn't open for another day, and the crowds and the spectacle haven't even hit full strength yet. But we've gotten an early peek at some of the year's newest gear.
Let Gravity Store the Energy
• http://www.powermag.com, Dr. Robert Peltier, PEGravity Power LLC—a startup based in Santa Barbara, California—has developed a low-cost, quick-start, and fast dynamic response energy storage technology that competes with classical pumped storage hydro and gas turbines for peaking and intermediate
It Seems That The Wheel Can Be Re-invented!
• arcleinI love this design concept. It will take some effort to lock it in and properly adjust rider weight but it also looks to be robust enough and that means bullet proof. Let us hope someone takes a run at this and produces a commercial device that we
Airships Rising
• arcleinA few of the engineers crowdedinto the compact glass-and-aluminum cockpit suspended below the hull. At the push of a button, the imposing airship lifted from the concrete, becoming airborne for the first time. It rose 10, 20, and finally 35 feet in t
Five-Fold Lifespan Extension in C. Elegans by Combining Mutants
• arcleinadded together they would be expected to extend longevity by 130 percent. “Instead, what we have here is a synergistic five-fold increase in lifespan,” Kapahi said. “The two mutations set off a positive feedback loop in specific tissues that amplifie
The contact lenses that could do away with TV screens:
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk, By Ellie ZolfagharifariOptik allows users to see digital data such as directions and video calls Tiny 'screens' sit directly on users' eyeballs and work with a pair of glasses They provide an experience equal to watching a 240-inch TV at 10ft away A working system is
Your Jetsons-Style Smart Home Starts With These Bluetooth Plugs
• http://www.wired.com, By Kyle VanHemertZuli's new smart plugs use Bluetooth to figure out where you are in your home.
Dinosaurs Were Mostly Scaly, Study Finds
• http://www.popsci.com, By Francie DiepA new study examines the evidence for fuzz on non-avian dinosaurs.
NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
• washingtonpost, By Steven Rich and Barton GellmanIn room-size metal boxes secure against electromagnetic leaks, the National Security Agency is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the w
Virtual gaming tech comes to real-life paintball
• dvice.comThey say that playing video games can be useful for brain development, so it shouldn’t be surprising that gamers are taking in-game ideas and applying them to real life.
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