Carbon Nanotubes Turn Electrical Current into Light-emitting Quasi-particles
• nextbigfuture.com Author: brian wangStrong light-matter coupling in these semiconducting tubes may hold the key to electrically pumped lasers
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Technical progress towards interstellar laser beamed nanocraft
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangBreakthrough Starshot brings the Silicon Valley approach to space travel, capitalizing on exponential advances in key areas of technology since the beginning of the 21st century.
Tesla's Model 3 Is Here: How to Watch the Big Event
• https://www.wired.comOn Friday night, Tesla is holding a party for staff and a few invited guests (mostly Tesla owners who've referred other buyers to the brand), and will hand over the first 30 Model 3s. They're going to Tesla and SpaceX staff who are likely to be more
Navy funds Arizona for a Hypersonic wind tunnel
• https://www.nextbigfuture.comUniversity of Arizona engineers are installing three 20-foot-long tubes for a new high-speed wind tunnel in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Building. The Office of Navy Research (ONR) funded them with $2 million to study problems of instabil
This Company Wants To Create A Lunar Outpost By 2020
• http://www.trueactivist.comUS space firm, Moon Express, is competing in Google's global race to the moon.
Gene therapy cures Duchenne muscular dystrophy in dogs
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangDuchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an incurable X-linked muscle-wasting disease caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene.
It looks like we're one step closer to creating genetically modified humans in a lab
• http://www.popsci.com, By Sara ChodoshThe first CRISPR-edited embryos have been produced in the U.S.
Living computers: RNA circuits transform cells into nanodevices
• sciencedaily.com by ASUScientists have demonstrated how living cells can be induced to carry out computations in the manner of tiny robots or computers.
Rule that patients must finish antibiotics course is wrong, study says
• https://www.theguardian.comExperts suggest patients should stop taking the drugs when they feel better rather than completing their prescription
Tired Of Tossing Your Phone Every Few Years? This Startup Has A Solution
• https://www.fastcodesign.comThe Remakery doesn't just repair stuff. It teaches people to repair stuff. It's often more expensive to get a gadget or piece of clothing fixed than it is to simply buy a new one. This phenomenon is partially due to companies designing products s
Welcome to the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Technological Deceit
• http://www.theorganicprepper.caThe era of artificial intelligence and technological deceit is upon us. If you think "fake news" and propaganda is bad right now, just wait.
Ultra-thin material turns minor movements into electricity
• newatlas.com by Michael IrvingIn the future, we might overcome anxiety about a dying phone battery by doing a few star jumps.
Flu viral strain found to actually CURE liver cancer in groundbreaking research ...
• http://www.naturalnews.comthat obliterates medical narratives of the status quo...(Natural News) You don't have be in favor of vaccines to appreciate the value of viral therapy in certain cases, and a new trial that could give hope to people with deadly liver cancer is one
Google's sister company releasing 20 million mosquitoes infected with fertility-destroying ...
• http://www.naturalnews.combacteria… DEPOPULATION experiment?...(Natural News) On July 14, Google's bio-lab began releasing the first batches of the 20 million bacteria-filled mosquitoes they plan to set free in the heart of California in an effort to shrink the population
5 Reasons to Consider Rolling a Joint After Surgery!
• https://www.libertarianinstitute.orgIt sounds crazy, I know. But regardless of your personal bent on the topic, marijuana use for medicinal purposes is now legal in 29 states plus the District of Columbia! That's a lot of places where patients can legally be prescribed, and then purc
New Map Reveals Where The World's Most Toxic Countries Are
• http://www.trueactivist.comBelieve it or not, the five least-toxic countries are found in Africa. And the most toxic? The Middle East
Sulfur injections for a cooler planet
• sciencemag.org byAchieving the Paris Agreement's aim to limit the global temperature increase to at most 2°C above preindustrial levels will require rapid, substantial greenhouse gas emission reductions together with large-scale use of "negative emission" strate
20,000 genes sequenced for $80 with mobile app access
• nextbigfuture.com by brian wangSilicon Valley startup Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it.
Surprise! The proton is lighter than we thought
• sciencemag.org by Gabriel PopkinYou can't weigh the universe's smallest particles on a bathroom scale. But in a clever new experiment, physicists have found that one such particle--the proton--is lighter than previously thought.
Look Ma, No Brake! You'll Drive Electric Cars With One Pedal
• https://www.wired.comWith the production of Tesla's mass-market Model 3 now underway, and first deliveries due on Friday, electric cars are about to hit the mainstream. For people driving EVs, it means a raft of changes: plugging in at night instead of hitting the gas
Stupid Conspiracy Theorists! Chemicals Aren't Turning The Frogs GAY!!
• https://www.corbettreport.comUgh. How can people believe such stupid things? Chemicals aren't turning the frogs gay, you conspiracy idiot! They're turning them hermaphroditic! And they're making the fish trans. But I bet you think that's something to be concerned about,
The Incredible 'Vein Maps' of the World...
• lewrockwell.com, By Cheyenne MacDonaldA series of colourful maps has revealed a breathtaking look at the vein-like network of river systems around the world, plotting the countless waterways that stretch across nearly every continent, from North America to Australia.
Fundamental quantum anomaly observed on Earth
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangAn international team of physicists, materials scientists and string theoreticians have observed a phenomenon on Earth that was previously thought to only occur hundreds of light years away or at the time when the universe was born.
First controlled vertical manipulation of a single H atom with AFM tip
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangDue to the continuous improvement of scanning probe microscopy techniques, the long thought inaccessible goal of inducing and visualizing chemical reactions at the atomic scale is now routinely achievable by many groups around the world.
Scientists discover "angel particle" that is its own antiparticle
• newatlas.com by Michael IrvingEvery fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle, which has the same mass but the opposite charge.
Physicists Try to Revive a Super-Safe, Decades-Old Cancer Treatment
• Wired by Sophia ChenIn a room at Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center, Robert Johnson keeps a small collection of plastic heads.
We're Closer Than Ever to Saving Lives With Livers Made in The Lab
• http://www.sciencealert.com, DAVID NIELDThey're calling them baby organs.
5 Things You Should Bring to a Total Solar Eclipse
• http://www.sciencealert.com, SIGNE DEANDon't leave the house without these.
Cyborg Dragonflies Can Spy Where Other Drones Cannot
• https://www.technocracy.news, By: Shivali BestMerging electronics with genetically modified living organisms is an event that will excite Transhumans who are looking for a human cyborg reality. Tinkering with fundamentals of life itself is a dangerous proposition, but Technocrats build because t
Watch a Homemade Robot Crack a Safe in Just 15 Minutes
• https://www.wired.comLast Christmas, Nathan Seidle's wife gave him a second-hand safe she'd found on Craigslist. It was, at first glance, a strange gift. The couple already owned the same model, a $120 SentrySafe combination fire safe they'd bought from Home Depot. But t
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