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Sep 20, 2016
Dawn of the super human: U. S. is daunted by Russia’s “enhanced human operation”
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, military, neuroscience, transhumanism
Pentagon accused Russia that the country is working on “enhanced human operation” to create an army of superhuman soldiers. Russia’s Sputnik issues the news.
U.S. Army chiefs are claiming that Moscow is working to create bionic superhuman soldiers with brain implants. And the soldiers will be fuelled by steroids. Usage of steroid will increase the tolerance capability and make the soldiers more resilient. While the brain implant or chip will assist a soldier to fight for a longer time even in extreme warfare. It will also force the soldiers to fight and obey the command at any cost. The sole purpose is to strengthen the soldiers to make them stronger and tougher in battles.
Yet, the U.S. opponent is working to use microscopic technology so that soldiers can cure themselves without any assistance of physicians.
Sep 20, 2016
Teleportation step toward quantum internet
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: internet, particle physics, quantum physics
Is everyone ready for a new teleporting net?
Physicists have set a new bar for quantum teleportation: moving information from one place to another without physically sending anything between the locations.
Two separate teams managed to teleport information across several kilometres of optical fibre network in two cities.
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Sep 20, 2016
Haier Introduces New Disruptive Refrigeration Technology
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, transportation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jCIbbhL2td8
Nice method for refrig.; now imagine it in autos/ various forms of transportation, buildings, appliances, etc.
NEW YORK, NY – 9/20/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET) — Haier, a global leader in consumer electronics and appliances has launched a new compressor-free solid-state refrigeration technology. Haier created this new technology through integrating Silicon Valley resources, Haier Group R&D, Haier America R&D, Liquid King, Xi’an Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology and other resources. The new technology breaks the technological bottlenecks of compressor-based refrigeration appliance that have been used in the industry for a century.
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Sep 20, 2016
Paralyzed man regains use of arms and hands after experimental stem cell therapy at Keck Hospital of USC
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: biotech/medical, transportation
By Meg Alrich
Keck Medical Center of USC today announced that a team of doctors became the first in California to inject an experimental treatment made from stem cells, AST-OPC1, into the damaged cervical spine of a recently paralyzed 21-year-old man as part of a multi-center clinical trial.
On March 6, just shy of his 21st birthday, Kristopher (Kris) Boesen of Bakersfield suffered a traumatic injury to his cervical spine when his car fishtailed on a wet road, hit a tree and slammed into a telephone pole.
Sep 20, 2016
Allen Institute publishes highest resolution map of the entire human brain to date
Posted by Carse Peel in category: neuroscience
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has published the highest resolution atlas of the human brain to date in a stand-alone issue of the Journal of Comparative Neurology. This digital human brain atlas allows researchers to investigate the structural basis of human brain function.
“To understand the human brain, we need to have a detailed description of its underlying structure,” says Ed Lein, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. “Human brain atlases have long lagged behind atlases of the brain of worms, flies or mice, both in terms of spatial resolution and in terms of completeness due to technical limitations related to the enormous size and complexity of the human brain. This large-scale focused effort aimed to create a large resource combining different data types at high resolution, and use these data to generate a comprehensive mapping of brain regions.”
Combining neuroimaging with cellular resolution histological analysis and expert structural mapping, “This is the most structurally complete atlas to date and we hope it will serve as a new reference standard for the human brain across different disciplines,” says Lein.
Sep 20, 2016
Russia begins moon landing trials as Moscow ‘plans large lunar settlement’ by 2045
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: space travel
RUSSIAN scientists have taken one small step back in time by using a communist-era gravity machine ahead of their planned mission to the moon.
Putin’s boffins are using the 1970s Selen technology to discover how easy it would be for their cosmonauts to walk on the lunar surface and get out of a rover vehicle.
Sep 20, 2016
When Evolution Fights Back Against Genetic Engineering
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, evolution, genetics
“Gene drives,” a technology for controlling genetic traits, could revolutionize disease prevention. But nature has a way of thwarting scientific meddling.
Sep 20, 2016
Researcher calls for animal-human embryo research to proceed, but with strong animal protections
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
In a World View opinion column published in Nature, a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher calls for animal-human embryo research to proceed — but only with strong animal protections in place. So-called “chimera” research raises the hope of producing human organs in genetically modified large animals, such as pigs and sheep, offering a potential solution to the persistent shortage of human organs for transplantation.
Insoo Hyun, PhD, associate professor of bioethics, urges such research to proceed only after “knowing the right and wrong ways to treat sentient beings according to complexities of their attributes.”
Hyun’s recommendations appear in the journal’s September 15th issue and come a week after the National Institutes of Health closed a month-long public comment period on proposed new regulations, widely expected to be adopted, that would lift a moratorium that currently forbids federal funding for chimera embryo research.
Sep 20, 2016
Adorable robot that bounds like an excited puppy can open doors
Posted by Carse Peel in category: robotics/AI
The 1.3 feet long robot was developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania who are now selling it for £7,700 ($10,000) a go. It is able to climb fences, jump and even open doors.