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Dec 18, 2018
One-carbon Metabolic Pathway Implicated In Age-Related Immunosenescence
Posted by Nicola Bagalà in category: life extension
A recent study by Harvard Medical School scientists suggests that defective one-carbon metabolism and cellular respiration might contribute to age-related immunosenescence, the decline of immune function typically observed during aging [1].
Abstract
Dec 18, 2018
The US Military Is Genetically Modifying Microbes to Detect Enemy Ships
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: bioengineering, biological, genetics, military
🤔🧐🤷♂️🤦♂️
The effort is part of a $45 million program across all the branches of the armed forces to figure out military applications for genetic engineering.
Dec 18, 2018
When Robots Walked the Earth and People Too
Posted by Richard Darienzo in category: robotics/AI
Amber Lab research’s robot locomotion to develop devices that help people with walking difficulties.
Dec 18, 2018
NASA Begins America’s New Moon to Mars Exploration Approach in 2018 — The Year @ NASA
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space travel
2018 was a huge success! We launched a mission to “touch” the Sun, stuck another nearly flawless #MarsLanding, marked our #NASA60th anniversary of opening our doors for business, welcomed NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and began #Apollo50 celebrations! That’s just some of what happened This Year @ NASA — there’s even more at http://www.nasa.gov/2018.
Dec 18, 2018
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral
Posted by Michael Lance in category: satellites
WATCH LIVE: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is attempting to launch a U.S. Air Force navigation satellite from Cape Canaveral, FL.
By Chinese Satellite with 24.9 billion pixels of quantum technology. It’s worth seeing! You can zoom in, zoom out when you look at it. You can clearly see every gesture, even face of pedestrians on the road.
http://sh-meet.bigpixel.cn/?from=groupmessage
Dec 18, 2018
Data storage using individual molecules
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, particle physics
Researchers from the University of Basel have reported a new method that allows the physical state of just a few atoms or molecules within a network to be controlled. It is based on the spontaneous self-organization of molecules into extensive networks with pores about one nanometer in size. In the journal Small, the physicists reported on their investigations, which could be of particular importance for the development of new storage devices.
Dec 18, 2018
The Yoda of Silicon Valley
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: computing, information science
Of course, all the algorithmic rigmarole is also causing real-world problems. Algorithms written by humans — tackling harder and harder problems, but producing code embedded with bugs and biases — are troubling enough. More worrisome, perhaps, are the algorithms that are not written by humans, algorithms written by the machine, as it learns.
Profiles in science.
Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
Dec 18, 2018
Scientists design new material to harness power of light
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: innovation, materials
Scientists have long known that synthetic materials—called metamaterials—can manipulate electromagnetic waves such as visible light to make them behave in ways that cannot be found in nature. That has led to breakthroughs such as super-high resolution imaging. Now, UMass Lowell is part of a research team that is taking the technology of manipulating light in a new direction.