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Jul 7, 2021

Fort Lauderdale accepts Elon Musk’s beach tunnel proposal

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Elon Musk is boring his way to the beach in Fort Lauderdale.

Local lawmakers accepted a proposal from Musk’s Boring Co. Tuesday to build an underground transit system that would whisk people from the Florida city’s downtown area to the beach in Teslas.

“Other firms have 45 days to submit competing proposals. This could be a truly innovative way to reduce traffic congestion,” Mayor Dean Trantalis wrote on Twitter.

Jul 7, 2021

Israeli breakthrough migraine treatment ‘zaps’ away pain

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At two hours post-treatment, pain freedom was achieved by 37% of participants with REN compared to 9% of the participants who took oral triptans and over the counter analgesic medications.

Jul 6, 2021

Self-powered implantable device stimulates fast bone healing, then disappears without a trace

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

In 2017, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers broke his right collarbone in a game against the Minnesota Vikings. Typically, it takes about 12 weeks for a collarbone to fully heal, but by mid-December fans and commentators were hoping the three-time MVP might recover early and save a losing season.

So did Xudong Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert in creating thin, movement-powered medical devices. “I started wondering if we could provide a new solution to bring athletes back to the field quicker than ever,” Wang says.

Researchers know that electricity can help speed up bone healing, but “zapping” fractures has never really caught on, since it requires surgically implanting and removing electrodes powered by an external source.

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Jul 3, 2021

Scientists publish a how-to guide for creating mouse-human chimeric embryos

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

A year after University at Buffalo scientists demonstrated that it was possible to produce millions of mature human cells in a mouse embryo, they have published a detailed description of the method so that other laboratories can do it, too.

The ability to produce millions of mature human in a living organism, called a chimera, which contains the cells of two species, is critical if the ultimate promise of to treat or cure is to be realized. But to produce those mature cells, human primed stem cells must be converted back into an earlier, less developed naive state so that the can co-develop with the inner cell mass in a blastocyst.

The protocol outlining how to do that has now been published in Nature Protocols by the UB scientists. They were invited to publish it because of the significant interest generated by the team’s initial publication describing their breakthrough last May.

Jul 3, 2021

WO2001057881A1 — Technical and theoretical specifications for warp drive technology

Posted by in categories: innovation, space travel

Warp drive patent.


The present invention relates to the use of technical drive systems, which operate by the modification of gravitational fields. These drive systems do not depend on the emission of matter to create thrust but create a change in the curvature of space-time, in accordance with general relativity. This allows travel by warping space-time to produce an independent warp drive system. Differential electron flow through a body in rotation is directed so as to simultaneously pass through a said body in its direction of rotation and contrary to its direction of rotation so as to release a directed flow of gravitons.

Jul 2, 2021

Breakthrough CRISPR Gene Therapy Could Be a ‘One and Done’ Injection

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In an early trial, patients received a single infusion of a CRISPR-based therapy to knock out the mutated gene responsible for their disease.

Jul 1, 2021

Physics breakthrough allows Chinese to build the most powerful laser

Posted by in categories: innovation, physics

Though the laser beam eventually would be fired up in extremely short pulses – with no risk of a blackout on Earth – experts believe it would tear apart space-time for a brief moment to allow scientists to glimpse new physical phenomena that for now only exist in theories.


Technological leap would allow the firing of a laser 10000 times more powerful than all the electricity grids in the world combined.

Jul 1, 2021

Tel Aviv team develops RNA ‘missiles’ to directly target cancer cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University has developed a breakthrough RNA-based drug delivery system to target diseased cells that could improve the treatment of blood cancers, various types of solid cancers, different inflammatory diseases and viral diseases – including coronavirus.


“We are the first in the world to deliver the drug exclusively to cells that are currently relevant to the disease.”

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Jun 27, 2021

IQ Tests Can’t Measure It, but ‘Cognitive Flexibility’ Is Key to Learning and Creativity

Posted by in categories: innovation, neuroscience

Flexible thinking is key to creativity – in other words, the ability to think of new ideas, make novel connections between ideas, and make new inventions. It also supports academic and work skills such as problem solving. That said, unlike working memory – how much you can remember at a certain time – it is largely independent of IQ, or “crystallised intelligence”.


IQ is often hailed as a crucial driver of success, particularly in fields such as science, innovation and technology. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous people. But the truth is that some of the greatest achievements by our species have primarily relied on qualities such as creativity, imagination, curiosity and empathy.

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Jun 14, 2021

Meet Apples Latest Invention: The Apple Car

Posted by in categories: innovation, transportation

Meet Apple’s Latest Invention: The Apple Car