Archive for the ‘innovation’ category: Page 161
May 2, 2019
Breakthrough Flu Vaccine Could Soon Eradicate The Virus Forever: One-shot Immunity For Life!
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
Researchers in Australia are on the verge of discovering a universal flu vaccine — one which would be effective against all strains of the virus. When they do, we won’t have to take a new flu shot every year anymore. We’ll just get this one shot, and never more. It’s a finding that is being heralded as an “extraordinary breakthrough.” It could even end the flu and influenza epidemic once and for all.
The Epidemic
Apr 30, 2019
Dark Matter BREAKTHROUGH: Mystery substance ‘EXISTS’ and explains 90% of the universe
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cosmology, innovation
Apr 30, 2019
“Unlimited range” stealth e-bike never needs plugging in
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: innovation, transportation
If e-bikes tend to look a little ungainly for your tastes, check out this thing from Barcelona’s Nua Bikes. With the motor, sensors and battery built into a discreet hub unit, the Nua Electrica is barely distinguishable from a regular fixie, and its innovative “self-charging” mode means you can get away without ever charging it.
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Apr 29, 2019
Squid skin inspires creation of next-generation space blanket
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: innovation, space
Drawing design inspiration from the skin of stealthy sea creatures, engineers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a next-generation, adaptive space blanket that gives users the ability to control their temperature. The innovation is detailed in a study published today in Nature Communications.
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Apr 26, 2019
The Glass Age, Part 1: Flexible, Bendable Glass
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: innovation, materials
Circa 2014
Be amazed as Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman introduce us to a whole new way of thinking about glass. Learn the history of glass innovation and watch incredible demonstrations of bendable optical fiber and thin, ultra-flexible glass. This is the Glass Age, where materials science is constantly pushing boundaries and creating new possibilities for glass-enabled technology and design. See how glass is shaping the future at www.TheGlassAge.com
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Apr 26, 2019
Futuristic inventions and emerging technologies that will change the world
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, innovation
Apr 26, 2019
Northrop Grumman highlights benefits of Orbital ATK acquisition
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, innovation
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after Northrop Grumman’s acquisition of Orbital ATK closed, company executives say they’re getting the benefits they expected from the deal in terms of cost savings and new business.
In a quarterly earnings report issued April 24, Northrop reported total sales of $8.19 billion and net earnings of $863 million for the first quarter of 2019. The company had total sales of $6.74 billion and net earnings of $840 million for the same quarter of 2018.
The increase in sales was due almost entirely to the addition of the Innovation Systems business unit, the former Orbital ATK. That unit generated $1.44 billion in sales for the quarter. In the first quarter of 2018, the last full quarter Orbital ATK was still an independent company, it reported sales of $1.31 billion.
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Apr 25, 2019
Scientists crack chemical code of incredibly complex ‘anti-tumor antibiotic’
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
After 20 years of dedicated research, scientists have cracked the chemical code of an incredibly complex ‘anti-tumor antibiotic’ known to be highly effective against cancer cells as well as drug-resistant bacteria, and have reproduced it synthetically in the lab for the first time.
This major breakthrough and world-first could hail a new era in the design and production of new antibiotics and anticancer agents.
The ‘super substance’ — kedarcidin — was discovered in its natural form by a pharmaceutical company when they extracted it from a soil sample in India almost 30-years-ago. Soil is the natural source of all antibiotics developed since the 1940s but in order for them to be developed as potential drug treatments they must be produced via chemical synthesis.
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ETH researchers have cooled a nanoparticle to a record low temperature, thanks to a sophisticated experimental set-up that uses scattered laser light for cooling. Until now, no one has ever cooled a nanoparticle to such low temperatures in a photon cage. Dominik Windey and René Reimann – a doctoral student and postdoc in the group led by Lukas Novotny, Professor of Photonics – have succeeded in cooling a 140 nanometre glass bead down to a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.
The researchers recently published details of their work in the journal Physical Review Letters. Their breakthrough came in the form of a sophisticated experimental set-up involving optical tweezers, whereby a nanoparticle can be made to levitate with the aid of a laser beam. The group has already used the same optical tweezers in previous work, in which they caused a nanoparticle to rotate around its own axis at extremely high speed.
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