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Sep 21, 2018

Build Small Nuclear Reactors for Battlefield Power

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, physics

Los Alamos engineers are working on a tiny, steel-encased core regulated by physics, not pumps.

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Sep 21, 2018

Building on New Shepard, Blue Origin to pump a billion dollars into New Glenn readiness

Posted by in category: space travel

Blue Origin is making the final preparations for crewed spaceflight in West Texas. Meanwhile, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the company is continuing to push towards achieving orbit and entering the commercial launch market. During a speech this week, Jeff Bezos confirmed the company has already invested $1 Billion in space coast facilities and another $1 billion will be fed into the New Glenn rocket next year.

The New Shepard rocket, named after the first American in space Alan Shepard, is designed for suborbital space tourism. Passengers can experience a few minutes of weightless as the spacecraft flies up to 107 km, 7 km above the officially recognized Karman Line between Earth’s atmosphere and space. New Shepard first reached this altitude on Flight 8 in April.

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Sep 21, 2018

Bioquark Inc. — Unlimited Realities Podcast — Ira S. Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biological, biotech/medical, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, life extension, transhumanism

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/unlimited-realities-with-lisa-z…lth-future

Sep 21, 2018

How AI Can Help Stop Cyberattacks

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

As corporations struggle to fight off hackers and contain data breaches, some are looking to artificial intelligence for a solution.

They’re using machine learning to sort through millions of malware files, searching for common characteristics that will help them identify new attacks. They’re analyzing people’s voices, fingerprints and typing styles to make sure that only authorized users get into their systems. And they’re hunting for clues to figure out who launched cyberattacks—and make sure they can’t do it again.


As hackers get smarter and more determined, artificial intelligence is going to be an important part of the solution.

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Sep 20, 2018

Paging Mr. Spock: ‘Star Trek’ planet Vulcan found?

Posted by in category: space

A planet has been found right where the creator of “Star Trek” and three astronomers thought Vulcan would be.


(CNN)Maybe the final frontier isn’t so far out of reach. Astronomers have found an exoplanet reminiscent of the planet Vulcan from “Star Trek,” orbiting a star in a system only 16 light-years from Earth.

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Sep 20, 2018

Astronauts Going to Mars Will Absorb Crazy Amounts of Radiation. Now We Know How Much

Posted by in category: space travel

New Mars radiation measurements underline how dangerous humans would find the journey.

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Sep 20, 2018

Looking Into the Center of the Galaxy

Posted by in category: space

In episode five of The Most Unknown, astrophysicist Rachel Smith and astrobiologist Luke McKay travel to Hawaii’s powerful W.M. Keck Observatory to explore forming stars at the center of our galaxy.

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Sep 20, 2018

Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images

Posted by in category: particle physics

AS MISMATCHES go, it’s a big one. When physicists bring the Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity together they get a clear prediction. In the very early universe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have come into being. Since the one famously annihilates the other, the result should be a universe full of radiation, but without the stars, planets and nebulae that make up galaxies. Yet stars, planets and nebulae do exist. The inference is that matter and antimatter are not quite as equal and opposite as the models predict.

This problem has troubled physics for the past half-century, but it may now be approaching resolution. At CERN, a particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, three teams of researchers are applying different methods to answer the same question: does antimatter fall down, or up? Relativity predicts “down”, just like matter. If it falls up, that could hint at a difference between the two that allowed a matter-dominated universe to form.

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Sep 20, 2018

Scientists Create Immature Human Eggs From Stem Cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Japanese Researchers Create Immature Human Eggs From Stem Cells : Shots — Health News A Japanese research team made immature human eggs from stem cells that were derived from human blood. The technique brings scientists a step closer to being able to mass-produce human eggs.

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Sep 20, 2018

Quick and not-so-dirty: A rapid nano-filter for clean water

Posted by in categories: innovation, nanotechnology

Australian researchers have designed a rapid nano-filter that can clean dirty water over 100 times faster than current technology.

Simple to make and simple to scale up, the technology harnesses naturally occurring nano-structures that grow on .

The RMIT University and University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers behind the innovation have shown it can filter both heavy metals and oils from water at extraordinary speed.

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