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The future we’ve been waiting for is a little closer.

Recent information from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has revealed that the Pentagon has indeed continued to pursue military-equipped jetpacks.

And now, they seem closer than ever to achieving their goal as they have already awarded contracts to companies to build test prototypes.

Controlling light “has been a recurring research theme since antiquity.”

An international group of researchers, led by a team at MIT, spent more than four years developing technologies for high-speed optical beam forming.

The researchers also developed a pioneering fabrication process that will ensure the quality of the device if and when it is manufactured at scale.

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The Y chromosome carries a gene called SRY, which turns on male genes on other chromosomes.

The Amami spiny rat, one of the species that lack a Y chromosome and the Sry.

As per the press release, under normal conditions, the Sry gene on the Y chromosome triggers the formation of the testes. However, the Sry gene, along with the Y chromosome, has vanished in a small number of rodent species.

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Scientists have developed a programmable, wireless spatial light modulator that can manipulate light at the wavelength scale with orders-of-magnitude faster response than existing devices.

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Quick update/ reminder for Neuralink Event.

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The two stage vector interpretation of quantum theory apart from attempting to resolve the paradoxes of traditional quantum theory provides a physical basis for teleology and understanding how there is a small probability that future events affect present ones.

There are now quite a few electric surfboards on the market, and they almost all work in the same way – their jet drive runs for as long as you squeeze a throttle on a handheld remote. The Jetson is different, in that it provides temporary boosts as needed.

Manufactured by Florida-based startup Jetson Surf Technology, the board is currently the subject of an Indiegogo campaign.

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A new mind-controlling device has enabled people with paralysis to move and click a mouse cursor just by thinking about it, enabling them many freedoms.

A common chemotherapy drug could carry a toxic inheritance for children and grandchildren of adolescent cancer survivors, Washington State University-led research indicates.

The study, published online in iScience, found that male rats who received the drug ifosfamide during adolescence had offspring and grand-offspring with increased incidence of disease. While other research has shown that cancer treatments can increase patients’ chance of developing disease later in life, this is one of the first-known studies showing that susceptibility can be passed down to a third generation of unexposed offspring.

“The findings suggest that if a patient receives chemotherapy, and then later has children, that their grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren, may have an increased disease susceptibility due to their ancestors’ chemotherapy exposure,” said Michael Skinner, a WSU biologist and corresponding author on the study.