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May 25, 2016
Shipping containers full of capacitors will enable flexible railgun designs for shipboard and fixed or mobile land based railguns
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: energy, military
The US Navy will be taking its futuristic Railgun out of the lab where it has been tested for to past eight years. Over the next two years, railguns will be tested in open firing ranges and eventually at sea, where the futuristic electromagnetic gun will be able to demonstrate its full capacity to fire projectiles at targets 50–100 nautical miles (92 – 185 kilometers) away.
The Navy is evaluating two electromagnetic railgun models. A 32-megajoule prototype built by BAE Systems and the 32 megajoule Blitzer developed by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS). The company has also developed a 3-megajoule railgun variant. In the future, the Navy plans to deploy railguns rated to 64-megajoule.
A railgun can deliver muzzle velocities greater than twice those of conventional guns. Using electromagnetic power, where magnetic fields created by strong electrical currents accelerate a sliding metal conductor between two rails, the railgun achieves muzzle speeds of more than Mach 7.5 without the use of chemical propellant.
May 25, 2016
Is aging inevitable? Not necessarily for sea urchins
Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in categories: biological, genetics, health, life extension
Sea urchins are remarkable organisms. They can quickly regrow damaged spines and feet. Some species also live to extraordinary old ages and—even more remarkably—do so with no signs of poor health, such as a decline in regenerative capacity or an increase in age-related mortality. These ocean Methuselahs even reproduce as if they were still youngsters.
MDI Biological Laboratory Associate Professor James A. Coffman, Ph.D., is studying the regenerative capacity of sea urchins in hopes that a deeper understanding of the process of regeneration, which governs the regeneration of aging tissues as well as lost or damaged body parts, will lead to a deeper understanding of the aging process in humans, with whom sea urchins share a close genetic relationship.
In a paper recently published in Aging Cell, a leading journal in the field of aging biology, with Andrea G. Bodnar, Ph.D., of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Studies, the scientists shed new light on the aging process in sea urchins, raising the prospect that the physical decline that typically accompanies aging is not inevitable.
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May 25, 2016
Cientistas criam embriões meio humanos e meio animais
Posted by Bruno Henrique de Souza in category: futurism
May 25, 2016
Silicon quantum computers take shape in Australia
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics
May 25, 2016
China to combat hackers with launch of quantum communication satellite
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, quantum physics
May 25, 2016
The Father of Futarchy Has an Idea to Reshape DAO Governance
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: business, cryptocurrencies, governance, robotics/AI
#TheDAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization) is the hottest new form of investment built on revolutionary (Transparency, Democracy, Decentralization).
Our own Robin Hanson has been an inspiration:
“The slogan is vote on values, bet on beliefs. What you need are discreet decisions and then you need an outcome that you care about.”
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May 25, 2016
Airbus Subsidiary Designs World’s First 3D-Printed Aluminum Motorcycle | Aluminum Insider
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: 3D printing, business
May 25, 2016
Lasers Could Blast Astronauts to Mars, Protect Earth from Asteroids
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: innovation, space travel
The same laser system being developed to blast tiny spacecraft between the stars could also launch human missions to Mars, protect Earth from dangerous asteroids and help get rid of space junk, project leaders say.
Last month, famed physicist Stephen Hawking and other researchers announced Breakthrough Starshot, a $100 million project that aims to build prototype light-propelled “wafersats” that could reach the nearby Alpha Centauri star system just 20 years after launch.
The basic idea behind Breakthrough Starshot has been developed primarily by astrophysicist Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who has twice received funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to develop the laser propulsion system. [Stephen Hawking Video: ‘Transcending Our Limits’ with Breakthrough Starshot].
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May 25, 2016
Adidas to sell robot-made shoes in Germany
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Your next pair of Adidas shoes may be put together by robots — the German sports retailer has said it will start selling its first robot-produced shoes in a new, state-of-the-art factory in its home market starting 2017.
The announcement came as Adidas unveiled its prototype “Speedfactory”, a state-of-the-art, 4,600 square-meter facility on Tuesday, meant to automate shoe production, which is largely done manually in Asian factories at the moment.
The new production site in the southern German city of Ansbach is still under construction, but it represents a return to local production for Adidas, which stopped manufacturing shoes in its home market more than two decades ago in favor of Asia.
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