>Washington State University (WSU) physicists have created a fluid with “negative mass,” which means that if you push it, it accelerates toward you instead of away, in apparent violation of Newton’s laws. >The phenomenon can be used to explore some of the more challenging concepts of the cosmos. >The researchers created the conditions for negative mass by cooling about 10,000 rubidium atoms to just above absolute zero, creating a Bose-Einstein condensate (in which individual atoms move as one object). In this state, particles move extremely slowly and, following the principles of quantum mechanics, behave like waves. They also synchronize and move in unison as a “superfluid” that flows without losing energy. >The lasers trapped the atoms as if they were in a bowl measuring less than a hundred micrometers across. At this point, the rubidium superfluid has regular mass. Breaking the bowl will allow the rubidium to rush out, expanding as the rubidium in the center pushes outward. >To create negative mass, the researchers applied a second set of lasers that kicked the atoms back and forth and changed the way they spin. Now when the rubidium rushes out fast enough, if behaves as if it has negative mass.
>The stem cells that produce our blood have been created in the lab for the first time. These could one day be used to treat people who have blood diseases and leukaemia with their own cells, rather than bone marrow transplants from a donor. They could also be used to create blood for transfusions. >They tested many combinations of the proteins, and found five that worked together to encourage their stem cells to become blood stem cells. When they put these into mice, they went on to produce new red and white blood cells and platelets. “It’s very cool,” says Daley. “We’re very excited about the results.”
Juan Williams
Posting in Space Elevator thread
Brayden Ward
will we get warp drive now?
Andrew Perry
Daily reminder that if you are under the age of 40 you will most likely live to a stop gap point of incredible long life or even immortality.
Christopher Thompson
Soon my brother the EM drive will be past its trial.
>The researchers found that a compound known as NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), which is naturally present in every cell of our body, has a key role as a regulator in protein-to-protein interactions that control DNA repair. In an experiment, they found that treating mice with a NAD+ precursor called NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide) improved their cells’ ability to repair DNA damage. >“The cells of the old mice were indistinguishable from the young mice, after just one week of treatment,” said senior author Sinclair. >Human trials of NMN therapy will begin within the next few months to “see if these results translate to people,” he said. A safe and effective anti-aging drug is “perhaps only three to five years away from being on the market if the trials go well.” >The researchers say that in addition to reversing aging, the DNA-repair research has attracted the attention of NASA. The treatment could help deal with radiation damage to astronauts in its Mars mission, which could cause muscle weakness, memory loss, and other symptoms
Christopher Stewart
>The researchers created the conditions for negative mass by cooling about 10,000 rubidium atoms to just above absolute zero, creating a Bose-Einstein condensate (in which individual atoms move as one object). In this state, particles move extremely slowly and, following the principles of quantum mechanics, behave like waves. They also synchronize and move in unison as a “superfluid” that flows without losing energy.
With resonation you can lead the energy within the condensate. Do it in plasma.
Daniel Miller
Is thete any research done in stem cells that increase muscle mass? I'm sick of nogains. Also, it seems like genetically enhanced supersoldiers would be fairly useful today, dince you can't defeat guerrillas like ISIS with only airstrikes.
>An international team led by IBM has created the world’s smallest magnet, using a single atom of rare-earth element holmium, and stored one bit of data on it over several hours. >Using a scanning tunneling microscope, the researchers also showed that a device using two magnetic atoms could be written and read independently, even when they were separated by just one nanometer. >The researchers believe this tight spacing could eventually yield magnetic storage that is 1,000 times denser than today’s hard disk drives and solid state memory chips.
>British biomedical engineers have developed a new generation of intelligent prosthetic limbs that allows the wearer to reach for objects automatically, without thinking — just like a real hand. >The hand’s camera takes a picture of the object in front of it, assesses its shape and size, picks the most appropriate grasp, and triggers a series of movements in the hand — all within milliseconds. >Biomedical engineers at Newcastle University and associates developed a convolutional neural network (CNN), trained it with images of more than 500 graspable objects, and taught it to recognize the grip needed for different types of objects.
>Korean researchers have designed a “smart contact lens” that may one day allow patients with diabetes and glaucoma to self-monitor blood glucose levels and internal eye pressure. >The design is based on transparent, stretchable sensors that are deposited on commercially available soft-contact lenses. >Electrodes based on a hybrid graphene-silver nanowire material can measure glucose in tears. Internal eye pressure changes are measured by a sandwich structure whose electronic characteristics are modified by pressure. >The team expects that the research could also lead to developing biosensors capable of detecting and treating various other human diseases, or used as a component in other biomedical devices.
Kevin Smith
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David Perry
I'm seeing a bionic future where they "forget" to teach anybody's hands how to pick up a gun
Sebastian Cook
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Owen Clark
>will we get warp drive now? No, it means stargates, we've unlocked the secret of the ancient kangz
Owen Rodriguez
Well if you can manufacture anything you want from the atomic level up and live as long a lifespan as you feel and jump 30 feet straight in the air and run 60 mph and your wounds automatically cauterize and you're strong as fuck and there are only 1million superhumans left on the whole planet i don't think you'll miss your fucking glock
Kevin Cooper
The great white exodus will be upon us by 2045.
Owen Mitchell
bump for science
Anthony Lee
>Negative Mass >Mass = Energy Necromancy soon, lads?
>Researchers at Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, have developed the world’s first two-dimensional microprocessor — the most complex 2D circuitry so far. Microprocessors based on atomically thin 2D materials promise to one day replace traditional microprocessors as well as open up new applications in flexible electronics. >Consisting of 115 transistors, the microprocessor can run, simple user-defined programs stored in an external memory, perform logical operations, and communicate with peripheral devices. The microprocessor is based on molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), a three-atoms-thick 2D semiconductor transistor layer consisting of molybdenum and sulphur atoms, with a surface area of around 0.6 square millimeters. >Two-dimensional materials are flexible, making future 2D microprocessors and other integrated circuits ideal for uses such as medical sensors and flexible displays. They promise to extend computing to the atomic level, as silicon reaches its physical limits. >However, to date, it has only been possible to produce individual 2D digital components using a few transistors. The first 2D MoS2 transistor with a working 1-nanometer (nm) gate was created in October 2016
