No Joke: These Guys Created A Machine For Printing Houses On The Moon. There is very little that’s easy about moon colonization. One of the bigger problems is setting up our hypothetical future colonists with living quarters. The issue is that it is very expensive to lift things off the ground and throw them into space. The more material you need to send up there, the more prohibitively expensive your problem is. As we’ve noted before this is why robots are surpassing humans in space exploration. First, you solve the material transport problem by making the moon base out of the moon itself. Using a technique called contour crafting, they propose sending robots to seed the surface of the moon with the basic infrastructure for a moon base (landing pads, roads, hangars, etc.).
Contour crafting is effectively a form of 3-D printing. On the moon, the basic idea is enhanced fully mobile crafting bots and by on-site quarrying and processing--as it turns out, moon rock has almost all the basic ingredients for concrete. Chemical computer that mimics neurons to be created. A promising push toward a novel, biologically-inspired "chemical computer" has begun as part of an international collaboration. The "wet computer" incorporates several recently discovered properties of chemical systems that can be hijacked to engineer computing power.
The team's approach mimics some of the actions of neurons in the brain. The 1.8m-euro (£1.6m) project will run for three years, funded by an EU emerging technologies programme. The programme has identified biologically-inspired computing as particularly important, having recently funded several such projects. What distinguishes the current project is that it will make use of stable "cells" featuring a coating that forms spontaneously, similar to the walls of our own cells, and uses chemistry to accomplish the signal processing similar to that of our own neurons.
"The type of wet information technology we are working towards will not find its near-term application in running business software," Dr Zauner told BBC News. Drug may reverse Down syndrome symptoms. Dr. Alberto Costa has a personal stake in his Down syndrome research: his daughter, Tyche. Costa's life and work changed direction after she was born 16 years ago and Costa — a physician and neuroscientist — decided to dedicate his career to the study of Down syndrome.
In the past decade and a half, Costa's research has focused on normalizing the brain cells in the hippocampus, the portion of the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation. In 2006, Costa published a study that found that a drug — the antidepressant Prozac — could normalize the cells in this area of the brain. Costa's theory is that memantine works not by increasing or changing brain cells, but by normalizing how they work.
Now Costa is working on the first randomized clinical trial to use the drug in humans.
Tesla: Master of Lightning | Watch Free Documentary Online - StumbleUpon. Colossal Magnetic Levitation Wind Turbine Proposed : TreeHugger. Dynamic Periodic Table. Space elevators and smart machines: Life in the year 2100. The 1960s TV show The Jetsons portrayed a future of flying cars and holograms, but what advances will 2100 bring? Michio Kaku is professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York He has spoken to scientists who predicted future technologies Biotechnology may eventually allow us to stop the aging process, says KakuNuclear fusion power could become a major player by mid-century, he says Editor's note: Michio Kaku is professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and author of Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Doubleday). (CNN) -- In my book, Physics of the Future, I make scores of predictions for this century, based on interviews with over 300 of the world's top scientists, who are inventing the future in their labs.
Here are some top game-changing predictions that they make: Fusion and space-based power Michio Kaku But by 2019, fusion power becomes a major player. Space elevator The replicator.
Lawrence Krauss: Life, the Universe and Nothing Video. Log in Get Smart Cynthia Yildirim Lawrence Krauss: Life, the Universe and Nothing Lawrence Krauss is a professor in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University. His lecture entitled Life, the Universe and Nothing was recorded at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto on March 27th, 2009. posted 3 years ago wmayeaux liked this N30Sniip3r liked this lecnt liked this Mycroft liked this ccromp liked this Tyler Terrell liked this Mick Rogers liked this Iliya Dgidgi liked this Janet Bloem liked this MP Oddity liked this bigdaddy1225 liked this © 2014 Redux, Inc.
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