Beyond science!

[Sxotty]

The

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/12/new-personalized-vaccine-is-targeting-deadliest-cancers-in-us.html

The problem with this is we need the price to go down too... Like bacteriophages extreme promise and too high a cost still.

 

[Sxotty]

The

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/12/new-personalized-vaccine-is-targeting-deadliest-cancers-in-us.html

The problem with this is we need the price to go down too... Like bacteriophages extreme promise and too high a cost still.

 

[eloic]

Japan Wants to Be the First Place Where Flying Cars Are Standard Because of Course
LOOKING AHEAD. The Japanese government sees flying cars as the panacea to some of the nation’s traffic issues — the vehicles will decrease congestion, boost tourism, and increase access to remote areas.

So, naturally, the nation wants to be the world leader in the developing the vehicles. Now it has a dream team of companies on board to help it reach its goal, according to a statement released by the trade ministry in Tokyo on Friday.

TEAM FLYING CARS. Twenty-one companies and organizations have joined a Japanese government-led group designed to lay out the roadmap to flying car adoption in Japan.

https://futurism.com/flying-cars-japan/

 

[eloic]

Quantum computer simulates two types of bizarre materials


It’s the first time such computations have been performed on such large scales



Scientists have used a quantum computer to conduct large-scale simulations of two types of quantum materials. These studies involved about 2,000 quantum bits, or qubits — many more than the tens of qubits available in most quantum computers.

The results, published in two recent studies in Science and Nature, provide a new realization of the vision of physicist Richard Feynman, who hoped to use quantum computers — rather than computers based on standard, or classical, physics — to simulate quantum systems and study their behavior. “Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical,” he famously said in 1981.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-computer-d-wave-simulations

 

[eloic]

This Super Powerful Magnetic Field Puts Us One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion

CRUISIN’ FOR A FUSION
Inexpensive clean energy sounds like a pipe dream. Scientists have long thought that nuclear fusion, the type of reaction that powers stars like the Sun, could be one way to make it happen, but the reaction has been too difficult to maintain. Now, we’re closer than ever before to making it happen — physicists from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) say they’ve produced the strongest-ever controllable magnetic field.

https://futurism.com/magnetic-field-nuclear-fusion/

 

[Davros]

Fun Fact :
The Electron has no known size

 

[eloic]

Can science build a better burger?
There’s more than one way to cook up tomorrow’s meat

TOMORROW'S BURGER? Two groups of scientists, for similar reasons, are exploring opposite ways of changing how meat is made. One approach grows just the edible parts of the animal; the other tries to simulate meat with plants (meatless Impossible Burger, shown).


This isn’t as extreme as if the federal government had decided to regulate time travel. But it’s almost as surprising. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking the first step toward rules for growing nutritious, delicious, juicy meat in labs, not farms.

The notion of growing, say, just the beef instead of the whole cow has been floating around since at least the 1890s. This sci-fi fantasy got a bit more real at a 2013 televised tasting of a lab-grown hamburger, though the patty cost about as much as a Rolls-Royce.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/can-science-build-better-burger

I definitely think this will catch up. Not only because there's a bigger consciousness about animal well-being, but because of the ecological print of farming and the costs that can be cut once this industry is up and running (in the meantime, of course the research costs are going to be huge and the products we will have access to in a near future will surely be more expensive than regular products, most likely).

 

[eloic]

Electrical Stimulation Helped A Man With Paralyzed Legs Walk Again

For many patients, total lower limb paralysis caused by spinal cord damage means a lifetime in a wheelchair. But a new treatment might mean the diagnosis isn’t so permanent: A 29-year-old man paralyzed by a snowmobile accident in 2013 is walking again, according to a new paper, thanks to a device that delivers electrical stimulation to his spine.

https://futurism.com/paralysis-electrical-stimulation-walking/

 

[eloic]

Bacterial injections into tumors show early promise for treating cancer
NEW YORK CITY—"Live bacteria” and “cancer treatment” may not sound like a promising match, but certain microbes seem able to stall tumor growth when injected into the tumors, according to data presented here on 30 September at the Fourth International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference. The injections appear to activate an immune response that also targets the tumor. There are still questions about the safety of the approach. But given how many patients develop resistance or don’t respond to current cancer treatments, bacterial injections have generated enough interest that they’re part of a new clinical trial combining bacteria with an established immune therapy.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018...ons-tumors-show-early-promise-treating-cancer

 

[AlNom]

 

[eloic]

A study unravels new stem cell transplant factors that might lead to HIV eradication in the body
The article, co-led by IrsiCaixa (Barcelona) and Gregorio Marañón Hospital (Madrid), shows for the first time that stem cell source, time to achieve full replacement of recipient cells with donor cells and graft-versus-host reactivity might contribute to HIV eradication. These findings could serve for the design of new HIV cure strategies.

http://www.irsicaixa.es/en/news/stu...plant-factors-might-lead-hiv-eradication-body

Hm...

 

[eloic]

A very interesting, extensive article about organ rejection and possible ways to improve this:

How to make organ transplants last
New approaches try to train the body to welcome the replacement parts

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-make-organ-transplants-last?tgt=nr

 

[eloic]

https://futurism.com/videos/musks-loop-almost-ready

 

[cheapchips]

Almost ready is stretching it. It's more like "come and have a party in our test tunnel. It has disco lights!".

 

[Davros]

Elon is a master at overselling

 

[cheapchips]

In the short term or against his own timelines.

Apply Tesla or SpaceX type growth and development to The Boring Company. They'll be on their 3rd generation bring machine, mature sledge traffic blending software, with a fledgling network, before anyone thinks about competing.

 

[eloic]

Transparent solar panels:

This fully transparent solar cell could make every window and screen a power source
Jamie Lendino on April 20, 2015 at 9:20 am

Back in August 2014, researchers at Michigan State University created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone’s screen) into a photovoltaic solar cell. Unlike other “transparent” solar cells that we’ve reported on in the past, this one really is transparent, as you can see in the photos throughout this story. According to Richard Lunt, who led the research at the time, the team was confident the transparent solar panels can be efficiently deployed in a wide range of settings, from “tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e-reader.”

This looks way too cool! But the info is old and I don't seem to find any recent news regarding this tech, that should be more advanced by now.

 

[digitalwanderer]

-insert some joke about Musk's tunnel unveiling here -

 

[Davros]

He's invented a subway that solves the long standing problem of subways, carrying to many people

 

[Davros]

insert some joke about Musk's tunnel unveiling here -

No that would be just boring