The SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY News Thread

[MrTerrorist]

These Are Japanese "Contact Lens Tweezers"

YouTube

https://youtu.be/bFA7eMa7Ixo

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This Floating Generator Could One Day Power Your City

[AnimeFan188]

Today you can watch brain signals LIVE in 3D. Next you'll train your mind
from the inside:

"As we age, our brains' cognitive abilities decrease. No surprise there. But one
team of researches has experimental proof of a therapeutic technique that can
reverse that decline: video games.

What's more, they've devised a way to directly stimulate your brain to improve its
cognitive abilities, and created a 3D digital model, GlassBrain, into which a
neurologist – and eventually you – can travel through your brain, and observe
and control its inner workings in real time.

Not just any video game will improve cognitive abilities, mind you. The team has
created video games specifically designed to challenge users by presenting them
multiple streams of information in a distracting environment, a particularly difficult
scenario for older adults."

See:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03...mes_inside_it/

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Cryostasis isn’t sci-fi: surgeons will soon use suspended animation to revive gunshot victims

That's really quite awesome... but

The technique involves replacing all of a patient’s blood with a cold saline solution, which quickly cools the body and slows down cellular activity to a point where it basically stops. This effectively puts the person in a state between life and death. Technically speaking, the patient isn’t alive at this point, but after doctors have treated the wound, the patient’s body can gradually be warmed up and brought back to life as the saline solution is replaced with blood.

Sounds creepy as fuck and gave me the shivers. Still an interesting technique.


Time to order a pizza for I. C. Weiner and get it sent to the test labs?

[GN0010 Nosferatu]

Originally Posted by Mr Hat and Clogs

Cryostasis isn’t sci-fi: surgeons will soon use suspended animation to revive gunshot victims

That's really quite awesome... but



Sounds creepy as fuck and gave me the shivers. Still an interesting technique.


Time to order a pizza for I. C. Weiner and get it sent to the test labs?

Remarkable. It probably won't be so crude with replacing blood in the future. If they do perfect it in the coming years.

[Se7enSword]

Microsoft buys AR headset patents for $100-150 million

Light has three fundamental characteristics: wavelength, polarization, and direction. It has only been possible to filter light via the first two, until now...

A 3D-printed house is being built right now in Amsterdam

Ultra tiny camera has no lens – uses algorithm to develop pictures

Thorium: a safer nuclear power - China last week announced it was going to speed up its research and development of "fourth generation" so-called molten salt reactors that can run on thorium. It aims to have one operational in 10 years instead of 25 years

Neurosurgeons successfully replace woman's skull with a 3D printed one

Perovskite, a Material With Applications to Solar Cells, Shows Remarkable Efficiency (70%) At Re-emitting Light in a Laser Beam; It May Achieve Similar Efficiency at Absorbing Solar Radiation, Far Surpassing Today's Standard (20%)

[Dextro]

I can't be the only one that wonders how those automatic Mahjong tables seen in shows like Saki work. Luckly this just showed up on one of the blogs I follow:

YouTube

https://youtu.be/_xxncOUKL9o

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Now I want one.

[Se7enSword]

That's nice.
Vein-Viewer:



A ‘vein-viewer' works by using infrared light to image the presence of veins underneath the skin: The IR light is absorbed by the deoxygenated haemoglobin within veins. The locations of absorption and reflection are detected and the machine generates a corresponding projection using visible light.

Basically a machine that sees through skin.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Se7enSword

That's nice.
Vein-Viewer:



A ‘vein-viewer' works by using infrared light to image the presence of veins underneath the skin: The IR light is absorbed by the deoxygenated haemoglobin within veins. The locations of absorption and reflection are detected and the machine generates a corresponding projection using visible light.

Basically a machine that sees through skin.

Useless discovery. If it can see through clothes - *IS SHOT*.

[AnimeFan188]

Unidentified Aircraft Seen Over Southwest U.S.:

"The identity of what appears to be a blended wing-body aircraft type
photographed over Amarillo, Texas, on March 10 remains uncertain, with the U.S.
Air Force declining any comment on the aircraft.

Three aircraft were observed flying in formation southwest of Amarillo around
4:20 p.m. CDT, by photographers on the fence line of the city's international
airport. IbOne of the aircraft could be a B-2, but the clearest color photos and
monochrome images enhanced (for contrast and resolution) with commercial
software suggest a blended shape with a straight trailing edge. Steve Douglass,
one of the photographers and an experienced aircraft observer, says the aircraft
were “larger than fighter-size” and appeared similar in wingspan to commercial
traffic.

The formation was not using Mode S transponders, according to a review of
records at the Flightradar24 air-traffic-tracking site. Radio transmissions
apparently associated with the flight were intercepted and recorded, possibly
including the call sign “Sienna.”

An Air Force representative in Washington responded to queries about the
aircraft, and about flight activities at that time and place, with the statement “I
have nothing for you,” a phrase long associated with responses to queries about
classified programs and operations. The 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, Mo.,
home of the Air Force's B-2 fleet, says that none of its aircraft were operating
near Amarillo on March 10. However, test units have also flown B-2s."

See:

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article....p30-675221.xml


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Is this the shape of the new mysterious stealth jet spotted over Texas?:

"Some blurry pictures taken from the ground are all we know about a possibly new,
unknown, U.S. stealth jet. Based on those images we have tried to figure out the
shape of the mysterious plane."

See:

http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/30...ircraft-shape/

[Ithekro]

Could also be a new drone type. Scale is difficult to gauge against the sky.

[MrTerrorist]

13 Unexpected Sources of Energy that Could Save the World

[AnimeFan188]

Stem Cell Researchers Just Figured Out How to Create New Embryos:

"A team of researchers from the University of Virginia just made scientific history:
They figured out how to turn stem cells into full blown fish embryos. In other words,
scientists can now control embryonic development, a key to being able to grow
organs and even entire organism from stem cells."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/stem-cell-researc...-ne-1558614629

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by AnimeFan188

[B]Stem Cell Researchers Just Figured Out How to Create New Embryos:

"A team of researchers from the University of Virginia just made scientific history:
They figured out how to turn stem cells into full blown fish embryos. In other words,
scientists can now control embryonic development, a key to being able to grow
organs and even entire organism from stem cells."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/stem-cell-researc...-ne-1558614629

That research just made the male gender obselete. What an aptly named university.

[Se7enSword]

Samsung researchers claim graphene breakthrough

"Low skill" hackers can control power plants, oil rigs, and refineries due to software flaws.

Engineered bacteria produce biofuel alternative for rocket fuel

Robot mannequin to test armed forces' protective suits

imgur, which has 10 desks for 14 people, gets $40M to grow

Wi-Fi speeds are about to triple

Nanostructures half the breadth of a DNA strand could improve the efficiency of LEDs, especially in the "green gap," a portion of the spectrum where LED efficiency plunges, simulations at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center have shown.

Higgs Boson May Be Composed Of Tiny 'Techni-Quark' Particles, Physicists Say

Quantum cryptography for mobile phones

Scientists smash barrier to growing organs from stem cells

Exercising when you're 25 can lead to a sharper brain when you're 45

[JokerD]

'Cherry tree from space' mystery baffles Japan

A cosmic mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a cherry tree grown from a seed that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected -- and with very surprising flowers.

[SaintessHeart]

Scientists grow viable vaginas from girls' own cells

(Reuters) - Four young women born with abnormal or missing vaginas were implanted with lab-grown versions made from their own cells, the latest success in creating replacement organs that have so far included tracheas, bladders and urethras.

Follow-up tests show the new vaginas are indistinguishable from the women's own tissue and have grown in size as the young women, who got the implants as teens, matured.

All four of the women are now sexually active and report normal vaginal function. Two of the four, who were born with a working uterus but no vagina, now menstruate normally.

It is not yet clear whether these women can bear children, but because they are menstruating, it suggests their ovaries are working, so it may be possible, said Dr Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina.

The feat, which Atala and colleagues in Mexico describe in the journal the Lancet, is the latest demonstration from the growing field of regenerative medicine, a discipline in which doctors take advantage of the body's power to regrow and replace cells.

In prior studies, Atala's team has used the approach to make replacement bladders and urine tubes or urethras in young boys.

Atala said the pilot study is the first to show that vaginal organs custom-built in the lab using patients' own cells can be successfully used in humans, offering a new option for women who need reconstructive surgeries.

All four of the women in the study were born with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, a rare genetic condition in which the vagina and uterus are underdeveloped or absent. Conventional treatment generally involves the use of grafts made from intestinal tissue or from skin, but both tissues have drawbacks, says Atala, a pediatric urologic surgeon at Wake Forest.

Intestinal tissue produces an excess of mucus, which can cause problems with odor. Conventional skin, meanwhile, can collapse.

Atala said women with this condition usually seek treatment as teenagers. "They can't menstruate, especially when they have a severe defect where they don't have an opening," he said. This can cause abdominal pain as menstrual blood collects in the abdomen. "It has nowhere else to go," he added.

Girls in the study were aged 13 and 18 at the time of the surgeries, which were performed between June 2005 and October 2008.

The researchers started off by collecting a small amount of cells from genital tissue and grew two types of cells in the lab: muscle cells and epithelial cells, a type of cell that lines body cavities. About four weeks later, the team started applying layers of the cells onto a scaffold made of collagen, a material that can be absorbed by the body. They then shaped the organ to fit each patient's anatomy, and placed it in an incubator.

A week later, the team created a cavity in the body and surgically attached the vaginal implants to existing reproductive organs. Once implanted, nerves and blood vessels formed to feed the new organ, and new cells eventually replaced the scaffolding as it was absorbed by the body.

"By the six-month time point, you couldn't tell the difference between engineered organ and the normal organ," Atala said.

The team continued to monitor the young women, taking tissue biopsies, MRI scans and internal exams, for up to eight years from the initial implants.

All of these tests showed the engineered vaginas "were similar in makeup and function to native tissue," said Atlantida-Raya Rivera, director of the HIMFG Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City, where the surgeries were performed.

Professor Martin Birchall of UCL Ear Institute in London, who wrote a commentary in the same journal, said the findings address some important questions about tissue-engineering, including whether tissue will grow as patients grow and whether an organ as large as the vagina can develop blood vessels when implanted in the body.

If uterus complete with fallopian tubes and ovaries can be grown this way, I wonder what those turds would have to bitch about transgirls in the future.

[GDB]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

If uterus complete with fallopian tubes and ovaries can be grown this way, I wonder what those turds would have to bitch about transgirls in the future.

I was actually thinking this too. If it works, then a male to female gender switch should be 100% plausible with no real trace of ever having been male (except maybe minor scarring from operational incisions). Sure, they would be sterile, but it's not entirely rare for a natural born woman to be sterile at the same age either.

[Shyni]

US Navy creating fuel using seawater.

The process is really inefficient for now (making the fuel requires more energy than they et out of it), but they hope it will be good enough to decrease dependency on fossi fuels. (And thus freign countries selling fossil fuels)

[SummeryDreams]

Originally Posted by Se7enSword

That's nice.
Vein-Viewer:



A ‘vein-viewer' works by using infrared light to image the presence of veins underneath the skin: The IR light is absorbed by the deoxygenated haemoglobin within veins. The locations of absorption and reflection are detected and the machine generates a corresponding projection using visible light.

Basically a machine that sees through skin.

All we need is something that sees through clothes.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by GDB

I was actually thinking this too. If it works, then a male to female gender switch should be 100% plausible with no real trace of ever having been male (except maybe minor scarring from operational incisions). Sure, they would be sterile, but it's not entirely rare for a natural born woman to be sterile at the same age either.

We just need something to activate those ovaries.......

And also some drug to shrink muscle and bone density so a transgirl looks exactly like a real one.