China’s ability to spend on weapons has the Pentagon eager to develop hypersonics as the US tries to catch up…
August 22, 2019
- China's ability to quickly finance its military has the Pentagon especially eager to develop hypersonic weapons, amid a budding arms race between the world's top two economies.
- The United States does not have a defense against hypersonic weapons, which can travel at least five times the speed of sound, or a little more than a mile per second.
- The Pentagon has nearly a dozen programs tasked with developing and defending against the new breed of weapons.
A scientific breakthrough at the Florida Aquarium could save America’s ‘Great Barrier Reef.” The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Florida, says they’ve made scientific history as a group of coral has successfully reproduced two days in a row for the first time in a lab setting…
August 22, 2019
Researchers create electronic lens that works better than the human eye. A new breakthrough could soon revolutionize the design of almost every optical instrument in use today, including cameras, VR/AR headsets, eyeglasses and telescopes…
August 22, 2019
Elon Musk is now walking back his ‘nuke Mars’ theory, and instead proposing to launch thousands of satellites equipped with solar reflectors to warm the red planet…
August 22, 2019
Replacing nukes with satellites may not address some of the main problems facing Musk's dreams of terraforming Mars. A paper published in Nature Astronomy last year concluded that releasing Mars' CO2 wouldn't be enough to adequately transform its atmosphere for two reasons.
First, the researchers found, there isn't enough CO2 trapped in the poles to produce an intense enough greenhouse effect. And second, unlike Earth, Mars' atmosphere is continuously being lost, so any gases produced would slowly drift away into outer space...
Indian scientists claim to have found 100% cure for tuberculosis…
August 22, 2019
Scientists found that these TB bacteria secrete a protein called MPT63, which might be the reason behind the sac break. When there is acidity, these protein structures change their formation and suddenly become toxic to the host cells (macrophages). This ends up killing the cell and releasing the bacteria.
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Now with this discovery, scientists will begin looking for methods to negate the effect of the MPT63 protein. Keeping the TB locked-in permanently and saving millions of patients every year.
The results of the study will be published in the Journal of ACS Chemical Biology...
