From the article by Deena Douara Karim at Toronto: Shaharris Beh doesn’t want to hear about following your passion. More important, he says, is what is your purpose? Beh reveals his purpose is long-term -- enable local tech communities to create sustainable paths to development in impoverished parts of the world: “Economic development [...]
The Institute of Isolation is a short film exploring the body beyond Earth's edge, following Lucy McRae as she tests the effects that extreme experience could have on evolving human capacity. From the microgravity trainer that conditions the body for a possible life in space, to time spent in an anechoic chamber [...]
From an article by Mark Harris at MIT Technology Review Commercial space exploration is no longer just for billionaires. Last week, a small Arizona startup closed a $15 million round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture capital firms Canaan Partners and Norwest Ventures. World View, which calls itself a “space balloon” company, was founded with [...]
From an article by Harriet Tatham at ABC News: Dr Thirsk became obsessed with space travel in his early school years after a teacher put on a broadcast of an American astronaut mission into space. "Many years later, after I'd had some engineering and medical training, I was in a doctors' lounge relaxing and I saw [...]
From an article by Meteorologist Paul Dorian Vencore, Inc: "For the second time this month, the sun has gone completely blank. This is a more dangerous time for astronauts as the increase in potent cosmic rays can easily shatter a strand of human DNA. Also, during years of lower sunspot number, the sun’s extreme ultraviolet radiation [...]
From the article by Steven Poole in The Guardian: "They may have been disproved by science or dismissed as ridiculous, but some foolish beliefs endure. In theory they should wither away – but it’s not that simple In January 2016, the rapper BoB took to Twitter to tell his fans that the Earth is really flat. [...]
VANCOUVER, BC–(Jun 28, 2016) – Breathtec BioMedical, Inc is holding a press conference today to announce plans for the commencement of the company’s clinical trial program at Innovation Boulevard located in Surrey, British Columbia. Today’s announcement marks the beginning of an intensive research review into NA-NOSE, an advanced stage, nanotechnology-based breath analysis device from [...]
From zeenews.india.com: If you are a space enthusiast and planning to built a your own low cost space-bound satellite, then here is a great news for you! Scientists at Arizona university have developed a tiny satellite- the size of a matchbox- that will drastically the cut cost of highly expensive space missions in near future. This [...]
From nanowerk.com: Managing scarce water resources is problematic for many Middle East countries, and forecasts predict a more straitened situation ahead. Desalination plants are one way to manage water shortages, as more than two-thirds of the world’s desalination capacity is in this region, but processing seawater has enormous energy and environmental costs. Other approaches need [...]
From Physics.org: Nanosized Trojan horses created from a patient's own immune cells have successfully treated inflammation by overcoming the body's complex defense mechanisms, perhaps leading to broader applications for treating diseases characterized by inflammation, such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. An international team, led by researchers at Houston Methodist Research Institute, described the creation of [...]
