If the project is being developed by a company called Modern Meadow is specified, you may not need humanity to raise animals for food. Indeed, the company has allocated $ 300,000 to combine the technology that enables three-dimensional printing techniques used for tissue culture in what will be a 3D printer capable of printing edible meat. The final product, they say, will be completely digestible and provide the same proteins as the real meat. Will the food of the future?
We've all seen (and want) the "3D printers" devices capable of creating three-dimensional objects. Its operation is relatively simple to explain, and closely resemble a CNC milling machine with the difference that instead of making cuts or holes, have a head which is deposited plastic-material layer by layer, on the basis thereof. Objects to "print" are created on the computer using a CAD program, and sent to the printer in the same way you print a text in a common printer. The cost of these devices is decreasing, and the time it takes to print objects is becoming shorter. But it seems that the best is yet to come: a company called Modern Meadow has combined this technology with the techniques used to grow tissues "in vitro", so that the printer is capable of printing "meat" perfectly edible.
While the idea of building a machine capable of "building" food straight out of some science fiction novel (in fact, it is a topic that has been used repeatedly in these stories), the fact is that Modern Meadow plans possibly come true. So far they have spent more than 250 thousand euros in the development of this "3D printer meat" and while not yet been printed or even a burger, it appears that achieve their goal. The meat created by this technique, although "artificial" in the sense that it comes from an animal raised and slaughtered for the purpose, shall possess the same protein and that meat looks real, and can be digested and used by the body without problems . Behind this initiative is the philanthropist Peter Thiel, who has made the contribution of seed money to start the project. It is clear that initially the cost of each kilogram of meat produced in this way will be astronomically high, but surely over time will lower enough to compete with the meat we consume regularly. This is a project that has the potential to become the food of the future, just have to wait and see if it comes to fruition. The inevitable question is: Would you eat meat created artificially?
The drone experimental X-51A WaveRider, a hypersonic aircraft capable of flying over the Pacific Ocean some 5,793 kilometers per hour, was tested today by the Pentagon on a flight "key" to the development of its technology, confirmed a source of Department of Defense.
From a hangar at Edwards Air Force U.S. in the Mojave Desert (California), a team of aerospace engineers tuned the device, which could cover the distance between New York and London in less than an hour.
The project, developed by the U.S. space agency (NASA) and the Agency Advanced Research Projects U.S. Defense (DARPA), was tested by anchoring the X-51A Waverider to the wing of a former B-52 bomber. The X-51A WaveRider should have flown at hypersonic speed for 300 seconds to dive later in the Pacific Ocean.
Although the same sources were unable to provide information on the results obtained, have been successfully completed, the ship should have been destroyed during testing, making it impossible to recover, but the engineers could use all the data recorded during the flight to the development of hypersonic technology in military applications.
The X51A test flight was the third experiment of a program that began in 2004. The first Waverider, built by Boeing, was tested in May 2010 at 3,500 kilometers per hour for 143 seconds, before a technical failure put an end to the test ahead of time, and the second, who was executed in June 2011 and also ended earlier than expected but it did generate concrete data.
The Air Force plans to develop and use technology to move hypersonic missiles or aircraft anywhere in the world in a matter of minutes instead of hours, in order not to let the enemy reaction time. Besides the speed, the aircraft will fly at high altitude hypersonic away from enemy fire or a missile. NASA and the Pentagon is funding three national centers in the country to study the hypersonic flight.
The WaveRider program will cost $ 140 million as estimated by the military development website, Globalsecurity.com.
Analysis of fossil remains of a herbivorous dinosaurs with long tail and neck, known as sauropods, found in the current Pyrenees, reinforces the hypothesis that the extinction of the dinosaurs was a gradual process rather quickly due to the large environmental imbalance caused by a meteorite impact on Earth. These sauropods, who lived at the end of the Cretaceous Period in Europe, maintained their diversity until it became extinct about 65 million years. The analysis of the evolution of their femurs shows a decline in diversity towards the end of the Cretaceous, just before their extinction.
While most of the scientific community believes that the extinction of the dinosaurs occurred after a impactase sized meteor into our planet, most of the evidence that exists on this event from the fossil record of dinosaurs that lived in what is now western North America. That collection, abundant and well known test that at least in that region of the world the extinction of these animals-usually-large was sharp and consistent with the impact of a large extraterrestrial object. However, what happened in the rest of the planet not so far too light. But a recent study by a team of scientists from the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology Miquel Crusafont at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Musée des Dinosaures (France), the Museu de la Conca Dellà, the Istituto Nazionale di Geophysics and Volcanology ( Italy) and the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle d'Aix-en-Provence (France), on sauropod fossils found in the area now known as the Pyrénées, supporting the hypothesis of extinction caused by environmental disturbances caused by the meteorite impact about 65 million years. Sauropods were a class of herbivorous dinosaurs that had a long neck, long tail and walking on all fours. They lived in the Cretaceous Period in various regions of the world, including in Europe, where diversity remained until their extinction.
This work, led by researchers Aragosaurus group of Zaragoza, has focused on the detailed study of the femur bones found at other sites in the Pyrenees, south and southeast of France. This region in the late Cretaceous, was part of an island called Isla Ibero-Armorican and is one of the few places in the world that has found a fossil record that matches the end of that era, 65 million years ago . The study has proporcionad data on the number of taxa of sauropods that lived in the region of 6.5 million years before extinction. The analysis of these remains has determined that there is a great diversity in the last ten million years of the Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian), which lasted until the final extinction, which was sharp and consistent with the effects that would have the impact of a meteorite. If the dinosaurs had died out gradually, its diversity had been declining over time. This work demonstrates the opposite in Europe: the disappearance of sauropods occurred 65 million years ago, abruptly, reinforcing the "meteorite hypothesis" as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
If you make a particularly strong use of your mobile devices, you are likely aware of the limitation imposed by the battery. Who can escape some days everything and everyone "less" of their smartphones and tablets should consider some way to keep these machines running away from an electrical outlet. People Exogear, known for developing accessories for Apple devices, has introduced its Exovolt Plus, a battery that can be stacked in special modules to increase its ability to recharge.
Facebook recently observed in a conversation about the battery life on some smartphones. Each of the participants told their experience, and beyond the differences between the models mentioned, the underlying message remained the same: "Not enough." Far has been the "week of battery" of those basic phones beginning of the century. Clearly this is a vicious circle: With the increasing use of tablets and smartphones, users require more processing and greater autonomy for them, defying the limitations of the format. For design reasons, most of the devices does not allow a manual battery replacement, "slaving" the device to a charger in one form or another. There are certain "emergency chargers" that can get you out of trouble, but if you want a complete solution a little more, maybe requieras something like this.
Exovolt Plus is a battery developed by the people of Exogear. If we talk about a load of 5,200 mAh, 5 volts to a maximum of 2 amps and support for USB and micro USB, Exovolt Plus does not seem so different from other batteries. However, its design allows the user to purchase and install additional modules to extend its capacity. With dimensions of 95 by 95 by 15 mm (weight is 156 grams), the Exovolt Plus is smaller than a DVD box (though a bit thicker). The extra modules need to run the main battery, and according to the manufacturer, there would be a limit to "stack" batteries.
The design is elegant Exovolt Plus, and the concept, while not revolutionary (to be honest, anyone can connect batteries in parallel), seems to be well polished. However, this makes the "premium" is a little higher than expected. The main unit of the Exovolt Plus is priced at $ 90 (73 €), while each additional module demands an investment of $ 50 (41 €). The reality of the numbers tells us that the main battery costs half of what Google calls today for a tablet Nexus 7, but if the product gains traction (not yet available), it is possible to receive a downward adjustment. There are other options to consider for a weekend in the countryside, but if energy demand is constant and you want something you can carry in a pocket, Exovolt Plus should be a more than adequate.
Samsung engineers developed an internal report in dis aggregating 100 design features and the iPhone interface in order to play them on their devices. Apple has made this document and used it as evidence at his trial with Samsung. Apple States are facing in court in a legal pulse to determine whether South Korea has plagiarized the designs of Cupertino and if the iPhone patents are used without permission.
This legal battle yields new data every day about development plans that the companies continued to build their terminals, with some data that were not expected. The latest case has come from Apple, which keeps his accusations of plagiarism and aims to prove them with evidence. Apparently, Apple has gotten a Samsung internal document that could prove that the South Korean engineers broken down some of the main features of the iPhone to find a way to copy them to their own terminals.
How to make an iPhone
The document would look like a step by step how to make an iPhone and have been key to the engineers could copy the systems of this device in their own designs. It also incorporates information from 100 components and functions of the iPhone that supposedly would have been copied and readapted in Samsung devices. The document has been published by Business Insider prove that Samsung itself had studied the iPhone in order to design, or at least improve their own products.This internal report and would be in the hands of the judge who is handling the case and could be a key test case. The appearance of this internal document from Samsung is a new filtration process documents. He had previously been introduced by Samsung, which is demonstrated before the iPhone device, which had spread, prompting complaints from lawyers for the Apple.
