Five years of delay in completing the Iter experimental reactor were today announced. It is a huge machine designed to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion. But it cannot be completed before the end of 2025 and with an extra 4 billion euros in funding from member countries. The project aims to reproduce on Earth the thermonuclear reactions that take place in the core of stars. It officially started in 2005, but soon the… Read more
Directly from the Tokyo Motor Show 2015 one of the most attractive elements: a robot-centaur presented by Yamaha. Its name is Motobot: it is a concept being tested by the research and development department of the Japanese company. A device capable of driving an unmodified motorbike, currently at a speed of 120km per hour but expected to reach 200km per hour. The first bike 'ridden' by Motobot is a YZF-R1M. One of the most interesting challenges… Read more
We are approaching the 'mimetic' era in which devices will not simply recognize our words, our actions, our objects but will begin to reproduce these things in three dimensions. The device that we show you in the video is the result of the work of Keiichi Matsuda, a Japanese architect and filmmaker who has been studying applications and installations based on the interaction between sensors and servomotors for years (in the photograph there is a frame of his previous work based on reality increased). This is a 'morphic' table... Read more
The global diffusion of soft drinks has reached widespread figures: an entire part of the 'Western' world seems to drink more colored concoctions than water. The results are alarming, many research centers on the planet have already brought out the results of different studies, all of which agree in attributing negative effects on the organism. The reason? Carbon dioxide which upsets the stomach. A burst of sugars (about 9 teaspoons per can) or sweeteners (aspartame and acesulfame suspected of being carcinogenic). The dyes. A disaster, in short. And for … Read more
If you are still not convinced that stem cells are the future of medicine, listen here: a group of Japanese researchers used stem cells to synthesize a new, fully functional organ in the laboratory, starting from SCRATCH. This is the research team at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, which took mouse stem cells and transformed them into a perfectly functioning pituitary gland: the pituitary gland, otherwise called the pituitary gland, is a small organ... Read more
Professor Michael Ristow and his Japanese colleagues from the Universities of Oita and Hiroshima have demonstrated in two different tests that even low concentrations of Lithium lead to a considerable increase in longevity in humans as well as in other organisms (in this case a type of worm, Caenorhabditis elegans.): the research was published in the European Journal of Nutrition. Lithium is one of the nutritional elements present in vegetables and drinking water: "the scientific community does not yet know the ... Read more
The rumors in the IT world make it almost certain: Sony is working on a tablet with a strong vocation for games, capable of countering the primacy of the iPad in the sector. There is no doubt that the growth of Apple's product is creating quite a few problems for the Japanese company: a versatile system, capable of running games with complex graphics and equipped with its own built-in distribution and sales system: there It's like banging your head against the wall. The… Read more
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