The Scientific Advancements Thread

[Ajackson17]

Wow, this is evil and perverse in the name of Jesus, The devil is coming faster and faster, but ya'll won't hear until you are on your knees and saying Jesus is Lord. Smh and that day you would know you fucked up.

You are the reason we need a gtfoh button.

I was in trolling mode back then bruh

 

[Young_Chitlin]

THE LALALA 'HEARING AID'

The LaLaLa is currently just a concept but its inventors think it could become a reality in just two years. The gadget is designed to FIT inside the ear and hook round over the tragus, curling behind the ear. It is intended to give people selective hearing so they can zone in on an interesting conversation in a noisy room, while cancelling out BACKGROUND noise so they can hear it clearly. It would do this by using an array of built-in microphones as well as a camera to track movement. LaLaLa's creators think it could replace the smartphone and that people would wear it constantly. Future iterations of the design could also allow people to translate other languages in real-time.

Read more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...oreign-languages-real-time.html#ixzz3G4irlafn

 

[Young_Chitlin]

Google X Labs is developing a pill that could one day detect cancer and heart disease. The pill would contain 2,000 nanoparticles coated with antibodies and molecules capable of detecting other molecules, and travel through the patient's bloodstream in search of malignant cells. The findings would be transmitted to a sensor on a wearable device.

 

[Young_Chitlin]

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[Young_Chitlin]

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[Young_Chitlin]

http://io9.com/dying-white-blood-cells-alert-others-to-the-presence-of-1711714798

 

[Young_Chitlin]

Http://firstwefeast.com/eat/drug-made-from-avocados-could-help-fight-cancer

 

[Young_Chitlin]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-way-humans-get-electricity-is-about-to-change-forever/ar-AAbZhP2

The renewable-energy boom is here. Trillions of dollars will be invested over the next 25 years, driving some of the most profound changes yet in how humans get their electricity. That's according to a new forecast by Bloomberg New Energy Finance that plots out global power markets to 2040.

Here are six massive shifts coming soon to power markets near you:

1. Solar Prices Keep Crashing

The price of solar power will continue to fall, until it becomes the cheapest form of power in a rapidly expanding number of national markets. By 2026, utility-scale solar will be competitive for the majority of the world, according to BNEF. The lifetime cost of a photovoltaic solar-power plant will drop by almost half over the next 25 years, even as the prices of fossil fuels creep higher.

Solar power will eventually get so cheap that it will outcompete new fossil-fuel plants and even start to supplant some existing coal and gas plants, potentially stranding billions in fossil-fuel infrastructure. The industrial age was built on coal. The next 25 years will be the end of its dominance.

2. Solar Billions Become Solar Trillions

With solar power so cheap, investments will surge. Expect $3.7 trillion in solar investments between now and 2040, according to BNEF. Solar alone will account for more than a third of new power capacity worldwide. Here's how that looks on a chart, with solar appropriately dressed in yellow and fossil fuels in pernicious gray:

3. The Revolution Will Be Decentralized

The biggest solar revolution will take place on rooftops. High electricity prices and cheap residential battery storage will make small-scale rooftop solar ever more attractive, driving a 17-fold increase in installations. By 2040, rooftop solar will be cheaper than electricity from the grid in every major economy, and almost 13 percent of electricity worldwide will be generated from small-scale solar systems.

4. Global Demand Slows

Yes, the world is inundated with mobile phones, flat screen TVs, and air conditioners. But growth in demand for electricity is slowing. The reason: efficiency. To cram huge amounts of processing power into pocket-sized gadgets, engineers have had to focus on how to keep those gadgets from overheating. That's meant huge advances in energy efficiency. Switching to an LED light bulb, for example, can reduce electricity consumption by more than 80 percent.

So even as people rise from poverty to middle class faster than ever, BNEF predicts that global electricity consumption will remain relatively flat. In the next 25 years, global demand will grow about 1.8 percent a year, compared with 3 percent a year from 1990 to 2012. In wealthy OECD countries, power demand will actually decline.

5. Natural Gas Burns Briefly

Natural gas won't become the oft-idealized "bridge fuel" that transitions the world from coal to renewable energy, according to BNEF. The U.S. fracking boom will help bring global prices down some, but few countries outside the U.S. will replace coal plants with natural gas. Instead, developing countries will often opt for some combination of coal, gas, and renewables.

Even in the fracking-rich U.S., wind power will be cheaper than building new gas plants by 2023, and utility-scale solar will be cheaper than gas by 2036.

Fossil fuels aren't going to suddenly disappear. They'll retain a 44 percent share of total electricity generation in 2040 (down from two thirds today), much of which will come from legacy plants that are cheaper to run than shut down. Developing countries will be responsible for 99 percent of new coal plants and 86 percent of new gas-fired plants between now and 2040, according to BNEF. Coal is clearly on its way out, but in developing countries that need to add capacity quickly, coal- power additions will be roughly equivalent to utility-scale solar.

6. The Climate Is Still Screwed

The shift to renewables is happening shockingly fast, but not fast enough to prevent perilous levels of global warming.

About $8 trillion, or two thirds of the world's spending on new power capacity over the next 25 years, will go toward renewables. Still, without additional policy action by governments, global carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector will continue to rise until 2029 and will remain 13 percent higher than today's pollution levels in 2040.

That's not enough to prevent the surface of the Earth from heating more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to BNEF. That's considered the point-of-no-return for some worst consequences of climate change.

The report assumes there will be no further policies supporting renewable energy from 2018 onward. The EPA's Clean Power Plan and any unforeseen climate agreements could change the forecast. The share of total generation from renewables will be higher, at 46 percent. The world's power capacity mix will go from two-thirds fossil fuels today to 56 percent zero emissions, according to BNEF.

 

[Young_Chitlin]

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[Young_Chitlin]

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[Young_Chitlin]

Special contact lenses that change the curve in the eye when they are worn overnight can improve eye-sight
Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...rve-eye-worn-overnight-improve-eye-sight.html

 

[Young_Chitlin]

A common treatment for diabetes could enable adults to live well into their 120s, scientists say.

They will carry out the first trials on metformin next year in the hope it may stave off illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Researchers have already conducted tests on animals which show it significantly extends their lives.

Now the Food and Drug Administration, the American regulator, has given the go-ahead for the same trials in humans.

Researchers are to carry out the first trials on

If successful, it would mean that, for example, a person in their 70s could have the same biological age as a healthy 50-year-old.

Professor Gordon Lithgow of the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing in California, who will lead the study, said: ‘If you target an ageing process and you slow down ageing then you slow down all the diseases and pathology of ageing as well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-stave-illnesses-Alzheimer-s-Parkinson-s.html

 

[silverfoxx]

Young Chitlin the poster of the year IMO

 

[Young_Chitlin]

Young Chitlin the poster of the year IMO

Preciate it bro

 

[Young_Chitlin]

Salicylic acid in aspirin binds to an enzyme called GAPDH

Stops enzyme from entering the nucleus of cell, where it can cause death

Parkinson's drug, deprenyl, blocks GAPDH's acts in the same way

Experts say discovery raises hopes for treatments for neurodegenerative conditions including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntingdon's

A daily dose of aspirin is thought to help ward off heart disease, and some studies have suggested it helps in the fight against cancer.

But now, a new study has revealed the painkiller could also help ward off neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntingdon's.

A component in the drug binds to an enzyme called GAPDH, which is thought to play a role in the conditions.

Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute and Johns Hopkins University discovered that salicylic acid, the primary breakdown product of aspirin, binds to GAPDH.
Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...lp-treat-Alzheimer-s-Parkinson-s-disease.html

 

[VIBE]

Thread title needs a change, people are gonna sleep on this.

Great thread.

Man is GOD.

 

[Young_Chitlin]

@Sion compadre can you sticky and change the title to The Science Advancements Thread

 

[Young_Chitlin]

It's really happening.

If you want to lose weight, a new diet or gym membership sounds a whole lot better than consuming someone else's poop in pill form, but that's exactly the method researchers are about to investigate in a clinical trial that's been approved for later this year.

It's not the most pleasant treatment you can imagine, but there's strong evidence that faeces is good for the microbiome environment inside our guts.

Reports have shown that in some situations, poop pills are actually more effective than antibiotics, and now there's some strong demand for healthy body waste if you're interested in parting with some for a bit of cash.

The controlled, randomised trial starting this year will be run by researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Based on research that suggests bacteria from donor excrement can fight infections that have become rooted in the digestive system of the recipient, they'll be testing if poop pills could be a viable treatment option for weight-loss in the future.

"Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) transfers intestinal bacteria by a 'stool transplant' from a healthy, lean person to a person with obesity," the researchers explain.

Poop samples from lean and healthy donors will be freeze-dried and then given to 21 obese patients during the course of the trial.

There's a growing belief that this kind of treatment could help with weight-loss and various other metabolic disorders, but so far we only have a few animal studies and some anecdotal evidence in humans to go off.

This new study should give us much more information about the potential of the humble poop pill.

Lead researcher for the trial, Elaine Yu, told Beth Mole at Ars Technica that the clinical trial team has "no idea what the result will be" at this stage, but the researchers should be able to learn much more about the microbes in our bodies and how they affect us along the way.

The donors are going to be carefully screened to make sure they - and their poo samples - are as healthy as possible.

The treatment will last for at least three months, and possibly continuing for a year or beyond.

It's still early days for the field of microbiome analysis, but there have been some interesting studies carried out in the past.

A 2013 study found that gut bacteria transplanted from human twins into mice had a direct effect on the animals' weight - those given bacteria from the overweight twin also gained weight, while the other group maintained a healthy size.

 

[Young_Chitlin]

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/01/science/kidney-disease-advances-promise-earlier-treatment.html

 

[VIBE]

All you need to replicate your brain is a piece of your skin

http://www.sciencedump.com/content/all-you-need-replicate-your-brain-piece-your-skin