New Bio Racing Car Powered by Chocolate

Assembled from taters, maneuvered with carrots and high-powered by chocolate.

The manufacturers of this Formula Three car would like to demonstrate that motor racing does not have to be a gas-guzzling eco-disaster.

Engineers at England's Warwick University allege it is the first racing-standard car assembled altogether from sustainable and recycled products.

[Dr James Meredith, University Of Warwick]:
"We have incorporated carrots into the steering wheel, we have incorporated potatoes into wing mirrors and we have managed to incorporate soy bean oil foam into the seat. We have also got many other natural fibres such as flax and hemp in the bodywork as well as recycled carbon fibre and some recycled bottles which make up the resin in the composites".

The race car is even power-driven by biofuel created of wastes from chocolate factories.

But the automobile is more than just an eco car -- the squad allege the racer will shortly be achieving speeds of equal to 160 mph.

Applied scientists like Steve Maggs enounce they would like to establish that going eco could as well imply going quick.

[Dr. Steve Maggs, Engineer, University of Warwick]:
"We will be green in the future. We have already seen Formula One adopting some green technologies in the (KERS) - Kinetic Energy Recovery System that we are seeing on cars this year which have actually have improved
performance and making the sport more exciting. I am convinced that some of these technologies will be sustainable materials technology will see them on not just Formula one but other aspects of Motorsport as well".

Just in spite of late attempts by the world's racing community to try out its green credentials, this eco car will not have the chance to raise itself on the racetrack any time soon.

It's chocolate-based fuel is a little too strange to conform to current racing rules

Spectacular rejuvenation of untimely aged mice clues at possible therapy

Immature aging can be overturned by reactivating an enzyme that protects the tips of chromosomes, a research in mice evokes.

Men of science led by Ronald A. DePinho (above), a Harvard school of medicine professor of genetic science, say their study demonstrates for the 1st time a spectacular reversion of many facets of age-related degeneration in mice, a milestone in aging scientific discipline accomplished by engineering mice with a manageable telomerase gene.

Mice orchestrated to lack the enzyme, called telomerase, convert prematurely weak. But they recovered to wellness when the enzyme was replaced. The study, brought out online November 28 in Nature, clues that some conditions characterised by early aging could be handled by boosting telomerase activity.

This study can be the best option for normal human aging to be decelerated by reawakening the enzyme in cells where it has stopped working, says Ronald DePinho, a malignant neoplastic disease geneticist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who chaired the new study. "This has implications for thinking about telomerase as a serious anti-aging intervention."

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Antibiotics could treat heart failure

Antibiotic drugs could do more than just treat infections. Researches discovered that can also preclude injuries to the heart.

Researchers explicated that many heart conditions and heart attack patients experience something called a reperfusion trauma following their treatment.

"If you can imagine that the spring that's in your heart cell is cut up and damaged, obviously that heart muscle cell will not work very easily," Schulz said.

The head of study, Professor of paediatrics and pharmacology Rick Schulz, said he's aspirant that doxycycline will demonstrate to be a secure and cheap treatment for a number of a different number of heart conditions.

Heart failure kills tens of thousands of people in countries of South and Central America annually and anywhere 'tween 10 and 20 million people are considered to be contaminated by it.

Incredible and amazing future designs

The 2010 edition of the Electrolux Design Lab competition centers originative solutions for compact living. The 2010 brief demanded industrial design scholars to regard how people will prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes in the homes of 2050, when 74%* of the global population are anticipated to live in an cityfied environment. This means we have to use space more efficiently in order to meat everyday needs. The finalists in this contest suggest ways to optimize future domestic space.

For example, the element "Modular Kitchen" combines cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning and lighting in one wall-mounted appliance. Multiple units and surfaces automatically work together through wireless smart networking.

The clean closet is essentially a closet that clean clothing. Textiles are scan for impurity and clean with molecular technology. This waterless concept replaces the laundry basket, washing machines and drying spaces. Todays methods of cold storage occupy a great deal of space. Conversely, the bio-robot-refrigerator has no need for doors or a draws.

The Future of Apple

Ok, this is funny. I know all you Apple fans out there will taste this one :)

THE FUTURE OF APPLE

Future Weapons, NEW THAAD Missile

The THAAD (theatre high-altitude area defence) missile system is an easily transportable defensive weapon system to protect against hostile incoming threats such as tactical and theatre ballistic missiles at ranges of 200km and at altitudes up to 150km.

The THAAD missile system provides the upper tier of a 'layered defensive shield' to protect high value strategic or tactical sites such as airfields or populations centres. The THAAD missile intercepts exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric threats.

Future Weapons Airborne Laser

Boeings Airborne Laser (ABL) will locate and track missiles in the boost phase of their flight, then accurately point and fire the high-energy laser, destroying enemy missiles near their launch areas.

Do you think the future will look like this?

Flying cars, motorcycles and trains and megastructures. Can this be our future? Before this happens, we must overcome the oil crysis. Because flying cars are big oil-consumers.

Future Doctors Could Sniff Out Cancer

Skin cancer is on the rise in this country. The disease is currently diagnosed by taking a tissue sample of suspicious moles or lesions on the skin, which can be a slow & painful process. In cases where there are no outward signs of skin cancer, the disease can be difficult to detect, leading to a delayed or missed diagnosis.

Doctors in the future could detect the most common form of cancer in US just by waving a wand-like scanner over patients, researchers claim.

"We're the first to identify & quantify the compounds involved in skin cancer odors," said researcher Michelle Gallagher, an analytical chemist at specialty materials company Rohm & Haas in Spring House, Pa.

Recently, scientists found that dogs can actually be trained to sniff out skin tumors. This suggests the disease leads to changes within ill cells that release telltale chemicals. Medical tools that could detect these differences could give doctors a critical lead in fighting skin cancer.

"Knowledge of a link between odor & disease goes back to ancient Greece & ancient Rome," researcher George Preti, an analytical organic chemist with Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, told LiveScience. For instance, sweet-smelling breath was a telltale sign of diabetes, while a foul odor from a wound indicated infection.


"We found a different profile of chemicals above tumor sites relative to healthy skin," Gallagher said. "The same chemicals are present, but at skin cancer sites some chemicals are increased, while others are decreased compared to healthy individuals."

Gallagher declined to give specific details as to what chemicals we discovered. The researchers have applied for a patent on their technique.

The scientists plan to identify the scents linked with the six other most common types of skin cancer, including squamous cell cancer & melanoma, the deadliest form. If we succeed, we hope to combine their findings with emerging "electronic nose" technology designed to identify odors. Gallagher envisions a wand-like tool that can get waved across the skin & give off an alarm or beep when cancer is detected, similar to the fictional medical "tricorder" from "Star Trek."

Yamaha Concept - The Wearable Motorcycle

This is a motorcycle concept that you will not see so often. It was designed by student Jake Loniak for Yamaha and by that means presented one idea that could be realized in the future as far as the single seaters go. Under brand ‘Deus Ex Machina’, Yamaha is representing us this electrical transport vehicle as a single-seater which can be parked vertically. In theory, this motorcycle of the future will be able to accelerate from 0 to 60 in just 3 seconds and will be controlled by 36 pneumatic muscles and 2 linear actuators.