Gravity suit mimics Earth’s pull for astronauts “A stretchy suit that mimics the effects of the Earth’s gravity has been developed in the US to spare astronauts the ill effects of long missions of weightlessness. “There are certainly significant problems for people that stay in space for six months or greater, but… we know in the future that with extended, long-duration stays in microgravity they’ll become more important.”
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Gravity suit mimics Earth’s pull for astronauts

“A stretchy suit that mimics the effects of the Earth’s gravity has been developed in the US to spare astronauts the ill effects of long missions of weightlessness.

“There are certainly significant problems for people that stay in space for six months or greater, but… we know in the future that with extended, long-duration stays in microgravity they’ll become more important.”

Source: BBC

Exciting news for creating space elevators! Scientists spin carbon nanotube threads on industrial scale “We finally have a nanotube fiber with properties that don’t exist in any other material,” said lead researcher Matteo Pasquali of Rice University. “It looks like black cotton thread but behaves like both metal wires and strong carbon fibers.” The thread has ten times the tensile strength of steel and is as conductive as copper, but is flexible enough to be wound around a spool or woven. The team envisages it being used in “smart” clothing and the aerospace industry, and says that its properties will be of particular use to electronics manufacturers.”
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Exciting news for creating space elevators!

Scientists spin carbon nanotube threads on industrial scale

“We finally have a nanotube fiber with properties that don’t exist in any other material,” said lead researcher Matteo Pasquali of Rice University. “It looks like black cotton thread but behaves like both metal wires and strong carbon fibers.”

The thread has ten times the tensile strength of steel and is as conductive as copper, but is flexible enough to be wound around a spool or woven. The team envisages it being used in “smart” clothing and the aerospace industry, and says that its properties will be of particular use to electronics manufacturers.”

Source: theregister.co.uk

Scientists Build A Working Tractor Beam “With this experimental success, it’ll be fascinating to see some of the applications to come out of this. Just one thing, though – don’t expect these tractor beams to be pulling spaceships anytime soon. Right now, those applications are pretty limited to microscopic particles. That doesn’t make this any less of an achievement, however.”
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Scientists Build A Working Tractor Beam

“With this experimental success, it’ll be fascinating to see some of the applications to come out of this. Just one thing, though – don’t expect these tractor beams to be pulling spaceships anytime soon. Right now, those applications are pretty limited to microscopic particles. That doesn’t make this any less of an achievement, however.”

Source: forbes.com

Scientific evidence that you probably don’t have free will

“As the early results of scientific brain experiments are showing, our minds appear to be making decisions before we’re actually aware of them — and at times by a significant degree. It’s a disturbing observation that has led some neuroscientists to conclude that we’re less in control of our choices than we think — at least as far as some basic movements and tasks are concerned.”

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