Speaking of Nextgov, a featured article on the site this past week detailed a “Franken-army” technology that would fuse bio-lab grown flesh with AI-driven robotics. Army Research Laboratory scientists are experimenting in using living muscle tissue to make otherwise relatively bulky androids more nimble and able to move like living creatures. “Biohybrid robotics” could eventually...
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NEXTGOV: WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT MATTERS
Ever wonder how the deep state and mega corporations coordinate on a practical level? Nextgov.com, though little known to most of the general public, is an important nexus point. The portal serves as a place where government agency bureaucrats can access tech advisories and white papers by leading tech corporations. The site is “sponsored” by...
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STUDY FINDS DOZENS OF NEW CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS IN HUMANS
A University of California at San Francisco study of pregnant women has found 55 chemicals in their bodies that have never before been reported in people and another 42 whose origin or purposes are unknown. The same chemicals were found in the women’s children after they were born. Using a mass spectrometer, the researchers found:...
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SOFTWARE DESIGNS BIGGER, BETTER DNA ROBOTS IN MINUTES
Robots made of DNA crawled off the pages of science fiction and into bioengineers’ labs in 2017. The idea is intriguing; little machines made of a few strands of human DNA can “walk around” in the person’s body, taking samples or delivering drugs without causing damage that a mechanical device might, and then harmlessly biodegrade...
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SCIENTISTS FIND KEY TO BIGGER BRAIN
What’s the difference between the brain of an ape and a human? The answer: two days. At Cambridge University, researchers grew cerebral organoids – pea-size mini-brains that mimic certain functions of the real things – from human, ape, and chimpanzee neurons. They compared day-by-day development of the mini-brains among the three, especially the point at...
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CHAD: MORE AFRICAN WAR DRUMS BEATING
Rebel fighters in Chad – known as the Front for Change and Concord in Chad – threatened to depose Gen. Mahamat Idriss Déby from power shortly after the nation’s military granted him the leadership role after his father’s killing, a move condemned by some of its citizens and a number of nations as a blatant...
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ISRAEL VS. SYRIA: GETTING HOTTER
The Israel Defense Forces carried out airstrikes outside Damascus Thursday shortly after reports of an explosion near one of its nuclear plants. Damascus fired off an advanced surface-to-air missile that landed close to a nuclear reactor near Dimona, which the Jerusalem Post reported was the longest-range attack by Syria. The report said the country’s air defense system...
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ISRAEL STRIKES IN IRAN ARE “EMBARRASSING”
The Trends Journal has long been reporting on a clandestine war between rivals Israel and Iran. Last week, we ran the article, “IRAN BLAMES ISRAEL FOR NUCLEAR FACILITY EXPLOSION” and on 16 March, “ISRAEL TARGETS IRANIAN OIL SHIPMENTS TO SYRIA.” The reports point out that the Israeli military seems intent on making good on Prime Minister Benjamin...
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PUTIN PUTS PRESSURE ON UKRAINE
As we reported in the Trends Journal, Russia had moved over 100,000 troops and artillery along its border with Ukraine, as tensions between the two nations ramped up. After flexing its military strength, Russia announced last week that it was moving the troops deployed to the border with Ukraine back to their home bases by...
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CHINA’S PRESIDENT XI: “WE’RE #1”
China’s President Xi Jinping said Thursday that global affairs should not be set by a single country that gives “the whole world a rhythm.” While not mentioning the U.S. by name, he said, “Bossing others around and interfering in other countries’ international affairs will not be well received.” Xi made his comments during a speech...