Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have concocted a new carbon material that virtually eliminates friction between surfaces. These new carbon “rollers” could slash maintenance costs for machinery and vastly extend the life of any mechanical device. Researchers were experimenting with graphene — single-layer sheets of carbon atoms — sliding against a steel ball coated with a material called “diamond-like...
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Although the team hasn’t yet overcome the scrolls’ hydrophobia, there are thousands of applications that can benefit from the discovery. Commercial applications could be ready before 2022.
HORSE power: Old technology new again
Large farms, food-processing plants, cafeterias, residential neighborhoods and other operations that churn out at least 135 pounds of organic waste daily can generate their own power with the “High-solids Organic-waste Recycling System with Electrical Output,” or HORSE. An anaerobic digester, the HORSE uses bacteria to break down that daily volume of trash into 125 million BTU of natural gas...
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Anaerobic digesters are an old technology that’s finding new life in an economy that sees one system’s waste as another’s raw material. Entrepreneurs are finding niches like this in the space that unites profitability, sustainability and environmental responsibility.
Ending antibiotic resistance
Because the medical profession has overprescribed antibiotics for decades, they’re becoming increasingly ineffective. The only harmful bacteria left alive are the ones resistant to the drugs that are supposed to kill them. Each year, 2 million people in the US become infected with resistant bacteria and 23,000 people die as a result. Now the Tampa-based Moffitt Cancer Center has found...
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Moffitt’s technique can be applied to drug protocols for other bacteria, promising an eventual solution to the epidemic of drug resistance. Bacteria’s resistance to drugs also mirrors cancer’s development of resistance to conventional therapies. The Moffitt team is transferring its method of winnowing effective drug therapies to research into selecting effective cancer treatment.
Building a brain from scratch
For 10 years, scientists with the Blue Brain Project at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale have been trying to reverse-engineer a rat’s brain and build one themselves. Now they finally have a rough draft. The group made a digital replication of a portion of a rat’s neocortex, the part of the brain that controls sensory perception, motor activity and conscious thought....
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The scientists are using supercomputers to test and catalog the ways that their virtual brain slice reacts under various conditions — varying amounts of specific nutrients, for example, or different kinds of electric signals. This could open new pathways to test new drugs’ effects on healthy and diseased brains.
Rave reviews for past health retreats
Here’s what some attendees of past health and well being retreats at the Naples facility had to say about the experience: “I’ve been a flight attendant in the past and I’ve travelled the whole world. But I’ve never seen this much kindness or love. I don’t have the words to describe it. This has been so wonderful.“ – Montez “This...
Florida retreat for mind, body and spirit
Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute have announced an exhilarating and unique weeklong retreat designed to explore the powerful trends that will unfold in the year ahead — all while enjoying the tranquil and healing resources of a beautiful 30-acre setting in Southwest Florida. “Prepare for 2016” features Celente, natural health icon Gary Null, institute analysts and health and...