Calorie restriction (CR) improves health, reduces cancer incidence and extends lifespan in multiple organisms including mice. CR was shown to enhance base excision repair and nucleotide excision repair pathways of DNA repair, however, whether CR…

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed the Design Certification Application (DCA) review for NuScale’s small modular reactor (SMR). NuScale spent over $500 million, with the backing of Fluor, and over 2 million labor…

September 10, 2020 | Brian Wang | Compensated contributed content that does not necessarily represent the opinion of Nextbigfuture. Social distancing measures have drastically changed the lifestyle, decadence and routines of the public. For good…

Compensated contributed content that does not necessarily represent the opinion of Nextbigfuture. Social distancing measures have drastically changed the lifestyle, decadence and routines of the public. For good and for bad, we have disjointed the…

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) material scientists have created thermoelectric generators that can harvest waste heat from previously inaccessible sources, such as pipes with complex geometries. Thirteen quadrillion (3600 terawatt-hours) BTUs of energy is lost…

Scott Galloway who wrote a book on the big four tech companies has suggestions for handling their monopoly. Scott suggests breaking up Facebook by spinning off their recent acquisitions, Instagram and Whatsapp. Facebook has 3.5…

Tiny MEMS Space Telescope on a Cubesat Brian Wang | August 13, 2020 | DARPA deployed a cubesat that has a new mini-space telescope. DARPA’s Deformable Mirror (DeMi) CubeSat deployed from the International Space Station…

Purdue University engineers have a built a website (cam2project.net ) that gathers live video and images from about 30,000 network cameras in more than 100 countries and they are using to monitor and analyze COVID-19…