Oct 8, 2019
Skip the insecticide this summer. Fight mosquitos with bat homes
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: habitats
A crowdfunded startup wants to encourage homeowners to fight insect invasions with a natural enemy.
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Oct 2, 2019
Ancient Aliens: Human-Alien Hybrids (Season 11) | History
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: alien life, cyborgs, habitats
People who claim to have been abducted by aliens also say their DNA was manipulated and that human-alien hybrids live among us in this clip from Season 11’s episode, “The Returned”. #AncientAliens
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Oct 1, 2019
Researchers’ new method enables identifying a person through walls from candidate video footage, using only WiFi
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: habitats, internet, law enforcement, security, surveillance
Researchers in the lab of UC Santa Barbara professor Yasamin Mostofi have enabled, for the first time, determining whether the person behind a wall is the same individual who appears in given video footage, using only a pair of WiFi transceivers outside.
This novel video-WiFi cross-modal gait-based person identification system, which they refer to as XModal-ID (pronounced Cross-Modal-ID), could have a variety of applications, from surveillance and security to smart homes. For instance, consider a scenario in which law enforcement has a video footage of a robbery. They suspect that the robber is hiding inside a house. Can a pair of WiFi transceivers outside the house determine if the person inside the house is the same as the one in the robbery video? Questions such as this have motivated this new technology.
Sep 26, 2019
Can We Redesign The Modern City With Synthetic Biology? Could We Grow Our Houses Instead Of Building Them?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, food, habitats, sustainability
Imagine waking up every morning in a house that is just as alive as you are. With synthetic biology, your future home could be a living, breathing marvel of nature and biotechnology. Yes, it’s a bold ambition. But this kind of visionary thinking could be the key to achieving sustainability for modern cities.
Our current homes and cities are severely outdated. Dr. Rachel Armstrong, a synthetic biologist and experimental architect, says, “All our current buildings have something in common: they’re built using Victorian technologies.” Traditional design, manufacturing, and construction processes demand huge amounts of energy and resources, but the resulting buildings give nothing back. To make our future sustainable, we need dynamic structures that give as much as they take. We need to build with nature, not against it.
In nature, everything is connected. For the world’s tallest trees—the California redwoods— their lives depend on their connection to each other as well as on a host of symbiotic organisms. Winds and rain batter the California coast, so redwoods weave their roots together for stability, creating networks that can stretch hundreds of miles. The rains also leach nutrients from the soil. But fungi fill the shortage by breaking down dead organic matter into food for the living. A secondary network of mycelia—the root-like structures of the fungi—entwine with the tree roots to transport nutrients, water, and chemical communications throughout the forest. What if our future cities functioned like these symbiotic networks? What if our future homes were alive?
Sep 14, 2019
Mathematician reveals the brain exercises that help prevent memory loss
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, neuroscience
A mathematician has shared some of the brain exercises he uses to help people with dementia.
Gareth Rowlands, from St Albans, runs memory workshops at dementia cafes and care homes in Hertfordshire.
He became passionate about helping those with memory loss after he visited a care home which he wife ran in Barnet.
Sep 14, 2019
Bigelow’s next-generation inflatable space habitat is shooting for the Moon
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: habitats, space
Atomic Lighter is a type of plasma lighter that creates ignition using two electrical arcs, without the need for potentially dangerous fluids or open flames.
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Sep 11, 2019
Reno-based Flirtey unveils Eagle delivery drone, can deliver packages under 10 minutes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, habitats
The Eagle has landed — the Flirtey Eagle drone, that is.
Reno-based drone delivery company Flirtey showed off the new drone that it will be using once it starts to deliver packages by air later this year. The company unveiled its drone on Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Sep 6, 2019
London is transforming its double-decker buses into homeless shelters
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: habitats
An inviting massage table, a snug chair, a sunlit field of grass – this is not a holiday resort but one of London’s famous double-decker buses, which this summer will house up to 40 homeless people.
A fleet of four decommissioned buses has been converted by British-based social enterprise Buses4Homeless into a shelter for homeless people, with spaces for sleeping, dining, cooking, job training and relaxing.
“The most crucial thing for anyone is shelter, having a place to stay,” said Buses4Homeless founder Dan Atkins, from the buses’ temporary site in Croydon, south London.
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