A combination concept of retro motorbike and rally car

What would happen if a retro motorcycle coupled with a rally car? Suzuki has the answer. In Osaka Motorcycle Show 2016, Suzuki showed off the figure of concept motorcycle named Suzuki SV650 Rally.

Suzuki SV650 Rally concept. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YiSGT)

As reported by the Motorcyclenews on Thursday, March 24, 2016, this concept is basically a Suzuki SV650 motorcycle. As noted earlier, this concept combines a retro motorcycle style with a rally car in the 1970s.

This motorcycle has an additional fog lights, single seat cover and small side cowl flowing from under the headlamp to the tank. Other changes included clip-on bars, different front fenders, mirror on the end of the handlebars. In addition, there is also the Suzuki logo on the seats that are written in katakana.

Left side view of Suzuki SV650 Rally concept. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YiSGT)

The streetbike with rally car style is also carrying the latest V-twin DOHC engine owned by SV650 family with a capacity of 645 cc. It could be burst the power up to 75 hp. Its exhaust system uses Yoshimura with a pair of mufflers on the right side.

This time Suzuki has no plans to sell this bike. However, do not rule out also will Suzuki manufacture the motorcycle soon. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | MOTORCYCLENEWS]

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These 'Molecular Scissors' get rid of HIV from the human cells forever

Scientists successfully edit the HIV genetic material permanently for the first time. This success into a new beginning in the effort to cure the patients with HIV and AIDS (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome).

When infecting humans, HIV inserts its genetic material in the cells that responsible for the immune system called CD4 T cells. The insertion was made HIV constantly multiply. HIV 'eat' CD4 continuously until the amount is very small, then decreased immunity, and comes the symptoms of AIDS.

(Pictured: HIV T cells.) Scientists have removed HIV from human immune cells using a new gene-editing technique. And they've managed to shut down HIV replication permanently. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YiO5k)

Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are currently circulating effective in preventing HIV replication. However, these drugs can not cure. If people with HIV/AIDS stop taking them, the virus will re-grow.

Intends to seek the healing for people with HIV/AIDS, a team of scientists from Temple University Health System conducted an experiment to edit the HIV virus. They use CRISPR-Cas9, a protein that is able to identify certain sections of genes and eliminate them. And CRISPR-Cas9 often referred to as "molecular scissors".

A new strategy to precisely modify human T cells using the genome-editing system known as CRISPR-Cas9. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YiOau)

CRISPR-Cas9 is the most influent and innovative biotechnology today. Molecular scissors that have managed to cure genetic disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy. CRISPR is actually the DNA sequences extracted from the bacteria. DNA sequence was paired with an enzyme called Cas 9.

Kamel Khalili, who led the experiment using bacteria to target the virus. Bacteria that are required to produce the genetic material that is identical to the targeted virus's genetic material.

Genetic material produced by bacteria together with Cas 9 and then look for HIV's genetic material contained in human cells. And Cas 9 will then be cut off HIV's genetic material.

With its elaborate method, Khalili and the team managed to permanently eliminate HIV from the human CD4 T cells grown in the laboratory. Not only that, CD4 is also protected from reinfection.

"This discovery is important in a variety of levels," Khalili said as quoted by Science Alert on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. "It demonstrates the effectiveness of our method to eliminate HIV from the DNA and CD4 T cells."

"Furthermore, research has shown that the system can protect the cells from re-infection and the technology is effective for cells, without any toxic effects," he said.

Still need more research to this system can be applied to completely cure people with HIV/AIDS. However, this success is a good first step. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | SCIENCE ALERT]

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A fashionable street-fighter motorbike by Tamás Jakus

The minimalist touch is given by Tamás Jakus (Jakusa Design), a Hungarian builder who has a touch of 'magic' for the Triumph Speed ​​Triple 1050. It is not give a significant change, but the final results named Type35 is seen stealing attention.

Jakus do not have to devote his energy to perform welding or sawing the parts of motorcycle modification. He simply take advantage of the original components of Triumph and some extra parts for the ​​Triple Speed.

A Triumph Speed Triple Custom named Type35 by Tamás Jakus. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgXbN)

"Less is More", that's what it's shown by an experienced builder to modify this motorcycle. Only a few changes were given to the ​​Speed Triple, the whole bike look more stylish. Carrying a classy style, not pinning things that look complicated.

Builder shrewdness in combining carbon fiber components, becoming the important keys in the roadster or naked bike modifications. This time, Jakus pinned seven components of carbon fiber materials in his motorcycle custom. The seven components it covers, front fenders, number plates in front and rear, two left and right plates, the fuel tank cover and headlamps.

A Triumph Speed Triple Custom named Type35 carrying a classy style, not pinning things that look complicated. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgXbN)

The use of carbon fiber materials, as for the fuel tank can reduce the weight of the motorcycle. The manufacturing process is fairly easy for a workshop which would have advanced processing carbon fiber. They do not take long to make the components of carbon fiber material.

The most noticeable changes are made on the ​​Speed Triple, presumably occurred on the rear sub frame is substituted with the shorter models are aligned with the rear lights and turn signal. However, the changes are not too extreme.

Jakus minimalist change showed that modifications should not change massively. Simply make your bike look different, attractive, and its looks can steal the focus of people on the street. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | JAKUSA DESIGN | MOTORCYCLE RAW | BIKEEXIF]

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Is this ancient animal the Unicorn inspiration source?

Unicorn is a mythical creature with a horse-shaped with single horn on his forehead. Which makes it special, the animal blood was said to be a panacea and is able to make a person live forever. Whether the unicorn is real or mythical mere, not known for sure.

However, recently scientists have discovered fossils of animals were remarkably similar appearance with the Unicorn. The fossilized bones thought to have come from a giant rhinoceros-like creature that died 350 thousand years ago.

The Siberian rhinoceros, Elasmotherium sibiricum (artist's impression pictured), is nicknamed the Siberian Unicorn due to the huge horn it is thought to have had on its head. Scientists previously thought it died out 350,000 years ago, but a new discovery suggests they survived in some areas until 26,000 years ago. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgbVv)

As quoted by the Daily Mail on Wednesday, March 23, 2016, the scientists say that species named Elasmotherium sibiricum was still alive in some regions in Kazakhstan until about 26 thousand years ago.

That's when the animals could be the size of a mammoth and weighs 5 tons that was known by humans. Early humans began to spread to Asia more than 50 thousand years ago and moved to Siberia at least 35 thousand years ago.

Researchers discovered the fossils alongside those of other prehistoric mammals including bison and mammoths close to the village of Kozhamazhar in Pavlodar Priirtysh, north east Kazakhstan (pictured). (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgbVv)

"It's probably the area south of Western Siberia a refuge, so this is where the rhino longest preserved compared to other places," said Dr. Andrei Shpanski, a paleontology experts of Tomsk State University, as well as leader of the study. He added that there is another possibility, that these animals migrate and live temporarily in the southern region more broadly.

The researchers analysed the skull fragments of a Siberian rhinoceros, Elasmotherium sibircum, found in the Pavlodar Priirtysh region Kazakhstan. Carbon dating revealed the fossil was just a little over 26,000 years old, meaning the animal had outlived others of its species by more than 320,000 years. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgbVv)

The researchers found fragments of a giant Siberian rhinoceros skulls near the village Kozhamazhar, Priirtysh Pavlodar region, in northeast Kazakhstan. The findings coincided with the relics of prehistoric bison and mammoths.

Although no horns have been found for
Elasmotherium sibircum, scientists have 
inferred they had them from skulls (horn 
reconstruction pictured at the Natural 
History Museum London). (Picture from:  
http://adf.ly/1YgbVv)

Elasmotherium sibircum allegedly spread widely in Siberia after appeared about 2.6 million years ago and the available evidence leads to the expectation that most of these species went extinct about 350 thousand years ago.

Their home is a vast region stretching from the River Don near Voronezh in Russia to the east side of Kazakhstan today. Fossilized relics show that the animal can reach a length of about 4.6 meters and a height of more than 2 meters.

Thus, this animal is one of the largest rhino ever lived. The size is larger than the woolly rhinoceros thought to have lived in the same timeframe.

Although no horn ever found, the research on the skull showed a bony lump that is suspected to be cornerstone of the keratin horn, similar to that of modern African rhino. And the horn allegedly could reach up to 90 cm in diameter with a length of several meters.

Paleontologists have also explained how they had heard stories about the Tatars in Siberia about the enormous horned unicorn that require the drag board to move. It could be Elasmotherium sibircum trigger a fairy tale about a unicorn. Animals were allegedly using the horns magnitude to drive the competitors and to remove snow from shrubs in the winter. It also has long legs so that it can run like a horse and not just forward ducking like a modern rhinoceros.

By using radio carbon dating, Dr. Shpanski and his colleagues found that the age of the parts of the skull was about 26,038 years old, and still quite young. Skull quite durable with some parts of cracks, but no signs have been worn. "Most likely, it is the males that are very large. The size of this rhino is the largest of which is in the writings, and the proportion is typical," said Dr. Shpanski.

The size comparison between Sibiricum Elasmotherium with modern humans and rhinos. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgcDc)

He added that the possibility of climate change in Siberia which resulted in many Elasmotherium sibircum dead, although local conditions in Kazakhstan allows the majority to survive.

This is not the first time the scientists find a final settlement of the ice age species suspected had long been extinct. Woolly mammoths thought to be extinct 12,000 years ago, but there are some that can last up to about 4,500 years ago on the island of Wrangle, Arctic sea, just north of Russia.

Dr. Shpanski said, "Our research customize understanding of the environmental conditions in the geological in general. Understanding of the past allows us to make more accurate predictions about natural processes in the future - still about climate change." *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | DAILYMAIL]

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Honda CB1100 Café Racer Concept revealed

Honda CB1100 in the form of CB Concept has shown the first time at the Tokyo Motor Show last year. Now the renowned Japanese motorcycle manufacturers have recast in the Osaka Motor Show 2016 as CB1100 Concept Type II.

The first of Honda CB1100 Concept appeared in the Tokyo Motor Show 2015. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgUqR)

Based on the similar concept with the CB concept last year, but with the choice of café racer style is on the rise. Meaning, the concept is using a machine of CB1100, but the tank is a new form, LED headlights, and a retro style on other components.

Honda CB1100 Type II Concept with cafe racer style shown at the Osaka Motor Show 2016. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgUGN)

By using an inline 4-cylinder engine that has a capacity of 1,140 cc and mated to five-speed transmission system. The maximum power engine that uses oil cooler reached 88.4 hp at 7,500 rpm and torque of 93 Nm at 5,000 rpm

In Type II as well, vintage-style rims size of 17 inches and the front forks use a slender whitewashed gold to support the retro impression. The brake system uses Brembo radial mount products, while the rear seem to use the Ohlins shockabsorber with tubes.

Engine view of Honda CB1100 Type II Concept with cafe racer style. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgUqR)

Here are several pictures of Honda CB1100 Type II Concept. (All pictures taken from: http://adf.ly/1YgUqR)

Overall style looks like match with today trends, with a single seat tipped bees, a pair of Over Racing exhausts, new side panels and plain aluminum tank. Then there's the rear view mirror at the end of the handlebars, and some carbon fiber components such as the heel protectors, and cover the air filter box, which helped complete the change.

Matter of whether it will be produced, possibly as Triumph trail with the same model, Thruxton R were sold in the market could tempt Honda to produce this concept model. So if Honda tried their luck, then the chances become clear. If not yet, at least it will open the market for aftermarket manufacturers to meet the demand for components café racer that will increase. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | MOTORCYCLE | VISORDOWN]

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Scientists have designed smaller, cheaper Urine Fuel Cells to generated electricity

Although known as residual substances produced by the body, urine proved to have a number of benefits. For example, In agriculture, the urine can be used as fertilizer that can nourish plants. Some people also believe that the urine can be used as medicine.

Recently discovered another benefit of urine. As quoted from Science Daily and Green Optimistic on Thursday, March 17, 2016, a study revealed that the urine can be converted into electricity.

Scientists have designed a smaller, cheaper Urine Fuel Cells to generated electricity. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgHQv)

A new type of Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC), an electricity generation systems that utilize bacterial interactions found in nature, can turn urine into electricity at a rate that is unprecedented. The device has been designed at the University of Bath, Queen Mary University of London, and Bristol Robotics Laboratory.

"The world produces in large numbers of urine and we can take advantage of the waste by using the MFC, it can revolutionize the way we make electricity," said the study author from the University of Bath, Dr. Mirella Di Lorenzo. So far, it has been a lot of researchs on how to generate electricity from urine using a variety of methods, but the results were not effective and need much funds.

Illustration of Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC). (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgHQv)

Urine Fuel Cell, do not use expensive materials such as platinum, but it uses carbon fiber and titanium wire. To make more power and speed up its work, researchers use catalysts of glucose and albumin, a protein extracted from egg whites. Interestingly, these materials can be found on food waste, other sources of bioenergy.

In speeding up the reaction and produce more power, scientists use their innovative ideas. They increase the electricity production up to ten times by doubling the length of the electrons from the original model.

A new design of microbial fuel cell uses urine and overcomes two limitations of standard microbial fuel cells: their cost and low power production. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1YgHd2)

Then, they accumulate three MFC and earn ten times more energy. The researchers also found a new Fuel Cells suitable for deployment in rural or remote areas, or in developing countries.

"MFC can be the main source of energy in developing countries, especially in poor and rural areas," said the study's lead author, Jon Chouler, from the University of Bath.

"Our new design is more cheap and powerful than traditional models. The devices that can generate electricity from urine can make a real difference by producing sustainable energy from waste," he added. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | SCIENCEDAILY]

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