Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don’t need it you will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn’t possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer, coronavirus, and Alzheimer’s. Read news and articles about Rosetta.
   
  Considering the poor preparation by world governments for a lethal bioweapon attack, nongovernmental approaches like this may save millions of lives! As our Ray Kurzweil says, “There are tens of thousands who have the knowledge and tools today to create and release a destructive biological virus.”
   
  Join our [email protected] team and change the world!

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  Our ScientificFreedomShield program strives to protect scientists from obstacles that would prevent latter day Max Plancks from completing their research.

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  Dante S. Lauretta joins our Space Settlement Board.
   
  Dante is Principal Investigator of OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), a NASA asteroid study and sample return mission.

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  Gemma Calvert, who established the world’s first applied neuroimaging group, joins our Neuroscience Board.

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  Read Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 3001: Don’t Panic! which contains the Arthur C. Clarke interview by our José Luis Cordeiro.
   
  Arthur C. Clarke’s final novel, The Last Theorem, coauthored with our Frederik Pohl, was just released!

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  IBM, Microsoft, and Sun employees — learn how you can get your membership fees and donations to Lifeboat Foundation matched by your employer! (This includes retired IBM employees as well!)

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  Watch Nokia Morph Concept. Morph is a concept demonstrating some of the possibilities nanotechnologies might enable in future communication devices.
   
  Morph can sense its environment, is energy harvesting, and self cleaning. Morph is a flexible two-piece device that can adapt its shape to different use modes. Nanotechnology enables us to have adaptive materials yet rigid forms on demand.

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  Jill Tarter joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. Jill is known for her work on the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). She holds the Emeritus and Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute and is the former director of the Center for SETI Research and has been with SETI since 1984.
   
  Jill’s astronomical work is illustrated in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact. In the film version of Contact, the protagonist Ellie Arroway is played by Jodie Foster. Jill conversed with the actress for months before and during filming, and Arroway was largely based on her work.

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  Alper Bozkurt, who is developing cyborg cockroaches to be used as emergency responders, joins our Engineering Board.

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  Alan Stern joins our Space Settlement Board. Alan is principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto among his various accomplishments which include being named to Time 100's list of most influential people.

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  Learn that Moore’s Law has been replaced by a Virtual Moore’s Law that is accelerating and bringing the Singularity with it!

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  The RPG Eclipse Phase includes the “Singularity Foundation” and “Lifeboat Institute” as player factions. Learn more about this game!