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Jul 5, 2019

Mars colony in artificial, domed canyon

Posted by in category: space

Design of what could be a human colony in a narrow, artificial, domed canyon on Mars by LAVA architects.

Jul 5, 2019

Five creepy ways billionaires are investing in immortality

Posted by in categories: finance, space travel

When they aren’t investing in space shuttles and sprawling tech campuses, the super-rich are looking at mind-blowing methods to increase their lifespan.

Analysis by commercial finance experts ABC Finance has revealed some of the strangest and most extravagant approaches billionaires have turned to in their quest for immortality.

Jul 4, 2019

An Itty-Bitty Robot That Lifts Off Like a Sci-Fi Spaceship

Posted by in categories: particle physics, robotics/AI, space travel, sustainability

Credit where credit is due: Evolution has invented a galaxy of clever adaptations, from fish that swim up sea cucumber butts and eat their gonads, to parasites that mind-control their hosts in wildly complex ways. But it’s never dreamed up ion propulsion, a fantastical new way to power robots by accelerating ions instead of burning fuel or spinning rotors. The technology is in very early development, but it could lead to machines that fly like nothing that’s come before them.

You may have heard of ion propulsion in the context of spacecraft, but this application is a bit different. Most solar-powered ion spacecraft bombard xenon atoms with electrons, producing positively charged xenon ions that then rush toward a negatively charged grid, which accelerates the ions into space. The resulting thrust is piddling compared to traditional engines, and that’s OK—the spacecraft is floating through the vacuum of space, so the shower of ions accelerate the aircraft bit by bit.

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Jul 4, 2019

Canada is following Europe and banning single-use plastics

Posted by in category: futurism

Coming into effect as early as 2021.

Jul 4, 2019

Smarter Fertilizers Can Reduce Environmental Contamination

Posted by in category: futurism

New formulations deliver nourishment on demand.

  • By Jeff Carbeck on July 1, 2019

Jul 4, 2019

Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the allowed orbits of its electrons. That fingerprint enables scientists to identify an atom wherever it is found. A hydrogen atom in outer space absorbs light at the same energies as one on Earth.

Jul 4, 2019

Episode two of this series explores the dawn of the era of a science-based search for truth, in particular, the study of life and the microscopic cells that form our bodies

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, science

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With that basic research, mankind found the first major clue to the origins of aging and death. They discovered that some cells in our bodies that may never die. These “immortal cells” and the philosophical shift in thinking they engendered, will likely change medicine as we know it.

Jul 4, 2019

Neutral evolution shapes lifespan and aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, genetics, life extension

Different African killifish species vary extensively in their lifespans—from just a few months to several years. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne investigated how different lifespans have evolved in nature and discovered a fundamental mechanism by which detrimental mutations accumulate in the genome causing fish to age fast and become short-lived. In humans, mutations accumulate mainly in the genes that are active in old age.

Jul 4, 2019

Nikola Tesla Built a Giant Tower to Send Wireless Electricity Around the World

Posted by in category: futurism

Ultimately, things didn’t go as he had planned.

Jul 4, 2019

Gorgeous Footage of a Camouflaged Lichen Katydid Delicately Walking Along Its Matching Branch

Posted by in category: futurism

Talented wildlife photographer David Weiller has captured absolutely gorgeous footage of a beautiful markia hystrix, better known as a lichen katydid as it delicately walked along the branch of a tree covered in the distinctive white filamentous lichen for which the graceful insect was named. The insect-focused blog Nature and Moretells has more information on these beautiful creatures.

Katydids comprise a diverse group of insects particularly well adapted to survival in rainforest because of their exceptional camouflage. Most katydids are well camouflaged with brown or leaflike green markings. The Lichen Katydid, Markia hystrix (Orthoptera – Tettigoniidae), however, has one of the most incredible camouflages of all. It resembles the pale greenish-white lichens on which it lives in rainforest treetops. Not only does the color match the lichens, but the body and legs have a bizarre assortment of spines and points that blend well with lichens, in fact, so well that this insect is extremely difficult for predator to find.

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