The prize is worth 10 million Swedish krona (about $1.1 million) and half goes to Penrose, with Genzel and Ghez sharing the other half of the prize.
The Nobel Committee cites Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, and Genzel and Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”.
Hours before his 13th birthday, Jackson Oswalt (USA) fused together two deuterium atoms using a reactor he had built in the playroom of his family home in Memphis, Tennessee.
This could only mean one thing. Jackson officially became the world’s youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion.
His impressive achievement was verified by Fusor.net, The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, and confirmed by fusion researcher Richard Hull, who maintains a list of amateur scientists who have achieved fusion at home.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Coding School is collaborating with IBM Quantum to offer a first-of-its-kind quantum computing course for 5,000 high school students and above, designed to make quantum education globally accessible and to provide high-quality virtual STEM education. To ensure an equitable future quantum workforce, the course is free. Students can apply here.
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Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Will Travers OBE, President of the Born Free Foundation, Born Free USA and Species Survival Network.
Ira Pastor Comments:
The Born Free Foundation is an international wildlife charity that campaigns to “Keep Wildlife in the Wild.”
Founded by English actors and wildlife campaigners Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, its mission is to protect wild animals in their natural habitat, campaigns against the keeping of wild animals in captivity, and rescues wild animals in need. It also promotes compassionate conservation, which takes into account the welfare of individual animals in conservation initiatives.
Microsoft’s Teams had a very busy September adding a host of new features. Now, the firm is looking to improve the performance of its Teams service as it continues in the battle to beat Zoom in the video conferencing space.
In an update detailing the features added in September, Microsoft explained how it was trying to improve Teams’ performance as a large proportion of the workforce continue to work from home.
Microsoft says it’s working to ensure businesses and schools “have a high-performance experience that scales across their devices and levels of internet connectivity.”
TODAY (Oct 4th) the USTP is holding a special pre-RAADFest Enlightenment Salon at 7 a.m. PST / 10 am EST with Gabor Kiss, CEO of ENVIENTA, to discuss ways to empower contributors to open-source projects and accelerate development of practical transhumanist technologies.
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Alexandre Kalache, President of the International Longevity Centre-Brazil (ILC-Brazil).
Ira Pastor Comments:
As we continue our virtual road-trip around the globe per the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Age Friendly Cities Global Movement, during the WHO defined “Decade of Healthy Aging”, we are headed down to the southern hemisphere to the country of Brazil.
Beyond 2030 with Gennady Stolyarov II of the United States Transhumanist Party: Growing a Mainstream Transhumanist Movement In “2030: Beyond the Film” Direct…Gennady Stolyarov II: Growing a Mainstream Transhumanist Movement.
– Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions (TAFFD’s) is a global nongovernmental organization registered in the USA that serves as a futuristic think tank endeavored to the education and engagement urgency to help people understand the benefits and challenges of technology applied to high-impact industries and disciplines across the world.
We help prepare people’s minds by talking about the current advantages of this new paradigm and what the future entails using a trans-disciplinary approach that is transposed through the TAFFD’s Quarterly Journal, TAFFD’s annual Magazine, TAFFD’s International/Local Conferencing, TAFFD’s Awards, and TAFFD’s Teens divisions of our organization.
TAFFD’s is grateful & honored to be supported/endorsed by the Lifeboat Foundation, USTP, International Longevity Alliance, Open Source Mode, Emerge, Aubrey de Grey, Catherine Demetriades and by many people who wish to change the world through the proper use of technology.
LEAF president Keith Comito explains the story of Lifespan.io — a crowdsourcing platform and community to support biomedical research aimed at extending healthy human lifespan. ▼▼ More info and links below ▼▼
THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU, WE HAVE: ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ► Crowdfunded over $400,000 for credible research projects addressing the root causes of aging ► Worked with amazing channels like @Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell and @Life Noggin on videos to inform and engage the public in our work. ► Built up the most trafficked news outlet and online community on the subject of aging research, with over 150,000 members across various platforms and social media: https://www.lifespan.io/news ► Created a monthly livestreamed Journal Club to explain the latest research to you in real time: https://www.lifespan.io/journalclub ► Began to host our flagship Ending Age-Related Diseases annual conference in New York City, bringing together researchers, investors, regulators, press, and the public: https://www.lifespan.io/conference ► Created the premier network of investors focused on supporting this work, the Longevity Investor Network, which holds monthly pitch meetings to review the most promising and credible up-and-coming companies in the field: https://www.lifespan.io/investor ► Built powerful online tools, such as our Rejuvenation Roadmap, which shows you at glance the latest updates in the field: https://www.lifespan.io/roadmap ► Began to create educational video content, such as our LifeXtenShow: https://www.lifespan.io/x10