Futurism – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Baboons With Pig Hearts Bring Us Closer to Human-Pig Transplants

Posted by Paul Battista in biotech/medical, futurism

Apr 2
2019

We’re headed toward a future in which anyone who needs a new heart gets one.

Try Not to Laugh

Posted by Quinn Sena in futurism

Apr 1
2019

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This one’s a hoot 😂.

Julie Hill to Ground Control: An OC icon will be one of the first astrotourists

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism

Apr 1
2019

Entrepreneur Julie Hill broke through the glass ceiling. Now she wants to break through the stratosphere.

Mysterious 4,000-year-old lost city discovered

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

Apr 1
2019

A team of French archaeologists has located the remains of a lost ancient city in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Over the course of six excavations between 2012 and 2018, researchers uncovered the ancient city at Kunara, near the Zagros mountains. Previously, experts had been prevented from exploring the site, near the modern city of Sulaymaniyah, by Saddam Hussein’s regime and conflicts in the region.

The discovery is described in the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) journal.

Vector

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism

Apr 1
2019

Cholera is spreading in Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

Mar 30
2019

The infection can kill within hours.

Woman with ‘mutant’ gene who feels no pain and heals without scarring discovered by scientists

Posted by Quinn Sena in futurism

Mar 30
2019

She reported numerous burns and cuts without pain, often smelling her burning flesh before noticing any injury.

What it’s really like to ‘freeze yourself’ when you die

Posted by Paul Battista in futurism

Mar 30
2019

What happens when you get cryonically frozen after death, according to the world’s leading cryonic preservation company.

The Language Of Calculus

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

Mar 29
2019

Mathematician Steven Strogatz argues that “humans have used calculus to remake the world.”

ID-Cap System uses tiny ingestible pill sensors to monitor patients

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, futurism

Mar 28
2019

In the future, some commonly prescribed medication may have tiny trackers built into each capsule that monitor patients who take them. The technology is part of the ID-Cap system created by etectRx, a Florida company. The system has been submitted to the FDA for review and will undergo a 90-day study with Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Fenway Institute.