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🌿 International Conference “Anti-Aging: Science and Practice of Healthy Longevity” —

October 21–22, 2025 (Online) 🌿

Dear colleagues and friends.

We are pleased to invite you to the International Scientific Conference “Anti-Aging: Science and Practice of Healthy Longevity”, organized by the Gerontology Section of the Moscow Society of Naturalists (MOIP) at Lomonosov Moscow State University, with the support of the Gerontology Society of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (URAN).

📅 Dates: October 21–22, 2025 🕛 Time: 12:00–16:00 (Moscow time) đŸ’» Format: Online participation (free of charge) đŸ—Łïž Working language: Russian.

đŸ”č October 21 — “Hypoxic Training (Therapy): Modern Aspects of Healthy Longevity Medicine” đŸ”č October 22 — “Fundamental and Clinical Gerontology as the Basis of Healthy Longevity Medicine”

The conference will feature leading scientists from Russia, Germany, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and other countries. Topics include: ‱ Hypoxic therapy and adaptive mechanisms; ‱ Geroprotection and the biology of aging; ‱ Epigenetic reprogramming and cellular rejuvenation; ‱ Applied aspects of active and healthy longevity.

🔗 Connection links: ‱ Day 1 (October 21): https://my.mts-link.ru/j/38630705/5798697072

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‘Jump-scare’ science: Study elucidates how the brain responds to fear

In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors—wide-eyed and heart racing—to instinctively freeze and flee.

Evolutionarily speaking, this “innate response” is key to survival, helping a wide variety of animal species escape predators. But when stuck in overdrive it can cause problems for humans.

A University of Colorado Boulder research team has identified a novel brain circuit responsible for orchestrating this threat response. Known as the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN), this dense cluster of specialized neurons not only jump-starts that freeze-and-flee reaction, but dials it down when animals learn there’s no real danger.

SCP-239: The Child Who Can Rewrite Reality | The Science and Ethics of a Sleeping God

Can a child’s imagination alter the laws of physics? In this speculative science essay, we explore SCP-239, “The Witch Child” — a sleeping eight-year-old whose mind can reshape matter, rewrite probability, and collapse reality itself.

We examine how the SCP Foundation’s containment procedures—from telekill alloys to induced comas—reflect humanity’s struggle to contain a consciousness powerful enough to bend the universe. Through philosophy, ethics, and quantum speculation, this essay asks:
What happens when belief becomes a force of nature?

🎓 About the Series.
This video is part of our Speculative Science series, where we analyze anomalous phenomena through physics, cognitive science, and ethics.

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Should SCP-239 remain asleep forever, or does humanity have a moral duty to understand her?

#SCP239 #SpeculativeScience #TheWitchChild #SCPFoundation #ScienceFiction #Philosophy #AIExplained #Ethics #SciFiEssay #LoreExplained

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USTC Realizes Human Near-Infrared Color Vision via Contact Lens Technology-University of Science and Technology of China

A research team led by Prof. XUE Tian and Prof. MA Yuqian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with multiple research groups, has successfully enabled human near-infrared (NIR) spatiotemporal color vision through upconversion contact lenses (UCLs). The study was published online in Cell on May 22, 2025 (EST), and was featured in a News release by Cell Press.

The Door That Opens to Another Universe: The True Science Behind SCP-4357 “Slimelord”

What if a simple apartment door in Boston opened into another universe?
SCP-4357, also known as “Slimelord,” is one of the strangest and most human anomalies ever recorded — a hyperspatial discontinuity leading to a world of intelligent slug-like beings with philosophy, humor, and heartbreak.

In this speculative science essay, we explore what SCP-4357 means for physics, biology, and the idea of consciousness itself. How could life evolve intelligence in a sulfur-rich world? Why do these beings mirror human culture so closely? And what happens when curiosity crosses the line into exploitation?

Join us as we break down the science, ethics, and wonder behind one of the SCP Foundation’s most thought-provoking entries.

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🌌 Because somewhere out there, even the slugs have opinions on Kant.

SCP-022 Explained: The Morgue That Breaks Science (Speculative Science Deep Dive)

SCP 22, known as The Morgue, is one of the most chilling and mysterious anomalies in the SCP Foundation archives. A simple hospital basement in Great Britain became the stage for an impossible phenomenon: cadavers rising without life, objects vanishing into nowhere, and a morgue that behaves less like a room and more like a machine.

In this speculative science deep dive, we explore SCP 22 through the lenses of biology, physics, and consciousness. Could these reanimated cadavers be powered by quantum vacuum energy? Is the morgue recycling entropy across dimensions? Or is it a misunderstood mechanism that uses humans as raw material for unknown purposes?

This essay-video blends science, philosophy, and horror to uncover the enigma of SCP 022.

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