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Mar 23, 2017
Scientists may have found a way to make old blood stem cells act young again
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Scientists in Germany have discovered a protein that can prompt the body’s blood stem cells to act young again, potentially reversing some of the bad aspects of the aging process.
The suggestion that young blood may be the key to reversing some of the negative aspects of aging sounds like the setup to a horror movie. In reality, however, it refers to some groundbreaking work being carried out by scientists at the University of Ulm in Germany.
They’ve been examining the ways that old blood can be made young again, and they hypothesize that it might help fight some of the effects of aging. To achieve this, they’ve discovered a protein capable of boosting blood stem cells, which prompt them to act like the stem cells of younger people.
Mar 23, 2017
Gravitational wave kicks monster black hole out of galactic core
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, physics
Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.
Though there have been several other suspected, similarly booted black holes elsewhere, none has been confirmed so far. Astronomers think this object, detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, is a very strong case. Weighing more than 1 billion suns, the rogue black hole is the most massive black hole ever detected to have been kicked out of its central home.
Researchers estimate that it took the equivalent energy of 100 million supernovas exploding simultaneously to jettison the black hole. The most plausible explanation for this propulsive energy is that the monster object was given a kick by gravitational waves unleashed by the merger of two hefty black holes at the center of the host galaxy.
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Mar 23, 2017
Scientists unveil a giant leap for anti-aging
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, space travel
I was under the impression that human trials were already underway, but this says they will start in 6 months.
UNSW researchers have made a discovery that could lead to a revolutionary drug that actually reverses ageing, improves DNA repair and could even help NASA get its astronauts to Mars.
In a paper published in Science today, the team identifies a critical step in the molecular process that allows cells to repair damaged DNA.
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Mar 23, 2017
One in Four Think Robots Would do a Better Job Than Human Politicians, Survey of U.K. Consumers Finds
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: robotics/AI, transhumanism
Check out this new Newsweek story: http://www.newsweek.com/robot-politicians-ai-artificial-inte…2724?rx=us #transhumanism
A quarter of the 2,000 survey participants said robots would do a better job than humans.
Mar 23, 2017
Dime-Size Thrusters Could Propel Satellites, Spacecraft
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: energy, internet, satellites
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A new propulsion engine with dime-size thrusters could be used to propel a host of spacecraft, from small satellites to crewed ships designed for interplanetary exploration.
The new propulsion engine, called Tile, could serve as an efficient and lightweight way to keep constellations of small satellites in orbit. Spaceflight companies — including OneWeb, Boeing and SpaceX — want to launch hundreds of thousands of these small satellites to provide broadband internet to everyone around the globe. And because several Tiles can be connected to produce more power, the engine has the potential to propel astronauts to Mars, according to Accion Systems, the company that designed Tile.
“Our technology starts on a nanometer scale, and then we can array that and scale that up to serve satellites,” said Natalya Bailey, CEO of Accion Systems. Bailey described the propulsion engine to an audience here at the New Space Age Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management on March 11. [Superfast Spacecraft Propulsion Concepts (Images)].
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Mar 23, 2017
First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging? It May Be So
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Should these results prove to be accurate, it means that scientists have actually managed to create a way to reverse aging.
Mar 23, 2017
Mysterious equipment spotted on SpaceX drone ship at Port Canaveral
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: drones, robotics/AI, space travel
Stephen Marr had his suspicions when he photographed a mysterious piece of equipment atop SpaceX’s drone ship at Port Canaveral on Monday.
“I knew there was something different there,” Marr, 34, said.
So he did what any lover of space and social media would do: He posted it online. Reddit users quickly propelled Marr’s clear, high-resolution photo to the top of the website’s SpaceX community and so began discussion that the object was likely a highly anticipated robot that would interact with Falcon 9 first stages.
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Mar 23, 2017
Luna, the Most Human AI Prototype to Date, Wasn’t Built By a Tech Giant
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: robotics/AI
This AI hates racism, retorts wittily when sexually harassed, dreams of being superintelligent, and finds Siri’s conversational skills to be decidedly below her own.
Mar 22, 2017
This pretty e-paper smart calendar is everything I want in a gadget
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: mobile phones
A designer named Kosho Tsuboi has conceived a beautiful gadget idea. His product, the Magic Calendar, is an e-paper calendar that syncs with a smartphone to display your schedule. The project is associated with Google’s Android Experiments, which appears to be a Japanese program in which creators can pitch ideas for Android-centered gadgets. In this case, the calendar relies on a custom Android app, and, judging off the below video, uses Google Calendar for syncing.