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Jul 5, 2017
Billionaire Fortress Investor: Cryptocurrencies Will Be Worth $5 Trillion by 2022
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: cryptocurrencies
Jul 5, 2017
Building Circuits Without Touching Them: Watch Carbon Nanotubes Self-Assemble
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: nanotechnology
Through Teslaphoresis, nanotubes can be directed to assemble themselves into wires within this force field, making it possible to build circuits without physical contact.
Scientists from Rice University found a way to conduct electricity without making physical contact between the circuit and the energy source. Using a Tesla coil’s antenna to project a gradient high-voltage forcefield into air, they were able to polarize carbon nanotubes within this Teslaphoretic (TEP) field, which then spring out like webs to assemble themselves into wires.
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Jul 5, 2017
This Camera Technology Doesn’t Have a Lens at All
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: electronics
Engineers have developed a type of camera that doesn’t require any lenses. They’re replacing curved glass with something that does the same job computationally – an ultra-thin optical phased array.
Researchers hope that the findings could turn a wide range of flat surfaces into image collectors.
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Jul 5, 2017
Staying positive — Alessandro Benetton
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: human trajectories
Jul 5, 2017
Scientists are questioning the idea that the human lifespan has a limit
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: life extension
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Jeanne Calment, the French woman who holds the record for the longest verified lifespan, died in 1997 at 122 years old.
Few people, of course, ever become supercentenarians — 110 years old or older — and even fewer hit 115.
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A new approach to treating diabetes sees gene therapy altering other cells in the pancreas so they produce insulin to replace the beta cells that are attacked by the immune system.
Progress has been made towards a potential solution to type 1 diabetes. The novel approach seeks to cure type 1 diabetes and to allow type 2 diabetics to stop using insulin shots by altering other cells in the pancreas so they produce insulin.
The research team based at UT Health San Antonio have found a way to increase the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin. The team are now moving towards starting clinical trials in the next three year but they are first testing the approach in larger sized animals, these studies are believed to cost an estimated $5 million.
Jul 5, 2017
NASA will use artificial intelligence for planetary defense
Posted by Brett Gallie II in category: robotics/AI
Jul 5, 2017
Rejuvenation is good for your loved ones
Posted by Nicola Bagalà in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
An article discussing the benefits of rejuvenation for your friends and family.
Rejuvenation biotechnologies would bring significant benefits to individuals, but these benefits would indirectly extend to their families and friends too. The ways they can benefit from the rejuvenation of others might be not so obvious, so let’s have a look at them together.
Nearly everyone knows how terrible it is to lose people dear to you. Maybe your grandparents died when you were a child, and that might have been your first encounter with death, at an age when you still couldn’t properly comprehend it. Maybe it happened suddenly, or maybe your grandparents have suffered for long before passing away. Eventually, the moment comes when you start thinking that the same fate awaits your parents, your siblings, your friends. Rejuvenation would spare you seeing your elderly relatives and friends wilt away, suffer and die, because none of that would happen to them. Of course, rejuvenation would spare this pain to your friends and relatives too. Your children and grandchildren would never have to see you become sicker and sicker as you age, and would never—in principle—have to bury you. Today, being 80 means you often have to attend the funeral of a dear friend who passed away. People who have been important parts of your life just keep dying.
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