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Dec 4, 2015

‘Gene repair’ could be tested on people in 2017

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Human trials of Crispr editing are being proposed by Massachusetts-based start-up Editas Medicine to treat a rare form of blindness knwon as Leber congenital amaurosis.

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Dec 4, 2015

Here’s a Peek at the First Sodium-ion Rechargeable Battery

Posted by in categories: energy, materials

Ubiquitous sodium could replace rare lithium in rechargeable batteries, French researchers show. And it could make batteries A LOT cheaper.


Will sodium replace lithium as the material of choice for rechargeable batteries?

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Dec 4, 2015

More information discovered about possible ‘alien’ radio signals

Posted by in category: alien life

New data about mysterious mathematical signals from deep space called ‘fast radio bursts’ offer new clues about their origin.

By: Bryan Nelson

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Dec 4, 2015

Leonardo da Vinci robot wows Tokyo crowd

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Watch the video Leonardo da Vinci robot wows Tokyo crowd on Yahoo News. Disaster relief humanoids on display at the International Robot Exhibition 2015, but Leonardo da Vinci steals the show. Jim Drury reports.

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Dec 4, 2015

The Universe is Dying? Now What?

Posted by in category: space

That great void of space is growing quieter as the universe dies — but how long do we have before The End?

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Dec 4, 2015

Evidence that our Sun could release ‘superflares’ 1000x greater than previously recorded

Posted by in categories: physics, space

Oh, joy.


What the Sun might look like if it were to produce a superflare. A large flaring coronal loop structure is shown towering over a solar active region. (credit: University of Warwick/Ronald Warmington)

Astrophysicists have discovered a stellar “superflare” on a star observed by NASA’s Kepler space telescope with wave patterns similar to those that have been observed in the Sun’s solar flares. (Superflares are flares that are thousands of times more powerful than those ever recorded on the Sun, and are frequently observed on some stars.)

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Dec 4, 2015

The Year We Decided to Live Forever

Posted by in category: life extension

In 2015, tech billionaires pursued anti-aging and cheating death like never before.

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Dec 4, 2015

Geneticists Are Concerned Transhumanists Will Use CRISPR on Themselves

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, transhumanism

A informative article by Vice Motherboard:


The biggest debate at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing is where to draw the line between “medical treatment” and “body enhancement.”

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Dec 4, 2015

Stanford scientists made plastic skin that can actually feel

Posted by in category: materials

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Dec 4, 2015

Controversial experiment sees no evidence that the universe is a hologram

Posted by in category: space

But originators of “holographic principle” had argued that the test was invalid.

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