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Nov 11, 2015

First ‘porous liquid’ invented

Posted by in category: innovation

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast have made a major breakthrough by making a porous liquid — with the potential for a massive range of new technologies including ‘carbon capture’.

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Nov 11, 2015

Elon Musk and Sam Altman on Thinking for the Future

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Nov 11, 2015

Here’s why aliens might actually exist

Posted by in category: alien life

VIDEO: Not a question of if, but where?

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Nov 11, 2015

Mysterious grooves on this tiny moon point to almost certain death

Posted by in category: space

We’ve said it before: Mars’ moon Phobos is doomed. But a new study indicates it might be worse than we thought.

One of the most striking features we see on images of Phobos is the parallel sets of grooves on the moon’s surface.

They were originally thought to be fractures caused by an impact long ago. But scientists now say the grooves are early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon.

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Nov 11, 2015

David Eagleman: Can a Computer Simulate Consciousness?

Posted by in categories: computing, information science, neuroscience, space travel

Yes, conceivably. And if/when we achieve the levels of technology necessary for simulation, the universe will become our playground. Eagleman’s latest book is “The Brain: The Story of You” (http://goo.gl/2IgDRb).

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Nov 11, 2015

Billions in Change Official Film

Posted by in categories: education, food

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The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This film is the story about a group of doers, the elegantly simple inventions they have made to change the lives of billions of people, and the unconventional billionaire spearheading the project.

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Nov 11, 2015

Our Milky Way Galaxy Has a Mysterious ‘Great Dark Lane’

Posted by in category: space

Called the “Great Dark Lane” by the astronomers who announced it, the dusty road twists in front of the bulge of the galaxy. “For the first time, we could map this dust lane at large scales, because our new infrared maps cover the whole central region of the Milky Way,” Dante Minniti, a researcher at Universidad Andres Bello in Chile and lead author of a study describing the findings, told Space.com by email. “It is very difficult to mapthe structure of our galaxy because we are inside, and it is very large and covered with dust clouds that are opaque in the optical,” Minniti said.

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Nov 11, 2015

Newly Discovered Object Revives Speculation of Planet X

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We’re NEVER gonna hear the end of it now! wink


The likely-dwarf planet adds to the mounting evidence of a dark super Earth at the outer boundary of our solar system.

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Nov 11, 2015

The Future of Sex

Posted by in categories: futurism, sex

The future of sex is like the future of art: more immersion, more intensity, deeper subjectivity. Orgasms and mindgasms for all!

Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz.

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Nov 11, 2015

Sci-Fi Makes the World a Better Place

Posted by in category: futurism

The author of a new book argues that science and science fiction have made civilization more moral.

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