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Jan 22, 2024

Earth’s water might have come from ancient space rocks, meteorite discovery suggests

Posted by in category: space

Water might’ve existed in the building blocks of our world.

Jan 22, 2024

Harvard Scientists Discover Surprising Hidden Catalyst in Human Brain Evolution

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, food, neuroscience

The study hypothesizes that ‘pre-digested’ foods contributed to the development of larger brains. The large, capable human brain is a marvel of evolution, but how it evolved from a smaller primate brain into the creative, complex organ of today is a mystery. Scientists can pinpoint when our evolutionary ancestors evolved larger brains, which roughly tripled in size as human ancestors evolved from the bipedal primates known as Australopithecines.

Jan 22, 2024

New cause of neuron death in Alzheimer’s discovered

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Short, toxic RNAs kill brain cells and may allow Alzheimer’s to develop.

Jan 22, 2024

Earthquake of magnitude 7.1 strikes Kyrgyzstan-China border region; tremors felt in Delhi-NCR

Posted by in category: futurism

The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said.

Jan 22, 2024

Liquid RAM Flexes for Wearables, Robots, Implants

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, wearables

A non-volatile version could be on its way, too.

Jan 22, 2024

Research team develops new tools to improve pancreatic cancer patient care

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have used a unique precision medicine and artificial intelligence (AI) tool called the Molecular Twin Precision Oncology Platform to identify biomarkers that outperform the standard test for predicting pancreatic cancer survival. Their study, published in Nature Cancer, demonstrates the viability of a tool that could one day guide and improve treatment for all cancer patients.

“Molecular Twin, which we developed at Cedars-Sinai, can be used to study any tumor type, including , which is notoriously difficult to treat,” said Dan Theodorescu, MD, Ph.D., director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer and the PHASE ONE Foundation Distinguished Chair, and senior author of the study. “Using our Molecular Twin technology, we anticipate creating tests that can be used even in locations that lack access to advanced resources and technology, pairing patients with the most effective therapies and expanding the availability of precision medicine.”

Investigators used the Molecular Twin platform to analyze blood and tissue samples from 74 patients with the most common and most aggressive pancreatic cancer type, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The disease begins in the cells lining ducts that carry digestive enzymes from the pancreas to the small intestine.

Jan 22, 2024

The Tech Breakthrough That Is Bringing Us Closer to Immortality

Posted by in categories: innovation, life extension

We can live forever, but it’s nothing like what we imagined.

Jan 22, 2024

Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe

Posted by in category: space

Confounding and confusing.


As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to make sense of sparring values.

Jan 22, 2024

A brilliant trip back to the technological future

Posted by in category: futurism

Stanislaw Lem’s forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony.

By Simon Ings

Jan 22, 2024

Summa Technologiae

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

image„Summa Technologie is a „mother-essay from which most of Lem’s later essayistic books stem. It was written in times when most of the discussed issues – today sometimes quite obvious ones – belonged to the world of fantasy. The ambition behind this project still amazes, especially if we take into consideration that Lem tried to set up a secular edifice of knowledge, competing in its universalism with Saint Thomas Aquinas and his Summa Theologica.

At the same time the book rivals world futurology — in the domain of foreseeing future ways of science and technology. Current generation, interested in biotechnology and informatics, shall find in Lem’s “Summa” the project and prophecy of todays’ successes of these disciplines.

The English translation (University Of Minnesota Press, 2013) is the work of Joanna Zylinska, professor of new media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.