Lifeboat News: The Blog – Safeguarding Humanity

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Jul 31
2025

This Virus Doesn’t Make You Sick. It Makes You Stronger

A common plant virus awakens the immune system to fight cancer—and it’s grown using sunlight, soil, and science.

Jul 31
2025

Columbia Engineers Develop Radiation-Hardened Chips for the Large Hadron Collider

In one of the most extreme environments on Earth—the Large Hadron Collider—normal electronics fail almost instantly. But engineers at Columbia University have created custom microchips that not only survive the collider’s intense radiation but play a pivotal role in unlocking the secrets of the univ

Jul 31
2025

Harvard Just Collapsed a Quantum Computer Onto a Chip

Harvard engineers have built a chip-thin metasurface that replaces entire quantum optical setups.

Jul 31
2025

Fake Videos Just Got Scarier. Luckily, This AI Can Spot Them All

UC Riverside and Google built an AI that spots deepfakes—even without faces. By analyzing motion and background clues, it exposes fakes hiding in plain sight.

Jul 31
2025

Astronomers Finally Crack the Mystery of Cosmic X-Ray Blasts

The mysterious cosmic explosion has been traced to a massive stellar explosion. A global team of astrophysicists, led by researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Leicester (England), may have identified the origin of fast X-ray transients (FXTs), mysterious, fleeting bursts of

Jul 31
2025

NISAR Blasts Into Orbit: World’s Most Advanced Radar Satellite to Scan Earth’s Surface Every 12 Days

The NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite has launched to orbit Earth and scan it with dual radars, unlocking new data about natural disasters, environmental changes, and even infrastructure stability.