Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity
Toggle light / dark theme

Blog – Page 3238

Taiwan was on high alert after two Russian warships entered its waters. Taiwan is used to incursions by China, not Russia. It marks a new flare-up in East Asia. Moscow then doubled down by releasing footage of a military drill in the Sea of Japan. East Asia is becoming a powder keg.

The region already deals with tensions between North Korea, South Korea & Japan. And now the US is trying to send a message to Pyongyang by having its largest nuclear submarine visit South Korea.

Firstpost | world news | vantage.

#firstpost #vantageonfirstpost #worldnews.

Continue reading “Russian Ships Enter Taiwan’s Territory: New Escalation in East Asia? | Vantage with Palki Sharma” | >

If you thought that putting a rifle on a robotic dog was daft enough, what about one with an actual flamethrower on its back? Not just a concept, Throwflame is taking preorders for its Thermonator flamethrower-wielding quadruped robot for those who feel their life would be incomplete without one.

As robotic dogs become more sophisticated, they’ve demonstrated any number of new capabilities. They can avoid obstacles, they can handle jerking blows that you’d expect to knock them down, they herd sheep, and when they have a moment to themselves they can do cute little dances.

However, the question that’s apparently been at the forefront of some people’s mind has been, when are they going to start running around with flamethrowers?

Read more | >

It’s official. There’s something out there shaking the stars in a way that can no longer be ascribed to chance.

Several teams around the world have independently found a signal in the timing of flashing stars called pulsars that points to giant, long-wavelength gravitational waves rolling through the galaxy. It’s not quite a detection of those gravitational waves yet – but there is more than a 99 percent chance that what we’re looking at is something significant.

Teams in Australia, the US, Europe, China, and India are releasing their results simultaneously in a slew of papers.

Read more | >

In less time than it takes to snap your fingers, the universe flashed into existence.

Cosmogenesis is the breathtaking story of how this happened. It includes, in its later moments, the creation of the primordial elements and depicts their organization by dark matter and gravity into vast cosmic structures on the largest scales. Meanwhile, on smaller scales, local gravitational collapse created stars and, later, planets.

The prelude to this story began with a major cosmological event: inflation. Between 10-36 and 10-34 seconds after the Big Bang, the physical scale of our universe doubled in size more than 50 times, so that by today, it is trillions of times larger than the 14 billion-light-year extent we can observe.

Read more | >

A new type of macrophage recently identified in atherosclerotic lesions could provide a missing link in understanding the inflammatory origins of the common yet fatal condition.

Atherosclerosis is a common condition in which an accumulation of fat, named plaque, builds up on the innermost walls of arteries, causing them to become narrow and restrict the blood flow to such as the heart and the brain. It can be life-threatening if untreated—narrow arteries increase the risk of a blockage and lead to a or stroke.

Macrophages are immune cells that play essential roles in organ homeostasis as well as infection and injury. Key to their success is the ability to alter their transcriptional patterns of gene expression to perform highly-specialized roles in specific organs and tissues. However, their prominent role means that when things go wrong, macrophages can be impactful drivers of disease.

Read more | >

In the past three years, the workplace has changed dramatically.

According to a recent McKinsey survey, 98 million American workers now have the option to perform their jobs remotely. And 77 percent of respondents to a recent Deloitte survey cited greater workplace flexibility as a top reason to switch jobs.

Yet the exact same proportion, 77%, told Deloitte they have felt burnout at their current job. Another study found that about half of the fulltime employees surveyed feel disconnected from their coworkers.

Read more | >