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Dec 13, 2022

Musk allegedly shadowbanned the Twitter account tracking his private jet

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Things have been changing since Musk took over the platform.

Elonjet, the Twitter handle that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet, has alleged that the platform has shadowbanned him, Business Insider.


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Dec 13, 2022

Live updates: Nuclear fusion reaction breakthrough

Posted by in categories: innovation, nuclear energy

US officials announced Tuesday that researchers have produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain. Follow here for live news updates.

Dec 13, 2022

To stop spread of cancer, researchers target two signaling switches that trigger new blood vessel growth

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Hitting two targets at the same time may be the key to stopping the spread of aggressive cancers, according to new research from the University of East Anglia and the Quadram Institute.

Researchers have found that in mice could be stopped by simultaneously targeting two signaling switches that trigger growth of new blood vessels.

Their study, published in the journal Cancer Research Communications, points to new approaches for treating cancer in humans.

Dec 13, 2022

Is Death Real? New Experiments Raise Important Questions on What it Means to Die

Posted by in category: life extension

A groundbreaking scientific discovery changes what we know about dying.

Dec 13, 2022

Ketamine Flips a “Switch” in Mice’s Brain Circuitry: Study

Posted by in category: neuroscience

After injecting moderate doses of the dissociative anesthetic into the animals, previously “awake” brain cells go dark, and those that had been dormant suddenly light up.

Dec 13, 2022

The Problem With “The Rare Earth Hypothesis”

Posted by in categories: alien life, media & arts

The Rare Earth Hypothesis suggests that our planet may the product of an incredibly improbable sequence of events, and thus perhaps intelligent life is extremely rare in the cosmos. Here we tackle this highly influential idea and the arguments behind it. But, digging deeper, we’ll uncover some problems with the Rare Earth idea — some of which strike to the very core of our scientific quest.

Written & presented by Prof David Kipping.

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Dec 13, 2022

Research finds ‘single concise’ phenomenon that determines your length of life

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The research has shown that people with shorter genes age faster, die sooner and are more prone to disease New research has determined that a “single concise” phenomenon that will be able to tell you how long you will live, The Mirror reports. It has shown that people with shorter genes age faster, die sooner and more prone to disease.

Dec 13, 2022

Crawling robots will survey ageing US nuclear missile silos

Posted by in categories: military, nuclear weapons, robotics/AI

Decades-old US silos holding Minuteman III missiles that have been a key nuclear deterrent since the 1970s will be assessed by robots that can crawl straight up walls.

Dec 13, 2022

I got a chip implanted in a biohacking garage

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biological, cyborgs, food, genetics, health, neuroscience

In the underground movement known as, people are taking their health into their own hands. Biohacking ranges from people making simple lifestyle changes to extreme body modifications.

One popular form of focuses on nutrigenomics, where biohackers study how the foods they eat affect their genes over time. They believe they can map and track the way their diet affects genetic function. They use dietary restrictions and blood tests, while tracking their moods, energy levels, behaviors, and cognitive abilities.

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Dec 13, 2022

Japan and the Netherlands just picked sides in the U.S.-China cold war over chips. Here’s what they chose

Posted by in category: computing

The two American allies are signing on to the U.S. offensive against China’s flagging chip industry.