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Oct 6, 2022

‘Cataclysmic’ 50-minute orbit between two stars is the fastest ever recorded

Posted by in category: space

Astronomers have discovered a rare binary star system with an orbital period of just 51 minutes – a blazing new record.

Oct 6, 2022

Transient cell-in-cell formation

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In a recent study published in the eLife journal, researchers demonstrated that tumor cells evade immunotherapy by generating unique transient cell-in-cell structures, resistant to chemotherapy and destruction by T cells.

Despite some remarkable success stories, cancer immunotherapies that use the body’s immune system to combat cancer stops working in many patients. It is unclear why this occurs, but how the immune system attacks cancer cells might have a role to play in this phenomenon.

Immunotherapies activate specialized killer T-cells, which trigger the immune response to tumors. These cells can identify cancer cells and inject toxic granules through their membranes to kill them. However, killer T-cells are not always effective because cancer cells are inherently good at avoiding detection. During treatment, their genes tend to mutate, giving them novel ways to evade the human immune system.

Oct 6, 2022

You can “see the future” with these smart contact lenses

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical

Mojo Vision’s smart contact lens has finally made the leap to human testing, bringing the future of AR a major step closer.

Oct 6, 2022

Aging is a complex, multidimensional, non-linear and widely misunderstood reversible process

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, life extension, Ray Kurzweil, singularity, transhumanism

This video is the 1st of a series of “What is Aging” webinars that aims to unravel what aging is, how we age, why we age, and how to reverse it.

We welcome Jason C. Mercurio, MFE, Dr. Jose Cordeiro, and Dr. Ian Hale to discuss the topic.

Continue reading “Aging is a complex, multidimensional, non-linear and widely misunderstood reversible process” »

Oct 6, 2022

Research team achieves breakthrough in the production of an acclaimed cancer-treating drug

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

Stanford University researchers have discovered a rapid and sustainable way to synthetically produce a promising cancer-fighting compound right in the lab. The compound’s availability has been limited because its only currently known natural source is a single plant species that grows solely in a small rainforest region of Northeastern Australia.

The compound, designated EBC-46 and technically called tigilanol tiglate, works by promoting a localized against tumors. The response breaks apart the ’s blood vessels and ultimately kills its cancerous cells. EBC-46 recently entered into following its extremely high success rate in treating a kind of cancer in dogs.

Given its complex structure, however, EBC-46 had appeared synthetically inaccessible, meaning no plausible path seemed to exist for producing it practically in a laboratory. However, thanks to a clever process, the Stanford researchers demonstrated for the first time how to chemically transform an abundant, plant-based starting material into EBC-46.

Oct 6, 2022

Liquid crystals bring robotics to the microscale

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Novel micromachine uses liquid crystals to convert rotation into propulsion.

Oct 6, 2022

This micro molten salt reactor is designed to fit on a truck

Posted by in categories: computing, nuclear energy

Small, safer vessels could be ‘silicon chip’ that ushers in new nuclear age.

Oct 6, 2022

United Nations General Assembly 77 — SRI Workshop 26092022

Posted by in categories: space travel, sustainability

A workshop at UN General Assembly, organized in collaboration with the SRI Partner ACES Worldwide.
• Vidvus Beldavs-Energy Compacts — Implementation of Space Agenda 2030 — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=758
• Henk Rogers — The Hawaii — Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (Hi-SEAS) — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=1152
• Adriano V. Autino — How to make the 2030 SDGs sustainable — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=1781
• Kiran Gautam — Space science technology and sustainable civilian development — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=2481
• Pascale Ehrenfreund — Space exploration, an international endeavour — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=2955
• Agata Kptpdziejczyk — Analog missions for sustainable civilian development — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=3572
• Armin Wedler — AI-powered vehicles for humanitarian help deployment — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=4405
• Ioana-Roxana Perrier — Training the future space sceintists, engingineers and explorers — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=5461
• Serena Crotti — Space on Earth — Design of a trasnportable base for Space mission simulations on Earth — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=6333
• Bernard Foing — Space4All Researchers, Astronauts and Entrepreneurs — https://youtu.be/XQVHVkn3CiM?t=8738

Oct 6, 2022

Can we find ways to live beyond 100? Millionaires are betting on it

Posted by in category: futurism

At a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, wealthy investors and scientists are cooking up plans to push the limits of the human lifespan.

Oct 5, 2022

Mitigation for Exchange Zero-Days Bypassed! Microsoft Issues New Workarounds

Posted by in category: futurism

Microsoft has revised its mitigation measures for the newly disclosed and actively exploited zero-day flaws in Exchange Server after it was found that they could be trivially bypassed.

The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022–41040 and CVE-2022–41082, have been codenamed ProxyNotShell due to similarities to another set of flaws called ProxyShell, which the tech giant resolved last year.

In-the-wild attacks abusing the shortcomings have chained the two flaws to gain remote code execution on compromised servers with elevated privileges, leading to the deployment of web shells.