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Jan 16, 2023

Death’s End

Posted by in category: existential risks

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Jan 16, 2023

Italy Invents Robot That Carves Sculptures Out of Marble Like Michelangelo

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Italian robotics startup Robotor has crafted a machine that is just as good at creating marble masterpieces out of Carrara marble than human artists.

Jan 16, 2023

The Terrible Fate of Mankind | Three Body Problem Series

Posted by in category: futurism

The Three Body Problem series aka The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy is one of the coolest modern science fiction series that I’ve read. Reading about humanity’s struggle throughout the eons to survive in a hostile cosmos is beyond compelling to me. In this video I’ll pick up where I left off in the last video. At the beginning of the Deterrence Era, which brought peace between the Trisolarans and humanity. Keep in mind this video will have spoilers for the books!

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Jan 15, 2023

Microbial Cocktails Are More Than a Gut Feeling

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Targeted manipulation of bacteria could boost immunity and help sufferers of chronic diseases and allergies.

Jan 15, 2023

NASA Captures Star Eaten

Posted by in categories: cosmology, ethics, policy

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has captured rare footage of a black hole eating up a start and creating a gas cloud that is as large as the solar system.

Jan 15, 2023

NASA is asking for your help to study exoplanets

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, space

With new tools like the James Webb Space Telescope, we’re discovering more exoplanets than ever and even peering into their atmospheres. Now, NASA is asking for the public’s help in learning more about some of the exoplanets that have already been detected in a citizen science program called Exoplanet Watch.

“With Exoplanet Watch you can learn how to observe exoplanets and do data analysis using software that actual NASA scientists use,” said Rob Zellem, the creator of Exoplanet Watch and an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement. “We’re excited to show more people how exoplanet science is really done.”

The Exoplanet Watch project has two parts, one involving observing for those who have access to a telescope, and one involving identifying exoplanets in existing data. Even if you don’t have access to equipment other than a computer or smartphone, you can still help in learning about exoplanets by requesting access to data collected by robotic telescopes and assisting with data analysis. That’s needed because observing exoplanets passing in front of their host stars — in events called transits — is only half of the challenge of finding a new planet. These transits result in dips in the star’s brightness, but these dips are very small at typically less than 1% of the star’s brightness.

Jan 15, 2023

James Webb captures image of star formation in nearby galaxy

Posted by in category: cosmology

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stellar nursery called NGC 346, which is not only beautiful but is also leading astronomers to rethink their theories about how stars and planets could have formed in the early universe.

The star cluster NGC 346 is a busy region full of star formation and is located in the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The composition of the Small Magellanic Cloud is rather different from that of the Milky Way, as it has fewer heavier elements. As dust is typically composed of these heavier elements, astronomers thought that there would be less dust in the Small Magellanic Cloud — but that’s not what Webb found.

Instead, Webb found abundant dust as well as hydrogen, which means this galaxy has the building blocks not only for stars but also for planets. This is interesting to astronomers who had wanted to study the Small Magellanic Cloud because its composition makes it similar to much older galaxies that existed in a period of the universe called the cosmic noon, around 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang.

Jan 15, 2023

Can we suck the water out of asteroids? New research may solve one obstacle

Posted by in categories: materials, space travel

We’ve still got a long way to go.


Scientists found that solar sails, not rockets, could be the best option to return materials mined from asteroids back to Earth.

Jan 15, 2023

How Long Could Science Increase Our Lifespan?

Posted by in categories: life extension, science

Uncover the truth behind the human lifespan. From Ancient Rome to modern America, discover the progress we’ve made in extending life expectancy and the flaws in measuring it. Join us as we explore the science of aging, the pursuit of immortality, and the ongoing debate on the limits of human longevity.

Jan 15, 2023

Uploading and Branching Identity

Posted by in categories: biological, computing, neuroscience

If a brain is uploaded into a computer, will consciousness continue in digital form or will it end forever when the brain is destroyed? Philosophers have long debated such dilemmas and classify them as questions about personal identity. There are currently three main theories of personal identity: biological, psychological, and closest continuer theories. None of these theories can successfully address the questions posed by the possibility of uploading. I will argue that uploading requires us to adopt a new theory of identity, psychological branching identity. Psychological branching identity states that consciousness will continue as long as there is continuity in psychological structure. What differentiates this from psychological identity is that it allows identity to continue in multiple selves.