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Sep 6, 2022

A tiny four-winged robotic insect flies more like the real thing

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Many insects are powerful, agile flyers. One reason is that most have four wings, which gives them fine control over their direction of flight and their orientation through pitch, roll, and yaw adjustment.

In recent years, aerodynamicists, engineers, and roboticists have attempted to copy insect-like flight by building tiny flying robots. The main thing they’ve discovered is just how difficult this is.

Sep 6, 2022

Bionic Eyes Give Sheep Sight, Heading to Humans Next

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, transhumanism

A team of researchers gave sheep vastly improved vision, using bionic eyes surgically implanted behind their retinas. The same could work in humans.

Sep 6, 2022

A Shared Biology Between Reading, Writing, and Linguistics!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

Shared biology between Language, Reading, and Writing discovered! Abstract in the youtube description.

Sep 6, 2022

Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, law, mobile phones

What We Owe The Future is available now — you can get it wherever you get your (audio)books or here: https://www.amazon.com/What-Owe-Future-William-MacAskill/dp/…atfound-20
This video was sponsored by the author, Will MacAskill. Thanks a lot for the support.

Sources & further reading:
https://sites.google.com/view/sources-civilization-collapse/

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Sep 6, 2022

Diving into deep-tissue imaging to help with cancer research

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Leonel Malacrida hopes that his lab’s imaging technology will advance cancer diagnosis and research in Uruguay and across Latin America.

Sep 6, 2022

Playlist Psychology created by @Nicholi

Posted by in category: neuroscience

If anyone has a tiktok you are welcome to follow me or if you want to view some videos I created a Playlist. Just click on the links:

Psychology:

Robert Sapolsky: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRP33D38/

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Sep 6, 2022

Scientists Find That the Loss of a “Youth” Protein Could Drive Aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

Did they unlock one of the vital keys to stop aging?


According to a recent National Eye Institute (NEI) study in mice, loss of the protein pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), which protects retinal support cells, may promote age-related changes in the retina.

Age-related retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), can cause blindness since the retina is the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye. The new information could help develop medicines to stop AMD and other aging conditions of the retina. The research was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. NEI is part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Sep 6, 2022

It’s past time to prepare for a future where the workforce has as many robots as people

Posted by in categories: employment, internet, robotics/AI

There will be No Plan of course, and barring a WW3, i can guess the outcome.


There’s a scene in the movie I, Robot where a robot-hating police officer, played by Will Smith, is questioning the manufacturer of a robot suspected of murdering a human. The conversation gets testy, and the robot maker, played by Bruce Greenwood, looks Smith in the eye and says, “I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don’t know, maybe you would have simply banned the internet to keep the libraries open.”

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Sep 6, 2022

China unveils ‘Robocop’ exo-skeletons & gun wielding killer robot dogs

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, drones, military, robotics/AI

Robo-Dog Assault Droids 😲


CHILLING video shows the Chinese military unveiling more of their high-tech weapons as tensions continue to rage with the West.

Beijing flaunted its military tech in the new video which shows a machine-gun armed robot dog, a small ball scout drone and a soldier wearing an exoskeleton.

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Sep 6, 2022

A memristive forming strategy for lowering the contact resistances of two-dimensional semiconductors

Posted by in category: materials

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, like transition-metal dichalcogenides, have become a competitive alternative to traditional semiconducting materials in the post-Moore era, and caused worldwide interest. However, before they can be used in practical applications, some key obstacles must be resolved. One of them is the large electrical contact resistances at the metal-semiconductor interfaces. Researchers have proposed a brand-new contact resistance lowering strategy of 2D semiconductors with a good feasibility, a wide generality and a high stability.