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Jul 15, 2022

Liz Parrish interviewed by María Zabay for the Spanish newspaper “Ok Diario” (English & Spanish)

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

I share this revealing interview given by Liz Parrish, “Patient Zero” in biological rejuvenation, to a journalist in Madrid, Spain. It took place in July 10, 2022 and lasts 20 minutes.

During the interview Liz speaks in English. However, the journalist, whose name is María Zabay, speaks mostly in Spanish.

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Jul 15, 2022

Ten years after the Higgs discovery, what now for particle physics?

Posted by in category: particle physics

After the Higgs, the Large Hadron Collider was expected to find other theorised particles. It didn’t, but particle physicists are optimistic about a new era of experiment-led exploration.

Jul 15, 2022

In Utah, researchers are trying to unlock Earth’s heat and make geothermal energy a reality

Posted by in category: energy

Hot, dry rock deep underground could be used to heat water and produce electricity.

Jul 14, 2022

BioNTech, Pfizer to start testing universal vaccine for coronaviruses

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

June 29 (Reuters) — Germany’s BioNTech (22UAy. DE), Pfizer’s (PFE.N) partner in COVID-19 vaccines, said the two companies would start tests on humans of next-generation shots that protect against a wide variety of coronaviruses in the second half of the year.

Their experimental work on shots that go beyond the current approach include T-cell-enhancing shots, designed to primarily protect against severe disease if the virus becomes more dangerous, and pan-coronavirus shots that protect against the broader family of viruses and its mutations.

In presentation slides posted on BioNTech’s website for its investor day, the German biotech firm said its aim was to “provide durable variant protection”.

Jul 14, 2022

Projectile fusion offers new path to clean energy, quantum communications for alien civilizations

Posted by in categories: alien life, quantum physics

In this podcast we meet the CEO and co-founder of First Light Fusion.

Jul 14, 2022

Meta’s ‘Make-A-Scene’ AI blends human and computer imagination into algorithmic art

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI

Text-to-image generation is the hot algorithmic process right now, with OpenAI’s Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini) and Google’s Imagen AIs unleashing tidal waves of wonderfully weird procedurally generated art synthesized from human and computer imaginations. On Tuesday, Meta revealed that it too has developed an AI image generation engine, one that it hopes will help to build immersive worlds in the Metaverse and create high digital art.

A lot of work into creating an image based on just the phrase, “there’s a horse in the hospital,” when using a generation AI. First the phrase itself is fed through a transformer model, a neural network that parses the words of the sentence and develops a contextual understanding of their relationship to one another. Once it gets the gist of what the user is describing, the AI will synthesize a new image using a set of GANs (generative adversarial networks).

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Jul 14, 2022

Enhanced performance in fusion plasmas through turbulence suppression

Posted by in categories: futurism, particle physics

AbstractAlpha particles with energies on the order of megaelectronvolts will be the main source of plasma heating in future magnetic confinement fusion react… See more.


Experiments at the Joint European Torus tokamak show improved thermal ion confinement in the presence of highly energetic ions and Alfvénic instabilities in the plasma.

Jul 14, 2022

A neat alternative to tracking retail inventory

Posted by in category: energy

Supplyve gives small independent retailers the technological tools to take control of their supply chains without spreadsheets.


Zap Energy said its experimental reactor core was ready for a milestone test. Skeptics routinely question whether the technology is currently possible.

Jul 14, 2022

A Big Step Toward Fusion Energy Is Hailed by a Seattle Start-Up

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

Zap Energy said its experimental reactor core was ready for a milestone test. Skeptics routinely question whether the technology is currently possible.

Jul 14, 2022

Nanotube-embedded coating detects threats from wear and tear in large structures

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, transportation

A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University that uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes, to monitor and detect damage in large structures is ready for prime time.

The ‘strain paint’ first revealed by Rice in 2012 uses the fluorescent properties of nanotubes to show when a surface has been deformed by stress.

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