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Jun 1, 2022

Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out

Posted by in categories: business, Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

The world’s richest man has had it with this whole working-from-home business.

Jun 1, 2022

Organ Transplant Breakthrough Shows Human Liver Can Survive Outside The Body For Days

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

When a donor organ becomes available to someone in need of a transplant, medical personnel need to act quickly. It only takes a few hours for expanding ice crystals to damage delicate tissue, leaving a window of less than 12 hours to assess, transport, and implant the new organ.

This not only creates a tremendous time crunch to perform a delicate procedure, but leaves many organs unviable for transplantation.

But a new breakthrough could vastly improve the landscape of liver transplantation: Scientists kept a liver preserved for three days, in non-frozen conditions, before transplanting it into a patient.

Jun 1, 2022

Changing our DNA: ‘The age of human therapeutic gene editing is here’

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

If I’ve been reading the articles right, progeria may be cured soon. Really amazing.


Advances in gene editing have brought us ever closer to fixing some of the most devastating diseases of our time, such as progeria and sickle cell disease.

Jun 1, 2022

Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century

Posted by in category: transhumanism

Jun 1, 2022

Breakthrough in teleportation furthers quantum network development

Posted by in categories: innovation, quantum physics

Information teleported between stationary qubits without a direct link.

May 31, 2022

The fastest supercomputer is now located in the US

Posted by in category: supercomputing

May 31, 2022

Meet Mercury: Fascinating details about the smallest planet in our solar system

Posted by in category: space

May 31, 2022

Go up SpaceX’s Starship-catching robotic launch tower with Elon Musk!

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel

May 31, 2022

Deceased donor liver transplant

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

May 31, 2022

Skyscrapers would be energy storage device with new breakthrough method

Posted by in categories: energy, innovation