Lifeboat Foundation

Radical ideas shaping human evolution.

With the International Space Station (ISS) on its way out the door, governments and companies are racing to come up with solutions that could keep humans up in space even after 2031. By the looks of it, human presence up there will not only continue, but also expand, courtesy of the countless space companies developing their own space stations.

Take a tour of Earth’s inner core.

The deepest depths of Earth could reveal what makes our planet behave the way it does — and give us lessons beyond our Solar System.

Circa 2015 o.o!

The publication of Green and Schwarz’s paper “was 30 years ago this month,” the string theorist and popular-science author Brian Greene wrote in Smithsonian Magazine in January, “making the moment ripe for taking stock: Is string theory revealing reality’s deep laws? Or, as some detractors have claimed, is it a mathematical mirage that has sidetracked a generation of physicists?” Greene had no answer, expressing doubt that string theory will “confront data” in his lifetime.

Recently, however, some string theorists have started developing a new tactic that gives them hope of someday answering these questions. Lacking traditional tests, they are seeking validation of string theory by a different route. Using a strange mathematical dictionary that translates between laws of gravity and those of quantum mechanics, the researchers have identified properties called “consistency conditions” that they say any theory combining quantum mechanics and gravity must meet. And in certain highly simplified imaginary worlds, they claim to have found evidence that the only consistent theories of “quantum gravity” involve strings.

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Circa 2014 o.o!

When someone mentions “different dimensions,” we tend to think of things like parallel universes – alternate realities that exist parallel to our own, but where things work or happened differently. However, the reality of dimensions and how they play a role in the ordering of our Universe is really quite different from this popular characterization.

To break it down, dimensions are simply the different facets of what we perceive to be reality. We are immediately aware of the three dimensions that surround us on a daily basis – those that define the length, width, and depth of all objects in our universes (the x, y, and z axes, respectively).

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A lineage-tracing approach has been applied to cancer cells to observe how and when important cancer cell traits evolved.

They may be the only cars to go more viral than Cybertruck.

Remember that Hyundai concept 4×4 with robotic legs?

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