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Oct 25, 2021

A Late Cretaceous true polar wander oscillation

Posted by in category: futurism

The authors present a high-resolution palaeomagnetic record for a Late Cretaceous limestone in Italy. They claim that their record robustly shows a ~12° true polar wander oscillation between 86 and 78 Ma, with the greatest excursion at 84–82 Ma.

Oct 25, 2021

SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon Falcon 9 Launch — Manned SpaceX Live Mission to The ISS!

Posted by in category: space travel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QGKBPvDQXw&feature=youtu.be

We’re just 7 days away from the launch of Crew-3 to the ISS!

Mission livestream:

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Oct 25, 2021

SpaceX shows off its ‘Gateway to Mars’ for Starship launches in video

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX is hoping to launch its first orbital Starship test flight in the next few months from its Starbase facility in Texas and a new video captures the company’s work so far on the massive rocket.

The 90-second montage, which SpaceX showed off on Twitter, offers views of the company’s massive Starship spacecraft being wheeled to the launch pad, taking off, performing complex flips and then landing safely on the ground. You also catch a glimpse of Earth from up high.

Oct 25, 2021

NASA finds first ever planet outside our galaxy

Posted by in category: space

A NASA telescope might have found the first ever planet outside of our own Milky Way galaxy.

If confirmed, the world would be thousands of times further away than the many exoplanets we have found in our own galaxy so far.

Scientists were able to do so using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, using techniques that could allow for the search for other worlds to dramatically the amount of space it is able to scan.

Oct 25, 2021

Nanometre-scale imaging and AI reveal the interior of whole cells

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Refinement of a microscopy method enables a detailed look inside cells.

Oct 25, 2021

New MIT Cancer Treatment Jump-Starts the Immune System

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering

Immunotherapy is a promising strategy to treat cancer by stimulating the body’s own immune system to destroy tumor cells, but it only works for a handful of cancers. MIT

MIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1861. It is organized into five Schools: architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science. MIT’s impact includes many scientific breakthroughs and technological advances.

Oct 25, 2021

$70M Aging Research Project is Launched

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

“The Rejuvenome Project was launched to target these bottlenecks,” said Nicholas Schaum, PhD, Scientific Director at the Astera Institute. “We hope to do that by characterising treatments and regimens, both established and newly invented, for which we have reason to believe improve health and longevity.”

Previously, Schaum worked as a researcher at Stanford University, California, in conjunction with the Chan Zuckerberg BioHub. He organised dozens of labs and hundreds of researchers into a consortium that produced cell atlases, to characterise aging tissues in mice. These cell atlases became the foundation for Schaum’s further studies into whole-organ aging and single-cell parabiosis.

The Rejuvenome Project is expected to be complete in 2028. All wet lab operations will be centred at Buck, while the dry lab computational aspects will reside at the Astera Institute.

Oct 25, 2021

Artificial Intelligence Sheds Light on How the Brain Processes Language

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Researchers report the human brain may use next word prediction to drive language processing.

Source: MIT

In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of language have become very good at certain tasks. Most notably, they excel at predicting the next word in a string of text; this technology helps search engines and texting apps predict the next word you are going to type.

Oct 25, 2021

SpaceX: Incredible video shows the Starship engine’s huge power

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

Stand back.


SpaceX is currently developing the Starship, a stainless steel rocket designed to send humans to Mars and beyond. Elon Musk aims to establish a city on Mars by 2050.

Oct 25, 2021

New state of matter discovered at high temperature, pressure

Posted by in category: space

Strange black ‘superionic ice’ that could exist inside other planets.