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Jan 30, 2022

Watch Ivan Miranda 3D Print another Metal-Cutting CNC Mill

Posted by in category: 3D printing

Ivan Miranda is back with a compact 3D-printed, metal-cutting CNC mill.


Study of 116 research papers finds significant daytime heating.

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Jan 30, 2022

Solar panels can heat the local urban environment, systematic review reveals

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

Study of 116 research papers finds significant daytime heating.

Jan 30, 2022

Domino’s is reviving its pizza drone delivery plans

Posted by in category: drones

After making history with the world’s first pizza delivery by drone from a New Zealand store in 2016, Domino’s is once again exploring the viability of commercial drone delivery on the island country in Oceania.

But what have these companies been up to since their 2016 landmark achievement?

Jan 30, 2022

Population Collapse — Is fertility rate decline an existential risk?

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, existential risks

A new video I posted on Population Collapse.


Are we facing a Population collapse?

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Jan 30, 2022

200 pieces: The world’s largest quadruped robot cluster performance!

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Jan 30, 2022

How Will the Universe End? Scientists Seek an Answer in the Biggest Galaxy Map Yet

Posted by in category: cosmology

The map will help scientists measure the expansion of the universe, shine a light on dark energy, and predict the fate of the cosmos.

Jan 30, 2022

Jeff Bezos Is Paying for a Way to Make Humans Immortal

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

He’s backing a new biotech company working on “cellular rejuvenation programming.”


It sure looks like Jeff Bezos has plans to cheat death.

The founder and former CEO of Amazon has reportedly made an investment in the freshly launched Altos Labs, a biotech startup focused on “cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health and resilience, with the goal of reversing disease to transform medicine,” according to a January 19 press release. With $3 billion in backing on day one, Altos Labs has hit the ground running with what may be the single largest funding round for a biotech company, according to the Financial Times of London.

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Jan 30, 2022

Revolutionary Carbon-Based Magnetic Material Finally Synthesized After 70 Years

Posted by in categories: chemistry, materials

Researchers from Osaka University and Osaka City University synthesize and crystallize a molecule that is otherwise too unstable to fully study in the laboratory, and is a model of a revolutionary class of magnets.

Since the first reported production in 2004, researchers have been hard at work using graphene and similar carbon-based materials to revolutionize electronics, sports, and many other disciplines. Now, researchers from Japan have made a discovery that will advance the long-elusive field of nanographene magnets.

In a study recently published in Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers from Osaka University and collaborating partners have synthesized a crystalline nanographene with magnetic properties that have been predicted theoretically since the 1950s, but until now have been unconfirmed experimentally except at extremely low temperatures.

Jan 30, 2022

Dr. David K. C. Cooper, MD, PhD. — MGH/Harvard — Xenotransplantation To Save And Extend Lives

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Xenotransplantation To Save And Extend Lives — Dr. David K.C. Cooper, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School


Dr. David K. C. Cooper, MA, PhD, MD, MS, DSc (Med), FRCS, FACS, FACC, FAST, (https://researchers.mgh.harvard.edu/profile/27073950/David-Cooper) is a pioneering heart transplant surgeon and researcher in the field of xenotransplantation, which is defined as any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation or infusion into a human recipient of live cells, tissues, or organs from a nonhuman animal source.

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Jan 30, 2022

Quantum Computers Could Crack Bitcoin. Here’s What It Would Take

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, chemistry, cryptocurrencies, cybercrime/malcode, encryption, energy, mathematics, quantum physics, supercomputing

Quantum computers could cause unprecedented disruption in both good and bad ways, from cracking the encryption that secures our data to solving some of chemistry’s most intractable puzzles. New research has given us more clarity about when that might happen.

Modern encryption schemes rely on fiendishly difficult math problems that would take even the largest supercomputers centuries to crack. But the unique capabilities of a quantum computer mean that at sufficient size and power these problems become simple, rendering today’s encryption useless.

That’s a big problem for cybersecurity, and it also poses a major challenge for cryptocurrencies, which use cryptographic keys to secure transactions. If someone could crack the underlying encryption scheme used by Bitcoin, for instance, they would be able to falsify these keys and alter transactions to steal coins or carry out other fraudulent activity.