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Jan 29, 2021

SpaceX V/S Blue Origin: Who Will Win The Space Race?

Posted by in category: space travel

Jan 29, 2021

AI Poised to Revolutionize Longevity, Scientists Say

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, robotics/AI

I realize this will step on a lot of toes, but, its time to accept that the AI will be what solves it.


Targeting aging may extend the average life expectancy more substantially than prevention or treatment of individual diseases.

Jan 29, 2021

SpaceX has two Starship prototypes on the pad at the same time

Posted by in category: space travel

Behold, Starships SN9 and SN10.


SpaceX has two Starship vehicles, SN9 and SN10, on the test pad at the same time at its South Texas facility, a first for the company.

Jan 29, 2021

Perl.com domain stolen, now using IP address tied to malware

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

The domain name perl.com was stolen this week and is now points to an IP address associated with malware campaigns.

Jan 29, 2021

Lab-grown wood could let us grow furniture in a lab instead of in a forest

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering

“In a paper recently published the Journal of Cleaner Production, the researchers detail how they grew wood-like plant tissue from cells extracted from the leaves of a zinnia plant, without soil or sunlight. “The plant cells are similar to stem cells,” says Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories and co-author of the paper. “They have the potential to be many things.” With the ability to “tune” the plant cells into whatever shape they decide, Ashley Beckwith, mechanical engineering PhD student and the paper’s lead author, says they could use this process to grow more efficient materials. “Trees grow in tall cylindrical poles, and we rarely use tall cylindrical poles in industrial applications,” she says. “So you end up shaving off a bunch of material that you spent 20 years growing and that ends up being a waste product.” Instead, their idea is to grow structures that are more practical, like rectangular boards or eventually an entire table that doesn’t need to be assembled, which would reduce waste and potentially let land currently used for logging instead be preserved as forest.”


Why cut down trees when you can grow wood in the exact shape you need?

Jan 29, 2021

FDA delays approval decision for Biogen’s Alzheimer’s treatment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The FDA had promised to render a decision on the approval of aducanumab by March 7. The process is now being extended to June 7.

Jan 29, 2021

Has this woman just invented the rocket that will take us to Mars?

Posted by in category: space travel

The unique design of the plasma thruster could enable spacecraft to travel to distant planets much faster than they can now.

Jan 29, 2021

Baldness Could Soon Be Cured for Real — if You’re Rich

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A real cure for balding could be coming soon, but it won’t be cheap.

Jan 29, 2021

Geological phenomenon widening the Atlantic Ocean

Posted by in category: futurism

An upsurge of matter from deep beneath the Earth’s crust could be pushing the continents of North and South America further apart from Europe and Africa, new research has found.

Jan 29, 2021

Record-Breaking Source for Single Photons Developed That Can Produce Billions of Quantum Particles per Second

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Researchers at the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have developed a source of single photons that can produce billions of these quantum particles per second. With its record-breaking efficiency, the photon source represents a new and powerful building-block for quantum technologies.