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Aug 10, 2021

Look: 8 stunning images show Starship is ready for the Moon

Posted by in category: space travel

On August 6 SpaceX’s Starship became the tallest rocket in the world — for about an hour.


SpaceX’s Starship SN20 was stacked in early August, making it the tallest rocket ever built. Here’s what’s next for SpaceX’s prospective Moon-bound rocket.

Aug 10, 2021

Marburg virus: Man who died in Guinea found to have disease

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

BBC News


A man who died is found to have had the highly infectious virus, the first human case in West Africa.

Aug 10, 2021

Brain Structure in Premature Babies Linked to Emotional Processing in Preschool

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

Summary: Brain connectivity at birth may impact emotional processing and social development later in childhood, especially in children born preterm. Researchers found children born preterm with a weaker uncinate fasciculus, the white-matter tract that connects brain regions associated with emotional processing, were more likely to interpret situations in a negative light.

Source: SfN

The strength of brain connections at birth may predict the future emotional and social development of babies born prematurely, according to new research published in eNeuro.

Aug 10, 2021

Brain Connectivity Can Build Better AI

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

By examining MRI data from a large Open Science repository, researchers reconstructed a brain connectivity pattern, and applied it to an artificial neural network (ANN). An ANN is a computing system consisting of multiple input and output units, much like the biological brain.


Artificial neural networks modeled on human brain connectivity can effectively perform complex cognitive tasks.

Aug 10, 2021

Scientists Reversed Aging in Mouse Brains With Poo Transplants From Young Mice

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, neuroscience

Evidence has been accumulating for almost a decade that the microbiome composition changes with age. In 2,012 research by my colleagues at University College Cork showed that diversity in the microbiome was linked to health outcomes in later life, including frailty.


In 1,895 on turning 50 Elie Metchnikoff became increasingly anxious about aging. As a result, the Russian Nobel prize-winning scientist, and one of the founders of immunology, turned his attention away from immunology and towards gerontology – a term that he coined.

He was fascinated by the role that intestinal bacteria play in health and disease and suggested that people from parts of eastern Europe lived longer because they ate a lot of fermented foods containing lactic acid bacteria.

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Aug 10, 2021

Scientists may have found the secret to invisibility

Posted by in category: futurism

Researchers have developed a unique light wave that, when beamed through an object, makes the object appear invisible to cameras and even the human eye. This could be the key to

Aug 10, 2021

The UN climate report pins hopes on carbon removal technologies that barely exist

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

The model used to create the most optimistic scenario in the report, which limits warming to 1.5 ˚C, assumes the world will figure out ways to remove about 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year by midcentury and 17 billion by 2100. (The scenario is known as SSP1-1.9, and those figures are based on an analysis of earlier data by Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the Breakthrough Institute and contributing author on the UN assessment.)


The UN’s long-awaited climate report, released on Monday, offered a stark reminder that removing massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be essential to prevent the gravest dangers of global warming. But it also underscored that the necessary technologies barely exist—and will be tremendously difficult to deploy.

Global temperatures will continue to rise through midcentury no matter what we do at this point, according to the first installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report. How much hotter it gets, however, will depend on how rapidly we cut emissions and how quickly we scale up ways of sucking carbon dioxide out of the air.

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Aug 10, 2021

Carbon-capturing Celour paint allows anyone to “participate in CO2 removal in their daily lives”

Posted by in categories: materials, sustainability

This could prove helpful. 😀


Design graduate Kukbong Kim has developed a paint made from demolished concrete that is capable of absorbing 20 per cent of its weight in carbon.

Called Celour, the paint can sequester 27 grams of CO2 for every 135 grams of paint used.

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Aug 10, 2021

War of the Worlds Meets Starship!

Posted by in category: space travel

A War of the Worlds vibe added to a time lapse of Starship S20 stacking.

Aug 9, 2021

NASA can’t find the Mars rock sample that the Perseverance rover drilled — it mysteriously disappeared

Posted by in category: space

Last week, Perseverance was finally ready to collect the first sample in its search for ancient Martian life. But something went awry.