Lifeboat Foundation

In The Last Generation to Die, we explore the difficult conversation of what is to be done for the elderly who might miss out on the benefits of enhanced longevity. But if these companies somehow achieved their goal, however farfetched, that conversation would become moot.

Would you want to resurrect a lost loved one if given the opportunity?

Will Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson beat Jeff Bezos as the first billionaire in space?

China releases videos of its rover Zhurong of the Tianwen-1 mission on Mars.

Boston Dynamics’ Spot could be going to Mars. The dog-like robot is now equipped with AI and could be sent on missions to autonomously explore caves.

In this video, Drs Irina and Mike Conboy talk about their theory of why we age and introduce Neutral Blood Exchange, which came from their original parabiosis experiments documented in a 2005 paper.

Our guests today are Drs. Irina and Michael Conboy of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California Berkeley. their discovery of the rejuvenating effects of young blood through parabiosis in a seminal paper published in Nature in 2005 paved the way for a thriving field of rejuvenation biology. The Conboy lab currently focuses on broad rejuvenation of tissue maintenance and repair, stem cell niche engineering, elucidating the mechanisms underlying muscle stem cell aging, directed organogenesis, and making CRISPR a therapeutic reality.

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Developers in China constructed a 10-floor building in just 28 hours.

Would you eat chicken nugget grown in a bioreactor (and not the old fashioned inside-a-chicken way)? What if that nugget was as cheap as the old kind? A fascinating short film from our friends at @Freethink.

Join host Abby Bollenbach as she talks about some of the brightest and most distant-known celestial objects: Quasars.

Relive the Voyager’s grand tour through the solar system with host Abby Bollenbach!