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May 9, 2021

Homocysteine Increases During Aging, But Can Be Reduced With Diet And Targeted Supplementation

Posted by in category: life extension

Papers referenced in the video:

Bacteria Boost Mammalian Host NAD Metabolism by Engaging the Deamidated Biosynthesis Pathway:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32130883/

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May 9, 2021

Elon Musk reveals he has Asperger’s syndrome 09.05.2021

Posted by in categories: cryptocurrencies, Elon Musk

#Respect


While hosting the US TV show Saturday Night Live, Elon Musk publicly spoke for the first time about having Asperger’s. He also addressed his controversial tweets and plugged Dogecoin.

May 9, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight

Posted by in category: space

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🔊 🔴 New sounds from Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover caught the beats coming from our Ingenuity # MarsHelicopter! This marks the first time a spacecraft on another planet has recorded the sounds of a separate spacecraft.

🎧 🚁 Turn the volume up: go.nasa.gov/3h9RygT

May 9, 2021

Space Technology Benefits Earth — Top 10

Posted by in categories: food, space, sustainability

Have you seen those plant trees instead of go to space memes recently? Well, aside from believing we can do both, I wanted to remind people what great things we use everyday due to the technological developments that the space race has spawned. Not least, the monitoring of illegal deforestation, but right through to better baby food, cleaner water and incredible digital cameras!! But that is not all, so here is my Top 10 technologies, that we have the space industry to thank for…

May 9, 2021

María Blasco sobre retrasar el envejecimiento y extender la vida (with S/T in English)

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Excerpts from an interview with Dr. María Blasco, Director of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), where she covers how telomeres shortening induce aging, how artificially lenghtening telomeres has proven to extend lifespan in animal models like mice, and what the impact will be in human health and lifespan once the techniques (gene therapies) get effectively translated into humans.

The interview took place on May 6, 2021 as part of a program organized by the Madrid Planetarium, to contribute to a better orientation of the students of the last years of high school when deciding which university studies further engage.

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May 9, 2021

China rocket debris likely plunged into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, says China’s space agency

Posted by in categories: alien life, engineering

Debris from an out-of-control Chinese rocket likely plunged into the Indian Ocean, just west of the Maldives, on Saturday night ET, China’s space agency said.

Most of the huge Long March 5B rocket, however, burned up on reentering the atmosphere, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said in a post on WeChat.

It was unclear if any debris had landed on the atoll nation.

May 9, 2021

What’s the Valneva COVID-19 vaccine, the French shot that’s supposed to be ‘variant proof’?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

It sounds too good to be true, a vaccine that can protect against future virus variants. But governments around the world are keen to learn more.

May 9, 2021

New technique can print life-like organ models in minutes

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, government

I still don’t get how there seems to be No organized effort anywhere to achieve the ability to 3D print a perfect genetic match of all organs by 2025 — 2030. You would think some government somewhere would want to work round the clock on this.


NIBIB-funded engineers at the University of Buffalo have fine-tuned the use of stereolithography for 3D printing of organ models that contain live cells. The new technique is capable of printing the models 10–50 times faster than the industry standard-;in minutes instead of hours-; a major step in the quest to create 3D-printed replacement organs.

Conventional 3D printing involves the meticulous addition of material to the 3D model with a small needle that produces fine detail but is extremely slow —taking six or seven hours to print a model of a human part, such as a hand, for instance. The lengthy process causes cellular stress and injury inhibiting the ability to seed the tissues with live, functioning cells.

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May 8, 2021

A Small Dutch City Is Using Electric Cars to Feed the Grid

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability, transportation

We have everything we need here Especially in Texas no one ever needs to freeze again if they come out of the Fossil Fuel stone age.


The idea is that when electric vehicles are not in use, the energy stored in their batteries is going to waste. If you make it possible for that energy to feed back into the grid, then it can help balance out dips in supply as renewables go offline, rather than relying on fossil-fuel plants to pick up the slack.

The technology that can make that happen is still in its infancy, though. When an electric vehicle is charged, the alternating current from the grid is converted to direct current that can be stored in its batteries. But most charging stations and cars don’t have the hardware to allow this process to run in reverse, meaning the power can’t be fed back into the grid.

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May 8, 2021

Blue Robotics Develops ROVs, Underwater Thrusters & Scanning Sonars

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Blue Robotics, a leading developer of marine robotics systems and components, has partnered with Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”) to demonstrate their expertise in this field. The ‘Silver’ profile highlights how their underwater ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), thrusters and accessories enable a wide range of missions for commercial, research and exploration applications.

The BlueROV2 is a high-performance, highly configurable ROV designed for underwater inspections, research and ocean exploring. With open-source hardware and software, the platform features an unprecedented level of flexibility and expandability, allowing users to easily make improvements and upgrades to take on a huge variety of missions down to depths of 100m (330 feet).

The ROV incorporates six Blue Robotics T200 thrusters in a vectored configuration, delivering excellent thrust-to-weight ratio and providing the ability to move precisely in any direction. The system can be expanded to eight thrusters via a Heavy Configuration Retrofit Kit, and features adjustable gain levels for precision control at extremely low speeds as well as high power to overcome currents and carry heavy loads. The BlueROV2 is provided with a Fathom ROV tether, with available length options from 25m (82 ft) up to 300 m (984 ft).