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Aug 24, 2021

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Launch date, mission, and the hunt for aliens

Posted by in category: alien life

The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for launch on October 31. It will help scientists hunt for alien life on exoplanets and look to the beginning of time.

Aug 24, 2021

SpaceX Starship to Take Civilians Where Civilians Never Went Before: to the dearMoon

Posted by in category: satellites

In 2,024 NASA is scheduled to return humans to the surface of the Moon with the Artemis III mission. One year before that, Artemis II should circle the satellite without touching down. Both missions are to be crewed by experienced astronauts. But not the dearMoon mission, which will carry civilians to the Moon and back on SpaceX hardware.

Aug 24, 2021

Dr. Neta Lavon, Ph.D. — CTO and Vice President of R&D — Aleph Farms — Meat For Earth (And Space)

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

Novel Cultivated Meats For Earth (And Space!) — Dr. Neta Lavon Ph.D., CTO / VP of R&D, Aleph Farms.


Dr. Neta Lavon is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President of R&D at Aleph Farms (https://www.aleph-farms.com/), a cultivated meat company that is shaping the future of food by growing high-quality, slaughter-free beef steaks directly from cow cells, preserving natural resources, and avoiding the use of antibiotics.

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Aug 24, 2021

How To Live To 150: The Science & Tech Of Growing Young | Lifespan.io Interview

Posted by in categories: life extension, science

Out today.


Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary with the XPRIZE his mission to extend healthy lifespans of at least one billion people. To do that, Sergey founded Longevity Vision Fund to accelerate life extension technological breakthroughs and to make longevity affordable and accessible to all.

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Aug 24, 2021

The ‘Joker’ Virus Has Returned to Android: It Can Empty Your Bank Accounts Without You Noticing It and It Is Hidden in These Apps in the Google Play Store

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode, mobile phones

The ‘Joker’ virus hides in several apps on the Google Play Store and the user does not realize it until their bank accounts are emptied. See how this malware operates and what are the dangerous applications.


In September 2,020 the ’Joker’ virus was found in 24 Android applications that registered more than 500 thousand downloads before being removed. It is estimated that that time it affected more than 30 countries including the United States, Brazil and Spain. Through unauthorized subscriptions, hackers could steal up to $7 (about 140 Mexican pesos) per subscription weekly, a figure that has most likely increased in recent months.

How does the Joker virus work in Android apps?

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Aug 24, 2021

How Soon Can AI Replace Actors In Movies?

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

Israeli synthetic media startup D-ID wants to disrupt production of Hollywood movies with artificial intelligence.

Aug 24, 2021

The Astrobiological Potential of Rogue Planets

Posted by in category: alien life

Some highly speculative ideas how life may spread in the galaxy, for more info see.


There is even more to the astrobiological potential of rogue planets, however. Not only could they hold microbial life bottled up in their subsurface, they may be able to distribute life throughout the galaxy. In our paper we suggest two ways that this kind of panspermia might occur.

If a wandering planet passes close to a habitable rocky planet within a solar system, the outer layer of the rogue planet might be torn apart by gravitational disturbances, and the resulting debris could end up on the habitable world. Dormant life that had been trapped in the icy shell of the rogue planet may become active again and establish a biosphere on the receiving planet.

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Aug 24, 2021

Prozac Changes Fat Composition of the Brain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, neuroscience

Lipids are abundant in the brain, where they are found not just in the cell membranes of neurons, whose properties they modulate, but also in the so-called myelin sheaths insulating axons — the brain’s ‘wiring.’ The brain is therefore a surprisingly ‘fat’ organ — in fact, it is nearly 60% fat, the study’s first author, Anna Tkachev from Skoltech, said.


Summary: Prozac reduced polyunsaturated fatty acid lipid concentrations in the brains of juvenile macaque monkeys.

Source: Skoltech

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Aug 24, 2021

‘A combination of failures:’ why 3.6m pounds of nuclear waste is buried under a popular California beach

Posted by in categories: materials, nuclear energy

You may not want to live near areas like this in the country.

“The problem you have here is that the NRC is simply not doing its job as a regulator. So what it has done is allowed the industry to basically determine the conditions under which this material is stored on a temporary basis across the country,” echoed retired Rear Admiral Len Hering, who served more than 30 years in the US navy and was awarded a2005presidential award for leadership in federal energy management from President George W Bush.

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Aug 24, 2021

CRISPR pinpoints new leukemia target and a ‘pocket’ that could make it druggable

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A team at Penn’s medical school discovered that an epigenetic regulatory protein called ZMYND8 governs the expression of genes that are critical for the growth and survival of AML cells. Inhibiting ZMYND8 in mouse models shrank tumors. The researchers also found a biomarker that they believe could predict which patients are likely to respond to ZMYND8 inhibition, they reported in the journal Molecular Cell.

AML is one of the hardest leukemias to treat, with a five-year survival rate of about 27% in adults. The Penn team had been searching for precision medicine approaches that could improve the prognosis for adults with AML, and they turned to CRISPR for help.

ZMYND8 is known as a “histone reader” in cancer that can recognize epigenetic changes and influence gene expression involved in metastasis.