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Jan 29, 2021
AI Poised to Revolutionize Longevity, Scientists Say
Posted by Dan Kummer 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 Genevieve Klien 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 Genevieve Klien 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 Brent Ellman 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 Quinn Sena 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 Quinn Sena 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 Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
Jan 29, 2021
Geological phenomenon widening the Atlantic Ocean
Posted by Quinn Sena 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 Quinn Sena 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.