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Oct 16, 2020

Maverick Life: Who wants to live forever? (The immortal hydra already does)

Posted by in categories: life extension, transhumanism

“Who are we? What are we composed of? What is matter? What does matter? Is the body just a vessel with an expiration date?” asks American rapper GZA from Wu-Tang Clan, in Liquid Science, the show about science and imagination he hosts on Red Bull TV. In this episode, GZA is on a “quest to understand the human desire to live forever”.

Trying to find answers to such questions is nothing new. In an opinion piece for the Washington Post titled ‘‘Transhumanist’ eternal life? No thanks, I’d rather learn not to fear death’, Arthur C Brooks explains that, back in the fifth century before Christ, Greek historian Herodotus wrote about “a race of people in northern Africa who, according to local lore, never seemed to age”.

Eternal youth and immortality have always fascinated humanity, but we’ve not had much success finding them. Until now.

Oct 16, 2020

How the Nervous System Mutes or Boosts Sensory Information to Make Behavioral Decisions

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Summary: Researchers have identified a novel neural network in fruit flies that converts external stimuli of varying intensity into decisions about whether to act.

Source: University of Michigan

Fruit flies may be able to teach researchers a thing or two about artificial intelligence.

Oct 16, 2020

We’ve built a fourth dimension of space and we’re about to look inside

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

We only ever experience three spatial dimensions, but quantum lab experiments suggest a whole new side to reality – weird particle apparitions included.

Oct 16, 2020

A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

“Less than one”-shot learning can teach a model to identify more objects than the number of examples it is trained on.

Oct 16, 2020

China’s moon mission robots wake up for a 23rd lunar day as team snags major award

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

China’s Chang’e 4 moon mission received a prestigious international award just as the two spacecraft that make up the project awoke for their 23rd lunar day.

Oct 16, 2020

The hologram concert revolution is here, whether you like it or not: Meet the company touring Whitney Houston and Buddy Holly

Posted by in category: holograms

Base Hologram has made its mission clear: create premium holographic shows. But will the ethical questions surrounding holograms keep it from success?

Oct 16, 2020

Man stunned by ‘very rare’ two-headed shark: ‘We have never seen anything like this before’

Posted by in category: futurism

This is potentially the first sighting of a two-headed shark baby off the coast of India.

Oct 16, 2020

US highways have significant solar potential

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability, transportation

Utilizing lands for Right of Ways of Interstate Highways offer a lot of solar potential.


From pv magazine USA

As more states establish renewable energy mandates and expand the penetration of solar onto their grids, officials and developers are finding that locating land for these projects can be tricky. A new study released by the University of Texas at Austin’s Webber Energy Group looks to solve some of these siting issues by using publicly available and underutilized land at interstate exits.

Oct 16, 2020

Graphene ‘Wonder Material’ Can Now Be Made Using Trash

Posted by in categories: innovation, materials

Graphene out garbage?


A recent breakthrough promises to make graphene out of garbage in a flash.

Oct 16, 2020

New jets promise to revive supersonic travel

Posted by in category: transportation

Is supersonic travel coming back?


Almost 20 years after Concorde was retired, new supersonic passenger aircraft are finally emerging.