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The third episode of our podcast, ImmortaliCast, is now available! We interviewed Didier Coeurnelle, chair and co-founder of HEALES, and Marion Steenacker, biologist from HEALES, who updated us on the partial results from the lifespan experiments on rats conducted by Harold Katcher and Rodolfo Goya and funded by HEALES. Didier also discusses the more important trends in the rejuvenation field, and the other activities and goals of HEALES.

You can watch this episode via YouTube or on the main podcast platforms:

#science #rejuvenation #aging #medicine #health #heales #lifespan #biology #plasma #HaroldKatcher #RodolfoGoya

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Why luxury brands like Hermès, Iris Van Herpen, and Stella McCartney are turning to mushrooms for an eco-alternative to leather.

The wondrous fungi-inspired creations in Dutch couture designer Iris Van Herpen’s Spring 2021 collection are like nothing else in the fashion world. Undulating crowns of brass coils top delicate micro-plissé gowns with bodices formed from sinuous silk tendrils. An early adopter of 3D printing and advocate for sustainability, van Herpen has emerged as a kind of oracle within the fashion industry. She spent lockdown in Amsterdam reading biologist Merlin Sheldrake’s book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, which describes the hidden world of mycelium, the sprawling underground root-like networks of fungi (the visible part we know as mushrooms are akin to fruit on trees).

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NASA Goddard

The most striking aspect of the approach—for our money, anyway—is the way Bennu feels like a small world; rather than just a 1600-foot-wide hunk of rock. There’s plenty of space on Bennu’s surface to jump around. And one could even leap off the surface, enter into orbit around the asteroid, and then touch back down. The space probe, in fact, captured rocks doing just that.

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Got milk?

Hoping to capitalise on a surge in demand for home deliveries, a Singapore technology company has deployed a pair of robots to bring residents their groceries in one part of the city state.

Developed by OTSAW Digital and both named “Camello”, the robots’ services have been offered to 700 households in a one-year trial.

Users can book delivery slots for their milk and eggs, and an app notifies them when the robot is about to reach a pick-up point — usually the lobby of an apartment building.

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