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Nov 24, 2019

Senescent cells feed on their neighbours

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Chemotherapy-treated cancer cells that enter a non-dividing state called senescence can nevertheless boost cancer growth. The finding that these cells eat neighbouring cells reveals a mechanism that enables senescent cells to persist. Chemotherapy-treated tumours boost their survival by ingesting cells.

Nov 24, 2019

OpenAI’s Robot Hand Won’t Stop Rotating The Rubik’s Cube 👋

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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The mentioned blog post on the gradients and its notebook are available here:
Post: https://www.wandb.com/articles/exploring-gradients
Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1bsoWY8g0DkxAzVEXRigrdqRZlq44QwmQ

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Nov 24, 2019

Solar farms can keep UK’s lights on even at night

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

Trial shows panels can smooth voltage fluctuations in the National Grid.

Nov 24, 2019

China quantum research team uses AI to crack processing time

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI

Laborious calculations which once took an hour can be completed in a fraction of a second with machine learning, according to scientists.

Nov 23, 2019

Google Cloud server left a billion people’s data unsecured

Posted by in category: security

Night Lion Security’s Vinny Troia has discovered an unsecured database containing the personal information of 1.2bn users.

Nov 23, 2019

The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved

Posted by in category: particle physics

We have a refined estimate for the mass of the neutrino, the most abundant massive particle in the Universe: its mass is 500,000 times less than an electron.

Nov 23, 2019

Protect Brain Function with Sage Extract

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

A sage extract has been clinically shown to increase memory performance in older adults by 60%. Measures of attention improved 2.5-fold within hours of ingestion.

By Michael Downey

Nov 23, 2019

Cancer, Iron & HIF — The Vitamin C Connection (Part 2)

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Cancer cells love iron and HIF1a. Ferrous heme is life supporting while ferric heme is cytotoxic. Vit C is the protector and modulator of iron metabolism.

Nov 23, 2019

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Posted by in category: life extension

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Nov 23, 2019

Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from “a million years to 30 minutes,” says Nobel laureate

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

Physicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light.