Lifeboat Foundation

Shell middens and a potential ancient hearth add to growing evidence of a much deeper human occupation period in Australasia (prehistoric Sahul).

A meticulously detailed 11 years research program has concluded that there is compelling evidence for a human presence 120,000 years at Moyjil, Point Richie, on the far south coast of Victoria.

Excavation in basal calcrete at Moyjil containing burnt stones and charcoal. Image credit – Ian J. McNiven.

Circa 2017

Artificial intelligence has been used crack one of the codes originally deciphered in the 1940s at Bletchley Park.

It took just 13 minutes and cost £10.

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Car design firm Pininfarina has designed an inkless pen with a metal nib that will write without ever running out.

Icefin robot swam more than 1 kilometer to reach Thwaites Glacier’s grounding line.

Talks center around quickly erecting a SpaceX plant across the channel from what will be San Pedro’s new waterfront development opening in 2021.

It designed Meena to be able to talk about, well, anything you want.

Amid today’s technological wizardry, it’s easy to forget that several decades have passed since a single innovation has dramatically raised the quality of life for millions of people. Summoning a car with one’s phone is nifty, but it pales in comparison with discovering penicillin or electrifying cities. Artificial intelligence is being heralded as the next big thing, but a cluster of scientists, technologists and investors are aiming higher. In the vernacular of Silicon Valley, where many of them are based, their goal is nothing less than disrupting death, and their story is at the center of “Immortality, Inc.” by science journalist Chip Walter.

The efforts of scientists and investors to defy the aging process—and extend the human life span—are still in their infancy.

The company is building a massive centrifuge to accelerate rockets and send them screaming into space.