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Oct 27, 2019
Spinal Cord Injuries and Treatment — Rutgers University’s Dr. Wise Young MD, PhD. — ideaXme — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, health, life extension, neuroscience, posthumanism, science, transhumanism
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Tags: aging, bioquark, biotech, health, ira pastor, lithium, longevity, paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia, rutgers, SCI, spinal cord injury, stem cells, trauma, wellness, wise young
Oct 27, 2019
Quantum computing’s ‘Hello World’ moment
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: computing, quantum physics
Does quantum computing really exist? It’s fitting that for decades this field has been haunted by the fundamental uncertainty of whether it would, eventually, prove to be a wild goose chase. But Google has collapsed this nagging superposition with research not just demonstrating what’s called “quantum supremacy,” but more importantly showing that this also is only the very beginning of what quantum computers will eventually be capable of.
This is by all indications an important point in computing, but it is also very esoteric and technical in many ways. Consider, however, that in the 60s, the decision to build computers with electronic transistors must have seemed rather an esoteric point as well. Yet that was in a way the catalyst for the entire Information Age.
Most of us were not lucky enough to be involved with that decision or to understand why it was important at the time. We are lucky enough to be here now — but understanding takes a bit of explanation. The best place to start is perhaps with computing and physics pioneers Alan Turing and Richard Feynman.
Oct 27, 2019
This Week in Tech: WeWork and S9 Architecture Inaugurate the Flood-Resilient Dock 72 in Brooklyn
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: robotics/AI
Plus, the first-ever WELL Conference, MIT robots that assemble lunar settlements, and more design-tech news this week.
Oct 27, 2019
Space: The Final Business Frontier | GIANT LEAP Ep. 1
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: business, space
In the not-too-distant future, entirely new industries will be developed in space. But for these endeavors to be viable, we need to first get the necessary tools into orbit. That’s where one of the most crowded new sectors has developed. More than 100 privately-backed launch companies are in fierce competition to get payloads into space as fast, often and cheaply as possible.
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Oct 27, 2019
The five: ways to slow the onset of Alzheimer’s
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Scientists have conducted a series of trials that point to various ways to check the progress of the disease.
Oct 27, 2019
There’s a chance the black hole at the center of our galaxy is actually a wormhole
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: cosmology, physics
Science fiction writers love wormholes because they make the impossible possible, linking otherwise unreachable places together. Enter one, and it’ll spit you back out in another locale—typically one that’s convenient for the plot. And no matter how unlikely these exotic black hole relatives are to exist in reality, they tend to fascinate physicists for exactly the same reason. Recently, some of those physicists took the time to ponder what such a cosmic shortcut might look like in real life, and even make a case that there could be one at the center of our galaxy.
Scientists have found changes in the gut microbiomes of vitamin D deficient volunteers after only three sessions of ultraviolet light exposure.
Oct 26, 2019
Scientists find answer to vast puzzle about the universe in the middle of two colliding stars
Posted by Paul Battista in category: space
Scientists have found the answer to a decades-long mystery, in the middle of two colliding stars.
For the first ever time, a newly made heavy element called strontium was detected in space after two neutron stars crashed into each other.
The discovery definitively confirms that heavier elements in the universe can be made in the mergers of neutron stars, at last helping answer the puzzle of how chemical elements form.