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Mar 11, 2020

COVID19 Questions for Medical Professionals

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

We need the input of the medical community to provide quality products rapidly.


PLEASE SAVE A COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT, ANSWER QUESTIONS, AND EMAIL ME AT [email protected] Thank you for agreeing to do this, I really appreciate your input. My current goal here is to get as holistic a picture of the COVID19 patient and healthcare provider experience from as many sou…

Mar 11, 2020

First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

Posted by in category: futurism

If the finding from butchered mastodon bones stands up to scrutiny, it could change everything we thought we knew about the earliest humans in the Americas.

Mar 11, 2020

Genomic Sequencing Reveals Secrets of the Vulture’s ‘Ironclad’ Gut

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Scientists find evidence of specialized digestion and an impressive immune system in the genome of the cinereous vulture.

Mar 11, 2020

Decentralized Microgridding Can Provide 90% of a Neighborhood’s Energy Needs, Study Finds

Posted by in category: energy

The new approach could even pave the way for 100 percent self-sufficiency in power, heat, and water.

Mar 11, 2020

Turning the Table: Plants Consume Microbes as a Source of Nutrients

Posted by in category: biological

Editor: Juergen Kroymann, CNRS UMR 8079/Université Paris-Sud, France.

Received: June 7, 2010; Accepted: July 7, 2010; Published: July 30, 2010.

Copyright: © 2010 Paungfoo-Lonhienne et al. This is an open-access distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Mar 11, 2020

Engineers crack 58-year-old puzzle on way to quantum breakthrough

Posted by in categories: computing, engineering, particle physics, quantum physics

A happy accident in the laboratory has led to a breakthrough discovery that not only solved a problem that stood for more than half a century, but has major implications for the development of quantum computers and sensors. In a study published today in Nature, a team of engineers at UNSW Sydney has done what a celebrated scientist first suggested in 1961 was possible, but has eluded everyone since: controlling the nucleus of a single atom using only electric fields.

“This discovery means that we now have a pathway to build quantum computers using single-atom spins without the need for any oscillating magnetic field for their operation,” says UNSW’s Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering Andrea Morello. “Moreover, we can use these nuclei as exquisitely precise sensors of electric and magnetic fields, or to answer fundamental questions in quantum science.”

That a nuclear spin can be controlled with electric, instead of magnetic fields, has far-reaching consequences. Generating magnetic fields requires large coils and high currents, while the laws of physics dictate that it is difficult to confine magnetic fields to very small spaces—they tend to have a wide area of influence. Electric fields, on the other hand, can be produced at the tip of a tiny electrode, and they fall off very sharply away from the tip. This will make control of individual atoms placed in nanoelectronic devices much easier.

Mar 11, 2020

Universal Basic Income: Machine Slavery Or Ultimate Freedom?

Posted by in categories: economics, existential risks, robotics/AI

Universal Basic Income usually creates a confusion and heated debates when people get divided between doomsday and Utopian scenarios. With faster than expected development of AI, we might be faced with no choice. In such case, what will UBI mean for most of us and how will it be implemented?

Mar 11, 2020

Chinese Robot Is Designed to Help Doctors Fight Coronavirus

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Chinese researchers have developed a robot designed to help doctors treat the new coronavirus and other highly contagious diseases.

The machine has a long robotic arm attached to a base with wheels. It can perform some of the same medical examination tasks as doctors. For example, the device can perform ultrasounds, collect fluid samples from a person’s mouth and listen to sounds made by a patient’s organs.

Cameras record the robot’s activities, which are controlled remotely so doctors can avoid coming in close contact with infected patients. Doctors and other medical workers can operate the machine from a nearby room, or from much farther away.

Mar 11, 2020

Elon Musk’s Battery Farm Is an Undeniable Success

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

More than two years after winning an electricity bet, Elon Musk’s resulting Australian solar and wind farm is an almost total success. The facility powers rural South Australia, whose population density falls between Wyoming and Alaska, the two least dense U.S. states.

Mar 11, 2020

Braeden Lichti: Investing in Anti-Aging and Rejuvenation Biotechnology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

Useful video for the development of the rejuvenation industry.


Scientists today now have a better understanding of the aging process, giving us a better explanation of the cellular changes that lead our body and brain to decline as we age.