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Apr 2, 2019

Popular pain reliever linked to stroke risk in some older adults

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Common over-the-counter pain reliever acetaminophen, which is sold under brand names like Tylenol, may increase the risk of stroke in diabetics, according to a new study. This particular pain medication is available to purchase without a prescription in the majority of countries where it is sold, contributing to its popularity with consumers.

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Apr 2, 2019

China Is Installing “AI Guards” in Prison Cells

Posted by in categories: law enforcement, robotics/AI, surveillance

Inmates will be under surveillance 24 hours a day.

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Apr 2, 2019

Amazon’s giant ‘dystopian’ delivery-drone blimp isn’t real yet, but it’s something the tech giant has explored

Posted by in category: drones

Before you freak out, the video is fake. It was created by a tech-savvy Twitter user based on an actual Amazon patent.

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Apr 2, 2019

Baboons With Pig Hearts Bring Us Closer to Human-Pig Transplants

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

We’re headed toward a future in which anyone who needs a new heart gets one.

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Apr 2, 2019

Amphibian ‘apocalypse’ caused by most destructive pathogen ever

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The first-ever global tally of the disease’s toll reveals that it caused declines in at least 501 frog and salamander species.

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Apr 2, 2019

Israeli Moon Lander Tweaks Orbit to Prep for Thursday Lunar Arrival

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

The 5-foot-tall (1.5 meters) Beresheet fired its engines for a little over a minute early this morning (April 1), altering its trajectory slightly to prepare for a planned capture into lunar orbit on Thursday (April 4).

If all goes according to plan, the robotic lander will touch down on the moon one week later, on April 11. That will be a huge milestone. To date, the only organizations to pull off a soft lunar landing are superpower governments — the Soviet Union, the United States and China.

Related: israel’s 1st moon lander beresheet in pictures.

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Apr 2, 2019

Undoing Aging in the Viewfinder

Posted by in categories: business, life extension, space

LEAF Director Elena Milova shares a report from the recent Berlin Undoing Aging conference with you today. Hosted by the Forever Healthy Foundation and SENS Research Foundation, the event saw the leading figures in aging research come together for this superb conference.


The day after I got back from the Undoing Aging 2019 scientific conference, which was jointly organized by the SENS Research Foundation and Forever Healthy Foundation, Moscow greeted me with the first sunny days of the spring. Still tired and lacking sleep, but happy and inspired, I want to share my impressions of this year’s conference with you.

Actually, I began preparing for this event in the autumn of 2018, when it was first announced. I booked the hotel well in advance, including some spare rooms that could be transferred to our partners later on. B&B Alexanderplatz is located next to the conference venue Umspannwerk Alexanderplatz, literally next door, and it has a nice social space in the lobby, making it very handy for setting appointments with business partners, so we at LEAF decided to make it our headquarters once again. I arrived on March 26th, got some brief rest, and went downstairs to work while also keeping an eye on who was arriving.

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Apr 2, 2019

Nobel Prize Winner: Lasers Could Permanently Destroy Nuclear Waste

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

Nuclear power can provide inexpensive electricity with little in the way of emissions, but there’s a catch: it produces horrifying radioactive waste that can remain deadly for thousands of years.

Enter Gerard Mourou, the Nobel Prize-winning subject of a fascinating new Bloomberg profile. He says that high-intensity lasers could one day render nuclear waste harmless in just a few minutes — a concept which, if realized, could make nuclear power a vastly more appealing energy option.

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Apr 2, 2019

Gravitational-wave hunt restarts — with a quantum boost

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space

Detailed data on space-time ripples are set to pour in from LIGO and Virgo’s upgraded detectors.

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Apr 2, 2019

2019 Gairdner Awards: Winners hailed for discoveries on DNA replication and power of stem cells to fight cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

It is fitting, then, that the groundbreaking research he’s done on mental health has, in a very real way, improved the lives of millions of people in the developing world.

Dr. Patel is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, which recognizes “his world-leading research in global mental health, providing greater knowledge on the burden and the determinants of mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries and pioneering approach for the treatment of mental health in low-resource settings.”

Dr. Patel, a professor of global health at Harvard University, said, modestly, that his greatest achievement is “having generated knowledge to change hearts and minds about the importance of mental health everywhere in the world.”

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