Feb 2, 2020
The Ice Giant Spacecraft of Our Dreams
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: innovation, space travel
Scientists imagined some innovative technologies that could enhance a future mission to Uranus or Neptune.
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Feb 2, 2020
Fully Autonomous Weapons Pose Unique Dangers to Humankind
Posted by Mike Diverde in category: robotics/AI
I’ve been reading Scientific American for over 40 years, and it’s always giving me a good overview of topics that I’m unfamiliar with. I have come across a few recent articles on the topic of Banning Killer Robots. Here are web links to two excellent articles:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/my-account/login/?s=1
Nations racing to acquire weapons that choose their own targets are ignoring the apocalyptic scenarios that can unfold when rivals catch up.
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Feb 2, 2020
The Health Past Of Mummies: Evolutionary Medicine Insights For Human Diseases Now
Posted by Eithen Pasta in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, genetics, life extension
Evolutionary Medicine — Linking human pathology with our past, present, and future evolutionary trajectories — ideaXme (http://radioideaxme.com/) welcomes Prof. Dr. Frank Rühli, Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich — #Ideaxme #EvolutionaryMedicine #Evolution #Microevolution #Paleopathology #BiologicalAnthropology #ComparativeAnatomy #Mummies #Mummy #Hypercholesterinemia #Diabetes #DrugAddiction #Health #Wellness #Regeneration #Longevity #Aging #IraPastor #Bioquark #Regenerage
Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Professor Dr. Frank Rühli, Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine and on the Medical Faculty of University of Zurich, and Founding Director, Chair, Full Professor of Evolutionary Medicine.
Feb 2, 2020
An ‘anti-aging’ gene therapy trial in dogs begins, and Rejuvenate Bio hopes humans will be next
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, information science, life extension
Well, it’s a good thing, but not what I was hoping for. 3 gene therapies though Church is otherwise testing 45. But this is not the rejuvenation I was getting optimistic about. Still, I’m sure as I am getting older that I will be grateful when a treatment comes my way for something when I am elderly. But frankly this was overhyped from the start and I was part of that equation spreading a “2025” figure for some time.
Gene Therapy.
An ‘anti-aging’ gene therapy trial in dogs begins, and Rejuvenate Bio hopes humans will be next.
What is spacetime? How do physicists describe it? How does it relate to quantum gravity? Thomas Hartman passionately pursues these mysteries.
Feb 2, 2020
Johnson & Johnson ‘pretty confident’ it can develop coronavirus vaccine
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson is “pretty confident” that it can create a vaccine to combat the deadly coronavirus, an exec said Monday.
Paul Stoffels, the company’s chief scientific officer, said it began working on a vaccine two weeks ago — and is hopeful that it can be developed within months, CNBC reported.
“We have dozens of scientists working on this so we’re pretty confident we can get something made that will work and stay active for the longer term,” Stoffels told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Feb 2, 2020
Has a black hole made of sound confirmed Hawking radiation?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
One of Stephen Hawking’s predictions seems to have been borne out in a man-made “black hole.”
Feb 2, 2020
An Ancient Australian Volcano Is a Haven for Giant Pink Slugs
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Feb 2, 2020
Sound on! 🎧 Solar Eclipse from an airplane with an amazing video commentary from @mkentri
Posted by Nare Khachatryan in categories: media & arts, transportation
Feb 2, 2020
99-million-year-old millipede discovered in Burmese amber
Posted by Nare Khachatryan in category: futurism
Even though we are led to believe that during the Cretaceous the Earth used to be an exclusive home for fearsome giants, including carnivorous velociraptors and arthropods larger than a modern adult human, it turns out that there was still room for harmless minute invertebrates measuring only several millimetres.
Such is the case of a tiny millipede of only 8.2 mm in length, recently found in 99-million-year-old amber in Myanmar. Using the latest research technologies, the scientists concluded that not only were they handling the first fossil millipede of the order (Callipodida) and also the smallest amongst its contemporary relatives, but that its morphology was so unusual that it drastically deviated from its contemporary relatives.
As a result, Prof. Pavel Stoev of the National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria) together with his colleagues Dr. Thomas Wesener and Leif Moritz of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (Germany) had to revise the current millipede classification and introduce a new suborder. To put it in perspective, there have only been a handful of millipede suborders erected in the last 50 years. The findings are published in the open-access journal ZooKeys.
