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Nov 21, 2019

Boeing’s 1st Starliner Space Capsule Rolls Out to Launch Site for Test Flight

Posted by in category: space

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule left the processing facility for the launch pad where it will begin its first journey to space.

Nov 21, 2019

Mission: Impossible comes true as hyper-realistic masks get so good they can fool us

Posted by in category: futurism

More human than human.

Nov 21, 2019

The Fifth Force of Nature Could Be Real and Fantastic

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

In 2016, Attila Krasznahorkay made news around the world when his team published its discovery of evidence of a fifth force of nature. Now, the scientists are making news again with a second observation of the same force, which may be the beginning of a unified fifth force theory. The researchers have made their original LaTeX paper available prior to acceptance by a peer-reviewed journal. Study of the hypothesized fifth force, a subfield all by itself, is centered on trying to explain missing pieces in our understanding of physics, like dark matter, which could be expanded or validated by an important new discovery or piece of evidence.

Nov 21, 2019

Penn State’s SETI Center Could Legitimize Alien Research

Posted by in category: alien life

It could provide the structure and funding needed to hunt down ET.

Nov 21, 2019

DNA Analysis of Ancient Rome Reveals a Cosmopolitan Megacity

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Roman citizens came from Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and beyond. The ancient metropolis was a bone fide melting pot.

Nov 21, 2019

Is There Actually Science Behind ‘Dopamine Fasting’?

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, science

The trendy concept of “dopamine fasting” actually finds its roots in established addiction therapies.

Nov 21, 2019

‘Shocking’ spike of HPV-related cancer in younger men worries researchers

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

They found 68,809 cases of anal cancer and 12,111 deaths from the disease.

The vast majority of these cases are associated with the human papillomavirus, but about three-quarters of American adults don’t know HPV causes the disease, a recent study, also led by Deshmukh, found.

He called the findings “shocking.”

Nov 21, 2019

Inflammation linked with Alzheimer’s, reduced cognition and brain fog

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Several newly published studies are reporting evidence affirming a growing hypothesis that links inflammation with cognitive deficits. As well as associating inflammation with the cognitive deficits seen in conditions such as bipolar disorder and Alzheimer’s, some research is even suggesting low-grade systemic inflammation in healthy subjects can result in mental sluggishness.

For some time patients suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis or inflammatory bowel disease have reported mild cognitive deficits in association with their disease. Despite a number of correlational studies finding connections between inflammation and cognitive performance, homing in on any clear causal links has been a little tricky for scientists.

“Scientists have long suspected a link between inflammation and cognition, but it is very difficult to be clear about the cause and effect,” explains Ali Mazaheri, from the University of Birmingham. “For example, people living with a medical condition or being very overweight might complain of cognitive impairment, but it’s hard to tell if that’s due to the inflammation associated with these conditions or if there are other reasons.”

Nov 21, 2019

A drone just flew a kidney to a transplant patient for the first time ever. It won’t be the last

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, drones

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RNYCCbCpAlM

A custom-made aerial drone delivered a kidney to a Baltimore hospital, where it was transplanted into a patient who had been on dialysis for eight years.

Nov 21, 2019

Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan joins presidential race as ‘a new type of Republican’

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, geopolitics, transhumanism

Is there room for one more in the 2020 presidential race? Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan has declared he’s running for the White House as a Republican, complete with the campaign motto “Upgrading America” — a task he believes can be accomplished through futuristic technology and science.

One new press report describes him as “the cyborg who is running against Donald Trump.” Mr. Istvan appears ready.

“My team and I are ready to really push hard, get on primary ballots, and see if we can get conservatives to be more open-minded about the future. We’re excited that they will open up so that the far-left doesn’t totally own radical science and tech in the future. We think we can be instrumental in getting to GOP and libertarian conservatives to broaden their perspectives about these things,” Mr. Istvan told The Washington Times.