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Dec 12, 2018

Virgin Galactic to attempt flight to space this week

Posted by in category: space travel

Virgin Galactic is headed for the Big Black! https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-to-attempt-flight-to-space-this-week/


WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic plans to perform the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane as soon as Dec. 13, a flight that could be the first by the vehicle to reach at least one definition of space.

In a Dec. 11 statement, the company said the next powered test flight of VSS Unity, the second SpaceShipTwo, is planned for a window that opens Dec. 13 from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The flight would be the fourth powered flight for this vehicle and the first since July. The statement came shortly after the publication of airspace restrictions in the vicinity of the airport “for rocket launch and recovery” for Dec. 13 through 15.

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Dec 12, 2018

Chang’e-4 Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit

Posted by in category: satellites

Next stop: the Lunar Farside

China’s Chang’e-4 lunar mission, the first-ever soft-landing endeavor on the lunar farside, launched successfully on 8 December at 02:23 Beijing time (7 December at 18:23 UTC) via a Long March 3B rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The launch carried a lander and a rover toward the Moon. On 12 December at 8:45 Beijing time (16:45 UTC), the spacecraft arrived in lunar orbit, preparing for a landing in early January.

Chang'e-4 lander and rover

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Dec 12, 2018

How would you like a vaccine against the effects of aging?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

How would you like to take one injection that has multiple genes that improve cellular repair and regeneration, keeping your cells younger and healthier longer? Today, BioViva and Rutgers University are embarking on an ambitious research project to do just that; we are tackling humanities greatest foe — suffering and death due to aging.

Read the press release here:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/bui-rua121018.php

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Dec 12, 2018

New Telescopes In Tow, Astronomers Start Search For ‘Potentially Habitable’ Worlds

Posted by in category: space

Earth-size planets are the target.

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Dec 12, 2018

NASA offers advice on how to rescue Tony Stark

Posted by in categories: food, space

NASA directed Marvel to listen for a signal from Stark saying “Avengers, we have a problem.” #INQEntertainment


MANILA, Philippines — Tony Stark being stranded in space without food, water or air in the “Avengers: Endgame” trailer stirred the emotions of many Marvel fans.

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Dec 12, 2018

Pinoy team to compete in global NASA Space Apps Challenge

Posted by in categories: internet, space

The ISDApp was designed to communicate useful information to fishermen (such as real-time weather updates, sunrise and sunset times, wind speed, and cloud coverage) without the need for an internet connection. #SpaceApps #SpaceAppsPH


For the first time, a Filipino-made app was selected to join the global NASA Space Apps Challenge. Current latest trending Philippine headlines on science, technology breakthroughs, hardware devices, geeks, gaming, web/desktop applications, mobile apps, social media buzz and gadget reviews.

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Dec 12, 2018

An Interview with Reason – Near-Term Life Extension Therapies

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

Today, we present an interview with Reason, the editor of Fight Aging! and co-founder of Repair Biotechnologies. We asked him about the state of rejuvenative therapies, some of which may be available in the near future.

Fight Aging! was the first blog that tackled the science of aging in a serious fashion. Many people still treat it as the go-to site for high-quality information and opinion on the rapidly growing field of biogerontology.

Reason (he goes by only his first name), the brain behind the Fight Aging! blog, has been involved in one way or another with anti-aging science for almost two decades as a writer, researcher, and investor. His new company, Repair Biotechnologies, is focused mainly on halting thymic atrophy and atherosclerosis, which causes about 20 percent of all human deaths.

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Dec 12, 2018

Will we ever be able to control gravity?

Posted by in category: futurism

Fancy flying? Humans are a far way off manipulating gravity.

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Dec 12, 2018

Happy to announce Dr. Manuel Serrano from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) in Barcelona as a speaker for the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

“Manuel has been a world-leading researcher in cell senescence for decades, and participated in various of our conferences starting many years ago. His latest breakthrough, which he will discuss in Berlin, is one of those head-slappingly brilliant concepts that I encounter at most once per year, combining a couple of long-established ideas in a completely novel way that potentially delivers far more than the sum of the parts. I won’t spoil the surprise here!” says Aubrey de Grey.

https://www.undoing-aging.org/news/dr-manuel-serrano-to-spea…aging-2019

#undoingaging #sens #foreverhealthy

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Dec 12, 2018

What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The tree of life just got another major branch. Researchers recently found a certain rare and mysterious microbe called a hemimastigote in a clump of Nova Scotian soil. Their subsequent analysis of its DNA revealed that it was neither animal, plant, fungus nor any recognized type of protozoan — that it in fact fell far outside any of the known large categories for classifying complex forms of life (eukaryotes). Instead, this flagella-waving oddball stands as the first member of its own “supra-kingdom” group, which probably peeled away from the other big branches of life at least a billion years ago.

“It’s the sort of result you hope to see once in a career,” said Alastair Simpson, a microbiologist at Dalhousie University who led the study.

Impressive as this finding about hemimastigotes is on its own, what matters more is that it’s just the latest (and most profound) of a quietly and steadily growing number of major taxonomic additions. Researchers keep uncovering not just new species or classes but entirely new kingdoms of life — raising questions about how they have stayed hidden for so long and how close we are to finding them all.

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