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Oct 28, 2018

This 3D ‘organ on a chip’ can monitor cells in real-time to develop new treatments

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Researchers plan to use the device to develop a ‘gut on a chip’ and attach it to a ‘brain on a chip.’

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Oct 28, 2018

Blue Origin will be Landing its Rockets on a Used Cargo Ship. It’ll Get Converted in Time for First Flights in 2021

Posted by in category: space travel

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTEhohh6eYk

Blue Origin recently received a large cargo ship, which they will retool to retrieve the first stage of their reusable New Glenn rocket.

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Oct 28, 2018

Physicists Discover How an Exotic Form of Ice Grows at Over 1,000 Miles Per Hour

Posted by in categories: physics, space

Physicists detail how “Ice VII” forms for the first time and what this means for life elsewhere in the galaxy.

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Oct 28, 2018

Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time — an endeavor as dangerous as landing on the moon

Posted by in category: space

The Five Deeps expedition aims to explore the bottom of each of the world’s oceans. The first stop is in Puerto Rico this December.

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Oct 28, 2018

Earth Is Orbited By Two Enigmatic Dust Clouds, Astronomers Have Confirmed

Posted by in category: futurism

The elusive Kordylewski dust clouds were finally spotted near the L5 Lagrange Point.

For more than half a century, scientists have debated over the existence of two puzzling celestial objects known as the Kordylewski dust clouds.

These dust clouds were first observed by Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski in 1961 and are thought to orbit our planet around the L4 and L5 Lagrange points — two of the five gravitationally stable locations found in the Earth-moon system.

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Oct 28, 2018

A Next-Generation Particle Accelerator

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In early 2020, the FACET-II facility aims to open for use by scientists across the world. Plasma accelerators are compact accelerators that are more affordable. FACET-II will be the upgraded version of the current FACET facility. Where the aim of the upgrade is to get the electron beam brighter by about 100 or even 1000 times. FACET-II will be the home of experiments that will add to medical and x-ray science, and particle physics. Currently, potential users are submitting proposals for experiments they would like to carry out at FACET-II. A program advisory committee will evaluate the proposals and select the most exciting ones with the largest impact in science for the upcoming experimental runs.

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Oct 28, 2018

An IBM AI Invented Perfumes That’ll Soon Sell in 4,000 Stores

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

These fragrances were dreamed up by Waton’s creative cousin, Philyra.


It has no nose, and yet it must sniff.

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Oct 28, 2018

A Lightning Storm Seen From Space

Posted by in category: climatology

The ISS captured this massive lightning storm over China.

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Oct 28, 2018

Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from

Posted by in categories: ethics, robotics/AI, transportation

Who should a self-driving car kill?


The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures.

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Oct 28, 2018

In a Transhumanist Future, Everyday Could Be Halloween

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, habitats, health, nanotechnology, transhumanism

In the spirit of Halloween, where ghouls, ghosts, and vampires walk among us, our perception of reality will soon transform as well, forever possessed by the specter of Transhumanism!


Last year, I wrote about how people could transform themselves into one of my favorite horror creatures—a real-life werewolf—using modern science and tech. This merely scratches the surface, however, in terms of how far an individual can go. In a Transhumanist future, you’ll be empowered to not only question the extent of your humanity but equally put those questions into action.

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