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Apr 9, 2019
Reversing Cognitive Decline
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: life extension, neuroscience
A team of Stanford researchers led by Professor Wyss-Coray set out to find out which genes were linked to age-related cognitive decline. Not only did the researchers find the culprit, they were able to reverse cognitive decline and rejuvenate aged mouse brains.
Searching for the cause of cognitive decline
Microglia are immune cells that reside in the brain and spinal cord. These cells mediate immune responses in the central nervous system and act like other macrophages, clearing cellular debris and dead neurons from nervous tissue through the process of phagocytosis (cell eating).
Circa 2011 this could make its own gravity when used on a spacestation.
Two rotating spheres separated by thousands of kilograms of liquid sodium aim to mimic Earth’s interior.
Apr 9, 2019
The first-ever photo of a black hole is expected very soon
Posted by Michael Lance in category: cosmology
Are you excited?
Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration will present a “groundbreaking result” from the project on April 10, according to a media advisory.
EDT, I’m speaking at the annual Space Symposium on NASA’s commitment to accelerate our plans for lunar exploration. Watch:
Apr 9, 2019
Blue Origin urging Air Force to postpone launch competition
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: military, satellites
COLORADO SPRINGS — Blue Origin wants the U.S. Air Force to wait until 2021 before picking the two companies it intends use for launching critical military satellites in the decade ahead.
The Air Force, however, aims to solicit proposals this spring and choose its two preferred launch providers in 2020 — perhaps a year or more before the new rockets that the Air Force is fostering at Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman make their first flights.
All three companies were chosen in October by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to share $2.3 billion in so-called Launch Service Agreement (LSA) funding to support development of next-generation rockets capable of meeting the military’s satellite launch needs.
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Apr 9, 2019
The basics of modern AI—how does it work and will it destroy society this year?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Apr 9, 2019
Made In Space unveils small satellite interferometry tool
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: satellites
COLORADO SPRINGS – Made in Space unveiled a product April 8 to help customers conduct interferometry missions on small satellites.
Possible applications for the new product, Optimast-Structurally Connected Interferometer (Optimast-SCI) include space situational awareness and detection of near-Earth objects, Andrew Rush, Made In Space president and chief executive, told SpaceNews.
Traditional space-based interferometry missions bring along large deployable structures to separate their telescopes or other instruments. Hinges and mechanical systems on the deployable structures allow them to be folded in launch fairings and extended in orbit.
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