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Jul 3, 2018

The New Energy Storage Tech Gates, Bezos, Ma, and Branson Are Investing In

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The advantages of flow batteries include easy scalability and long cycle life. Among its disadvantages are relatively low energy density and high component cost.

Form Energy’s use of sulfur, which is both cheap and abundant, lowers those costs dramatically.

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Jul 3, 2018

SpaceX mission will bring 3D bioprinter to ISS, plans to 3D print cardiac patches for damaged hearts

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, bioprinting, biotech/medical, space travel

The next phase of a NASA sponsored mission to 3D print human organs and tissues in space will launch in February 2019. A 3D BioFabrication Facility (BFF) developed by nScrypt and Techshot and destined for the International Space Station (ISS) will form part of the cargo of SpaceX CRS-17.

3D printing in zero gravity

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Jul 3, 2018

Edge Of The Universe

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Star size comparison to the edge of expanding universe.

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Jul 3, 2018

First confirmed image of a newborn planet revealed

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Nascent planet seen carving a path through the disc of gas and dust surrounding the very young star PDS70.

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Jul 3, 2018

Scale of China’s dirty and deadly air and water problems means both nuclear and renewables are needed

Posted by in category: sustainability

China’s anti-air and water pollution plan has 2020 targets:

* ‘good-air days’ reach over 80 percent annually * Over 70% of the surface water to be drinkable * around 70 percent of the country’s offshore area water should be of good quality.

Currently about 60% of China’s water is not safe for human contact.

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Jul 3, 2018

Nanotechnology Takes Giant Leap Foward

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, particle physics

Scientists have been able to move atoms around for 30 years, but moving molecules has proven much more difficult.

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Jul 3, 2018

Too healthy for your own good?

Posted by in categories: business, life extension

Why on Earth would you ever want to be less than completely healthy?


Recently, Reason of Fight Aging! pointed out psychological research revealing a certain conservatism in terms of what people consider to be the “ideal” levels of happiness, intelligence, longevity, and even health.

It probably doesn’t come as a surprise that significant numbers of people in the studies weren’t too keen on the idea of living much longer than the average (around 90 years), and even under the assumption of eternal youth, their preference didn’t go past 120 on average; after all, LEAF wouldn’t be in business if the idea of healthy life extension wasn’t so inexplicably frowned upon. What’s really flabbergasting, though, is that even health—health!—is apparently something you can have too much of; on a scale from 0 (“completely unhealthy”) to 100 (“completely healthy”), the average preference gravitated somewhere between 80 and 90. These results provide us with an occasion for reflection.

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Jul 3, 2018

Interview_Zoltan_Istvan_EN_lang: 2bahead

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism

A new interview I did is out at the 2b AHEAD Future Congress event I spoke at in Germany (audio and written): https://www.future.consulting/…/full-interview-with-zoltan…/ #transhumanist


2b AHEAD: So we would like to start an interview with Zoltan Istvan, the presidential candidate for the transhumanist party and leading a figure in the transhumanist movement. Also the best-selling author of “The Transhumanist Wager.” Welcome, glad that you could make it. I hope you’ve been enjoying…

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Jul 3, 2018

“I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets

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Tim Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it.

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Jul 3, 2018

This mysterious space object is baffling astronomers all over the world

Posted by in category: cosmology

The flash was about ten times brighter than a normal supernova.


Two telescopes that are part of the ATLAS project in Hawaii have discovered an unnaturally bright explosion in the sky.

The discovery, made in mid-June, was published in Astronomer’s Telegram, where the object was assigned the name AT2018cow or “The Cow” for short.

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