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Dec 10, 2018

Spot Mini Robot Dancing to Uptown Funk You up — Boston Dynamics

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

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Dancing to bruno mars uptown funk you up.

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Dec 10, 2018

Robot

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Dec 10, 2018

Soft Robotics for the Disabled — Harvard University

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Lightweight, soft, wearable robots that people can wear all day, every day, to help them regain use of their upper extremities.

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Dec 10, 2018

Bioquark Inc. — Bold Moves Podcast — Ira Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, DNA, finance, futurism, genetics, innovation, life extension

Dec 10, 2018

Do social psychologists have an ideological aversion to evolutionary psychology?

Posted by in category: futurism

By Christian Jarrett. Part of the problem may be the lack of evolutionary science in many psychology degree courses.

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Dec 10, 2018

Moon Missions, Ancient Asteroids, And A Pioneering Professor

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50 years of discovery — and he’s not done yet.

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Dec 10, 2018

Supersensitive Space Telescope To Focus On Super-Earths

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The probe will seek out super-Earths.

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Dec 10, 2018

DNA That Should Only Pass Down From Mothers Can Come From Fathers, Too

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

You probably learned two things about mitochondria in high school biology. First, they’re the powerhouses of the cell. Second, you can only inherit them from your mother. But a new study seems to cloud that second point.

A team of researchers from the United States, China, and Taiwan identified three unrelated families with members whose mitochondria contained DNA from both parents. While this discovery could reignite debate about the nature of inheriting mitochondrial DNA, the researchers hope it will open up new ways to treat disease.

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Dec 10, 2018

The FDA is revamping the medical device approval process

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In order to advance innovation and keep pace with the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is modernizing the approval process most medical device manufacturers undergo when bringing new products to market.

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Dec 10, 2018

Coral Larvae Cryogenically Frozen and Thawed for the First Time

Posted by in categories: cryonics, life extension

Warming oceans are killing the world’s reefs, but scientists may have found a way to help them get out of hot water—by putting corals into a deep freeze.

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