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Mar 13, 2019
Scientists turn nuclear waste into diamond batteries
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, nuclear energy
Mar 13, 2019
Everything It Takes to Engineer the World’s Longest Sea Bridge
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Engineers want the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge to last 120 years… And it just might. (via Seeker)
Mar 13, 2019
Piling Up: How China’s Ban on Importing Waste Has Stalled Global Recycling
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: sustainability
China’s decision to no longer be the dumping ground for the world’s recycled waste has left municipalities and waste companies from Australia to the U.S. scrambling for alternatives. But experts say it offers an opportunity to develop better solutions for a growing throwaway culture.
Mar 13, 2019
Google+ Communities Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
Posted by Caycee Dee Neely in category: biotech/medical
In April of 2019 Google+ is going away. However, if you have stuff that you really want to save someone created a workaround. You can now move your content to Discourse.
Google+ is dead. Granted people have been saying that much for years now, but this time it’s really true. As of April, Google’s social media experiment will officially go the way of Reader, Buzz, Wave, Notebook, and all the other products that the search giant decided they were no longer interested in maintaining. Unfortunately in the case of Google+, the shutdown means losing a lot of valuable content that was buried in the “Communities” section of the service. Or at least that’s what we all thought.
Thanks to the efforts of [Michael Johnson], many of those Google+ communities now have a second chance at life. After taking a deep dive into the data from his own personal Google+ account, he realized it should be possible to write some code that would allow pulling the content out of Google’s service and transplanting it into a Discourse instance. With some more work, he was even able to figure out how to preserve the ownership of the comments and posts. This is no simple web archive; you can actually log into Discourse with your Google account and have all of your old content attributed to you.
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Mar 13, 2019
We are happy to announce Dr. Evan Snyder as a speaker for the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference
Posted by Michael Greve in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Dr. Snyder is Director of the Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at Sanford-Burnham Medical Discovery Institute.
“Evan needs no introduction to anyone who works in regenerative medicine; he has been at the pinnacle of that field for decades. I’ve been delighted that SENS Research Foundation has been able to work closely with him over the past few years, especially in the form of his annual hosting of some of our outstanding summer interns — he doesn’t even vet them himself anymore, because he knows how stellar our recruits invariably are! I’m intensely proud to have such a titan of our field on the Undoing Aging program”, says Aubrey de Grey.
Mar 13, 2019
8 Things to know about pandemic influenza
Posted by Derick Lee in category: biotech/medical
The threat of pandemic influenza is ever-present. A pandemic can arise when a new influenza virus that hasn’t affected humans before emerges, spreads and causes illness in humans.
Influenza viruses are unpredictable – we can never be certain of when or from where the next pandemic will arise. However, another influenza pandemic is inevitable. In this interconnected world, the question is not if we will have another pandemic, but when.
To protect people across the globe from this threat, the WHO has released a Global Influenza Strategy for 2019–2030. The new strategy is the most comprehensive and far reaching influenza strategy that WHO has developed. The strategy outlines a framework for WHO, countries and partners to work together to prepare for, prevent, and control the influenza.
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Mar 13, 2019
Why your immune system is key in the fight against cancer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Harnessing the power of our immune system will be one of the most important scientific discoveries in history.
Mar 12, 2019
New Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests That Reality Isn’t Objective
Posted by Mary Jain in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
A new quantum physics experiment just lent evidence to a mind-boggling idea that was previously limited to the realm of theory, according to the MIT Technology Review — that under the right conditions, two people can observe the same event, see two different things happen, and both be correct.
According to research shared to the preprint server arXiv on Tuesday, physicists from Heriot-Watt University demonstrated for the first time how two people can experience different realities by recreating a classic quantum physics thought experiment.
The experiment involves two people observing a single photon, the smallest quantifiable unit of light that can act as either a particle or a wave under different conditions.
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Mar 12, 2019
Woolly mammoth cells brought back to life in shocking scientific achievement
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: biological
Cells from a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago have begun to show “signs of biological [activity]” after they were implanted in mouse cells. However, researchers caution that it’s unlikely the extinct creatures will walk the Earth again anytime soon.
The research, published in Scientific Reports, details how a well-preserved woolly mammoth, found in 2011 in the Siberian permafrost, has begun to show some activity.