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Oct 29, 2018

The best astronomy pictures of the year are gorgeous reminders that we live on a rock that drifts through space

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Look at the beauty of the universe!


Looking up at space reminds us that everyone and everything on Earth is stuck together on a big space rock that’s drifting through an infinite black void.

Unfortunately, terrestrial concerns like work, dinner, and getting enough sleep tend to keep us facing down.

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Oct 29, 2018

Models may show how brain layout affects performance

Posted by in categories: life extension, neuroscience

Using computational models of individual brains could shed light on how brain stucture affects how we perform language-related tasks.

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Oct 29, 2018

T-Mobile becomes 1st U.S. wireless company to carry the new 6T ‘superphone’ from China’s OnePlus

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones, security

T-Mobile will carry the new OnePlus 6T, the first time a phone from the popular Chinese manufacturer has been offered by a U.S. wireless provider.

The 6T launches exclusively on T-Mobile starting Thursday, the company said during an unveiling event in New York City. But the company is offering an early sale at its Times Square store in New York City starting at 5 p.m. Eastern today.

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Oct 29, 2018

DJI’s new drone features swappable search and rescue accessories

Posted by in categories: business, drones, government

DJI is taking one of its newest drones and turning it into something small businesses and government agencies might want to use. The Chinese drone maker just announced the Mavic 2 Enterprise — a modular $1,999 version of the Mavic 2 Zoom — that is better suited for tasks like inspection or search and rescue.

Mavic 2 Enterprise comes with three different accessories. There’s a 2,400-lumen spotlight, a 100-decibel speaker, and a flashing strobe. The loudspeaker allows operators to remotely blast up to 10 custom recordings, and the strobe is visible from three miles away. DJI says the accessories help move its products “beyond imaging” and “into configurable platforms that enhance aerial productivity.”

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Oct 29, 2018

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Back Online, Continues Cosmic Research

Posted by in category: space travel

Systems are a go for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope after the successful recovery of a backup gyroscope replaced one that failed earlier this month.

The spacecraft entered safe mode on Oct. 5, remaining in a stable configuration for three weeks; HST returned to normal operations late on Friday.

It completed science observations the next day, using the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument to capture infrared wavelengths of a distant, star-forming galaxy.

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Oct 29, 2018

Pursuing Outreach Opportunities

Posted by in categories: life extension, transhumanism

Today we have the transcript of “Pursuing Outreach Opportunities: Lifespan.io’s Experiences in Promoting Healthy Life Extension”, a talk that LEAF Outreach Director Elena Milova gave at TransVision 2018, a transhumanist conference in Madrid, Spain recently.


This is the transcript of “Pursuing Outreach Opportunities: Lifespan.io’s Experiences in Promoting Healthy Life Extension”, a talk that LEAF Outreach Director Elena Milova gave at TransVision 2018, a transhumanist conference in Madrid, Spain.

My name is Elena Milova, and I work with the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in New York City. Our main activity is to support research on regenerative therapies that can possibly make human life healthier and longer. To do that, we have developed the non-profit crowdfunding platform Lifespan.io, and, as of now, we have gathered more than 300 thousand dollars in support of 7 scientific projects. We are currently running a campaign to support David Sinclair’s NAD+ Mouse project, a study of NMN and its effect on healthy lifespan in mice.

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Oct 29, 2018

RbAp48 And Osteocalcin Play A Crucial Role In Age-related Memory Loss

Posted by in categories: life extension, neuroscience

Protein RbAp48 works with osteocalcin to preserve memory in old age.


In a recent open-access study, scientists at Columbia University have demonstrated that a protein known as RbAp48 crucially interacts with osteocalcin to help preserve memory. The protein, which is present in mice as well as people, declines with age, contributing to age-related memory loss [1].

Abstract

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Oct 29, 2018

“Schrödinger’s Bacterium” Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone

Posted by in categories: biological, quantum physics

A recent experiment may have placed living organisms in a state of quantum entanglement.

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Oct 29, 2018

We’re on the cusp of the #Apollo50… — NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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We’re on the cusp of the #Apollo50 anniversary of America’s great achievement that landed a dozen astronauts on the Moon between July 1969 and December 1972 and our first crewed mission – Apollo 8 – that circumnavigated the Moon in December 1968. Take a look: https://go.nasa.gov/2CN3KQH

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Oct 29, 2018

SpaceX confirms initial BFR spaceship flight tests will occur in South Texas

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX has confirmed that the two large propellant tanks now present at its Boca Chica, Texas facilities will likely to be the last major ground tanks needed to enable the first test flights of the upper stage of its next-gen BFR rocket, known as the Big Falcon Spaceship (BFS).

Expected to begin as soon as late 2019, SpaceX executives have recently reiterated plans for a campaign of hop tests for the first full-scale spaceship prototype, in which the ship will follow in the footsteps of its Falcon 9-based Grasshopper and F9R predecessors.

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