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Apr 21, 2018

Peripheral Elevation of a Klotho Fragment Enhances Brain Function and Resilience in Young, Aging, and α-Synuclein Transgenic Mice

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension, neuroscience

Peripheral Elevation of a #Klotho Fragment Enhances Brain Function and Resilience in Young, Aging, and α-Synuclein Transgenic Mice.


Klotho is a longevity factor associated with cognitive enhancement when genetically and widely overexpressed over the lifetime of mice. Leon et al. show that peripheral delivery of a klotho fragment, αKL-F, acutely enhances cognition and neural resilience in young, aging, and disease model mice, establishing its therapeutic relevance and dissecting its underlying mechanisms.

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Apr 21, 2018

Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Breakthrough in predicting chaotic systems using machine learning may significantly improve forecasting the weather, earthquakes, cardiac arrest, and many other chaotic phenomena.


In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.

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Apr 21, 2018

AI can have Positive Impact on Banks Business

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

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AI can have Positive Impact on Banks’ Business.

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Apr 21, 2018

Big Bang, Big Claim: Why This Bold Idea Is Right

Posted by in category: cosmology

The Big Bang origin of the universe may sound incredible, but there’s solid evidence backing up the bold claim.

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Apr 21, 2018

‘It’s about expanding Earth’: could we build cities in space?

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, space

Meet the startup hoping to colonise the final frontier, one zero-gravity 3D printer at a time.

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Apr 21, 2018

Army researchers are developing a self-aware robot squid you can 3D print in the field

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, robotics/AI

In case you weren’t already terrified of robots that can jump over walls, fly or crawl, Army researchers are developing your next nightmare — a robot squid.

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Apr 21, 2018

No-go zone grows as volcano erupts for 1st time in 250 years

Posted by in category: futurism

Mount Io on Japan’s main island of Kyushu has rumbled to life after a long rest, sparking a warning for residents of falling rock and ash.

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Apr 21, 2018

How Music Generated

Posted by in categories: information science, internet, media & arts, robotics/AI

There is an enduring fear in the music industry that artificial intelligence will replace the artists we love, and end creativity as we know it.

As ridiculous as this claim may be, it’s grounded in concrete evidence. Last December, an AI-composed song populated several New Music Friday playlists on Spotify, with full support from Spotify execs. An entire startup ecosystem is emerging around services that give artists automated songwriting recommendations, or enable the average internet user to generate customized instrumental tracks at the click of a button.

But AI’s long-term impact on music creation isn’t so cut and dried. In fact, if we as an industry are already thinking so reductively and pessimistically about AI from the beginning, we’re sealing our own fates as slaves to the algorithm. Instead, if we take the long view on how technological innovation has made it progressively easier for artists to realize their creative visions, we can see AI’s genuine potential as a powerful tool and partner, rather than as a threat.

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Apr 20, 2018

Holographic sails fixes last technical issues for interstellar laser pushed sails

Posted by in category: space travel

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Apr 20, 2018

UK man’s super-gonorrhoea cured — but now two Australians have it

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, sex

A UK man who caught what was dubbed the world’s “worst-ever” case of super-gonorrhoea has been cured, Public Health England (PHE) said — but two similar cases have been reported in Australia.

The unidentified heterosexual man, who had a partner in the UK, picked up the infection having sex with another woman in South-East Asia, PHE said.

Health officials said it was the first time the infection could not be cured with the regular treatment — a combination of antibiotics azithromycin and ceftriaxone.

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