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Feb 26, 2019

A Step Closer to Universal Stem Cells

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Researchers at UC San Francisco have taken science a step closer to creating stem cells that are effectively “invisible” to the immune system. This may ultimately lead to the production of “off-the-shelf” stem cell therapies that do not need to be patient matched.

The immune system is a double-edged sword

One of the big challenges in creating effective stem cell therapies is how the immune system responds to cells from other donors and sources. This complex, multilayered system is designed to defend our bodies from the constant onslaught of invading pathogens that we encounter in our daily lives.

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Feb 26, 2019

Why a ‘genius’ scientist thinks our consciousness originates at the quantum level

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, quantum physics

Do our minds have quantum structures that give rise to consciousness? Sir Roger Penrose, one of the world’s most famous scientists, believes this and can explain how it works.

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Feb 26, 2019

NASA’s Johnson Space Center

Posted by in categories: education, space

LIVE: It’s Space Day at the Texas Capitol! From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., we will be celebrating human space exploration with interactive exhibits for the public featuring NASA Astronauts, the International Space Station, the NASA Commercial Crew Program, NASA’s Orion Spacecraft, NASA JSC Education’s High School Aerospace Scholars (HAS) program, and legislative proclamations highlighting achievements in human exploration throughout Texas.

Ask your questions in the comments!

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Feb 26, 2019

Recently two new studies published in Current Biology explored the grandmothers effect on longevity, children’ survival, on age and distance

Posted by in categories: biological, life extension

There is a theory that humans’ long life spans and women’s long postreproductive lives, might be connected through the grandmother effect. “…An analysis of church birth and death records in Finland for individuals born between 1731 and 1890 showed that having a maternal grandmother between 50 and 75 years of age while a grandchild was 5 years old or younger increased the child’s survival… The second study … it’s not just the existence of a grandmother, but her proximity that matters. The shorter the distance between grandmother and grandchild, the more involved the grandmother can be and the more benefits that accrue to her daughter and grandchildren…” See More.


Feb 26, 2019

Green and privileged childhoods signal better adult mental

Posted by in categories: food, neuroscience

As greenery round the childhood residence shrunk, risk of mental illness as an adolescent and adult went up. Kids who grew up in plots with the least vegetation had a 15 to 50% greater incidence of a range of psychiatric problems, including depression, eating disorders, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.


Two studies link parks and poshness to lower depression and cognitive decline, for reasons still unclear. Paul Biegler reports.

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Feb 26, 2019

There’s a black hole that can let humans erase their past, astrophysicists say

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Forget the past.


However, a study from Berkley University suggests that entering a specific black hole in the universe can actually erase everything that had happened in a person’s past. Not only that, it could also give humans infinite futures!

But, how is that even possible?

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Feb 26, 2019

Air pollution shines from this alarming map

Posted by in category: sustainability

Those aren’t city lights.

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Feb 26, 2019

World’s Largest Bee Is Spotted For First Time In Decades

Posted by in category: futurism

Updated at 6:40 a.m. Friday

You might think the world’s biggest bee would be easy to find. But that’s not the case: Until recently, the last time anyone had reported seeing a Wallace’s giant bee living in the wild was in 1981. That changed in January, when the rare bee was spotted on an island of Indonesia.

The Wallace’s giant bee Megachile pluto towers over European honeybees. The female’s size has been recorded as at least an inch and a half long, with a tongue that’s nearly an inch long. Add to that a pair of gigantic mandibles, and it’s a bee like no other.

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Feb 26, 2019

These Are the World’s Healthiest Countries

Posted by in category: futurism

Six of the top 10 nations are in Europe.

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Feb 26, 2019

Alphabet invests in a start-up using beams of light on chips for super-fast A.I.

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A start-up called Lightmatter is working on a chip for artificial intelligence that will draw on optical technology that has previously been used to quickly send information around data centers.

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