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May 24, 2019

Send Your Name to Mars: InSight

Posted by in category: space travel

Send your name to Mars and get your boarding pass! 😜.

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May 24, 2019

Neuroprosthetics and deep brain stimulation: Two big neuroscience breakthroughs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience, robotics/AI

Researchers have developed a brain-computer interface the size of a baby aspirin that can restore mobility to people with paralysis or amputated limbs.

How does it work? It rewires neural messages from the brain’s motor cortex to a robotic arm, or reroutes it to the person’s own muscles. In this video, Big Think contributor Susan Hockfield, president emerita of MIT, explains further.

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May 24, 2019

Liz Parrish — Anti-aging Gene Therapies

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQVfLYm3VEs&feature=share

Liz intends to take another gene therapy before the end of the year.

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May 24, 2019

New neurons form in the brain into the tenth decade of life, even in people with Alzheimer’s

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

In a new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago, researchers examining post-mortem brain tissue from people ages 79 to 99 found that new neurons continue to form well into old age. The study provides evidence that this occurs even in people with cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease, although neurogenesis is significantly reduced in these people compared to older adults with normal cognitive functioning.

They publish their results in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

The idea that continue to form into middle age, let alone past adolescence, is controversial, as previous studies have shown conflicting results. The UIC study is the first to find evidence of significant numbers of and newly developing present in the hippocampal tissue of older , including those with disorders that affect the hippocampus, which is involved in the formation of memories and in learning.

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May 24, 2019

Closer To Truth

Posted by in categories: life extension, mathematics, physics

Frank Jennings Tipler is a mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University. He holds a BS in Physics from MIT and a PhD from the University of Maryland.

Watch his interview below on eternal life. To watch more interviews on this topic, click here: https://bit.ly/2wcTT1N

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May 24, 2019

The Universe as Cosmic Dashboard

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space

Relational quantum mechanics suggests physics might be a science of perceptions, not observer-independent reality.

  • By Bernardo Kastrup on May 24, 2019

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May 24, 2019

Samsung deepfake AI could fabricate a video of you from a single profile pic

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Even the Mona Lisa can be faked.

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May 24, 2019

Could Parallel Universes Be Physically Real?

Posted by in category: cosmology

And if they exist, are there alternate-reality versions of you out there, too?

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May 24, 2019

Google bots shut down Baltimore officials’ ransomware-workaround Gmail accounts

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

Somebody lend Baltimore $6.

Google automatically suspended accounts after detecting they were from same network.

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May 24, 2019

Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively

Posted by in category: futurism

Boiled in hydrogen peroxide and compressed, the wood can passively manage heat.

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