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Apr 4, 2019

UCI Student ‘Accidentally’ Invents a Rechargeable Battery That Lasts 400 Years

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, space travel

A University of California Irvine student may have stumbled upon an invention to end your phone-charging woes for good. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg of where that could take us as a society. Forget about your phone; the world would be a different place without ever having to worry about replacing car batteries, and imagine the uses that it could have in space exploration. Technology is the ultimate wildcard.

A battery that lasts a whole lifetime is now one step closer to becoming a reality thanks to Mya Le Thai, a PhD student who’s been researching how to make better nanowire rechargeable batteries. In theory, her discovery could lead to a battery that lasts centuries—as long as 400 years.

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Apr 4, 2019

Quantum Immortality: Does Quantum Physics Imply You Are Immortal?

Posted by in categories: alien life, life extension, quantum physics

What other ramifications to follow? Your subjective quantum immortality coupled with soon-to-be discovered indefinite life extension at the civilizational level would spell out that YOU ARE ACTUALLY TO LIVE FOREVER! One can also see a viable resolution to the so-called ‘Mind-uploading’, or Star Trek ‘Teleporter dilemma’, questioning whether in those instances you create a copy of yourself but kill yourself in the process. By analogy to the previous deliberations, it follows that your consciousness has to “migrate” to your living self, thus making the case for successful consciousness transfer in both methods of disembodiments.

On this note, my friend, I’d like to conclude and profess that you are to live forever as an individuated evolving consciousness in this illusory Matrix-like universe where nothing is what it seems.

-by Alex Vikoulov, futurist, digital philosopher.

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Apr 4, 2019

Intel’s new assault on the data center: 56-core Xeons, 10nm FPGAs, 100gig Ethernet

Posted by in category: computing

Intel wants to sell you more than just some CPUs for your servers.

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Apr 4, 2019

MDMA Can “Reopen” a Part of the Brain That Closes After Puberty

Posted by in categories: education, neuroscience

Scientists taught old mice new tricks.

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Apr 4, 2019

If it weren’t for fungi, we wouldn’t be here

Posted by in category: futurism

The button mushroom in your local grocery store is a visible outpost of a largely hidden, alien-like kingdom that rules all life on land: fungi. Annamaria Talas takes a look.

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Apr 4, 2019

Anti-Aging Discovery Could Lead to Restorative Skin Treatments

Posted by in category: life extension

Loss of collagen protein depletes renewal cells that serve as skin’s fountain of youth.

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Apr 4, 2019

Mushrooms Are A Highly Evolved Extraterrestrial Species — Organic Internet [VIDEO]

Posted by in categories: alien life, genetics, internet, life extension, robotics/AI

It is a crazy thought, right?! To think that mushrooms could be alien life. But before you dismiss the idea, take a look at some of principles of the theory. The main concept was formulated by the ingenious psychonaut philosopher Terrence McKenna, and goes along following lines.

Like no other form of life on our planet, the spores of mushrooms are almost perfectly suited to space travel. They can survive high vacuum and insanely low temperatures; the casing of a spore is one of the most electron dense materials in nature, to the point where McKenna says it is almost akin to a metal; global currents are even able to form on the quasi-metallic surface of an airborne spore, which then acts as a repellent to the extreme radiation of space. It is a mind boggling thought that something could evolve to be so perfectly suited to explore the universe.

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Apr 4, 2019

Sheryl Crow’s Tesla screen goes dark, Elon Musk saves the day

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Musk, to the rescue!

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Apr 4, 2019

Researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backward

Posted by in category: futurism

University of Central Florida researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a pulse of light and slow it down, they can also make it travel backward.

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Apr 4, 2019

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument lenses get their first look at space

Posted by in category: cosmology

Testing these six lenses — the largest of which is 1.1 meters in diameter — will continue for about six weeks at the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona. It’s part of an effort to get DESI up and running sometime this year.

When complete, DESI will measure the light of tens of millions of galaxies reaching back 12 billion light years. That will enable scientists to 3D map the universe like never before and to measure its expansion. Ultimately, scientists are looking for insight into dark energy, which makes up an estimated 68 percent of the universe and is said to be the force behind its accelerating expansion. Scientists on the research team say they’re just as excited to find what they’re looking for — a better understanding of dark energy — as they are to discover what other mysteries DESI might reveal.

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