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Mar 20, 2018

‘Your Genome Isn’t Really Secret,’ Says Google Ventures’s Bill Maris

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, security

The venture capitalist wants to extend human life expectancy, and he says fears over privacy and the security of DNA data shouldn’t stand in the way.

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Mar 20, 2018

Bioquark Inc. — Senior Care — Reversal Of Age-Related Diseases — Ira Pastor

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biological, biotech/medical, disruptive technology, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, science

Mar 20, 2018

A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place

Posted by in category: media & arts

Why should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away?

Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz

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Mar 20, 2018

DARPA wants to connect human brains and machines

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

Neurotechnology would significantly increase the speed at which information is transferred from humans to machines, and a brain-systems interface may be a requirement to keep up with the pace and complexity of future combat zones.

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Mar 19, 2018

IBM Highlights 5 Technologies It Hopes To Pioneer In 5 Years

Posted by in category: futurism

The first step turning ideas into reality is to identify meaningful problems.

By Greg Satell

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Mar 19, 2018

US-Russian crew to blast off for International Space Station mission

Posted by in categories: space, transportation

A handout photo made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows the Soyuz rocket inside Building 112 prior to being rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, March 19, 2018. Expedition 55 crewmembers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on March 21 and will spend the next five months living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said.

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Mar 19, 2018

Retinal patch with stem cells treats macular degeneraiton

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

March 19 (UPI) — Researchers in California have developed a retinal patch with stem cells to improve the vision of people with age-related macular degeneration.

In a clinical trial, researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara implanted the stem cell-derived ocular cells in two patients over the course of 12 months, publishing the results of the study Monday in the journal in Nature Biotechnology.

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Mar 19, 2018

A Clever Animation That Explains the Heights and Purposes of Each Layer of the Earth’s Atmosphere

Posted by in category: space

While many of us have a nebulous familiarity with the universe, a very clever animation by the Royal Observatory Greenwich explains the height and purposes of the different layers of the Earth’s atmosphere before it is officially considered to be “space”. These layers include the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and the Kármán Line. The thermosphere, which continues on and on eventually becomes the exosphere and then on to space as we know it.

Have you ever wondered how far away space is; how far are the different things you see above your head? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they ascend up through the different layers of the Earth’s atmosphere to reveal what we would see at different heights.

The Royal Observatory also put together an equally clever animation that describes how the solar system was formed.

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Mar 19, 2018

World’s largest geyser erupts at Yellowstone National Park

Posted by in category: futurism

Wow!


USGS scientists and park staff stress that there’s nothing to worry about in terms of the supervolcano underlying Yellowstone.

“We have zero concerns that anything is happening volcanically,” Stovall said, adding that there hasn’t been a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption in more than 600,000 years. “There’s been geysers erupting through that whole time and that doesn’t mean that anything is happening with magma underground.”

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Mar 19, 2018

The biggest solar parks in the world are now being built in India

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

Long regarded as a laggard in the fight against climate change, India is building massive solar stations at a furious clip, helping to drive a global revolution in renewable energy and reduce its dependence on coal and other carbon-spewing fossil fuels blamed for warming the planet.

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