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‘Google brain’ implants could end school as anyone can learn anything instantly

Posted by Genevieve Klien in education

Mar 30
2019

101 votes and so far on Reddit.

Physicists predict a way to squeeze light from the vacuum of empty space

Posted by Genevieve Klien in quantum physics

Mar 30
2019

Experiment could test theory of quantum electrodynamics—if it ever can be done.

Sir David Attenborough Urges Young People To Look Up From Their Screens At The “Great Treasure” Of The Natural World

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space

Mar 30
2019

The broadcaster talks to BuzzFeed News about his new Netflix show Our Planet, why we need to get off our screens and how there are so many more species on our planet we’ve yet to discover.

Doing this one thing can boost memory and help prevent Alzheimer’s

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

Mar 30
2019

Results showed the hippocampus experienced a boost both immediately after exercise and after continued habitual exercise following a 12-week regiment.

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A DNA Company Wants You to Help Catch Criminals

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, law enforcement

Mar 30
2019

Family Tree DNA was criticized for secretly working with the FBI. Now it’s explicitly asking potential customers to help law enforcement.

World’s First HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplant with Living Donor Performed Successfully

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, health

Mar 30
2019

The ability to use organs from living HIV-positive individuals could increase the supply available for transplant.

By Victoria Knight, Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News on March 29, 2019

Meet history’s most brilliant female coders

Posted by Genevieve Klien in computing

Mar 30
2019

From a gifted 19th-century countess to a maverick naval officer, these women blazed a trail for computer programmers today.

How Science Can Change Your Life & Your Future

Posted by Dave Holt in quantum physics, science

Mar 30
2019

This week I’m going to blow your mind, change your world and future with science, with current science, Quantum Mechanics. Seriously, this article/podcast can completely change your life and future. As well as, your view of the world.

Find out how to Change Your Life and Find Your Life’s Purpose using Quantum Mechanics. Sounds weird and unbelievable but it works…Check it out!

What it’s really like to ‘freeze yourself’ when you die

Posted by Paul Battista in futurism

Mar 30
2019

What happens when you get cryonically frozen after death, according to the world’s leading cryonic preservation company.

We Can Live Forever Thanks to Technology Says Leading Anti-Aging Scientist

Posted by Paul Battista in biotech/medical, cryptocurrencies, finance, life extension

Mar 30
2019

“If I can bring forward the defeat of aging even one day, I would have saved the lives of 110,000 people.” – Dr. Aubrey de Grey at EmTech Asia 2019.

The age-old quest for immortality was largely confined to the myths and legends of past civilizations until about just two decades back when telomerase, the active component for the gene that confers immortality to cells was successfully isolated in a science laboratory. That turned the tide on the entire conversation from whether aging could be treated, to how it could be treated.

Since then it has spawned a whole new medical field – ‘healthspan’ – where scientific research is conducted with the aim of extending healthy human lives for as long as hundreds and thousands of years, if not outright immortality. It is not surprising that the intensive research into anti-aging technologies has attracted financial backing from those who are interested in technological progress – the tech community, the likes of Google and even cryptocurrency tycoons such as Ethereum Founder, Vitalik Buterin, who donated $2.4 million worth of ether to the nonprofit foundation SENS Research Foundation, of which Dr Aubrey de Grey is the Chief Science Officer.