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Are We Getting Closer to Thorium Nuclear Fuel?

Posted by Genevieve Klien in energy

Nov 4
2018

Watch Are We Getting Closer to Thorium Nuclear Fuel?, an Earth video from Seeker.

From Gene-Editing Cures to Bioweapon Nightmare

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, genetics

Nov 4
2018

Crispr has driven biotech investment, but also the possibility of dangerous applications.

A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical

Nov 4
2018

Revolutionary work on the body’s immune system and a host of new drug trials mean that beating cancer may be achievable.

Musk: Tesla Pickup Truck Will Be Straight Out of “Blade Runner”

Posted by Victoria Generao in sustainability, transportation | 1 Comment on Musk: Tesla Pickup Truck Will Be Straight Out of “Blade Runner”

Nov 4
2018

Keep on truckin’, Elon.

Investors are pouring money into startups that are trying to find a cure for aging

Posted by Edward Futurem in biotech/medical, economics, life extension | 1 Comment on Investors are pouring money into startups that are trying to find a cure for aging

Nov 4
2018

Active discussion on tne most effective technologies in comments to this page post. Number one is blood plasma-derived therapy.

Money has been pouring into startups researching longevity as treatments for aging become more of a reality. Here are the venture funds and pharma companies placing bets.

The Big Bang Wasn’t The Beginning, After All

Posted by Michael Lance in cosmology | 1 Comment on The Big Bang Wasn’t The Beginning, After All

Nov 4
2018

In the beginning, there was light, and matter, and antimatter, in an expanding and cooling Universe. But something else happened before.

InSight Landing on Mars

Posted by Michael Lance in space

Nov 4
2018

ANYmal robot tested on offshore platform

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in robotics/AI

Nov 4
2018

In Defense of Elon Musk

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in Elon Musk, space travel

Nov 4
2018

Elon Musk is an engineer at heart, a tinkerer, a problem-solver—the kind of person Popular Mechanics has always championed—and the problems he’s trying to solve are hard. Really hard. He could find better ways to spend his money, that’s for sure. And yet there he is, trying to build gasless cars and build reusable rockets and build tunnels that make traffic go away. For all his faults and unpredictability, we need him out there doing that. We need people who have ideas. We need people who take risks.

We need people who try.

Tour The Moon In 4K

Posted by Michael Lance in space

Nov 4
2018

Take a virtual tour of the moon in 4K.