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Silicon Valley’s Newest Venture Is The Search For Immortality

Posted by Derick Lee in biological, engineering, life extension

Oct 21
2018

The Silicon Valley mindset combines biology and engineering: The body is a machine to be hacked and improved.

Futurists at some of the biggest tech firms want to reshape the way we think about death.

Puranik CEO of Atlantic.Net validates space based cloud operations

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in business, computing, space

Oct 21
2018

Space could represent a new frontier for cloud infrastructure. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle battle for business from companies that are offloading their data center computing and storage needs.

Lexus Is Ditching Sideview Mirrors

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in transportation

Oct 20
2018

This luxury car maker is ditching sideview mirrors.

Earth’s core is solid but slightly ‘squishier’ than first thought

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

Oct 20
2018

Seismologists from from the Australia National University (ANU) have found the first conclusive proof that the Earth’s innermost core is solid after 80 years of searching.

Rare Groundcherry Could Soon Be Everywhere, Thanks to Gene Editing

Posted by Genevieve Klien in bioengineering, biotech/medical, food

Oct 20
2018

Hundreds of crops in developing countries are relatively unknown in the developed world because they’re often hard to grow or export. But scientists have found that CRISPR editing can speed up traditional plant breeding techniques.

Asteroid mining might actually be better for the environment

Posted by Bill Kemp in space

Oct 20
2018

The first study of its environmental impact suggests that extracting resources such as platinum from asteroids might be cleaner than doing so on Earth.

The Universe Is Always Looking

Posted by Xavier Rosseel in quantum physics, space

Oct 20
2018

Yay… another person who gets it 👀.

The one thing you probably understand about quantum physics is actually a poor metaphor for the modern state of the field.

Want to know when you’re going to die?

Posted by Carse Peel in biotech/medical, life extension

Oct 20
2018

New DNA tools can decode your natural lifespan…

Your life span is written in your DNA, and we’re learning to read the code.

Deafness could be reversed? Scientists discover how to regrow lost cells in the ear

Posted by Carse Peel in biotech/medical, genetics

Oct 20
2018

Could deafness be reversed? Scientists re-grow damaged hair cells that have been killed off by age or noise inside the ear…

Researchers from the University of Rochester found that viruses, genetics and even existing drugs could cause little hairs to regrow in the inner ear. These hairs pick up on noises entering the ear.

Milky Way’s Youngest Pulsar Found 19,000 Light-Years From Earth

Posted by Genevieve Klien in cosmology

Oct 20
2018

The pulsar is roughly 500-years-old and was spotted with the help of NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

Astronomers have managed to locate the youngest pulsar in the Milky Way, NASA announced yesterday. Dubbed PSR J1846-0258, the pulsar was spotted inside one of our galaxy’s supernova remnants — found 19,000 light-years away from our planet, in the Aquila constellation (The Eagle).

This exciting discovery — first detailed in a study published earlier this year in The Astrophysical Journal — could shed more light into supernova explosions and the new beginnings that arise from the death of a stellar giant.