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Lifeboat News #227

#227

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 06/01/21. Copyright 2021 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

2021 Space Renaissance Congress

The free 2021 Space Renaissance Congress will be held June 26–30 in cyberspace. Our Adriano V. Autino, Gary Barnhard, Howard Bloom, Bernard Foing, Al Globus, Brett Hoffstadt, Christina Korp, Thomas Matula, Charles Ostman, Joe Pelton, Manuel Perez, Giulio Prisco, Chris Smedley, Mike Snead, Rick Tumlinson, Steven Wolfe, Bart Womack, Arthur Woods, and Bob Zubrin will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://spacerenaissance.space/2021-spa...uncement

Blog

Mishari Al Hasawi joins our blog team with the post “Spermageddon: are humans going extinct?” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/sperm...-extinct
 
Atanas Atanasov joins our blog team with the post “Virgin Galactic: Extraordinary launch video previews space tourism” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/virgi...-tourism
 
Joe Bennett joins our blog team with the post “Faecal transplantation: the cure for forgetfulness?” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/faeca...tfulness
 
Scott Bleackley joins our blog team with the post “New quantum material discovered” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/new-q...scovered
 
Randy Campbell joins our blog team with the post “Is Mars Heck?” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/is-mars-heck
 
Logan Collins joins our blog team with the post “Gigadalton-scale DNA origami nanostructures explained” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/gigad...xplained
 
Alan DeRossett joins our blog team with the post “U-Smell-It honored in global $6M XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing Competition” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/u-sme...petition
 
Hiel Salming Gagarin joins our blog team with the post “Samsung Develops a Very Fast 512GB DDR5 Memory Module” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/samsu...y-module
 
Faith Jones joins our blog team with the post “Could blocking the sun save the planet?” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/could...e-planet
 
Steve Jordan joins our blog team with the post “Ultra-thin lithium offers a solid platform for high-capacity batteries” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/ultra...atteries
 
Lawrence Klaes joins our blog team with the post “Why studying Uranus and Neptune could help us find habitable planets in other solar systems” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/why-s...-systems
 
Michael Taylor joins our blog team with the post “Antibiofilm and antivirulence potential of silver nanoparticles against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/antib...aumannii
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“Activating Genes With a Smartwatch to Control Insulin Production” by Jason Blain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/activ...oduction
 
“Age Resetting Genes Going to Human Studies in Two Years” by Kevin Huang at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/age-r...wo-years
 
“A mid-air error led NASA’s Mars helicopter to tilt wildly back and forth in its latest flight — but it landed safely” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/a-mid...d-safely
 
“An atom chip interferometer that could detect quantum gravity” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/an-at...-gravity
 
“Arctic rotifer lives after 24,000 years in a frozen state” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/arcti...en-state
 
“A Vaccine Patch Could Someday Be An Ouchless Option” by Poopeh Morakkabati at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/a-vac...s-option
 
“Biologists Construct a ‘Periodic Table’ for Cell Nuclei — And Discover Something Strange, Baffling, and Unexpected” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/biolo...expected
 
“Cancer cells hibernate to survive chemotherapy, finds study” by Hiel Salming Gagarin at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/cance...ds-study
 
“China releases first image of landing areas of its Mars rover” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/china...rs-rover
 
“Closest cosmic explosion challenges popular theory” by Atanas Atanasov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/close...r-theory
 
“Clouds on Mars and more: Understand the world through 9 images” by Atanas Atanasov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/cloud...9-images
 
“Computer simulations of the brain can predict language recovery in stroke survivors” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/compu...urvivors
 
“Could digital currencies put banks out of business?” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/could...conomist
 
“Despite Chip Shortage, Chip Innovation Is Booming” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/despi...-booming
 
“DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often” by Jamal Simpson at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/dna-j...ow-often
 
“Electrons Waiting Their Turn: New Model Explains 3D Quantum Material” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/elect...material
 
“First evidence of cell membrane molecules in space” by Hiel Salming Gagarin at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/first...in-space
 
“Does Freezing the Brain’s ‘Connectome’ Offer Hope of Immortality?” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/does-...ortality
 
“First fully reusable, entirely 3D-printed rocket” by Future Timeline at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/first...d-rocket
 
“Gene That Could Help Prevent or Delay Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease Identified” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/gene-...entified
 
“High-density hard drive packed with graphene stores 10 times the data” by Hiel Salming Gagarin at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/high-...the-data
 
“High-performance brain-to-text communication via handwriting” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/high-...dwriting
 
“Humans Can Learn How to ‘Echolocate’ in Just 10 Weeks, Experiment Shows” by Jason Blain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/human...nt-shows
 
“Intermittent fasting in mice effective at promoting long term memory retention” by Kevin Huang at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/inter...etention
 
“Limit on lab-grown human embryos dropped” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/limit...-dropped
 
“Microsoft boss: Orwell’s 1984 could be life in 2024” by Poopeh Morakkabati at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/micro...-in-2024
 
“Nanotech batteries will charge 70 times faster than lithium-ion” by Future Timeline at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/nanot...hium-ion
 
“New drone is first to reach Level 4 autonomy” by Future Timeline at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/new-d...autonomy
 
“New ocean spaceport reveals SpaceX’s next chapter” by Atanas Atanasov at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/new-o...-chapter
 
“Physics without time” by Prem Vijaywargi at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/physi...out-time
 
“Space Force Chief Scientist: ‘Human Augmentation’ Is Now Necessary” by Carse Peel at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/04/space...ecessary
 
“SpaceX will launch four private astronaut missions to the Space Station through 2023” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/space...ugh-2023
 
“Stabilizing gassy electrolytes could make ultra-low temperature batteries safer” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/stabi...es-safer
 
“Stars Made of Antimatter Might Be Lurking in the Universe” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/stars...universe
 
“Study links blood cell mutations to increased infection risk with age” by Kevin Huang at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/study...with-age
 
“The military is funding a ‘living pharmacy’ scientists can stick inside you” by Shane Hinshaw at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/the-m...side-you
 
“These bionic boots make you feel like a superhuman” by Shane Hinshaw at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/these...perhuman
 
“Trials Begin For Lozenge That Rebuilds Tooth Enamel” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/06/trial...h-enamel
 
“The Sudden Rise of the Coronavirus Lab-Leak Theory” by Poopeh Morakkabati at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/the-s...k-theory
 
“Viruses genetically engineered to kill bacteria rescue girl with antibiotic-resistant infection” by Shane Hinshaw at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/virus...nfection
 
“We’ve created oxygen on Mars” by Alberto Lao at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/weve-...-on-mars
 
“World’s smallest single-chip system can be injected into the body” by Jason Blain at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/05/world...the-body

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