Brazilian Aging Research & Technology Symposium (BARTS) 2024
Brazilian Aging Research & Technology Symposium (BARTS) 2024 will be
held May 25–26, 2024 at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF),
Juiz de Fora-Mg, Brazil.
Our Holly M. Brown-Borg, José Luis Cordeiro, Steven A. Garan, Nuno R. B.
Martins, and Paul A. Spiegel will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www2.ufjf.br/deptocomputacao/eventos/barts
Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2024
Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2024 will be held May 10–11 in Berlin.
Our Bobby Brooke, Stephanie Dainow, Greg M. Fahy, Peter Fedichev,
Michael Greve, Lorna Harries, Jean M. Hébert, Brian K. Kennedy, Dobri
Kiprov, Mike Kope, Robin Mansukhani, Phil Newman, Matthew O’Connor,
Marco Quarta, Frank Schueler, and Petr Sramek will be speaking.
Learn more at https://forever-healthy.org/summit
Space Symposium 2024
Space Symposium 2024 will be held April 8–11 in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, USA.
Our Dylan Taylor will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.spacesymposium.org
Papers
Read “AI know what you did last summer” by our Matt Barrie at
https://medium.com/@matt_11659/ai-know-what-you-did-last-summer-255176dcd1bc
Read “A single short reprogramming early in life initiates and
propagates an epigenetically related mechanism improving fitness and
promoting an increased healthy lifespan coauthored” by our Jean-Marc
Lemaitre at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...C9649606
Read “BuzzCraft: Evolution of A Sturdy Cislunar Cycler Architecture for
Permanent Lunar Settlement Logistics”, coauthored by our Madhu
Thangavelu at
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio...ogistics
Read “Many AGIs: The Sociology of Synthetic Beings” by our Adam Alonzi
at
https://www.academia.edu/105624250/Many...c_Beings
Read “The neurobiology and therapeutic potential of multi-targeting
ß-secretase, glycogen synthase kinase 3ß and acetylcholinesterase in
Alzheimer’s disease” coauthored by our Domenico Praticó at
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...a%3Dihub
Read “Science opportunities with solar sailing smallsats”, coauthored by
our David Brin, Carolyn C. Porco, Viktor T. Toth, Slava G. Turyshev, and
S. Pete Worden at https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14917
Read “Sixty Years After the Cuban Missile Crisis: Time to Stop Playing
Russian Roulette” (PDF) by our Martin E. Hellman at
https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/pu...s/84.pdf
Read “Towards AI-driven longevity research: An overview”, coauthored by
our Evelyne Bischof, Guido Putignano, Antonella Santuccione, Quentin
Vanhaelen, and Alex Zhavoronkov at
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10...204/full
Read “Who are the Machines?” by our Michael Mantzke at
https://mantzkem-39033.medium.com/who-a...d2b6f76d
Blog
Rx Sobolewski joins our blog team with the post “Google’s AI prophet
fast tracks singularity prediction” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/googl...ediction
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/ai-ge...-forever
“Amazing Spiral-Shaped Contact Lens Uses ‘Optical Vortex’ to Correct
Vision” by Ron Gowans-Savage at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/amazi...t-vision
“Ancient viruses emerge as unexpected heroes in vertebrate brain
evolution” by The Neuro-Network at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/ancie...volution
“Archaeologists Unearth Egyptian Queen’s Tomb, 13-Foot ‘Book of the
Dead’ Scroll” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/archa...d-scroll
“ASML Shows Off $380 Million, 165-Ton Machine Behind AI Shift” by Cecile
G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/asml-...ai-shift
“BioViva Is Revolutionizing Aging and Healthspan” by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/biovi...althspan
“Brain Activity Now Watchable and Listenable” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez
Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/brain...stenable
“Breakthrough could see robots with ‘fingertips’ as sensitive as humans”
by Zola Balazs Bekasi at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/break...s-humans
“Cern aims to build EUR20bn collider to unlock secrets of universe” by
Carse Peel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/cern-...universe
“China’s nuclear battery powers your smartphone for 50 years straight”
by Gemechu Taye at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/china...straight
“Chinese philosopher’s brain frozen for science, causing stir among
scholars” by Alessandro Carvalho at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/chine...scholars
“DARPA-Funded Wireless Communication Breakthrough Takes Data
Transmission to Another Dimension… Literally” by Joseph Barney at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/darpa...iterally
“Diffractive optical computing in free space” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/diffr...ee-space
“Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function
calls? How about GOTO?” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/does-...out-goto
“Down Syndrome and Joint Replacement: Greater Risk for Post-Surgical
Complications” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/down-...ications
“Dr. David Sinclair’s Vision: A World Where Aging Is Reversible?” by
Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/dr-da...versible
“Early vocabulary size is genetically linked to ADHD, literacy, and
cognition” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/early...ognition
“First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed” by Robin
Indeededo at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/first...revealed
“First UK patients receive experimental mRNA therapy for cancer” by
Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/first...r-cancer
“Fusing Academia and Industry: The Key to Unlocking Fusion Energy’s
Potential” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/fusin...otential
“How could this new type of room-temperature qubit usher in the next
phase of quantum computing?” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/how-c...omputing
“Israel becomes third country to approve sale of lab-grown meat” by Will
Fox at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/israe...own-meat
“The Most Secretive Longevity Lab Finally Opens Its Doors” by Arthur
Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/the-m...ts-doors
“Nebraska-Led Study Reveals Impact of Groundwater Depletion on Crop
Yields from Drought and Dry Conditions” by Laurence Tognetti at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/nebra...nditions
“New AI Claude 3 Declares That It’s Alive and Fears Death” by Kelvin
Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/new-a...rs-death
“New Antidepressant Could Restore The Body’s Ability to Fight Cancer” by
Joseph Barney at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/new-a...t-cancer
“Newly discovered Carbon Monoxide-Runaway Gap can help Identify
Habitable Exoplanets” by Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/newly...oplanets
“‘One of the best valuations for AI’: Buy the dip in this Big Tech
stock, strategist says” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/one-o...ist-says
“OpenAI’s Sora is slow enough to grab a snack while it generates your
video” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/opena...ur-video
“Revolutionizing Diabetes Prediction: Simple Blood Test Outperforms
Complex Methods, Thanks to Mathematical Modeling” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/revol...modeling
“Sample From Distant Asteroid Shows Signs of Originating on Ocean World”
by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/sampl...an-world
“Samsung plans to eliminate humans from its chip fabs by 2030 — push
for full automation continues at full steam: Report” by Chris Smedley at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/samsu...m-report
“Scientists Claim AI Breakthrough to Generate Boundless Clean Fusion
Energy” by Josh Seeherman at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/scien...n-energy
“Scientists code ChatGPT to design new medicine” by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/scien...medicine
“Scientists Have Decoded the Mechanism of How Synapses Are Formed” by
Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/scien...e-formed
“Solar Storm Alert — Live” by Greg Allison at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/solar...ert-live
“Solar-powered airship will circle the world non-stop without fuel” by
Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/solar...out-fuel
“Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine” by Shubham
Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/03/sudde...medicine
“This gel stops brain tumors in mice. Could it offer hope for humans?”
by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/this-...r-humans
“Tracking the Trajectory of Late Blight Disease: A Text Mining Study
from 1840s to Modern Times” by Laurence Tognetti at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/track...rn-times
“UAE to Provide Airlock for Gateway, Humanity’s First Moon Orbiting
Space Station” by Laurence Tognetti at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/01/uae-t...-station
“What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything” by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/02/what-...anything
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