Lifeboat News #273

1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies Update

The 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies will be held June 10–14 in cyberspace. Registration is free. The conference subject is “Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence” and is available at https://sciforum.net/event/IOCPh2025
 
Our Andrew I. Adamatzky, Gordana Dodig, Lorenzo Magnani, Marcin Milkowski, Marcin J. Schroeder, Jordi Vallverdú, Stephen Wolfram, and Hector Zenil will be speaking/participating.

9th Interstellar Symposium

This is a call for papers for the 9th Interstellar Symposium which will be held October 12–15 at the University of Texas at Austin.
 
Share your groundbreaking ideas on interstellar travel & propulsion, exoplanet habitability & astronomy, advanced space engineering & tech, and human factors in deep space missions. The deadline is June 1st.
 
Submit abstracts to [email protected].

ASEN2025: Astroscience on the African Continent

NoRCEL’s ASEN in Association with NASRDA presents ASEN2025: Astroscience on the African Continent. This event will be held August 27–28 in Abuja, Nigeria and in Cyberspace. NoRCEL is lead by our Sohan Jheeta. Abstracts are being accepted until July 31st.
 
Astroscience presents Africa with a unique opportunity to play a central role in the global search for extraterrestrial life and unravel the chemical origins of life. The continent’s diverse landscapes serve as invaluable natural laboratories mirroring extraterrestrial conditions. These environments are crucial for astrobiology, aiding in identifying biosignatures and simulating potential life-sustaining ecosystems on planets like Mars and icy moons, such as Europa.
 
Learn more at https://norcel.net/asen-2025-conference

FUZZ-IEEE 2025

The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems will be held July 6–9 in Reims, France.
 
FUZZ-IEEE 2025 is a unique meeting point for scientists and engineers, both from academia and industry, to interact and discuss the latest enhancements and innovations in the field. The topic of the conference will cover all the aspects of theory and applications in fuzzy sets theory and hybridizations with other artificial and computational intelligence techniques.
 
Our Giovanni Acampora is helping organize this event.
 
Learn more at https://fuzzieee2025.conf.lip6.fr

ISDC 2025 Update

ISDC 2025, the year’s most important space conference, will be held June 19–22 in Orlando, Florida at https://isdc.nss.org
 
Our Gary Barnhard, Sherry E. Bell, Joe Haldeman, Jim Plaxco, Martine Rothblatt, Ken Ruffin, and Peter A. Swan will be speaking.

Lunar Development Conference 2025

Lunar Development Conference 2025 will Be held July 18–20 in Cyberspace with additional activities at the Moonbase Lappträsk facilities in North Sweden by the Finnish border.
 
This event is being organized by our Niklas Järvstråt. Abstracts and papers must be submitted by June 20.
 
Learn more at https://www.moonsociety.org/ldc2025

Unicorn Summit

The Unicorn Summit will be held June 29–July 2 in Lisbon, Portugal and in Cyberspace. This event has gathered the best startups, investors, news media, and world speakers from all over the world.
 
Lifeboat members can get a 30% discount with the code UNICORN30. Also, if you send a message to [email protected] with the subject “Lifeboat Foundation Unicorn” we may be able to give you a free ticket!
 
Our Bill H. Andrews, Eddie Avil, Carlos R. B. Azevedo, Ben Best, Jen Blank, David Bolinsky, Tudor Boloni, I. Michael Borkin, Sebastian A. Brunemeier, Nigel M. de S. Cameron, André Caminoa, Nancy Conrad, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M. Delaney, Dinorah Delfin, Gregory M. Fahy, William Faloon, Robin Farmanfarmaian, Peter Fedichev, John D. Furber, Steven A. Garan, Giorgio Gaviraghi, Anastasiya K. Giarletta, Jerome C. Glenn, Ben Goertzel, Andrés Grases Briceño, Andrew Hessel, Naveen Jain, Maxim Kholin, Ray Kurzweil, Gordan Lauc, Dylan V. Livingston, Andrea B. Maier, Nuno R. B. Martins, Stuart Maudsley, Ines O’Donovan, Miguel Pais-Vieira, Liz Parrish, Alexander Paziotopoulos, Giulio Prisco, Jovan David Rebolledo-Mendez, Denisa Rensen, Martine Rothblatt, Anders Sandberg, Vittorio Sebastiano, John M. Smart, Yael Sorek-Benvenisti, Paul A. Spiegel, Rohit Talwar, Natasha Vita-More, Peter Voss, Alex D. Wissner-Gross, Anna Yusim, Sajad Zalzala, and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://unicornsummit.net

Blog

Rick Tumlinson joins our blog team with the post “Artemis 2.0: A model for really winning the new moon race” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/artem...oon-race
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“$115 million just poured into this startup that makes engineering 1,000x faster — and Bezos, Altman, and Nvidia are all betting on its success” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/115-m...-success
 
“A Dutch 17-Year-Old Forgot His Native Language After Knee Surgery and Spoke Only English Even Though He Had Never Used It Outside School” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/a-dut...e-school
 
“A list of mushrooms to save millions of lives” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/a-lis...of-lives
 
“A new on-chip microcomb to synchronize signals in optoelectronics” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/a-new...ctronics
 
“A premotor cortical network in the brain allows people to voluntarily stop speaking, study suggests” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/a-pre...suggests
 
“The AI Monetary Hegemony: Why the Dollar, Crypto, and Autonomous AIs Will Soon Clash” by Zoltan Istvan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-a...on-clash
 
“AI pioneer wants Europe to forge its own nimbler way forward” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/ai-pi...-forward
 
“Are Superconducting Magnets the Future of Space Propulsion?” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/are-s...opulsion
 
“The Billionaire Building America’s AI Military” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/the-b...military
 
“Brains Use Social Shortcuts to Master Complex Group Dynamics” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/brain...dynamics
 
“Cancer cells can cooperate to grow” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/cance...-to-grow
 
“China’s humanoid robot sector enters mass production in 2025” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/china...-in-2025
 
“Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/chine...y-a-mile
 
“Convergent vocal representations in parrot and human forebrain motor networks” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/conve...networks
 
“Counties north of Austin aim to help Central Texas space industry hit warp drive” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/count...rp-drive
 
“Denmark’s molten salt storage could power 100,000 homes for 10 hrs” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/denma...r-10-hrs
 
“Exotic quantum phase, once thought impossible, was just observed in the lab” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/exoti...-the-lab
 
“Fiber Optic Cables Are Natural Earthquake Detectors” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/fiber...etectors
 
“Google demos Android XR smart glasses with Gemini AI, visual memory, and multilingual capabilities” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/googl...bilities
 
“Highly accurate blood test diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease, measures extent of dementia” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/highl...dementia
 
“How the brain controls movement under different types of visual uncertainty” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/how-t...ertainty
 
“Japan-based tech startup creates 1st AI peer-reviewed paper” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/japan...ed-paper
 
“Lovecraft, Nyarlathotep And Our Changing World” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/lovec...ng-world
 
“Mars Next and ‘All of the Above’” by Rick Tumlinson at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/mars-...he-above
 
“Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/massi...e-ddoses
 
“Master switch gene can turn immune cells into cancer eradicators” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/maste...dicators
 
“Meet the miniature rolling robot that takes virtual biopsies from inside your body” by Dan Kummer at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/meet-...our-body
 
“More People Turning to Psilocybin for Self-Treatment” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/more-...reatment
 
“Nanomedicine in Lung Cancer Immunotherapy” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/nanom...otherapy
 
“New antibiotic drug is a ‘massive game changer’ for people with chronic lower back pain” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/new-a...ack-pain
 
“No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction” by Alessandro Carvalho at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/no-th...tinction
 
“Our chances of finding alien life just skyrocketed. Here’s why” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/our-c...eres-why
 
“Our Conscious Perception of the World Depends on This Deep Brain Structure” by Karen Stuck Mortensen at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/our-c...tructure
 
“Scientists create first reprogrammed brain cells that could cure Alzheimer’s” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/scien...zheimers
 
“Scientists Think the Secrets of Our Universe Could Be Contained in One Tiny Qubit” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/scien...ny-qubit
 
“Solar panels are 1000 times more powerful with big tech advance” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/solar...-advance
 
“Space could emerge from time” by Arthur Brown at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/space...rom-time
 
“Specialized Recycling System Eliminates Faulty Mitochondrial DNA” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/speci...rial-dna
 
“Supercomputers Help Unlock Secrets of DNA Repair” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/super...a-repair
 
“The US must step up its artificial general intelligence game” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/the-u...nce-game
 
“World’s 1st ‘tooth regrowth’ medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/world...in-japan
 
“World’s first quantum microsatellite demonstrates secure communication with multiple ground stations” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/04/world...stations

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