Lifeboat News #278

• Longevity Nation 2025 Update
• New Worlds Update
• Books
• Papers
• Podcasts
• Films
• Interviews
• Blog
• Growing Membership

Longevity Nation 2025 Update

Longevity Nation 2025 will be held October 28–29 at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
 
Our Omri Amirav-Drory, Gil Atzmon, Daniel Z. Bar, Nir Barzilai, Yael Benvenisti, Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, Vittorio Calabrese, Haim Cohen, José Luis Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, Vadim Fraifeld, Ohad Gafni, Myriam (Elfersi) Grunewald, Steve Horvath, Dmitry Kaminskiy, Marios Kyriazis, Fiona Miller, Georgios Mitrou, Björn Schumacher, Ilia Stambler, Tzipi Strauss, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking.
 
Learn more at https://longevitynation.org

New Worlds Update

New Worlds will be held October 23–25 in Austin, Texas. Join over 300 Space Leaders, Engineers, Entrepreneurs, and Astronauts in Austin for three days of breakthrough ideas, real-world space technology, and the future of human expansion beyond Earth.
 
Our Howard Bloom, Ben Haldeman, Christopher S. Jannette, Phil T. Metzger, Junaid Mian, Angelica Sirotin, Rick N. Tumlinson, Frank White, and Robert Zubrin will be speaking.
 
Our Buzz Aldrin and Pete Worden were past “Space Cowboy” Award Winners of this conference.
 
Learn more at https://longevitynation.org

Books

Read “Global Governance of the Transition to Artificial General Intelligence: Issues and Requirements” by our Jerome C. Glenn at https://amzn.to/4hnBuoU
 
Read “Infinite Regress: A Collection of Short Science Fiction Stories” by our Jeremy Lichtman at https://amzn.to/3WjGt04
 
Read “Latin America Replies to Transhumanism. A Symposium on Sorgner’s We Have Always Been Cyborgs” at https://trivent-publishing.eu/home/207-...er-ebook
 
Learn about our Stefan Lorenz Sorgner at https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.stefan.lorenz.sorgner
 
Read “What’s Space Got to Do With It?: An Interstellar Guide to Success” by our Shelli Brunswick at https://amzn.to/4o4uv6Q

Papers

Read “Astroelectricity: America’s National Energy Security Imperative” by our Mike Snead at https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio...perative

Podcasts

Listen to “Cities in Space Podcast Episode 10: An Unlikely Astronaut – Susan Kilrain” with our Holly Melear at https://steam-space.org/cities-in-space...-podcast

Films

Watch “Privacy Lost”, a short film about our augmented future written by our Louis Rosenberg at https://privacylost.org
 
Whether you call it Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, or Spatial Computing, our lives will soon become a seamless merger of the real and virtual. Enabled by AI-powered glasses, this technology could make our world a magical place where almost anything is possible.
 
Unfortunately, this magical future comes with great risks. Unless regulated, these wearable devices will track our behaviors and monitor our emotions like never before. This will threaten our privacy and leave us vulnerable to AI-driven manipulation throughout our daily lives.

Interviews

Read the interview of our José Luis Cordeiro in Longevity.Technology, “Curing aging should be a moral imperative for all of humanity” at https://longevity.technology/news/curin...umanity/

Blog

Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“A thermodynamic approach to machine learning: How optimal transport theory can improve generative models” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/a-the...e-models
 
“AI Designs Computer Chips We Can’t Understand — But They Work Really Well” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/ai-de...lly-well
 
“AI helps chemists develop tougher plastics” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/ai-he...plastics
 
“Big Tech’s Big Bet on AI Driving $344 Billion in Spend This Year” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/big-t...his-year
 
“Building a Synthetic Cell Together” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/build...together
 
“Columbia’s radiation-proof chip built to decode the universe at CERN” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/colum...-at-cern
 
“Denali antibody clears amyloid plaques without dangerous brain bleeds in Alzheimer’s mouse model” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/denal...se-model
 
“Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip trials launched in Britain for paralyzed patients” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/elon-...patients
 
“Groundbreaking Brazilian Drug, Considered Capable of Reversing Spinal Cord Injury, Presented in São Paulo” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/groun...ao-paulo
 
“Gut Neurons Direct Immune Healing After Inflammation” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/gut-n...ammation
 
“Healthcare Cybersecurity: The Urgency Of Now” by Chuck Brooks at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/healt...y-of-now
 
“Here’s what Harold Katcher’s plasma fraction actually is” by Nicolas Chernavsky at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/heres...ually-is
 
“How AI And Mini-Organs Could Replace Testing Drugs On Animals” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/how-a...-animals
 
“‘I Became a GMO to Fight Aging’ | Liz Parrish at Transvision Madrid 2025” by Montie Adkins at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/i-bec...rid-2025
 
“I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/i-sav...o-a-bird
 
“Illusions of AI consciousness” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/illus...iousness
 
“Johns Hopkins scientists grow novel ‘whole-brain’ organoid” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/johns...organoid
 
“Light-Powered AI Chips: The Photonic Revolution That’s About to Change Everything” by Chris Smedley at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/light...erything
 
“Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/myste...sts-find
 
“NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/nasa-...-healthy
 
“NASA seeks student solutions for lunar lander life support technologies” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/nasa-...nologies
 
“Naveen Rao’s AI hardware Startup Targets $5B Valuation with Backing from a16z” by Bruce Burke at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/navee...rom-a16z
 
“The next 24 months in AI could shape the next 100 years” by Rx Sobolewski at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/the-n...00-years
 
“Oral bacteria linked to Parkinson’s via the gut-brain axis” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/oral-...ain-axis
 
“Photonaire develop laser propulsion” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/photo...opulsion
 
“Physicists demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation” by Michael LaTorra at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/physi...peration
 
“The predictive value of endocan as a novel biomarker: an umbrella study on meta-analyses” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/the-p...analyses
 
“Psychopathia Machinalis: A Nosological Framework for Understanding Pathologies in Advanced Artificial Intelligence” by Michael LaTorra at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/psych...lligence
 
“Robots can program each other’s brains with AI: scientist” by Dan Breeden at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/robot...cientist
 
“Scientists create first programmable single-atom catalyst that adapts chemical activity” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/scien...activity
 
“Scientists develop off-the-shelf immunotherapy for ovarian cancer” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/scien...n-cancer
 
“Scientists discover how the brain makes new memories without erasing old ones” by Shubham Ghosh Roy at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/scien...old-ones
 
“Scientists program cells to create biological qubit in multidisciplinary breakthrough” by Cecile G. Tamura at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/scien...kthrough
 
“Scientists use nanoparticles to clear Alzheimer’s brain plaque in mice” by The Neuro-Network at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/scien...-in-mice
 
“Self-cleaning glass from China uses electric fields to remove dust” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/self-...ove-dust
 
“Stress in early life alters brain cell structure and behavior in mice” by The Neuro-Network at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/stres...-in-mice
 
“Students develop novel multi-metal 3D printing process” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/09/stude...-process
 
“This Tiny Microchip Can Heal Live Tissue with a Single Touch” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/this-...le-touch
 
“The universe is not made of information” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/the-u...ormation
 
“Volcanoes from space: European Space Agency shares stunning images of eruptions captured from orbit” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/volca...om-orbit
 
“Webb spots first hints of atmosphere on a potentially habitable world” by Natalie Chan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/10/webb-...le-world
 
“Woman regains speech 18 years after stroke with brain implant” by Yuta Aoki at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/08/woman...-implant