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Jul 5, 2017

How SoftBank is Betting Billions to Prepare for the Singularity

Posted by in category: singularity

The japanese conglomerate betting billions to prepare for the singularity.

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Jul 5, 2017

Reality guide: A poster of how everything fits together

Posted by in category: physics

Our ultimate user’s guide to fundamental physics – all on one spectacular poster for you to download for free.

Download the poster as a PDF file.

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Jul 5, 2017

The Roots Of Consciousness: We’re Of 2 Minds

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Surgery that severs the link between brain hemispheres reveals that those halves have way different views of the world. We ask a pioneering scientist what that tells us about human consciousness.

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Jul 5, 2017

Billionaire Fortress Investor: Cryptocurrencies Will Be Worth $5 Trillion by 2022

Posted by in category: cryptocurrencies

Billionaire investor Michael Novogratz explains that the cryptocurrency market will be worth $5 trillion by 2022.

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Jul 5, 2017

Building Circuits Without Touching Them: Watch Carbon Nanotubes Self-Assemble

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

Through Teslaphoresis, nanotubes can be directed to assemble themselves into wires within this force field, making it possible to build circuits without physical contact.

Scientists from Rice University found a way to conduct electricity without making physical contact between the circuit and the energy source. Using a Tesla coil’s antenna to project a gradient high-voltage forcefield into air, they were able to polarize carbon nanotubes within this Teslaphoretic (TEP) field, which then spring out like webs to assemble themselves into wires.

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Jul 5, 2017

This Camera Technology Doesn’t Have a Lens at All

Posted by in category: electronics

Engineers have developed a type of camera that doesn’t require any lenses. They’re replacing curved glass with something that does the same job computationally – an ultra-thin optical phased array.

Researchers hope that the findings could turn a wide range of flat surfaces into image collectors.

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Jul 5, 2017

Staying positive — Alessandro Benetton

Posted by in category: human trajectories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4JTIa0MZww

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Jul 5, 2017

Scientists are questioning the idea that the human lifespan has a limit

Posted by in category: life extension

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Jeanne Calment, the French woman who holds the record for the longest verified lifespan, died in 1997 at 122 years old.

Few people, of course, ever become supercentenarians — 110 years old or older — and even fewer hit 115.

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Jul 5, 2017

The Universe Itself May Be Unnatural

Posted by in category: space

The very existence of the natural world may be filled with unnaturally rare occurrences. Here’s why that’s a problem.

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Jul 5, 2017

Treating Diabetes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

A new approach to treating diabetes sees gene therapy altering other cells in the pancreas so they produce insulin to replace the beta cells that are attacked by the immune system.


Progress has been made towards a potential solution to type 1 diabetes. The novel approach seeks to cure type 1 diabetes and to allow type 2 diabetics to stop using insulin shots by altering other cells in the pancreas so they produce insulin.

The research team based at UT Health San Antonio have found a way to increase the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin. The team are now moving towards starting clinical trials in the next three year but they are first testing the approach in larger sized animals, these studies are believed to cost an estimated $5 million.

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