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Mar 5, 2020

Product Self-healing Repair Mortar MR3

Posted by in category: futurism

Met Basilisk zelfherstellende reparatiemortel herstelt u op eenvoudige wijze scheuren en verhelpt u lekkages in betonnen constructies. Traditionele reparatiemethoden moeten door het werken van de betonconstructie vaak na verloop van tijd worden herhaald. Door de zelfherstellende eigenschappen is dit bij Basilisk zelfherstellende reparatiemortel niet het geval: één reparatie volstaat. Ook als de constructie in de toekomst gaat werken.

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Mar 5, 2020

Fungi Can Help Concrete Heal Its Own Cracks

Posted by in categories: health, materials

Circa 2018


One promising candidate is eco-friendly and poses no known risks to human health.

Mar 5, 2020

Algorithms, Transhumanism & Futurism

Posted by in categories: information science, transhumanism

Posthuman Daily has a new format — https://paper.li/e-1437691924


A fancy futuristic word like transhumanism has become a daily reality and technology has already expanded our limitations. Here you will find JD’s thoughts about the future of humanity.

Opinion

Mar 5, 2020

667 Free Survival PDFs, Manuals and Downloads (Jan. 2020)

Posted by in category: mobile phones

If shit ever hits the fan it is good to have a personal library downloaded on your phone. Because your phone be worthless but a digital library will not be.


If you are trying to find prepper and survival books, you’ve come to the right place. Below is a list of 667 of the best survival manuals, books, and survival guide PDF downloads. To download any of these titles, simply right-click on a file, and then select “Save As”.

Mar 5, 2020

Researcher Develops a Machine to Allow Psychonauts to Explore the DMT Realm

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

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Mar 5, 2020

First Patient Receives In Vivo CRISPR Editing

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Doctors in Oregon delivered the gene editing machinery behind the retina in hopes of treating an inherited form of blindness, according to the companies that developed the therapy.

Mar 5, 2020

TWO strains of the killer coronavirus are spreading, study claims

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Researchers in Beijing and Shanghai found the more aggressive strain appeared to have evolved from the other but has become less common since early January, with the older version returning.

Mar 5, 2020

The caterpillar larvae ‘plastivores’ that consume and metabolize polyethylene

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, materials

A team of researchers at Brandon University has found that greater wax moth caterpillar larvae are “plastivores” that are able to consume and metabolize polyethylene. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes their study of the caterpillars and what they learned about them and their gut microbiome.

Prior research has shown that plastics are becoming a major pollutant. In addition to piling up in landfills, they are also broken down into microplastics, which are polluting the world’s oceans. And while there have been some attempts to curb their use, they are still produced and used in abundance in many parts of the world. Thus, scientists have been searching for a way to force such materials to degrade faster—natural degradation takes approximately 100 years. In this new effort, the researchers studied wax moths and their larvae, which are known to invade beehives to eat the honeycombs inside.

The researchers with this new effort had learned of anecdotal evidence that the larvae, which exist as caterpillars, eat low-density polyethylene. To find out if this was true, they obtained multiple caterpillars and fed them a diet of plastic grocery bags. They found that 60 of the caterpillars were able to consume approximately 30 square centimeters of the plastic in a week. They also found that the caterpillars could survive for a week eating nothing but the plastic. The researchers also studied the gut microbiomes of several of the caterpillars and identified bacteria that were involved in digesting plastic. They also allowed some of the bacteria to feast on plastic outside of the caterpillar gut and found that some of them were able to survive for up to a year eating nothing but plastic.

Mar 5, 2020

AGI: How to Ensure Benevolence in Synthetic Superintelligence

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Devising an effective AGI value loading system should be of the utmost importance, especially when ETA of AGI is only years away. At the early stage of transition to the radically superintelligent civilization, we may use Naturalization Protocol Simulation to teach AGIs our human norms and values, and ultimately interlink with them to form the globally distributed Syntellect, civilizational superintelligence. Chances are AGIs and postbiological humans will peacefully coexist and thrive, though I doubt that we could tell which are which.

Mar 5, 2020

Engineers develop miniaturized ‘warehouse robots’ for biotechnology applications

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

UCLA engineers have developed minuscule warehouse logistics robots that could help expedite and automate medical diagnostic technologies and other applications that move and manipulate tiny drops of fluid. The study was published in Science Robotics.

The robots are disc-shaped magnets about 2 millimeters in diameter, designed to work together to move and manipulate droplets of blood or other fluids, with precision. For example, the robots can cleave one large droplet of fluid into smaller drops that are equal in volume for consistent testing. They can also move droplets into preloaded testing trays to check for signs of disease. The research team calls these robots “ferrobots” because they are powered by magnetism.

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