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May 23, 2019
Unexpected observation of ice at low temperature, high pressure questions water theory
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
May 23, 2019
Why Anti-vax Doctors Are Ordering 23andMe Tests
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
May 23, 2019
Send Your Name to Mars with the 2020 Rover
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
If you’ve ever yearned to travel to Mars, now is your chance. Well, okay, you can’t travel to Mars, but your name can, and that’s as close as you’re ever going to get.
The Mars 2020 Rover is getting ready to begin its seven-month trek to Mars next July, and NASA says it’ll take your name along with it:
May 23, 2019
Newly Found Exoplanet “Could Offer Conditions Friendly to Life”
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
May 23, 2019
Space 2.0: Something’s Going to Happen, Something Wonderful
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: economics, engineering, space
A review of Rod Pyle’s new book, Space 2.0, a tour de force of the “new space” phenomena packed with photos and details of the amazing people behind it. The book goes beyond Musk, Branson and Bezos and explains the origins of the science and engineering required to build an economy beyond Earth.
May 23, 2019
Study shows how diet can prevent a mid-life microbiome crisis and improve brain health
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: life extension, neuroscience
A number of physiological and psychological changes occur as we age, and many studies have shown that our gut microbiome also changes as we grow older. A fascinating new study is suggesting that a shift in gut bacteria in our middle-age could trigger a process that plays a role in cognitive decline in our later years. And diet may be the key to encouraging the growth of beneficial bacteria that benefit healthy brain aging.
May 23, 2019
DARPA Funds Ambitious Brain-Machine Interface Program
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: neuroscience, wearables
May 23, 2019
Robots activated by water may be the next frontier
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, robotics/AI
New research from the laboratory of Ozgur Sahin, associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University, shows that materials can be fabricated to create soft actuators—devices that convert energy into physical motion—that are strong and flexible, and, most important, resistant to water damage.
“There’s a growing trend of making anything we interact with and touch from materials that are dynamic and responsive to the environment,” Sahin says. “We found a way to develop a material that is water-resistant yet, at the same time, equipped to harness water to deliver the force and motion needed to actuate mechanical systems.”
The research was published online May 21 in Advanced Materials Technologies.
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May 23, 2019
Lunacy: how science fiction is powering the new moon rush
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: futurism, space
Science fiction is often seen as an anticipation – a fiction peculiarly expected to graduate into fact. But if technologies once found only in SF do sometimes become real they do not, in so doing, always cease to be science fictional. SF is not, after all, simply a literature about the future; it is a literature about the shock of new capacities and new perspectives, about transcendence, estrangement and resistance in the face of the inhuman. Its ideas shape and constrain the ways in which technological possibilities are seen, understood and experienced long after those possibilities are first tentatively realised. It illuminates the dreams of Musk, Bezos and all the other new moon-rushers.
Fifty years after the first moon landings, a new generation of space travellers, from Xi Jinping’s taikonauts to Jeff Bezos, are racing to colonise our nearest neighbour. Is reality catching up with sci-fi?
