Lifeboat Foundation

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The solvent-based method could be much cheaper to use than reverse osmosis or distillation based on water evaporating.

The Milky Way at 38,000ft

This image was taken over the Atlantic Ocean somewhere between Greenland and Iceland. It points towards the galactic centre of our Milky Way. The brightest object to the top right is Jupiter. Other objects that can be seen include The Dark Horse, Pipe Nebula, M23 Cluster, M8 Lagoon Nebula, M20 Trifid Nebula, M22 Globular Cluster, M6 Butterfly Cluster, M7 Cluster among others. How many can you find?

Germany spent 84 million euros developing the Siemens-made eHighway and a hybrid truck, which Siemens say will massively lower fuel costs.

These are the adventures of the “StarChip Wafersize.”

UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, a prototype miniature spacecraft that might eventually become the “wafercraft” that researchers posit could be propelled by lasers to achieve space travel at relativistic speeds to reach nearby star systems and exoplanets.

So begins a journey, funded by NASA and several private foundations, that may one day lead to interstellar travel.

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These diagrams show the paths traced by Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn as seen from Earth.

In an article last May, we covered how Rejuvenate Bio, a startup biotech company led by Professor George Church, was planning to reverse aging in dogs as a step towards bringing these therapies to us. Those plans are now starting to move forward with news of a trial launch in the fall later this year.

Developing anti-aging therapies in dogs is the first step

Back in 2015, the Church lab at Harvard began testing a variety of therapies focused on age reversal using CRISPR, a gene editing system that was much easier and faster to use than older techniques. Since then, Professor Church and his lab have conducted a myriad of experiments and gathered lots of data with which to plan future strategies for tackling aging.

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“Tensegrity” robots could safely explore disaster zones, or even the surface of Saturn’s moon.

Fourth patent for CRISPR-Cas9 expected in coming months as patent board works its way through past UC applications.

Right now Chandra is studying the core of a galaxy in Fornax! Nearby in the sky is NGC 1097, a galaxy with copious clusters of young, blue stars speckling its spiral arms. This galaxy contains a central black hole about 100 million times the mass of our Sun!