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Oct 27, 2018

Interview with Dr. Vera Gorbunova: What can we learn about longevity from the naked mole rat?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

In this interview, Vera Gorbunova, Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester and a co-director of the Rochester Aging Research Center, talks about our current understanding of the mechanisms behind the longevity and genome stability of exceptionally long-lived mammals and how this knowledge could be used to create therapies to extend healthy human lifespan.

The interview was made by Steve Hill and Elena Milova, members of the board of Lifespan.io.

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Oct 27, 2018

Stephen Hawking’s final theory on black holes has been published, and you can read it for free

Posted by in category: cosmology

Stephen Hawking: “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”


What you need to know about Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair.

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Oct 27, 2018

Hubble telescope fixed

Posted by in category: space

Telescope close to restarting operations after being put out of action by gyroscope failure.

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Oct 27, 2018

New schemes teach the masses to build AI

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI

That is changing. This month fast.ai, an education non-profit based in San Francisco, kicked off the third year of its course in deep learning. Since its inception it has attracted more than 100,000 students, scattered around the globe from India to Nigeria. The course and others like it come with a simple proposition: there is no need to spend years obtaining a phd in order to practise deep learning. Creating software that learns can be taught as a craft, not as a high intellectual pursuit to be undertaken only in an ivory tower. Fast.ai’s course can be completed in just seven weeks.


Treating it like a craft is paying dividends.

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Oct 26, 2018

Singapore is no longer comparing students to each other

Posted by in category: education

Education is about progress, not exam results.

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Oct 26, 2018

Digital art museum

Posted by in category: futurism

Japan’s first digital art museum makes visitors a part of the installation.

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Oct 26, 2018

Defectors from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Tesla are developing a remarkable technology called ‘Stargate’ to help colonize other planets

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, space travel

While SpaceX works on giant reusable rockets to reach Mars, other companies are working on technologies to keep colonists alive on the red planet. Relativity Space has made the world’s largest metal 3D printer, called Stargate, to print rockets, tools, and other useful objects off-Earth.

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Oct 26, 2018

Hidden ‘underworld’ chambers found beneath ancient pyramid

Posted by in category: futurism

Secret chambers dedicated to a mysterious underworld have been uncovered in an ancient pyramid.

Researchers have revealed that they discovered a new tunnel and a cavity hidden below an archaeological site near Mexico City.

Details of the stunning discoveries were released in a statement from the investigators of the National Institute of Anthropology and History.

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Oct 26, 2018

Watch Researchers Animate Static Images Using Mesmerizing Machine Learning

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Cinemagraphs are all the rage.

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Oct 26, 2018

Astronomers May Have Spotted One of Earth’s Ghostly Dust Moons

Posted by in category: space

A ghostly dust satellite or two might be orbiting the Earth, according to new research building on a 60-year-old idea.

Massive objects attract one another through the force of gravity. But when you have multiple huge objects with just the right masses, their mutual gravitational field can introduce some anomalies—like gravitational points that can hold things stable. Scientists have found objects orbiting in these “Lagrange points” created by the combined gravity of the Sun and Mars, the Sun and Neptune, and the Sun and Jupiter. Researchers are now reporting evidence of dust clouds, called Kordylewski dust clouds, in the Lagrange points created by the Earth and the Moon.

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