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Oct 4, 2018

It’s Official: NASA Just Announced a Bold 3-Part Plan to Send Humans to The Moon And Mars

Posted by in categories: policy, space, space travel

NASA’s got a whole new plan. It wants boots on the Moon in 10 years and on Mars in 20. Give or take.

On Wednesday, the space agency announced its detailed National Space Exploration Plan to achieve the President’s lofty goals set out in his December 2017 Space Policy Directive-1.

Those bold plans include: planning a new Moon landing, long-term human deployment on and around the Moon, reassertion of America’s leadership in space, strengthening private space companies, and figure out how to get American astronauts to the surface of Mars.

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Oct 4, 2018

5 Sci-Fi Books Biotech Geeks Should Read Right Now

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI, space travel, time travel

From space colonization to resurrection of dinosaurs to machine intelligence, the most awe-inspiring visions of humanity’s future are typically born from science fiction.

But among an abundance of time travel, superheroes, space adventures, and so forth, biotech remains underrepresented in the genre.

This selection highlights some outstanding works (new and not so new) to fill the sci-fi gap for biotech aficionados.

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Oct 4, 2018

Scientists Wiped Out a Mosquito Population

Posted by in category: genetics

They used a gene drive to create a genetic time bomb.

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Oct 4, 2018

Human 2.0 Is Coming Faster Than You Think. Will You Evolve With The Times?

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, transhumanism

In the past, early adopters embraced inanimate technology, like smartphones. But what happens when transhumanism stops being sci-fi conjecture and goes mainstream? Will we be so ready to upgrade ourselves?

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Oct 4, 2018

A colossal elevator to space could be going up sooner than you ever imagined

Posted by in category: space

Scientists in China and Japan are working to create a space elevator, and an experiment aboard the International Space Station could help point the way.

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Oct 4, 2018

DARPA high-resolution neural interfaces for controlling drones and cybertech

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, drones, neuroscience

DARPA seeks to achieve high levels of brain-system communications without surgery, in its new program, Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3).

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Oct 3, 2018

What If a Coin-Sized Black Hole Appeared On Earth

Posted by in category: cosmology

What trouble could a coin-sized black hole cause?

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Oct 3, 2018

More Cancers Occur

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Two-thirds of all cancers are caused by DNA replication errors, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. But don’t light a celebratory cigarette just yet.

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Oct 3, 2018

Solar on water, robots, and 2-sided panels, oh my: solar tech’s near future

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Today’s hottest solar tech is all about supporting old-fashioned silicon panels.

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Oct 3, 2018

Angus the robot could soon be cultivating your salads in a robo-farm

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability

Angus, a 1,000lb robot, rolls about the indoor farm on omnidirectional wheels.

Its main job is to shuttle maturing produce to another, as-yet unnamed robot, which transfers plants from smaller growing pods to larger ones.

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