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Jul 17, 2017

How To Garden In The Arctic

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Benjamin Vidmar is the founder of Polar Permaculture and he’s trying to do the impossible: grow vegetables in the harsh landscape of Svalbard, a group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean.

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Jul 17, 2017

Jeff Bezos: reusable rockets will let a trillion people colonise the solar system

Posted by in category: space travel

America must go back to the Moon, build a Moon-base, then humanity should colonise the solar system. Why? So life on Earth can continue, says Amazon and Blue Origin supremo Jeff Bezos.

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Jul 16, 2017

Scientists Upload a Galloping Horse GIF Into Bacteria With Crispr

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

DNA could be a robust storage system for data, but never before have researchers stored information in a live organism.

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Jul 16, 2017

How to hack your gut to ward off Parkinson’s and obesity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

The wonder of your gut: Experts explain why a healthy digestive system can trigger weight loss, fight depression, and ward off Parkinson’s.

  • Jasenka Zubcevic works in Physiological Sciences, and Christopher Martynuik in Toxicology at the University of Florida
  • They have been investigating how gut bacteria affect all other body parts
  • Here they explain everything we know thus far about the gut

By Jasenka Zubcevic and Christopher Martynuik For The Conversation

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Jul 16, 2017

Natasha Vita-More

Posted by in category: evolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YHIdaxDTxY&feature=share

Dr. Vita-More is an expert in the culture of emerging technology and humanity’s continued evolution.

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Jul 16, 2017

OMNI Magazine Back in Print This Fall — By Stubby the Rocket | Tor.com

Posted by in categories: innovation, media & arts, science

“The next print issue of OMNI will be available October 24.”

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Jul 16, 2017

Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

Posted by in category: life extension

Salk Institute. 4 genes.


A n end to grey hair and crows-feet could be just 10 years away after scientists showed it is possible to reverse ageing in animals.

Using a new technique which takes adult cells back to their embryonic form, US researchers at the Salk Institute in California, showed it was possible to reverse ageing in mice, allowing the animals to not only look younger, but live for 30 per cent longer.

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Jul 16, 2017

Humanity Is About to Transition To “Evolution by Intelligent Direction”

Posted by in category: evolution

Humanity is about to change faster than we thought possible.

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Jul 16, 2017

AI Creates Fake Obama

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, internet, robotics/AI, virtual reality

Artificial intelligence software could generate highly realistic fake videos of former president Barack Obama using existing audio and video clips of him, a new study [PDF] finds.

Such work could one day help generate digital models of a person for virtual reality or augmented reality applications, researchers say.

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Jul 16, 2017

These Drones Can See Through Walls

Posted by in category: drones

X-Ray Eyes in the Sky — drones are able to complete 3D map renderings of objects behind walls.

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