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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.

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.

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

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

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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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Humanity is about to change faster than we thought possible.

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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