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Sep 14, 2024

Astronauts 3D-print first metal part while on ISS

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, robotics/AI, space travel

Related: Future moon astronauts may 3D-print their supplies using lunar minerals

“With the printing of the first metal 3D shape in space, ESA Exploration teams have achieved a significant milestone in establishing in-orbit manufacturing capabilities. This accomplishment, made possible by an international and multidisciplinary team, paves the way for long-distance and long-duration missions where creating spare parts, construction components, and tools on demand will be essential,” said Daniel Neuenschwander, director of Human and Robotic Exploration at ESA, in a statement.

This groundbreaking technology continues to expand its applications on Earth, revolutionizing fields such as medicine, fashion, art, construction, food production and manufacturing. In space, as long-duration missions to the moon and potentially Mars take shape, astronauts will need a means of independently repairing or creating tools or parts for machinery or structures that would be difficult to carry onboard a spacecraft, which have limited capacity.

Sep 14, 2024

Creation of the humanoids (1962) Sci-fi full movie

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

Physicalism implies a form of panpsychism panprotopsychism solves the combination problem and the existence ofvprotophenomonal properties which are the basis of mental properties this will lead to artificial intelligence and conscious machines.


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Sep 14, 2024

Stem Cell Doctor Shares the Truth About Stem Cell Therapy for Anti-Aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, media & arts

She’s been doing stem cell therapy for 8 years. She is 53.


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Sep 14, 2024

Searle’s wager

Posted by in categories: computing, futurism

Nicholas Agar has recently argued that it would be irrational for future human beings to choose to radically enhance themselves by uploading their minds onto computers. Utilizing Searle’s argument that machines cannot think, he claims that uploading might entail death. He grants that Searle’s argument is controversial, but he claims, so long as there is a non-zero probability that uploading entails death, uploading is irrational. I argue that Agar’s argument, like Pascal’s wager on which it is modelled, fails, because the principle that we (or future agents) ought to avoid actions that might entail death is not action guiding. Too many actions fall under its scope for the principle to be plausible. I also argue that the probability that uploading entails death is likely to be lower than Agar recognizes.

Sep 14, 2024

New discovery aims to improve the design of microelectronic devices

Posted by in categories: computing, electronics

A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities is providing new insights into how next-generation electronics, including memory components in computers, breakdown or degrade over time. Understanding the reasons for degradation could help improve efficiency of data storage solutions.

The research is published in ACS Nano (“Uncovering Atomic Migrations Behind Magnetic Tunnel Junction Breakdown”).

For the first time, researchers were able to observe a “pinhole” within a device and observe how it degrades in real-time. (Image: Mkhoyan Lab, University of Minnesota)

Sep 14, 2024

Archaeologists Discovered an Ancient Immortality Potion That Exposes the Cost of Chasing Eternal Life

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Humans have been trying to cheat death for thousands of years. Myths about elixirs promising immortality span various cultures, as do real concoctions that often did more harm than good. One of the most misguided attempts at creating a potion for immortality involved the first emperor of China and mercury pills. In his obsession with finding a formula that would grant him eternal life, Qin Shi Huang downed mercury and other toxic substances nearly two millennia ago, believing his alchemists had hit upon the perfect magical tonic. Unsurprisingly, he died prematurely at age 49.

Archeologists have discovered another 2,000-year-old “elixir for immortality” that sheds light on the true cost of chasing down eternal life.

While excavating the tomb of a Western Han noble family in China’s Henan province in 2018, researchers unearthed a bronze pot. At first, the team thought the liquid inside was wine, but more recently determined that it was an alchemist’s formulation: a yellow liquid containing potassium nitrate and alunite. These two ingredients are cited in ancient Taoist texts as ingredients for immortality. Potassium nitrate is an inorganic salt used today as a natural source of nitrate, and is a useful ingredient in food preservatives, fertilizer, and fireworks. Alunite is a mineral that forms in volcanic or sedimentary environments when sulfur-rich minerals oxidize. It has historically been used to make alum, which is important for water purification, tanning, and dyeing.

Sep 14, 2024

Cosmology in crisis? A new series from The Conversation

Posted by in category: cosmology

A new series delves into the big questions surrounding the nature of our universe.

Sep 14, 2024

World’s first LNG carrier with Wind Challenger set for 2026 delivery

Posted by in category: futurism

The technology combines automatic sail control with real-time wind monitoring:


MOL and Chevron are equipping a new LNG carrier with the Wind Challenger, the world’s first wind-assisted LNG vessel, due in 2026.

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Sep 14, 2024

T-Mobile just sent the first emergency alert over satellite internet

Posted by in category: internet

Ground control to Major Tom: T-Mobile and Starlink team up on the first emergency alert via satellite, enabling delivery to areas with no cell service.

Sep 14, 2024

Axon-mimicking materials for computing

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

A team of researchers from Texas A&M University, Sandia National Lab — Livermore, and Stanford University are taking lessons from the brain to design materials for more efficient computing. The new class of materials discovered is the first of their kind – mimicking the behavior of an axon by spontaneously propagating an electrical signal as it travels along a transmission line. These findings could be critical to the future of computing and artificial intelligence.

This study was published in Nature (“Axon-like active signal transmission”).

Any electrical signal propagating in a metallic conductor loses amplitude due to the metal’s natural resistance. Modern computer processing (CPU) and graphic processing units can contain around 30 miles of fine copper wires moving electrical signals around within the chip. These losses quickly add up, requiring amplifiers to maintain the pulse integrity. These design constraints impact the performance of current interconnect-dense chips.

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