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May 9, 2024

Billionaire’s 2nd SpaceX trip featuring spacewalk aims for early summer launch

Posted by in category: space travel

Billionaire Jared Issacman, who flew to space once with SpaceX, is already set for launch No. 2 in early summer.

The mission calls for new spacesuits introduced this past weekend designed so the can survive the plan to suck out all of the air of the spacecraft and allow Issacman and a crewmate to make the first commercial spacewalk in history.

Flying on the Crew Dragon Resilience again, the mission dubbed Polaris Dawn is the first of up to three flights Issacman wants to fly, culminating in what is supposed to be the first crewed mission of SpaceX’s Starship.

May 9, 2024

Josh Mitteldorf on programmed aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, mathematics

Irina Conboy, Michael Conboy and Josh Mitteldorf discuss one of the central questions in aging research: is aging an active process of the body or is aging a passive process of damage accumulation? See the whole debate on our YouTube Channel: @HealesMovies Josh Mitteldorf, PhD, runs the blog “Aging Matters” (https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/) and is a consultant in mathematical modeling and creative data analysis. His research areas include evolutionary ecology, biology of aging, and the epidemiology of COVID-19. On the field of aging research, he has published two books,” Cracking The Aging Code”, co-written with Dorion Sagan (https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Aging-Code-Science-Growing/d…atfound-20 and “Aging is a Group-Selected Adaptation” (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bs0faQEV3T9cu-Eq079-e5bIGgMwNH08/view). Heales website (Healthy Life Extension Society): https://heales.org/ Subscribe to our newsletter: https://heales.org/newsletter/ Contact e-mail: info@heales.org #science #aging #rejuvenation #biology #health #longevity #antiaging #debate #stemcells #programmedaging #entropy #cancer #conboy #conboys #mitteldorf Music: Closer To Your Dream by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon (CC BY 4.0)

May 9, 2024

On Truth & Reality: Philosophy Physics Metaphysics of Space, Wave Structure of Matter. Famous Science Art Quotes

Posted by in categories: particle physics, science, space

On Truth and Reality — Uniting Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics and Theology (Science and Art) from One Thing, Absolute Space and the Spherical Standing Wave Structure of Matter. From Matter as ‘Particles’ generating ‘Fields’ in ‘Space-Time’, to Matter as Spherical Standing Waves in Space. The Wave-Center Causes ‘Particle Effect’, Wave Motion of Space Causes ‘Time’, Wave Interactions cause ‘Forces / Fields’

May 9, 2024

Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence Startup xAI Reportedly Nears $18 Billion Valuation With Fresh Funding As AI Race Heats Up

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

The funding would provide Musk’s venture, which is behind the Grok AI chatbot, a welcome boost in its efforts to catch up to AI rivals like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.

May 9, 2024

Japan Grapples With 9 Million Empty Homes, More Than The Population Of New York

Posted by in category: habitats

Previously seen mainly in rural areas, abandoned houses or “akiya” are now spreading to major cities like Tokyo and Kyoto.

May 9, 2024

Molecular analysis confirms T. Rex’s evolutionary link to birds

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, genetics

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Putting more meat on the theory that dinosaurs’ closest living relatives are modern-day birds, molecular analysis of a shred of 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex protein — along with that of 21 modern species — confirms that dinosaurs share common ancestry with chickens, ostriches, and to a lesser extent, alligators.

The work, published this week in the journal Science, represents the first use of molecular data to place a non-avian dinosaur in a phylogenetic tree that traces the evolution of species. The scientists also report that similar analysis of 160,000-to 600,000-year-old collagen protein sequences derived from mastodon bone establishes a close phylogenetic relationship between that extinct species and modern elephants.

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May 9, 2024

Chemistry supports the identification of gender-specific reproductive tissue in Tyrannosaurus rex

Posted by in category: chemistry

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Scientific Reports — Chemistry supports the identification of gender-specific reproductive tissue in Tyrannosaurus rex. Sci. Rep. 6, 23099; doi: 10.1038/srep23099 (2016).

May 9, 2024

Tweaking the beak: Retracing the bird’s beak to its dinosaur origins, in the laboratory

Posted by in category: futurism

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New Haven, Conn. — Scientists have successfully replicated the molecular processes that led from dinosaur snouts to the first bird beaks.

Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird’s skull features. The scientists replicated ancestral molecular development to transform chicken embryos in a laboratory into specimens with a snout and palate configuration similar to that of small dinosaurs such as Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx.

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May 9, 2024

A Tungsten Miracle Happened in the Heart of a Fusion Reactor

Posted by in categories: innovation, nuclear energy

This breakthrough in plasma stability brings the dream of endless energy even closer.

May 9, 2024

Ultrasound experiment identifies new superconductor

Posted by in categories: materials, physics

With pulses of sound through tiny speakers, Cornell physics researchers have clarified the basic nature of a new superconductor.

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