Lifeboat News #207

Cities in Space 2020

Cities in Space 2020 will be held February 28, 2020 in Austin, Texas.

Our Janet Ivey and Rick Tumlinson will be speaking. Our Holly Melear is organizing this conference.

Learn more at https://steam-space.org/student-competi...ce-2020/

The Sigma Xi 2019 Annual Meeting & Student Research Conference

The Sigma Xi 2019 Annual Meeting & Student Research Conference will be held November 14–17 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sigma Xi honors excellence in scientific investigation and encourages a sense of companionship and cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering.

Learn more at https://www.sigmaxi.org/meetings-events...nference

GSA 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting

The GSA 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting “Strength in Age: Harnessing the Power of Networks” will be held November 13–17 in Austin, Texas. This meeting is devoted to the advancement of gerontological research, learning, and practice.

Our Holly M. Brown-Borg and Matt Kaeberlein are on the program committee.

Register for the free public lecture Living in Dog Years: The Science of How Dogs Age & Implications for Humans at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-in-...81070579

Learn more at https://www.geron.org/meetings-events/g...-meeting

Space Settlement Summit 2019

Space Settlement Summit 2019 will be held November 13–14 in Pasadena, California.

Our Dallas Bienhoff and Mark Hopkins will be speaking.

Blog

Recent interesting blog posts include:

“Building Solar Panels in Space Might be as Easy as Clicking Print” by Klaus Baldauf at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/build...ng-print

“Caltech’s latest creation: A hovering, bird-like robot that could someday explore Mars” by Roger Dufur at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/10/calte...ore-mars

“David Pearce — The Anatomy of Happiness” by Mark Larkento at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/david...appiness

“Drug combination preserves cognitive function in mice with Alzheimer’s disease” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/drug-...-disease

“EpiBone’s Bone Growing Process” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/epibo...-process

“Light-activated pancreatic cells produce insulin on demand” by Genevieve O’Hagan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/light...n-demand

“Living skin can now be 3D-printed with blood vessels included” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/livin...included

“NASA Is Considering Whether to Send an Orbiter to Pluto” by Genevieve O’Hagan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/nasa-...to-pluto

“New Battery Lets Electric Cars Go 200 Miles on a 10-Minute Charge” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/new-b...e-charge

“OffWorld’s Smart Robots Could Swarm Solar System to Help Astronauts and Settlers” by Klaus Baldauf at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/offwo...settlers

“Opinion: Why we should be worried about artificial intelligence on Wall Street” by Derick Lee at `https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/opini...l-street

“Scientists 3D-Printed Living Skin, Complete With Blood Vessels” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/scien...-vessels

“Scientists successfully create age-resistant mice with hyper-long telomeres” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/scien...elomeres

“The Race For Quantum Supremacy” by Derick Lee at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/the-r...e-on-hbo

“This AI Decodes Your Brainwaves and Draws What You’re Looking at” by Genevieve O’Hagan at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/this-...oking-at

“This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/this-...a-djokic

“UCF Researchers Discover Mechanisms for the Cause of the Big Bang” by Paul Battista at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/ucf-r...big-bang

“Using an accurate measurement of the parameters of planetary bodies to constrain the mass of the graviton” by Shailesh Prasad at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/using...graviton

“What if We Nuke a City?” by Pat Maechler at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/11/what-...e-a-city

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