Kurzweil AI: Long-term memories in mice are maintained by prion-like proteins
Columbia University Medical Center | Long-term Memories Are Maintained by Prion-like ProteinsThe molecules that maintain long-term memories in mice are a normal version of prion* proteins and work the...
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Kurzweil AI: A solar-energy storage cell that works at night
A UT Arlington team has developed a new energy cell that is more efficient and can store solar energy even at night (credit: UT Arlington)read more
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Kurzweil AI: This is how the universe will end: not with a bang but a rip
A radical new timeline of the life of the universe (credit: Jeremy Teaford, Vanderbilt University)Vanderbilt University mathematicians have come up with a new theory of “cosmological viscosity” (how...
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Singularity Hub: This Week’s Awesome Stories from Around the Web (Through Jul 4)
ROBOTICS: Our Robot Overlords Aren’t Quite Ready For Us — Yet Caroline O'Donovan | BuzzFeed "The issue is that robots are really good at doing the same thing over and over... read more The post This...
View ArticleAccelerating Future: Join Our Mailing List
Join our mailing list for information about upcoming ebooks and compilations!Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of...
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Singularity Hub: Digitizing Surgery: How New Technologies Will Transform Old...
From one point of view, surgery is a fairly barbaric means of improving your health. After all, your body is cut open, organs are moved around or removed, and doctors probe with their... read more The...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: SkQ1 Improves Impaired Skin Healing in Old Mice
Targeting antioxidants to the mitochondria inside cells has been shown to produce enough of a benefit to build therapies for a number of conditions, with better outcomes than standard antioxidant...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Spurring Regrowth of Axons in Damaged Nerves
Axons extend from nerve cells, grouped in bundles to form nerves, with the longest axons running for a meter or more. When severed they tend not to regrow, a limitation that researchers are trying to...
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Kurzweil AI: Autonomous taxis could be cheaper and improve the environment,...
Self-driving taxi? (credit: Google)It’s the year 2030. A fleet of driverless taxis roams throughout your city, ready to pick you up and take you to your destination at a moment’s notice. As a result,...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Low Dose Lithium Extends Life in Flies
Low doses of lithium have been shown to modestly extend life in nematodes, and a Japanese study suggested a correlation between human life expectancy and natural variations in lithium in tap water - a...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Influences on Longevity: Genetics or Lifestyle?
The conventional wisdom is that common genetic variations have only a very small impact on mortality and health across the majority of the present human life span, but as the molecular damage of aging...
View ArticleSingularity Hub: Twisted Light Could Dramatically Boost Internet Speeds
Fiber optics allow for the communication of data at the speed of light.But the amount of data that can be sent along any optic fiber is limited by how much information you can encode into the light...
View ArticleSingularity University: SingularityU Toronto Chapter Meetup APR 21
SU Alumni Claudia Krywiak is hosting the next chapter meetup at the OCE. Come and learn about OCE, a not-for-profit organization that funds and supports entrepreneurs and innovators, working with...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: The Actuarial Press Interviews Aubrey de Grey
An interview with Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation appears in the latest edition of the Actuary. This is in connection with forthcoming appearances at actuarial conferences, something...
View ArticleSingularity Hub: This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: What Will Destroy Us First: Superbabies or AI?Danielle Teller and Astro Teller | QUARTZ"Even if we could build an AI that is similar to humans but smarter, there’s no evidence...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 11th 2016
FIGHT AGING! NEWSLETTERApril 11th 2016 Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the...
View ArticleSingularity Hub: New 3D Printed Ovaries Allow Infertile Mice to Give Birth
It might be time to rethink fertility treatment.Here’s the scoop: scientists at Northwestern University 3D printed a functional ovary out of Jello-like material and living cells. When implanted into...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: George Church on Genetics, Rejuvenation Research, and More
George Church is an important figure in the field of genetics, and in recent years has become more vocal in his support for rejuvenation research. He is presently on the advisory board of the SENS...
View ArticleLongevity Meme: The Rider Institute Seeks Funding for DRACO Research
Double-stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer (DRACO) is an antiviral technology that works by destroying infected cells rather than directly attacking viral particles themselves, thus disrupting...
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