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Dec 8, 2019

3 Aging Experts Tell How They Decided on Where to Grow Older

Posted by in category: life extension

One of the most vexing questions many of us face once we hit our 60s is: Where should we live as we get older? I’m not talking about those “Best Places to Live” rankings. I mean what kind of home, and type of community, would be most suitable. That’s why I was eager to hear what several gerontologists had to say in their session at last week’s Gerontological Society of America conference about how they decided where they’d live in later life.


What kind of home and community is most suitable? The answer isn’t always rational.

Dec 7, 2019

Reason | Investing in the Age of Longevity 2019

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, finance, life extension

Gene therapies to reverse immunosenescence and atherosclerosis.

CEO of Repair Biotechnologies speaking at Master Investor’s Investing in the Age of Longevity 2019 event. Reason discusses gene therapies to reverse immunosenescence and atherosclerosis.

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Dec 7, 2019

How does time dilation affect aging during high-speed space travel?

Posted by in categories: life extension, space travel

Your space questions, answered.

Dec 7, 2019

Internal brain timers linked with motivation and behavior

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Time can be measured in many ways: a watch, a sundial, or the body’s natural circadian rhythms. But what about the sexual behavior of a fruit fly?

“If you ask a bunch of scientists whether animals can keep time, many would say they cannot, that things happen over time—but time itself is not measured,” says Michael Crickmore, Ph.D., a researcher in Boston Children’s Hospital’s F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center whose laboratory studies motivation. But in new research published in the journal Neuron in collaboration with the lab of Dragana Rogulja, Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School, he shows that the mating of fruit flies is not haphazard. Instead, motivation and behavior are under the control of that track time.

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Dec 7, 2019

Antivirals for the Gut? Study Points To Potential New Gut (and Brain) Treatment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, neuroscience

A Gulf War Illness study finds a connection between dysregulated gut flora, leaky gut and neuroinflammation – and a new way to potentially resolve it.

It’s nice when the government has your back. After years of neglect, the federal government finally appears, at least regarding medical research, to have Gulf War Illness (GWI) veterans’ backs.

Dec 7, 2019

Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Mass Surveillance and Artificial General Intelligence

Posted by in categories: business, education, robotics/AI, security, surveillance

AI is Pandora’s box, s’ true…

On the one hand we can’t close it and on the other hand our current direction is not good. And this is gonna get worse as AI starts taking its own ‘creative’ decisions… the human overlords will claim it has nothing to do with them if and when things go wrong.

The solution for commercialization is actually quite simple.

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Dec 7, 2019

The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI—but this may be the beginning of an arms race.

Dec 7, 2019

This Is How Quantum Physics Creates The Largest Cosmic Structures Of All

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space

How can physics on the smallest scales affect what the Universe does on its largest ones? Cosmic inflation holds the answer.

Dec 7, 2019

Repairing leaky blood-brain barrier may rejuvenate brain function

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

New research in mice suggests that a leaky blood-brain barrier can accelerate brain aging, and that targeting inflammation can reverse some changes.

Dec 7, 2019

Have Scientists Cracked One Of The Biggest Mysteries Of Modern Physics?

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

So where did the antimatter go?

This question is one of the biggest mysteries of modern science, and the answer is unknown. Something happened in the earliest moments of the universe to make the antimatter disappear. From our best current measurements of the primordial radiation of the Big Bang (called the cosmic microwave background radiation, or CMB), something tilted the scales in favor of matter, with the ratio of for every three billion antimatter particles, there were three billion and one matter particles. The two sets of three billions cancelled and made the CMB, and the remaining tiny amount of matter went on to form the stars and galaxies that we see in our telescopes today. For this to happen, some physical process had to favor matter over antimatter.

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