For 70 years, humanity has tried listening for radio emissions coming from other star systems. This is like sitting at home and waiting for a phone call that may never come or trying to hear noises from around our own singular farm house. Avi Loeb thinks a next step is to look around our yard. …
There is a new proposed definition of planet that works far better for objects in other solar systems. In our solar system, objects are close enough that we can check the orbit and see if has been cleared of other objects. This is problematic if we can only infer rough properties of what could be …
People have proposed saving the International Space Station. They think it cost about $200 billion to build it. However, most of those costs were the $1-2 billion spent for each Space shuttle launch. Those are sunk costs. It now costs an additional $1.3 billion per year to keep the Space Station operating. The parts were …
Inhibition of IL-11 signalling extends mammalian healthspan and lifespan- Nature Female Il11-deleted mice are protected from age-associated obesity, frailty, and metabolic decline. Male mice lives 22.5% longer and female mice 25% longer. The effects were similar to rapamycin but had less negative effects on liver and other organs when rapamycin is used for extended times. …
Tesla has filed four new trademark applications for four different pieces of candy. Official candy names in the filings: • Supercharged Gummies • Cyberberry • Mango Bolt • Dog Mode Chill NEWS: Tesla has filed four new trademark applications for four different pieces of candy. Official candy names in the filings:• Supercharged Gummies• Cyberberry• Mango …
Article by Steve LeVine of The Information suggests that Tesla is preparing to validate it’s engineering approach for high volume manufacturing of a new version of the 4680 by September. That involves: 1) Finally implementing a dry coated cathode 2) Scaling up a fix to an issue where the jelly roll would collapse into the …
OpenAI’s rumored project Strawberry is focused on enhancing the reasoning capabilities of its AI models. Strawberry is rumored to be based upon the QStar AI advance. QStar was a reasoning advance that supposedly triggered the power struggle inside OpenAI and temporary firing of CEO Sam Altman. Strawberry supposedly enables AI to perform long-horizon tasks (LHT), …
Quantum computing researchers are exploring whether quantum computational advantage might be obtainable without quantum error correction. The larger one can make a quantum computer while continuing to push down error rates the more likely it is that we will find tasks at which non-error-corrected quantum computers dramatically outperform the best classical algorithms. The high gate …
Neuralink will double the bandwidth of its devices with more accurate placement of the threads into the brain. The next generation device will have 3000 channels. The company’s first system, called Telepathy, centers around 64 threads that are inserted directly into the brain. The threads are thinner than a human hair and record neural signals …
Today, there is a new video interview of the lead researcher at Exodus Technologies who are making a radical new propellantless propulsion system. They claim they can produce over 1G of thrust for a lightweight device. IF this claim is true then they could make spaceships that could go to Mars in 5 days and …
China’s room temperature superconductor research continues. Here is the latest published work from the team from multiple universities and labs. This is the same teams that found stronger magnetic indications of Meissner effect in LK99 variant materials. Through heavily doping sulfur into an apatite framework, chinese researchers synthesized a new blend mainly comprising variant apatite …