New Horizons
We would like to congratulate our Alan Stern for his accomplishment of
New Horizons traveling 4 billion miles from Earth in the farthest flyby
ever. Alan is Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons probe which
rang in the new year by swinging by Ultima Thule — “beyond the known
world” — an object in the Kuiper asteroid belt.
The spacecraft passed within 2,200 miles of the large asteroid at 12:33
a.m. EST Tuesday, not long after the ball dropped in New York Times
Square. The close encounter marks the farthest spacecraft flyby in
history.
“We set a record! Never before has a spacecraft explored something so
far away,” Alan said. “I mean, think of it. We’re a billion miles
further than Pluto, and now we’re going to keep going into the Kuiper
Belt.”
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/press.releases....yby.ever
Guardian Award
The Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award is annually bestowed upon a
respected scientist or public figure who has warned of a future fraught
with dangers and encouraged measures to prevent them. Past winners are
listed at https://lifeboat.com/ex/guardian.award and include Ray
Kurzweil and Stephen Hawking.
Please send your nominations to
Longevity Therapeutics 2019
Longevity Therapeutics 2019 is being held January 29–31 in San
Francisco. This conference will focus on enhancing & accelerating aging
research & the development of therapies targeting age-related diseases. Our Judith Campisi, Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Peter
Fedichev, Kristen Fortney and Alex Zhavoronkov will be speaking.
Learn more at http://longevity-therapeutics.com
Richard Stallman
Our Richard Stallman will be speaking at Thiruvananthapuram, India on
January 15 and 16; Bengaluru, India on January 18; and Toronto, Canada
on February 7. All these talks are gratis.
Learn more at https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-speeches.html
Undoing Aging 2019 Update
Undoing Aging 2019 will be held March 28–30 in Berlin, Germany. Our
Julie K. Andersen, Dongsheng Cai, Judith Campisi, Aubrey de Grey,
Michael Greve, Graham Pawelec, and Mikhail S. Shchepinov will be
speaking/participating.
Undoing Aging 2019 is not only open to the scientific community but also
welcomes all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of
innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage
repair.
Learn more at https://www.undoing-aging.org
Propose a Space Mission
Space Mission Activation Process: Are you a maker, innovator, explorer?
Do you want to be part of the new space program? Propose a space mission
and join in creating an international movement.
Learn more at https://spacedecentral.net/smap
Blog
Sam Bocetta joins our blog team with the post “The Rise of Hacking and
Phishing in 2018 — Where Are We Headed?” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/the-r...e-headed
Richard Darienzo joins our blog team with the post “MIT Interactive
Robotics Laboratory” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/author/richard-darienzo
Samson Williams joins our blog team with the post “Virtual Currencies
Are As Old As Favors” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/virtu...s-favors
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“2019 Preview: People will receive transfusions of artificial blood” by
Ian Hale at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/2019-...al-blood
“60 Cybersecurity Predictions For 2019” by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/60-cy...for-2019
“Artificial neurons compute faster than the human brain” by Paul
Gonçalves at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/artif...an-brain
“Brain ‘pacemaker’ could prevent tremors and seizures for Parkinson’s
and epilepsy sufferers” by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/brain...ufferers
“A Cafe in Japan Hires Robot Servers, But With a Twist” by Shailesh
Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/a-caf...-a-twist
“Elon Musk wants testers for Tesla’s long-awaited ‘full self-driving’
A.I. chip” by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/elon-...a-i-chip
“Facial Recognition Tech Aims to Identify Good and Evil” by Derick Lee
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/facia...and-evil
“How Can Galaxies Travel Faster Than Light?” by Sidney Clouston at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/how-c...an-light
“The immune system’s fountain of youth” by Jacob Anderson at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/the-i...of-youth
“Injection to halt the progress of Alzheimer’s ‘available within
decade’” by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/injec...n-decade
“Israeli company claims it has created new technology that can destroy
cancerous tumors” by Victoria Generao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/israe...s-tumors
“Mark Zuckerberg-Funded Researchers Test Implantable Brain Devices” by
John Gallagher at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/mark-...-devices
“Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes” by Xavier
Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/mathe...ck-holes
“Meet OWL and HIBOU! Japan’s Asteroid Hoppers Get New Names” by Alberto
Lao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/meet-...ew-names
“MIT Scientists Use Nanoparticles to Engineer Incredible Glowing Plants”
by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/mit-s...g-plants
“Mysterious Anomaly Under Africa Is Weakening Earth’s Magnetic Field” by
Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/myste...ic-field
“NASA research reveals Saturn is losing its rings at
‘worst-case-scenario’ rate” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/nasa-...rio-rate
“A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously”
by Victoria Generao at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/a-new...aneously
“One-carbon Metabolic Pathway Implicated In Age-Related
Immunosenescence” by Nicola Bagalà at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/one-c...nescence
“Our Cellphones Aren’t Safe” by Derick Lee at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/our-c...ent-safe
“Pediatric leukemia ‘super drug’ could be less than a decade away” by
Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/pedia...ade-away
“President Trump has signed a $1.2 billion law to boost US quantum tech”
by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/presi...tum-tech
“Proximity testing complete, Jetpack Aviation prepares to launch the
world’s first jetpack race series” by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/proxi...e-series
“Quantum Communication Just Took a Great Leap Forward” by Alexandros El
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/quant...-forward
“Rejuvenation: The discovery of animal cloning and subsequent
development of cell reprogramming technology were quantum leaps as they
led to the achievement of rejuvenation by cell reprogramming and the
emerging view that aging is a reversible epigenetic process” by Montie
Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/rejuv...g-and-th
“Researchers demonstrate teleportation using on-demand photons from
quantum dots” by Steve Nichols at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/resea...tum-dots
“Scientists just used rabbit DNA to create a new kind of powerful, air
purifying plant” by Marcia Wiegand at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/scien...ng-plant
“A self-driving car can choose who dies in a fatal crash. These are the
ethical considerations” by Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/a-sel...erations
“Space probe Osiris-Rex makes closest ever orbit of smallest ever
object” by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/space...r-object
“Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory About Our Universe Will Melt Your Brain”
by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/steph...ur-brain
“The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS” by Xavier Rosseel at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/the-s...ains-gps
“Switch-in-a-cell electrifies life” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/switc...ies-life
“Synaptic protein regulates anxiety behaviour” by Ian Hale at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/synap...ehaviour
“This drug is the first to treat cancer based only on genetics, not the
location of the cancer” by Shane Hinshaw at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/this-...e-cancer
“This inventor applied game theory to machine learning to make computers
smarter” by Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/this-...-smarter
“Tiny Stars, Habitable Worlds: Planet Hunters Chase A Cosmic Connection”
by Bill Retherford at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/tiny-...nnection
“Using Bitcoin Off the Grid” by Klaus Baldauf at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/using...e-gridat
“Wearable tech records memories” by Marcos Than Esponda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/weara...memories
“What If Humans Could Hibernate?” by Nicholi Avery at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/what-...ibernate
“What the SpaceX Mirror Polished Stainless Steel Starship Will Look
Like” by Genevieve O’Hagan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/what-...ook-like
“When you look up, how far back in time do you see?” by Michael Lance at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2018/12/when-...-you-see
“World of atoms” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/01/world-of-atoms
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