A $42 million ‘10,000 year clock’ is being installed on Jeff Bezos’ property
Study: For those over 90, alcohol better than exercise for longevity
Cheers to life – seriously.
When it comes to making it into your 90s, booze actually beats exercise, according to a long-term study led by University of California neurologist Claudia Kawas.
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Scientists grow full sized, beating human hearts from stem cells
It’s the closest we’ve come to growing transplantable hearts in the lab
Of the 4,000 Americans waiting for heart transplants, only 2,500 will receive new hearts in the next year. Even for those lucky enough to get a transplant, the biggest risk is the their bodies will reject the new heart and launch a massive immune reaction against the foreign cells. To combat the problems of organ shortage and decrease the chance that a patient’s body will reject it, researchers have been working to create synthetic organs from patients’ own cells. Now a team of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has gotten one step closer, using adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue, according to a study published recently in the journal Circulation Research.
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Electronic skin can display a heartbeat on your hand
You’d know someone’s health just by looking at them.
Electronic skins might not only detect health troubles in the near future, but display them for the world to see. University of Tokyo researchers have developed an e-skin that can measure vital signs like your heartbeat and display them in real time on a skin display. The design blends a breathable nanomesh electrode and stretchable wiring with an array of micro LEDs that can output basic images bending with your body. Others know right away if you need help — they’d just have to look at your hand (or anywhere else the sensor works) to get an idea of what’s wrong. The sensor can pair with a smartphone and transmit its info to the cloud, too.
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Dawn of the techlash
Once seen as saviours of democracy, tech giants are now viewed as threats to truth. But how did our faith in all things digital turn into an erosion of trust, particularly in the arena of information and politics?
Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Facebook was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.’
Making a crypto utopia in Puerto Rico
Brock Pierce inside the former Children’s Museum in Old San Juan, P.R., which he and his colleagues hope to make part of a crypto utopia where the money is virtual and the contracts are all public.
These are the world’s most miserable economies
Rising prices are more of a threat to the global economy this year than joblessness, according to Bloomberg’s Misery Index, which sums inflation and unemployment outlooks for 66 economies.
Venezuela, South Africa seen as world’s unhappiest economies
Thailand, Singapore remain ‘least miserable’ in rankings
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Where are the startups? Loss of dynamism is impeding growth
A solar panel factory in Hillsboro, Ore. A decline in business formation has contributed to a flattening of the labor supply.
Can the market economy still deliver prosperity?
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Celularity placental stem cell treatments for cancer, longevity
A startup that wants to use stem cells to keep us living longer just raised $250 million
Celularity is a New Jersey-based startup co-founded by X-Prize founder Dr. Peter Diamandis and ex-Celgene executive Dr. Bob Hariri.
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New DNA nanorobots successfully target and kill off cancerous tumors
Science fiction no more — in an article out today in Nature Biotechnology, scientists were able to show tiny autonomous bots have the potential to function as intelligent delivery vehicles to cure cancer in mice.
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Disney has begun populating its parks with autonomous, personality-driven robots
The process of making a Disney park feel alive is most easily encapsulated in animatronic figures. These hydraulic, pneumatic and now electric figures have been a fixture at Disneyland since the 60s. Since then, massive advancements have been made in control systems, movement architecture and programming. The most advanced animatronic figures like the Na’Vi Shaman in Disney World’s Na’vi River Journey are plain and simply robots. And very sophisticated ones at that.
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8 incredible innovations helping homeless people around the world
Homelessness is widespread and hard to solve, affecting more than 560,000 people in the U.S. and hundreds of millions around the world.
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