Lifeboat Foundation

A small animal on a speck of dust in a beyond infinite, timeless multiverse.

262 posts by Arthur Brown

• Some people don’t experience stress. Are they happier? – April 24, 2024
• Colorectal cancer: 2 body types linked to higher risk – April 22, 2024
• Keeping Telomeres in Their Places – April 22, 2024
• Scientists just found an evolutionary holy grail – April 19, 2024
• The Universe Could Be Eternal, According to This Controversial Theory – April 15, 2024
• Positive Results for Intranasal Oxytocin in Adults With Autism – April 15, 2024
• Just one pregnancy can add months to your biological age – April 15, 2024
• Faster aging linked to cancer rates in young adults, study finds – April 11, 2024
• Survival of the nicest: have we got evolution the wrong way round? – April 9, 2024
• Behavioral and neural correlates to multisensory detection of sick humans – March 20, 2024
• Scientists Discover Method To Stop Active Cancer Cells in Their Tracks – March 13, 2024
• Surgeons Use Apple VR Headset During Spinal Operation – March 13, 2024
• New Marker of Cardiovascular Risk Discovered in T2D – March 11, 2024
• Why High-Protein Diets May Lead to Atherosclerosis – March 11, 2024
• Denosumab Protective Against Diabetes? – March 8, 2024
• Microplastics found in blood vessels linked to greater risk of heart problems, study finds – March 8, 2024
• A One-and-Done Injection to Slow Aging? New Study in Mice Opens the Possibility – February 6, 2024
• Our brains bend time to adapt to life’s rhythm – February 4, 2024
• Why Is Our Solar System Flat? – February 3, 2024
• The Troubling Mysteries at the Heart of Nuclear Bombs – February 1, 2024
• Industry 5.0 will be fueled by minds, not just machines – February 1, 2024
• Bacteria Make Decisions Based on Generational Memories – January 29, 2024
• The intriguing experiments forcing a rethink on quantum consciousness – January 23, 2024
• Combating Alzheimer’s With Focused Ultrasound Drug Delivery – January 22, 2024
• This African lake may literally explode—and millions are at risk – January 22, 2024
• Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here’s a Way Out – January 21, 2024
• How the Mighty Heat Pump Is Helping (but Not Solving) EVs’ Cold Weather Problem – January 21, 2024
• CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal – January 18, 2024
• Google clarifies Chrome’s ‘Incognito Mode’ isn’t as private as you might think – January 17, 2024
• As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better – January 14, 2024
• Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled – January 13, 2024
• DNA from ancient Europeans reveals surprising origins of multiple sclerosis – January 13, 2024
• The Most Secretive Longevity Lab Finally Opens Its Doors – January 10, 2024
• Are Post-Meal Insulin Surges Beneficial? – January 10, 2024
• Male Gym-Goers Unaware of Fertility Risks From Lifestyle and Protein – January 5, 2024
• High-Tech Brain Stimulation Can Make People More Hypnotizable – January 5, 2024
• Introducing a new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs – January 4, 2024
• Cholesterol: Animal study tests vaccine to lower LDL cholesterol – January 3, 2024
• Why do we all age differently? – December 25, 2023
• The Body, Not the Brain, Regulates Sleep – December 25, 2023
• Scientists Say Their New AI Can Predict When You’re Going to Die – December 21, 2023
• Mysterious Objects Found Underwater in Potentially ‘Mind-Blowing’ Discovery – December 21, 2023
• Cancer diagnosis: Sugar in saliva or blood could aid early detection – December 18, 2023
• Colorectal Tumors May Be Boosted by Cholesterol Production – December 15, 2023
• Diverse Gut Microbiomes Block Pathogen Colonization by Consuming Required Nutrients – December 15, 2023
• Snail: A Protein That May Help the Injured Brain Heal – December 13, 2023
• Wild new NASA plasma tech reduces drag during hypersonic flight – December 13, 2023
• Second “Code of Life” Cracked by AI – December 13, 2023
• Electrical stimulation signals new hope for stroke patients – December 10, 2023
• Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out – December 7, 2023
• Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn – December 6, 2023
• Evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being – December 6, 2023
• Organoids Evolve from Academic Marvel to Industrial Tool – December 5, 2023
• See the Brain Like Never Before in This Gorgeous Art – December 5, 2023
• Could Blood Transfusions and Tissue Transplants Spread Certain Dementias? – December 5, 2023
• Why Do We Need Two Copies of Each Chromosome? – December 4, 2023
• Suite of Genes Influence Head Shape in Humans – December 4, 2023
• ‘Alexa, Titrate My Insulin’: AI App Boosts Glycemic Control in Randomized Trial – December 4, 2023
• Stress Neuropeptide Increased in Heavy Alcohol Drinking – December 4, 2023
• Could coffee grounds be the key to preventing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s? – December 3, 2023
• These fish live beyond 100—and get healthier as they age – December 1, 2023
• Scientists Map the Evolution of Our “Little Brain” – November 30, 2023
• Brain Scans From Former NFL Players Identify Repair Protein in the Brain – November 30, 2023
• Six planets found in synchronized orbit may help solve cosmic puzzle – November 29, 2023
• Brain Implant Can Enable Communication Through Thoughts Alone – November 29, 2023
• Why mathematical truths exist with or without minds to consider them – November 28, 2023
• Can we grow veggies on Mars? Fly larvae and synthetic soil may hold the answer – November 27, 2023
• AI tool could help thousands avoid fatal heart attacks – November 26, 2023
• How Memory Makes Us and Breaks Truth: The Rashomon Effect and the Science of How Memories Form and Falter in the Brain – November 26, 2023
• How a textile technology is supercharging stem cell growth – November 25, 2023
• ‘What the heck is going on?’ Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth – November 25, 2023
• How Eye-to-Eye Contact Guides Our Social Behavior – November 24, 2023
• Scientists Listen in to Ear–Eye Communication – November 24, 2023
• Even without brains, jellyfish learn from their mistakes – November 23, 2023
• Proteins Predict Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease – November 21, 2023
• You Are When You Eat – November 21, 2023
• 1st Black Hole Ever Imaged by Humans Has Twisted Magnetic Fields And Scientists Are Thrilled – November 21, 2023
• Humans Make Better Cancer Treatment Decisions Than AI, Study Finds – November 21, 2023
• Dr. Alison Todd’s Inventions May Save Your Life – November 19, 2023
• Understanding the intelligence of decision making – November 18, 2023
• A Virus that Generates Electricity – November 17, 2023
• Conscious Brain Chemistry Recorded by Electrode System – November 17, 2023
• Have We Been Misdiagnosing Dyslexia? – November 16, 2023
• Google’s New Titan Security Key Adds Another Piece to the Password-Killing Puzzle – November 16, 2023
• Scientists Find the ‘On’ Switch for Energy-Burning Brown Fat – November 16, 2023
• Scientists have discovered what may be the first ‘vampire’ virus – November 15, 2023
• Hydrogen fuel could change the way aircraft work, and look – November 15, 2023
• Elusive egg-laying mammal caught on camera for the first time – November 15, 2023
• What if the speed of Earth’s rotation suddenly got faster? – November 13, 2023
• Your mental dictionary is part of what makes you unique − here’s how your brain stores and retrieves words – November 12, 2023
• Uric Acid: A New Metric for Heart Health – November 10, 2023
• How to make research reproducible: psychology protocol gives 86% success rate – November 9, 2023
• Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA – November 9, 2023
• Rare Primate Found in Nebraska Is a Clue About the Future – November 7, 2023
• Type 2 diabetes: New GLP-1 agonist may lead to long-lasting treatment – November 4, 2023
• Study reveals how formaldehyde alters gene expression through epigenetics – November 4, 2023
• The total mass, number, and distribution of immune cells in the human body – November 3, 2023
• Mechanism That Forms Connections in the Brain Identified – November 2, 2023
• Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study – November 2, 2023
• Engineers Develop Efficient Process To Make Fuel From Carbon Dioxide – November 1, 2023
• Astronomers capture first direct evidence of black hole spinning – October 23, 2023
• Ultra-powerful plasma ‘blades’ could slice entire stars in half, new paper suggests – October 23, 2023
• Scientists propose ‘missing’ law for the evolution of everything in the universe – October 22, 2023
• Milestone: A particle accelerator on a chip – October 20, 2023
• A new pathway to achieve superlensing without a superlens – October 20, 2023
• Deep asleep? You can still follow simple commands, study finds – October 20, 2023
• Will AI ever reach human-level intelligence? We asked five experts – October 19, 2023
• Five Mars Rover Technologies That Could Be In Your Next Car – October 19, 2023
• Individual neurons mix multiple RNA edits of key synapse protein, study finds – October 15, 2023
• Non-viral delivery promises a true alternative for cell therapy developers – October 14, 2023
• How a scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize – October 14, 2023
• Brain Signals Linked to Better Memory Identified – October 13, 2023
• Astronomers spot violent afterglow of 2 massive planets that collided in a distant star system – October 13, 2023
• Mutated Gene That Causes Webbed Limbs in Humans May Have Given Bats Wings – October 13, 2023
• Could AI communicate with aliens better than we could? – October 13, 2023
• Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets – October 13, 2023
• This engineering course has students use their brainwaves to create performing art – October 13, 2023
• How to watch Saturday’s ‘ring of fire’ eclipse from wherever you are – October 12, 2023
• Your Brain Finds It Easy to Size Up Four Objects But Not Five—Here’s Why – October 12, 2023
• What are kilonovas? – October 12, 2023
• SIRT2 Works Against Cardiac Aging in Mice and Monkeys – October 12, 2023
• Starlink to Be Available on Most Aircraft Soon, Says Elon Musk – October 12, 2023
• The Neurons That Tell Our Brains What Went Wrong – October 11, 2023
• Google DeepMind Researchers Introduce Promptbreeder: A Self-Referential and Self-Improving AI System that can Automatically Evolve Effective Domain-Specific Prompts in a Given Domain – October 9, 2023
• Fireflies, brain cells, dancers: Synchronicity & Networks🧠⏱ – October 8, 2023
• How purposeless physics underlies purposeful life – October 6, 2023
• The Cell as an Embedded Computing System – October 4, 2023
• “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases – October 2, 2023
• Possible New Human Species Found through 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone Fossil – October 2, 2023
• Kombucha on Mars? It could be key for astronauts’ survival off Earth – September 29, 2023
• New AI algorithm can detect signs of life with 90% accuracy. Scientists want to send it to Mars – September 28, 2023
• Nuclear ‘pasta’ cooked up by dead stars could unravel the secrets of stellar afterlife – September 22, 2023
• World’s most powerful X-ray laser will ‘film’ chemical reactions in unprecedented detail – September 22, 2023
• Medical AI and the Promise of RETFound: Pioneering Future Therapies from Retinal Imaging – September 19, 2023
• This nano submarine will explore solar system’s icy moons – September 14, 2023
• The Asteroid Hit by NASA Seems to Be Moving Strangely, High School Students Find – September 13, 2023
• “Hidden Mysteries” of Ancient Egyptian Tomb Paintings Revealed – September 12, 2023
• Scientists link baby’s brain development to their gut bacteria – September 10, 2023
• Alzheimer’s: Exercise-induced hormone may help reduce plaque – September 9, 2023
• Coconut oil may alter metabolism and cause obesity, mouse study finds – September 9, 2023
• Lucid dreamers transmit musical melodies from dreams to reality in real-time in groundbreaking study – September 9, 2023
• Perseverance rover experiment creates oxygen on Mars for the final time – September 9, 2023
• Paige Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Build the World’s Largest Image-Based AI Model to Fight Cancer – September 9, 2023
• Abstract: Lung cancer progression relies on angiogenesis – September 9, 2023
• Astronomers discover new class of cosmic explosion brighter than 100 billion suns – September 8, 2023
• Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix – September 8, 2023
• ‘Twisty’ new theory of gravity suggests information can escape black holes after all – September 3, 2023
• Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago – September 3, 2023
• Hypothesized Physics ‘Demon’ May Have Been Found Lurking Inside Our Cells – September 1, 2023
• NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument – August 31, 2023
• What Are Dreams For? – August 31, 2023
• Earth has been hit by an ‘impossible’ blast of light. Scientists now know how – August 31, 2023
• According to a Physicist, the entire Universe may be a Neural Network – August 31, 2023
• The Role of Senescence in Crafting Cancer-Friendly Microenvironments – August 29, 2023
• Visible infrared at room temperature achieved in a first – August 29, 2023
• Parkinson’s disease: Does it start in the gut? – August 28, 2023
• The Reality of Regenerative Medicine – August 28, 2023
• Through the Looking Glass: Aging, Inflammation, and Gut Rejuvenation – August 28, 2023
• Intermittent Fasting and Calorie Restriction Positively Impact Gut Microbiome – August 28, 2023
• Corals have algal friends for dinner – August 27, 2023
• Japan’s space observatory will measure X-rays in exquisite detail – August 27, 2023
• Brain Gains: Scientists Discover How To Replicate the Cognitive Benefits of Exercise – August 25, 2023
• How mRNA Could Safely Replace Blood Stem Cell Transplantation – August 25, 2023
• Naked Mole Rats’ Longevity Gene Successfully Transferred to Mice – August 25, 2023
• Unlocking Healthy Longevity: Anti-Aging Function Discovered in Cell Protein – August 23, 2023
• Moderate Protein Diet Promotes Healthy Aging – August 21, 2023
• Shifting the Paradigm – August 21, 2023
• Massive solar explosion felt on Earth, the moon and Mars simultaneously for the 1st time ever – August 21, 2023
• Scientists Finally Solve the 40-Year-Old Mystery of Strange Metals – August 19, 2023
• Sugars affect brain ‘plasticity,’ helping with learning, memory, recovery – August 17, 2023
• Scientists Figured Out How to Erase a Cell’s Memory and Turn It Into a Stem Cell – August 17, 2023
• What Is The Venus Project? – August 16, 2023
• Our Milky Way galaxy was not always a spiral. Here’s how it changed shape – August 15, 2023
• Are Fish Oils on the Hook for AF Risk? – August 14, 2023
• ‘Quantum superchemistry’ observed for the 1st time ever – August 13, 2023
• A New Theory for the Assembly of Life in the Universe – August 13, 2023
• Detection of Various Microplastics in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery – August 13, 2023
• It looked like a bizarre alignment of meteors. It was something else – August 12, 2023
• Watch the Perseid meteor shower tonight with this free telescope livestream – August 12, 2023
• Machine learning model could enable targeted gene therapies for genetic diseases – August 12, 2023
• Want To Win A Free Ticket To Space? Apply Now With Space For Humanity – August 10, 2023
• 300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before – August 10, 2023
• The (Secret)ome to Longevity — Summary # 1 – August 10, 2023
• Mapping Out What Makes the Heart Tick – August 10, 2023
• The Epigenetic Impact of Cannabis Use During Pregnancy on Child’s Health – August 10, 2023
• Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler – August 10, 2023
• What Does Elon Musk Mean By an “Everything” App? – August 10, 2023
• NASA just found a question mark in space. What exactly is it? – August 9, 2023
• Stability analysis of a model gene network links aging, stress resistance and negligible senescence – August 8, 2023
• This drug might let us regrow lost teeth. It’s heading to human trials – August 7, 2023
• How the real Trinity test was filmed and photographed, and where to watch it – August 4, 2023
• The cognitive challenges of cooperation in human and nonhuman animals – August 4, 2023
• An electrogenetic interface to program mammalian gene expression by direct current – August 2, 2023
• Low-cost additive turns concrete slabs into super-fast energy storage – August 1, 2023
• Solar batteries: A new material makes it possible to simultaneously absorb light and store energy – July 29, 2023
• NASA launches its own streaming platform – July 29, 2023
• Bug brains are inspiring new collision avoidance systems for cars – July 29, 2023
• Positive effect of inaudible high-frequency components of sounds on glucose tolerance: a quasi-experimental crossover study – July 29, 2023
• It’s Alive! Worms Revived After 46,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost – July 27, 2023
• Radiation-Free Imaging Technique Takes a Peek Inside Humans – July 27, 2023
• There is a ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean, and scientists now think they know why – July 24, 2023
• Natural Compounds That Target DNA Repair Pathways and Their Therapeutic Potential to Counteract Cancer Cells – July 24, 2023
• This pangolin-inspired robot can curl up into a healing ball – July 23, 2023
• Pigs open doors to free companions in a possible show of empathy – July 23, 2023
• Dementia: ‘Superagers’ have more gray matter in their brains – July 22, 2023
• The secrets of living to 200 years old – July 22, 2023
• Top tech firms commit to AI safeguards amid fears over pace of change – July 21, 2023
• Device makes hydrogen from sunlight with record efficiency – July 21, 2023
• Hardship Is Reflected in the Gut Microbiome Across Generations – July 21, 2023
• This Butterfly Is the First U.S. Insect to Be Wiped Out by Humans – July 19, 2023
• Low Amyloid Burden Bodes Well for Future Dementia Risk – July 17, 2023
• An Ancient Battle Is Playing Out in the DNA of Every Embryo – July 17, 2023
• New EUV Lithography Technology Enables Chips 33000 Times Thinner than a Human Hair – July 17, 2023
• Intentions Matter: How Source Intent Influences Perceptions of Truth – July 17, 2023
• Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows – July 15, 2023
• The gravitational interactions that have helped us dodge 60-hour days – July 15, 2023
• The First Chemical Approach To Reprogram Cells to a Younger State – July 13, 2023
• A New Electric Microcar Could Redefine Urban Mobility. By Folding? – July 13, 2023
• Building blocks of Mars life? Perseverance rover digs up diverse set of organic molecules on the Red Planet – July 12, 2023
• The Biggest Telescope in the World is Half Built – July 12, 2023
• Echoes of Absence: Study Suggests We Can ‘Hear’ Silence – July 11, 2023
• Scientists can now grow wood in a lab without cutting a single tree – July 11, 2023
• Electric Fields are Pivotal in Encoding Memories – July 10, 2023
• NASA’s humanoid robot heads to Australia for testing – July 9, 2023
• Mystical experiences on demand? Welcome to spirit tech – July 9, 2023
• UN tech agency rolls out human-looking robots for questions at a Geneva news conference – July 8, 2023
• Plasma-based noise cancellation could silence rooms, cars and planes – July 7, 2023
• Doctor AI Will See You Now – July 7, 2023
• Gargantuan black hole ‘switches on,’ becoming one of the brightest objects ever seen – July 6, 2023
• The Science of Sleep: How to Get Better Sleep Every Night – July 6, 2023
• There’s a striking link between quantum and astronomic scales. What could it mean? – July 6, 2023
• What does the future hold for humanity? Well, 4 out of 10 experts said they were equally concerned and excited “about the changes in the ‘human-tech’ evolution” – July 6, 2023
• Another deadly pandemic seems inevitable — but there is a way to avoid it – July 6, 2023
• Human Hand Scents: A Novel Tool for Sex Prediction – July 5, 2023
• World’s first offshore hydrogen production platform is now operational – July 5, 2023
• Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization – July 5, 2023
• Self-healing robot skin created out of human cells – July 5, 2023
• New navigation system built on cosmic rays works even when GPS fails – July 5, 2023
• Disease-Causing Bacteria Munch on Sugar in the Gut – July 5, 2023
• The Biologist Blowing Our Minds – July 5, 2023
• 1,546 miles: Guinness World Record for distance traveled by a hydrogen car on a single tank – July 4, 2023
• Microsoft’s light-based computer marks ‘the unravelling of Moore’s Law’ – July 4, 2023
• Polymer “Brains” Could Advance Artificial Neural Networks – July 4, 2023
• Time Appears to Have Run 5 Times Slower in The Early Universe – July 3, 2023
• Study Helps Identify Genetic Changes That Make Us Human – July 3, 2023
• Experimental probiotic could detoxify mercury from diet – July 1, 2023
• Harmonizing Recovery: Robotic Glove Helps Stroke Survivors Relearn Music – June 30, 2023
• Fanzor: First CRISPR-Like System Found in Eukaryotes – June 30, 2023
• Dan Hendrycks on Why Evolution Favors AIs over Humans – June 30, 2023
• Beta Cells From Stem Cells: Nearing a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? – June 29, 2023
• Researchers uncover new CRISPR-like system in animals that can edit the human genome – June 28, 2023
• How do fungi communicate? – June 28, 2023
• DNA methylation and cardiovascular disease in humans: a systematic review and database of known CpG methylation sites – June 26, 2023
• Inside the AI Factory – June 25, 2023
• Incredible GREEN Comet With 11 Million-Mile-Long Tail Will Be Visible In The Sky – June 23, 2023
• Human-like “organ chips” could eliminate animal studies – June 23, 2023
• Alien life may be possible even at the Milky Way’s edges – June 23, 2023
• Cutting-Edge Nasal Tech Could Usher in a New Era of Medicine – June 23, 2023
• Just hours into sub’s journey, Navy detected sound “consistent with an implosion.” Experts explain how it can happen – June 23, 2023
• Scientists Find Crows Are Capable of Recursion — A Cognitive Ability Thought to Be Unique to Humans and Other Primates – June 22, 2023
• The Overview Effect: It will transform how you think forever – June 22, 2023
• A new tool to study complex genome interactions – June 21, 2023