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Feb 13, 2023

Salt Bae is preparing 5,000 hot meals a day for people affected by Turkish earthquake

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The Turkish butcher has since shared with fans exactly how he’s going to support those affected by the earthquake. See the food prep here:

Feb 13, 2023

Compound in Mushrooms Discovered To Magnify Memory

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, neuroscience

Researchers from The University of Queensland have discovered the active compound from an edible mushroom that boosts nerve growth and enhances memory.

Professor Frederic Meunier from the Queensland Brain Institute said the team had identified new active compounds from the mushroom, Hericium erinaceus. This type of edible mushroom, commonly known as the Lion’s Mane Mushroom, is native to North America, Europe, and Asia. It is commonly sought after for its unique flavor and texture, and it is also used in traditional Chinese medicine to boost the immune system and improve digestive health.

Researchers have discovered lion’s mane mushrooms improve brain cell growth and memory in pre-clinical trials.

Feb 13, 2023

2 Billion Years Ago, Andromeda Swallowed Another Galaxy — These Stars are All That Remain

Posted by in categories: food, space

It’s a galaxy-eat-galaxy universe out there.


Astronomers used the motion of stars to reconstruct a galactic collision that happened 2 billion years ago at the nearest neighboring large galaxy.

Feb 13, 2023

Can trees talk to each other with fungal networks? Study raises doubts

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A new literature review of papers on “common mycorrhizal networks” seems to indicate the science behind them is not as strong as once thought.

Akin to the Ents from “The Lord of the Rings,” there is an idea in modern botany that trees can “talk” to one another through a delicate web of fungus filaments that grows underground. The idea is so alluring that it has gained traction in popular culture and has even been termed the “wood-wide network.”

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Feb 13, 2023

China’s Bid to Improve Food Production? Giant Towers of Pigs

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Well that’s one way to make good use of the space.

If we have vertical farms then why not vertical pig farms.


High-rise hog farms have sprung up nationwide as part of Beijing’s drive to enhance its agricultural competitiveness and reduce its dependence on imports.

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Feb 13, 2023

Farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers

Posted by in categories: chemistry, food, health, robotics/AI, space

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fK3AQgt47z4

In 2021, Carbon Robotics unveiled the third-generation of its Autonomous Weeder, a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then destroys them with high-power lasers. The company now has taken the technology from that robot and built a pull-behind LaserWeeder — and it kills twice as many weeds.

The weedkiller challenge: Weeds compete with plants for space, sunlight, and soil nutrients. They can also make it easier for insect pests to harm crops, so weed control is a top concern for farmers.

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Feb 12, 2023

News on the Energy Front — Exxon Continues to Disappoint, An Agrivoltaic Breakthrough, and a New Energy Storage Project

Posted by in categories: energy, food, sustainability

Exxon’s green energy stories on the website are gaslighting, REM Tec creates agrivoltaics for farms and Canada builds a mass storage site.

Feb 12, 2023

Lifespan Record Broken In E5 Study

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, media & arts

This has been the news lately. This is a good breakdown of info and apparently Katcher wishes to do dog trials.


In this video we provide a quick update on activities at Yuvan Research. It is very exciting to see that Sima, the last remaining rat in the E5 trial is still alive and has surpassed the age of the previous record for lifespan of a Sprague Dawley rat.

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Feb 12, 2023

A deep reinforcement learning model that allows AI agents to track odor plumes

Posted by in categories: biological, food, robotics/AI

For a long time, scientists and engineers have drawn inspiration from the amazing abilities of animals and have sought to reverse engineer or reproduce these in robots and artificial intelligence (AI) agents. One of these behaviors is odor plume tracking, which is the ability of some animals, particularly insects, to home in on the source of specific odors of interest (e.g., food or mates), often over long distances.

A new study by researchers at University of Washington and University of Nevada, Reno has taken an innovative approach using (ANNs) in understanding this remarkable ability of flying insects. Their work, recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence, exemplifies how is driving groundbreaking new scientific insights.

“We were motivated to study a complex biological behavior, -tracking, that flying insects (and other animals) use to find food or mates,” Satpreet H. Singh, the lead author on the study, told Tech Xplore. “Biologists have experimentally studied many aspects of insect plume tracking in great detail, as it is a critical behavior for insect survival and reproduction. ”.

Feb 11, 2023

Growing Food on Mars to Support Life from Earth Will Need to Exploit All the Tools in Our Scitech Arsenal

Posted by in categories: food, space

A book entitled “Dinner on Mars” describes how to turn the dry, cold Martian world into a place to grow food for future inhabitants.

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