Lifeboat Foundation

A look at creating artificial planets, ones vastly bigger than Earth, or potentially even an entire solar system.

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Researchers have discovered a unique compound in the female ginseng (dong quai) plant which may lead to new treatments for osteoporosis.

“Star Trek” actor Kenneth Mitchell died Saturday after battling ALS for years. He was 49.

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DNA and Information combined with science and biotechnology. Can we resurrect the dead?

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The first study of bottlenose dolphins’ sensitivity to electric fields has found some can detect electric direct current (DC) fields as weak as 2.4 microvolts per centimeter, even better than the measured capacities of platypus. Although still less capable in this regard than sharks and rays, the finding suggests electroreceptivity may play a more important role in dolphins’ survival than previously suspected.

Dolphins have small pits rich in nerve endings on their face, known as vibrissal crypts. A 2022 study confirmed these allow them to detect weak electric fields, but provided no indication on how weak that can be. It makes sense for species that live in murky rivers or estuaries to develop alternatives to seeing underwater, but for those dolphins that inhabit clearer waters such capacities might prove superfluous.

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IBM presents API-BLEND

A comprehensive corpora for training and benchmarking API llms.

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Researchers found microplastics in layers of sediment that date back as early as the first half of the 18th Century.