September 2024 – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 01 Oct 2024 04:22:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Massive Verizon outage — latest service restoration updates, culprit being investigated https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/massive-verizon-outage-latest-service-restoration-updates-culprit-being-investigated Tue, 01 Oct 2024 04:22:38 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/massive-verizon-outage-latest-service-restoration-updates-culprit-being-investigated

Clearly customers are voicing their concerns about the ongoing Verizon outage. In fact, there has already been over 2,900 replies to Verizon’s post on X. Many of the responders still claim they are unable to make phone calls.

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Strike poised to shut down major US ports https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/strike-poised-to-shut-down-major-us-ports Tue, 01 Oct 2024 04:22:24 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/strike-poised-to-shut-down-major-us-ports

O.o!!!


The strike is set to significantly disrupt trade, creating uncertainty ahead of the US election.

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New water purifier could drive sustainable farming in changing climate https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/new-water-purifier-could-drive-sustainable-farming-in-changing-climate Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:23:41 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/new-water-purifier-could-drive-sustainable-farming-in-changing-climate

New device boosts hydroponic farming for efficient, eco-friendly food production:


A new water purification device offers a cost-effective solution for hydroponic farming, supporting more sustainable food production.

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Can A New Pill Lengthen Telomeres & REVERSE Aging? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/can-a-new-pill-lengthen-telomeres-reverse-aging Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:25:41 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/can-a-new-pill-lengthen-telomeres-reverse-aging

Join our in-depth exploration of telomeres and their incredible potential in reversing aging! Discover the science behind telomere enhancement and how it can slow down the aging process. Featuring expert insights from Dr. Michael Roizen, this video unveils cutting-edge research that could change the way we view longevity. #AgingReversal #Telomeres #LongevityScience #DrMichaelRoizen #HealthInnovation #StemCellResearch #AntiAging #YouthfulLiving #Biotechnology #TelomerePharmaceuticals

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Caltech’s laser headset becomes 1st-ever device to predict stroke noninvasively https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/caltechs-laser-headset-becomes-1st-ever-device-to-predict-stroke-noninvasively Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:24:47 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/caltechs-laser-headset-becomes-1st-ever-device-to-predict-stroke-noninvasively

A team of engineers and scientists from Caltech and the Keck School of Medicine at USC has created a noninvasive, headset-based device that can assess a patient’s stroke risk by monitoring blood flow and volume changes during a breath-holding test.

The device uses a laser-based system and has demonstrated promising results in distinguishing between individuals with low and high stroke risk.

“With this device, for the first time, we are going to have a way of knowing if the risk of someone having a stroke in the future is significant or not based on a physiological measurement,” says Simon Mahler, a co-lead author of the study.

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This Biohybrid Robot Is Made of Human Cells and Controlled by a Machine ‘Mind’ https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/this-biohybrid-robot-is-made-of-human-cells-and-controlled-by-a-machine-mind Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:22:54 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/this-biohybrid-robot-is-made-of-human-cells-and-controlled-by-a-machine-mind

A new biohybrid robot can be steered left, right, or straight by activating neurons and muscle cells embedded into its fins.

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Launch Roundup: Vulcan ready for second flight; Hera mission set to study asteroid https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/launch-roundup-vulcan-ready-for-second-flight-hera-mission-set-to-study-asteroid Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:22:26 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/launch-roundup-vulcan-ready-for-second-flight-hera-mission-set-to-study-asteroid

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is preparing for the second flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket this week. The mission will see Vulcan carry an inert payload to orbit alongside some experiments and demonstrations and will complete its certification process with the U.S. Space Force (USSF).

SpaceX has delayed missions this week following an off-nominal deorbit burn of a Falcon 9 second stage following the Crew-9 mission. The stage landed in the South Pacific Ocean but outside of the defined reentry corridor. While the team investigates, the company has rescheduled Monday’s planned launch of its OneWeb mission out of Vandenberg to next week, while a Starlink mission will now fly from the Cape this week on Saturday, Oct. 5.

Another Falcon 9 is being prepared to launch the Hera mission for the European Space Agency (ESA) from Florida. With two cubesats onboard, Hera will study the results of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) asteroid deflection test, which impacted the Dimorphos asteroid two years ago. The pad at Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) remains configured for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission, which will fly on a Falcon Heavy next week. Both of these interplanetary missions have launch windows that extend to the end of the month in case of any further delays.

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Researchers witness nanoscale water formation in real time https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/researchers-witness-nanoscale-water-formation-in-real-time Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:29:40 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/researchers-witness-nanoscale-water-formation-in-real-time

“It’s a known phenomenon, but it was never fully understood,” said Yukun Liu, the study’s first author and a Ph.D. candidate in Dravid’s laboratory. “Because you really need to be able to combine the direct visualization of water generation and the structure analysis at the atomic scale in order to figure out what’s happening with the reaction and how to optimize it.”

But viewing the process with atomic precision was simply impossible—until nine months ago. In January 2024, Dravid’s team unveiled a novel method to analyze gas molecules in real time. Dravid and his team developed an ultra-thin glassy membrane that holds gas molecules within honeycomb-shaped nanoreactors, so they can be viewed within high-vacuum transmission electron microscopes.

With the new technique, previously published in Science Advances, researchers can examine samples in atmospheric pressure gas at a resolution of just 0.102 nanometers, compared to a 0.236-nanometer resolution using other state-of-the-art tools. The technique also enabled, for the first time, concurrent spectral and reciprocal information analysis.

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An Ultrathin Graphene Brain Implant Was Just Tested in a Person https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/an-ultrathin-graphene-brain-implant-was-just-tested-in-a-person Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:28:11 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/an-ultrathin-graphene-brain-implant-was-just-tested-in-a-person

A Spanish biotech company sees the carbon material as a way to power the brain-computer interfaces of the future.

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Incredibly Rare 13 In 100 Billion Event Seen At CERN Particle Accelerator https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/incredibly-rare-13-in-100-billion-event-seen-at-cern-particle-accelerator Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:27:45 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/09/incredibly-rare-13-in-100-billion-event-seen-at-cern-particle-accelerator

In 2020, the team reported evidence of this rare form of decay being detected by the experiment. Now, after far more collisions, including higher-energy collisions, the team reports a 5-sigma detection, meaning there is a 0.00006 percent chance that the detection is a statistical fluke.

“With this measurement, K+ → π+νṽ becomes the rarest decay established at discovery level – the famous 5 sigma,” Cristina Lazzeroni, Professor in Particle Physics at the University of Birmingham, said in a statement. “This difficult analysis is the result of excellent teamwork, and I am extremely proud of this new result.”

While the decay is rare, as predicted by the Standard Model, it is around 50 percent higher than expected, occurring about 13 times in 100 billion. It is unclear what causes this discrepancy between the Standard Model’s predictions and the results observed, with possible explanations including new particles or new physics, both of which are pretty exciting.

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