Lifeboat Foundation

The scientists who support Project Blue are already thinking about how future explorers could get to the planets around Alpha Centauri.

Planting a flag in Europe for the development of the kind of “deep technology” companies that have long been the bread and butter of Silicon Valley, the European venture firm Atomico has invested 10 million euros in the vertical take-off and landing plane developer, Lilium Aviation.

The roughly $10.7 million Series A investment announced at TechCrunch Disrupt London is meant to help Lilium develop into a manufacturer of a commuter alternative to helicopters and traditional planes.

Since the 1950s and 1960s, flying cars have ranked right up there with jetpacks as an example of the fulfillment of our expectations for future travel (I still think the Uber and Lyft app is pretty magical).

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A researcher is experimenting with an artificial hippocampus to learn how to strengthen and store memories.l

Finally! After 3,5 years we’re now ready to show you what we’ve been working on…

ReMarkable — the paper tablet. It lets you read, write and sketch with a paper like feel. Here to replace your notebooks, sketchbooks and printed documents!

It’s a step towards giving speech back to people with paralysis.

Check out these scifi weapons that actually exist! These futuristic weapons are absolutely mindblowing!

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Fossilised bacteria have been uncovered in two separate locations in South Africa, and they’ve been dated to 2.52 billion years ago — long before oxygen started to saturate Earth’s atmosphere.

Instead of thriving in oxygen, like the trees and multicellular organisms that came after them did, these bacteria oxidised sulphur to survive, suggesting that life could be sustained on a planet with less than one-thousandth of a percent of Earth’s current oxygen levels.

The fossils were uncovered in a layer of hard, silica-rich rock in the Kaapvaal Craton of the Limpopo Province in South Africa — one of the two remaining areas in the world where Earth’s crust from 3.6 to 2.5 million years ago is still accessible.

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On Monday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced its new artificial intelligence. Based on a photograph alone, it can predict what’ll happen next, then generate a one-and-a-half second video clip depicting that possible future.

Co-founder Andrew Pelling has already grown human ear cells on top of apples.