Diet Control of Isoleucine Increases Healthspan and Lifespan By Up to 33% in Mice

Low-protein diets promote health and longevity in diverse species. Restriction of the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) leucine, isoleucine, and valine recapitulates many of these benefits in young C57BL/6J mice. Restriction of dietary isoleucine (IleR) is sufficient to promote metabolic health and is required for many benefits of a low-protein diet in C57BL/6J males. Here, we …

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Rocketstar Aneutronic Fusion-enhanced Electric Pulsed Plasma Propulsion Will Be Tested in Orbit

RocketStar, a US based startup, has successfully demonstrated an electric propulsion unit for spacecraft that uses nuclear fusion-enhanced pulsed plasma. During ground tests the process did create ionizing radiation and improved the base propulsion unit’s thrust by 50%. FireStar Drive markedly improves performance, utilizing high-speed protons from ionized water vapor. When protons interact with boron …

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Neuralink Patient Plays Chess With Brain Computer Communication

The first human Neuralink patient controlling a computer and playing chess just by thinking. He is paralyzed. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, …

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OpenAI Q* Reasoning Rumor is Similar to Meta AI Planning Approach

Meta is working on adding latent space planning/search to large language model AI. 1️⃣H-GAP (https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02682) 2️⃣Diffusion World Model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03570) 3️⃣TAP (https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10291) 4️⃣LaMCTS (https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00708) 5️⃣LaP3 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10544) 6️⃣LaSynth (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00101) 7️⃣LaMOO (https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03173) Rumored OpenAI Q* Is Optimization in Abstract Representation Space The innovation in Q* lies in its optimization process, conducted not within the space of possible text …

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Lancet Forecasts Failure of Pro-Baby Policies and Global Population Collapse

Here are the key points of a Lancet study on global fertility. Global Fertility rates will continue to collapse even if all countries adopt the current best pro-baby policies (childcare subsidies, extended parental leave, insurance coverage expansion for infertility treatment). Future fertility rates were would drop to a global TFR (total fertility rate) of 1·83 …

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Brian’s Video Talk About China’s LK99 Type Research

Two weeks ago the Korean group presented new room temperature superconductivity research and this week the Chinese research group published new research on LK99 type superconductors. Are we at a breakthrough? What has been done in this new research? China has published new research on improved copper and sulfur codoped material with a stronger meissner …

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Can AI Solve Science ? Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram’s conclusions: 00:49 Won’t AI Eventually Be Able to Do Everything? AI cannot solve science but it can contribute to speeding up science Science was transformed by math centuries ago. What can we expect AI to be able or unable to do for science? 5:01 The Hard Limit of Computational Irreducibility This constrains what …

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How Can a Future SpaceX Starship Travel to Other Star Systems

Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX Starship will travel across the solar system and to the cloud of objects around us. The cloud of objects around us are either referring to the Kuiper Belt (35-80AU and possibly larger) and the Oort Comet Cloud (0.03 to 3.2 light-years). Nextbigfuture has covered recent research findings that the Kuiper …

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