China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? “How will we feed the 100s of GWs of extra energy demand that AI will create over the next decade? On this episode, Casey Handmer (Caltech PhD, […]
The case for life on Mars just got a teensy bit stronger. “In July, 2024, after covering 18 miles in nearly three and a half years, [the Perseverance rover] arrived at a quarter-mile-wide river valley that is home to a […]
It’s way more legitimate than it sounds. “In a contract worth up to US$843 million, NASA has selected SpaceX to design the “US Deorbit Vehicle.” The spacecraft will bring the $150 billion International Space Station out of orbit to safely […]
“In a contract worth up to US$843 million, NASA has selected SpaceX to design the “US Deorbit Vehicle.” The spacecraft will bring the $150 billion International Space Station out of orbit to safely and burn up in our atmosphere at […]
When I visited Google’s campus, I wondered what was going on next door at NASA’s Ames Research Center. This article about the airship company Lighter Than Air sheds some light on it. “Built inside a giant hangar in Mountain View, […]
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Senolytics are the class of drugs that target senescent cells (so-called “zombie cells”). While the basis for using these drugs to delay, prevent or reverse aging is still limited, there’s certainly a lot of excitement in the field. Also, there’s […]
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“We’re going to be able to piece together what the universe’s story was in the first billion years after the Big Bang,” says Caitlin Casey, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, who co-leads a team that received […]
I just finished reading a book about the early days of SpaceX. The number of times the company came close to death is remarkable. “SpaceX beats out Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics to be the sole provider […]