World's 1st 'tooth regrowth medicine' to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 (mainichi.jp)
Stretchable e-skin could give robots human-level touch sensitivity (techxplore.com)
RuPaul Building Fortified Compound to Withstand "Cycle of Destruction" (futurism.com)
EVs and hybrids had a noticeable effect on US fuel consumption, says EPA | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Wind turbines generate more than half of UK’s electricity due to Storm Pia | Wind power | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Nanowire 'brain' network learns and remembers 'on the fly' (phys.org)
Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman's Bones, Muscles, And Nerves (www.sciencealert.com)
Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment (www.technologyreview.com)
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Radical Energy Abundance (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
Rice-engineered material can reconnect severed nerves (news.rice.edu)
Throwback Thursday! 05/10 (lemmy.world)
The weekly Throwback Thursday thread! A place to discuss past predictions of the future and their outcomes.
Astronomer: If Earth Is Average, We Should Find Alien Life Within 60 Light-Years (www.sciencealert.com)
Why the Pentagon’s ‘killer robots’ are spurring major concerns (thehill.com)
Throwback Thursdays! 28/09 (m.imdb.com)
Let’s start a new thing! Throwback Thursday, a pinned weekly post where we can discuss past predictions and how accurate they were now that we are living in the future!...
Why build megastructures? Just move planets around to make habitable worlds (phys.org)
China plans giant particle accelerator-powered chip factory (interestingengineering.com)
How will you get along with the new person at work, when that person is a robot? (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Cobot: Coworker Robot. How do you think we will fare when the ‘new guy’ at work is a machine? As these machines become increasingly intelligent and closer to sentience, how will we share the spoils of our labour? Will we have the same rights in the workplace?
“He’s more machine now, than man” What will we do with obsolete brain implants? (ia.acs.org.au)
As the field of implantable brain devices moves in leaps and bounds, there will come a time in the future when we will need to consider obsolescence of these devices, and as the implants grow in complexity and scope, will we eventually have to redefine our idea of what it is to be human?
Categorising the future risks of suffering (80000hours.org)
This article proffers a fascinating matrix by which we can categorise and stratify the risk of suffering as a community in the future. Could this be the root of a new real-life Asimovian Psychohistory?
AI Can Already Design Better Cities Than Humans, Study Shows (www.sciencealert.com)
Engineered compound shows promise in preventing bone loss in space (phys.org)
Humans may soon understand how to communicate with animals. It could raise ethical dilemmas (amp.abc.net.au)
An interesting article describing the first very real steps towards a linguistic exchange of ideas with an animal; perhaps the non-human intelligence we have been seeking was right beside us the whole time
Scientists successfully maneuver robot through living lung tissue | Science Daily (www.sciencedaily.com)
Storms and sea level rise could cost ports billions (www.theverge.com)
Future of food: what's on the menu in 2050 (newsroom.unsw.edu.au)
Should insect protein become the dietary norm of the future, how will our descendants feel about our reactions to the first insect aisle in the local supermarket? Could we perhaps be the last generation to be seen as true meat eaters?
