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12,000-square-foot 3D-printed mansion pops up in China

12,000-square-foot 3D-printed mansion pops up in China | leapmind | Scoop.it
Chinese company WinSun has 3D-printed an apartment building in a single day, and now they've printed 12,000-square-foot mansion.
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Genetic Doping Is the Next Frontier of Cheating in Sports

Genetic Doping Is the Next Frontier of Cheating in Sports | leapmind | Scoop.it
Synthetic genes will be able to make athletes stronger, while also helping them heal faster.
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Heart muscle cells regrown in medical research breakthrough

Heart muscle cells regrown in medical research breakthrough | leapmind | Scoop.it
Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Victor Chang Institute in Sydney make discovery which may have major implications for heart attack sufferers
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Overpopulation, overconsumption – in pictures

Overpopulation, overconsumption – in pictures | leapmind | Scoop.it
How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to show people
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33rd Square | Is AI Truly the Future? What Real Engineers think About Artificial Intelligence

33rd Square | Is AI Truly the Future? What Real Engineers think About Artificial Intelligence | leapmind | Scoop.it
What are the computer engineers and industry-related experts' opinion of artificial intelligence? Do the recent depictions in science fiction of the technology match up with reality?
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THOUGHTS ON THE TRANSHUMANIST WAGER PART THREE

THOUGHTS ON THE TRANSHUMANIST WAGER PART THREE | leapmind | Scoop.it
PART THREE: JETHRO SHRUGGED.In 1957, a book was published that took the murder-mystery concept in a new direction. Rather than having a plot concerning the death of a human body and whodunnit...
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Urban Ants Are Adapted To Junk Food

Urban Ants Are Adapted To Junk Food | leapmind | Scoop.it
Anyone who’s ever dropped an ice cream cone knows that ants love sugar. But for ants that live on city streets and pavements, junk food may be a matter of survival.
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Google patents robots with personalities in first step towards the singularity

Google patents robots with personalities in first step towards the singularity | leapmind | Scoop.it
Google has been awarded a patent for the 'methods and systems for robot personality development', a glimpse at a future where robots react based on data they mine from us and hopefully don't unite and march on city hall.
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Algae from wastewater solves two problems

Algae from wastewater solves two problems | leapmind | Scoop.it
In one of the first studies to examine the potential for using municipal wastewater as a feedstock for algae-based biofuels, Rice University scientists found they could easily grow high-value strains of oil-rich algae while simultaneously removing...
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GEN | News Highlights:CRISPR Clears Major Obstacle Impeding Its Therapeutic Use

GEN | News Highlights:CRISPR Clears Major Obstacle Impeding Its Therapeutic Use | leapmind | Scoop.it
New finding is expected to expand therapeutic and experimental applications of CRISPR
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Rise of the Machines: The Future has Lots of Robots, Few Jobs for Humans | WIRED

Rise of the Machines: The Future has Lots of Robots, Few Jobs for Humans | WIRED | leapmind | Scoop.it
Martin Ford The robots haven’t just landed in the workplace—they’re expanding skills, moving up the corporate ladder, showing awesome productivity and retention rates, and increasingly shoving aside their human counterparts.
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Researchers report on CRISPR-cas surveillance complex that targets RNA

Researchers report on CRISPR-cas surveillance complex that targets RNA | leapmind | Scoop.it
A great deal of public attention in the past couple of years has been showered on complexes of bacterial proteins known as 'CRISPR-Cas' for their potential use as a tool for editing DNA. Now, researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National...
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New 'memristor' technology can bring brain-like computing closer to reality

New 'memristor' technology can bring brain-like computing closer to reality | leapmind | Scoop.it
A team of Northwestern researchers has accomplished a new step forward in electronics that can bring brain-like computing closer to reality.
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The very first human trial of a new approach to cancer treatment has scientists excited

The very first human trial of a new approach to cancer treatment has scientists excited | leapmind | Scoop.it
Two of the most promising recent approaches to cancer treatment are immunotherapy, which harnesses the body’s own immune system to fight cancer, and personalised medicine, which involves therapeutics that are targeted to the genome of a particular...
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How tech billionaires are using money and data to solve for death

How tech billionaires are using money and data to solve for death | leapmind | Scoop.it
How tech billionaires are using money and data to solve for death. http://wapo.st/humanupgrade
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The Age of Transhumanist Politics – Part II

The Age of Transhumanist Politics – Part II | leapmind | Scoop.it
Technology is emerging as a social and political force in its own right. The rapidity of technological evolution has caught governments off guard and slow to recognize and deal with the changing so...
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Ancestry.com is quietly transforming itself into a medical research juggernaut

Ancestry.com is quietly transforming itself into a medical research juggernaut | leapmind | Scoop.it
In 1984, a genealogy geek named John Sittner published The Source, a book meant to unearth and analyze never-before-seen records that genealogists could use to put together family histories with unprecedented detail.
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How to Hack Your Body to Live Past 120

How to Hack Your Body to Live Past 120 | leapmind | Scoop.it
A high-profile group of futurists is exploring the possibility of extending human life. How will they do it? Treat the body like a computer.
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Brain-controlled drone shown off by Tekever in Lisbon

Brain-controlled drone shown off by Tekever in Lisbon | leapmind | Scoop.it
A drone specialist in Portugal demonstrates a flight controlled by human brainwaves, and suggests a future of large-scale unmanned flying.
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​In the Transhumanist Age, We Should Be Repairing Disabilities, Not Sidewalks

​In the Transhumanist Age, We Should Be Repairing Disabilities, Not Sidewalks | leapmind | Scoop.it
Where we're going, we don't need sidewalks.
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With Compass Hooked to the Brain, Blind Rats Act Like They Can See - IEEE Spectrum

With Compass Hooked to the Brain, Blind Rats Act Like They Can See - IEEE Spectrum | leapmind | Scoop.it
Research raises hope that people may one day get novel superhuman senses
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Futurist Thomas Frey » Blog Archive » The Massive Opportunity coming for Ground-Based Delivery Drones

Futurist Thomas Frey » Blog Archive » The Massive Opportunity coming for Ground-Based Delivery Drones | leapmind | Scoop.it
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