Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine find a procedure that successfully lengthens human telomeres to increase cell division, which could potentially be used to increase human longevity.
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Astronomers estimate 100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, 50 sextillion in the universe | ExtremeTech
Astronomers at the University of Auckland claim that there are actually around 100 billion habitable, Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. There are roughly 500 billion galaxies in the universe, meaning there is somewhere in the region of 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 habitable planets. I’ll leave you to do the math on whether one of those 50 sextillion planets has the right conditions for nurturing life or not.
Scientists never understood exactly how finely tuned elephants’ hearing is, until researchers tried to see if the pachyderms could distinguish among the sounds made by different groups of humans.
Just finished watching this. Can’t wait to see more.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (TV Mini Series 2014) - IMDb
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: With Neil deGrasse Tyson, Christopher Emerson, Keythe Farley, Piotr Michael. An exploration of our discovery of the laws of nature and coordinates in space and time.
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