Scientists were able to elicit a pattern similar to the living condition of the brain when exposing dead brain tissue to chemical and electrical probes. Imagine the infinite human future(s) of mind uploading, life after death, immortality. Would you still be you when we upload your mind?
It was originally understood that our universe harbored two hundred billion galaxies – but this estimate was wrong – it contains two trillion. In 2018, NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space telescope, a much more powerful successor to the Hubble, which could tell us even more about the distant reaches of our universe.
The Chan Zuckerberg initiative has taken a huge first step toward their goal of curing disease by the end of the century by acquiring Meta. This AI-driven technology will be able to find the most relevant material in scientific papers and data in just a fraction of the time it would take a human.