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How a dog's life could extend yours

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By B. David Zarley Verified
| Freethink
Immortality may be out of reach for humans, but the hydra is already enjoying eternal life. Just millimeters long, this jellyfish-like predator is packed full of stem cells and can constantly regenerate, just as the Hydra of Heracles could regrow its heads. Like a living Ship of Theseus, the continual renewal of the hydra’s form essentially means the creature has lost its ability to die naturally — although hydras do die or, perhaps more accurately, can be killed.
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AI thinks “vegetative electron microscopy” is real - it’s not

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By B. David Zarley Verified
| Freethink
“Vegetative electron microscopy” is nonsense. Say it to a scientist, and you’ll likely get a blank stare in response, and yet several scientific papers have included the phrase over the past few years. A Russian chemist first spotted it in a since-retracted paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research in 2022. They relayed the finding to Alexander Magazinov, a software engineer, who also seeks out scientific fraud in papers.
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The billionaire building space lasers to power Earth

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By B. David Zarley Verified
| Freethink
Armed with a freshly raised Series A round of $50 million, billionaire Baiju Bhatt wants to move from Wall Street to space. The co-founder of stock-trading platform Robinhood and son of a NASA scientist, Bhatt announced his new company, Aetherflux, in the fall of 2024, and the startup’s goal is straight out of sci-fi: harvest solar power closer to the source, gathering it from the heavens and beaming it back down to Earth via laser. Aetherflux wants to move fast, too.
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