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Egyptian start-up turns plastic waste into tiles
  • If we could just work out how to efficiently mill waste plastic into 15 μm or so sizes, we'd then be able to mix the plastics directly into our wheat flours and whey protein powders. Why try to beat plastic when we could just become plastic?

  • Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
  • Thanks to your comments, I went looking at more about Jupiter's influence on us and read that most of the other planets are more in line with Jupiter's orbital plane than the Sun's equatorial plane (which sounds impressive, but maybe only makes complete sense since the planets would have all initially formed from the same disk). Anyway, thanks

  • 56 days and counting: Two NASA astronauts are still in space as tests on Boeing capsule continue
  • Yeah. I was in Hawaii when 9/11 happened, and of course all flights at the time were canceled for days. It wasn't a bad place to be stuck for a little while, but even that short of a delay in returning did cause a few issues.

  • NASA’s Northrop Grumman Cygnus Continues to Space Station
  • I was wondering how the capsule was doing. After 20 missions, I guess they know what they're doing.

    I don't remember if Northrop Grumman submitted a commercial crew proposal. Like SpaceX, they would have benefited from their supply mission experience.

  • Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’
  • Eventually, they became confident that they were working with new material from two fragmentary Euripides plays, Polyidus and Ino. Twenty-two of the lines were previously known in slightly varied versions, but “80 percent was brand-new stuff,” Gibert says.

    This cleared up my first thought: how can you tell the lost writings of Euripides from the lost writings of Sophocles (or from the writings of playwrights that haven't survived at all). I mean, unless these are sizeable fragments, it might not be easy to tell even Aeschylus from Euripides

  • After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers
    arstechnica.com After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers

    "I'm just shocked they don't want more coverage of these things and not less."

    After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers

    Seems the folks at ULA have decided to be complete dicks

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    A metabolic atlas of blood cells in young and aged mice identifies uridine as a metabolite to rejuvenate aged hematopoietic stem cells - Nature Aging
    www.nature.com A metabolic atlas of blood cells in young and aged mice identifies uridine as a metabolite to rejuvenate aged hematopoietic stem cells - Nature Aging

    Zeng, Shi, Han, Hu, Li, Wei et al. present a metabolic atlas covering 15 hematopoietic cell types from young and aged mice. By screening metabolites that are depleted with age, they identify that uridine treatment can restore function in aged hematopoietic stem cells.

    A metabolic atlas of blood cells in young and aged mice identifies uridine as a metabolite to rejuvenate aged hematopoietic stem cells - Nature Aging

    Through metabolic screening, we identified uridine as a potential regulator to rejuvenate aged HSPCs.

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    Inhibition of IL-11 signalling extends mammalian healthspan and lifespan - Nature
    www.nature.com Inhibition of IL-11 signalling extends mammalian healthspan and lifespan - Nature

    IL-11 is identified as a key regulator of ERK–AMPK–mTORC1 signalling, metabolism, inflammation and age-related disease and lifespan in mouse and human.

    Inhibition of IL-11 signalling extends mammalian healthspan and lifespan - Nature

    Here we examined whether IL-11, a pro-inflammatory cytokine of the IL-6 family, has a negative effect on age-associated disease and lifespan.

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    A Molecular Reason Why Exercise Fights Senescence
    www.lifespan.io A Molecular Reason Why Exercise Fights Senescence

    Researchers publishing in Aging have found a molecule linking exercise to the inhibition of cellular senescence, one of the hallmarks of aging. Exercise against senescence We recently […]

    A Molecular Reason Why Exercise Fights Senescence

    Researchers publishing in Aging have found a molecule linking exercise to the inhibition of cellular senescence, one of the hallmarks of aging.

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    Encouraging Mitochondrial Maintenance to Fight Senescence
    www.lifespan.io Encouraging Mitochondrial Maintenance to Fight Senescence

    Researchers have published a method of rescuing cells from damaged mitochondria and cellular senescence, potentially alleviating major aspects of aging. Bad mitochondria must be […]

    Encouraging Mitochondrial Maintenance to Fight Senescence

    The researchers investigated whether NAD precusors, including nicotinamide and NR, along with the well-known compound rapamycin could rescue mitophagy, and they found positive results for all of these compounds.

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    TERT activation targets DNA methylation and multiple aging hallmarks

    TAC promoted tissue rejuvenation, including new neuron formation, and alleviated multiple aging hallmarks in aged mice, revealing the regenerative potential of adult tissues through physiological TERT activation.

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    Stoke Space test-fires new booster engine
    spacenews.com Stoke Space test-fires new booster engine

    Stoke Space test-fires new booster engine Stoke Space has test-fired a highly efficient engine it is developing for the first stage of its fully reusable launch vehicle.

    Stoke Space test-fires new booster engine

    The engine uses a design called full-flow staged combustion, where both the engine’s fuel and oxidizer — liquified natural gas and liquid oxygen, respectively — go through separate preburners before going into the main combustion chamber.

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    Oral Microbiome Associated with Cognitive Performance
    www.lifespan.io Oral Microbiome Associated with Cognitive Performance

    An analysis of oral microbes in older adults has indicated an association between microbial diversity and executive function performance [1]. Multiple factors impact cognitive impairment risk Aging is one of the major risk factors for cognitive impairment and dementia, but […]

    Oral Microbiome Associated with Cognitive Performance

    The authors elaborate on the potential mechanisms underlying the connection between oral microbial dysbiosis and cognitive function impairment.

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    Turn off community name scrolling?

    I use Jerboa in list view, which gives me a nice, compact presentation of a number of posts on my phone screen. This is great, except now the list is full of left-right scrolling text whenever a community name is too long to display in the allotted space. This is very distracting, and I would love to turn off this scrolling

    I looked through the settings, but I don't see a way to turn this off, or a way to simply not display the community name at all (not my preference, but I'd take it over the scrolling)

    Can anyone help? My post listings look like they are on a web page from 1998

    Edit: Now I see that the scrolling is also applied to long user names as well, and is used in areas other than post listings. This seems to have just started with the latest release. I really hope this can be turned off in settings. It feels like geo-cities in here

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