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If Nobody Builds It, Everybody Dies: Why Pausing AI is the Real Existential Threat

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Lifeboat Foundation · Sep 11, 2026 · 11:16 PM UTC

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New CRISPR method to control protein production in cells lifeboat.com/blog/2026/09/ne…

New CRISPR method to control protein production in cells – Lifeboat News: The Blog

The speed at which a cell produces proteins is a decisive factor in determining whether it divides, specializes, or retains its stem cell properties. A team of researchers has worked with internati...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 8, 2026 · 1:16 AM UTC

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How much are the world’s oceans warming? New method reveals double-digit percentage gaps from climate models lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/ho…

How much are the world’s oceans warming? New method reveals double-digit percentage gaps from...

The world’s oceans behave like a thermometer: As the water warms, it expands and sea levels rise. Geodesy researchers at the University of Bonn are able to measure this and determine how much the...

Elon Musk · Oct 8, 2026 · 12:55 AM UTC

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🇧🇩 Starlink Mobile now available in Bangladesh! 🇧🇩

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Starlink Mobile is now available in Bangladesh with @banglalinkmela. Millions of customers can now message over apps, share location and stay connected on compatible phones in cellular dead zones 🛰️📱

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X Freeze · Oct 7, 2026 · 11:40 PM UTC

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Starlink is much bigger than faster internet It gives a country an entirely new layer of infrastructure that reaches people traditional networks still cannot More connectivity means more education, more businesses, more productivity and more people connected to the global economy Countries that move fast will benefit from it Countries that keep delaying are choosing to leave that growth on the table

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 11:36 PM UTC

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Astronomers discover the lowest-mass double neutron star system to date lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/as…

Astronomers discover the lowest-mass double neutron star system to date – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Neutron stars, the extremely dense remains of massive stars that exploded at the end of their lives, are widely studied astrophysical objects. Some of these stars, known as pulsars, spin and send out...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 2, 2026 · 7:26 AM UTC

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Waves find order in the chaos of an oddly shaped cavity lifeboat.com/blog/2026/09/wa…

Waves find order in the chaos of an oddly shaped cavity – Lifeboat News: The Blog

When light or sound bounces around inside an oddly shaped room, its reflections can quickly become difficult to predict. But new research led by scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center at...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Aug 11, 2026 · 9:21 AM UTC

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‘Only One Conclusion’: Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice lifeboat.com/blog/2026/08/on…

‘Only One Conclusion’: Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice – Lifeboat News: The Blog

The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back more than 4 billion years. One of the biggest hurdles was the very first...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Aug 11, 2026 · 9:51 AM UTC

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Scientists discover a ‘skinny gene’ mutation that acts like Ozempic lifeboat.com/blog/2026/08/sc…

Scientists discover a ‘skinny gene’ mutation that acts like Ozempic – Lifeboat News: The Blog

One in 7,000 people carry this gene mutation

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 11:36 PM UTC

Astronomers discover the lowest-mass double neutron star system to date lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/as…

Astronomers discover the lowest-mass double neutron star system to date – Lifeboat News: The Blog

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 11:26 PM UTC

Black holes may grow quietly alongside galaxies even without violent mergers lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/bl…

Black holes may grow quietly alongside galaxies even without violent mergers – Lifeboat News: The...

Astronomers analyzed 2,435 galaxies hosting actively feeding black holes using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Among them, they identified 546 “bulgeless” galaxies—systems...

Lifeboat Foundation · Jul 16, 2026 · 4:40 PM UTC

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How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence lifeboat.com/blog/2026/07/ho…

How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Cephalopods are loners, but they’re also intelligent

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 7:26 PM UTC

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Visual illusion reveals what today’s AI vision is missing lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/vi…

Visual illusion reveals what today’s AI vision is missing – Lifeboat News: The Blog

Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are—and that may be a feature of how biological vision works, rather than simply a flaw. A new study by York University researchers uses a common...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Sep 19, 2026 · 10:35 PM UTC

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Ultracold cesium atoms reveal Bethe strings predicted nearly a century ago lifeboat.com/blog/2026/09/ul…

Ultracold cesium atoms reveal Bethe strings predicted nearly a century ago – Lifeboat News: The Blog

In 1931, physicist Hans Bethe predicted that, in certain one-dimensional quantum systems, particles can bind together to form multi-particle states known as Bethe strings. Unlike ordinary molecules,...

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Elon Musk · Oct 7, 2026 · 10:30 PM UTC

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Starlink beams are turned off over India, so the claim that they were used by anyone for any reason is absolutely false

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The claim that militants used Starlink in India makes no sense. Starlink satellite beams are turned off over India. With the beams off, no Starlink device can connect in India. Even Elon Musk himself has confirmed this. Stop spreading misinformation.

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 10:16 PM UTC

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Ultrafast X-rays reveal how the light-responsive molecular switch azobenzene changes shape lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/ul…

Ultrafast X-rays reveal how the light-responsive molecular switch azobenzene changes shape –...

Azobenzene is one of the best-known molecules that can be switched between two forms by light. However, the question of how the molecule moves in the first few picoseconds (trillionths of a second)...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 10:37 PM UTC

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Computer-designed protein targets immune receptor linked to inflammation at new ‘undruggable’ site lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/co…

Computer-designed protein targets immune receptor linked to inflammation at new ‘undruggable’ site...

To sense their environment and respond accordingly, cells enlist membrane proteins as communication hubs, receiving molecular messages from outside and triggering responses inside. One of these...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 9:06 PM UTC

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New algorithm makes maps of gene activity easier to compare while preserving cell-level detail lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/ne…

New algorithm makes maps of gene activity easier to compare while preserving cell-level detail –...

Spatial transcriptomics can reveal where thousands of genes are active across a tissue, creating molecular maps at single-cell resolution. But comparing two such maps is difficult: thin slices of...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 8:46 PM UTC

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Mirror-image crystals reverse the direction of light-driven currents lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/mi…

Mirror-image crystals reverse the direction of light-driven currents – Lifeboat News: The Blog

The circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE), a phenomenon that generates helicity-dependent photocurrents in noncentrosymmetric materials, can originate purely from a crystal’s internal structure...

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 7:56 PM UTC

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Smart silicone coatings can change their friction and stickiness as surroundings reshape nanoscale layers lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/sm…

Smart silicone coatings can change their friction and stickiness as surroundings reshape nanoscale...

Research led by a group from the University of Newcastle has found a new way to make silicone surfaces—and control how slippery they are. The work was published in the journal Chemistry of Materials....

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Lifeboat Foundation · Oct 7, 2026 · 7:06 PM UTC

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Even when AI behaves just like us, people still rate it as less conscious than humans lifeboat.com/blog/2026/10/ev…

Even when AI behaves just like us, people still rate it as less conscious than humans – Lifeboat...

Stories about AI systems deceiving users, cooperating with one another or pursuing their own goals increasingly invite us to talk about them as if they had minds of their own. But do people really...