It’s not every single day that police storm by way of the doorways of a scientific session and eject half the viewers. However that’s what occurred on Friday on the Boston Conference and Exhibition Middle throughout a spherical of scientific shows that includes Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a specialist in “rejuvenation” expertise at a secretive, rich, anti-aging startup referred to as Altos Labs.
Police ordered anybody and not using a seat to filter, after an overflow crowd started jostling within the aisles for house and violating the constructing’s fireplace code. The brouhaha exhibits how pleasure is constructing as researchers uncover the secrets and techniques of life. Some, like Belmonte, declare they’ll finally radically lengthen it, by 40 years or extra. Learn the total story.
—Antonio Regalado
How sounds can flip us on to the wonders of the universe
Astronomy ought to, in precept, be a welcoming subject for blind researchers. However throughout the board, science is stuffed with charts, graphs, databases, and pictures which are designed to be seen.
So researcher Sarah Kane, who’s legally blind, was thrilled three years in the past when she encountered a expertise generally known as sonification, designed to rework info into sound. Since then she’s been working with a venture referred to as Astronify, which presents astronomical info in audio type.
For thousands and thousands of blind and visually impaired folks, sonification may very well be transformative—opening entry to schooling, to as soon as unimaginable careers, and even to the secrets and techniques of the universe. Learn the total story.
—Corey S. Powell
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