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It’s not daily that police storm by means of the doorways of a scientific session and eject half the viewers. But that’s what occurred on Friday on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center throughout a spherical of scientific displays 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 with out a seat to filter out, 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. Read the complete story.
—Antonio Regalado
How sounds can flip us on to the wonders of the universe
Astronomy ought to, in precept, be a welcoming area for blind researchers. But 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 referred to as sonification, designed to remodel info into sound. Since then she’s been working with a venture referred to as Astronify, which presents astronomical info in audio kind.
For tens of millions 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. Read the complete story.
—Corey S. Powell
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