It’s not day by day that police storm by means 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 known as Altos Labs.

Police ordered anybody with out a seat to filter, after an overflow crowd started jostling within the aisles for house and violating the constructing’s fireplace code. The brouhaha reveals 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 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. However throughout the board, science is filled with charts, graphs, databases, and pictures which might be 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 data into sound. Since then she’s been working with a undertaking known as Astronify, which presents astronomical data in audio type. 

For hundreds of thousands of blind and visually impaired individuals, sonification could possibly be transformative—opening entry to schooling, to as soon as unimaginable careers, and even to the secrets and techniques of the universe. Learn the complete story.

—Corey S. Powell

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