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The world?s first cryopreservation facility is based on cutting edge AI and new cryopreservation techniques. A jaw-dropping new facility would let you put your body on pause until the future. TimeShift is described as the world?s first cryopreservation facility and is based on cutting edge AI and new cryopreservation techniques. The concept could allow cancer patients to wait in stasis for medical advancements or even for humanity to outlive apocalyptic disaster. The system could use AI to let your digital avatar communicate with loved ones during cryostasis. As well as also being suitable for endangered species, TimeShift may also allow humans to travel deep into space by storing them for long periods of time. The facility is being developed by Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov, a generative AI scientist and anti-aging researcher, and Hashem Al-Ghaili, a molecular biologist and science communicator.

How we could all soon freeze our bodies and outlive an apocalyptic disaster

Channel: Tech Tech January 9, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Scientist stunned by unique asteroid-comet hybrid discovery like nothing seen before

Channel: Tech Tech January 9, 2025 By Josh Milton

New telescope could finally prove there is an elusive 'Planet X' in our solar system

Channel: Tech Tech January 8, 2025 By Josh Milton
Alien life could be that much easier to find as experts discover new way oxygen forms credit: GETTY / Katie Ingham

Aliens could be a little easier to find thanks to new oxygen reaction discovery

Channel: Tech Tech January 3, 2025 By Josh Milton

The curious reason a severed head was sent to police in England

Channel: World World December 31, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson
3rd-gen humanoid robot with wheels, advanced motion control unveiled in China

New humanoid robot with wheels is unveiled

Channel: UK UK December 27, 2024 By Josh Layton
Digital image of artificial intelligence human brain.

The human brain processes thoughts 5,000,000 times slower than the internet

Channel: Weird Weird December 27, 2024 By Oliver Jones
CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE- APRIL 29: View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine. (Photo by SHONE/GAMMA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

How fungus in the Chernobyl exclusion zone can absorb deadly radiation

Channel: Tech Tech December 30, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
New York State Museum and State University of New York Orange staff unearth a complete well-preserved mastodon jaw, as well as a piece of a toe bone and a rib fragment, that were discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home, near Scotchtown, NY. (New York State Museum via AP)

Homeowner finds whole mastodon jaw under his lawn

Channel: US US December 19, 2024 By Jessica Kwong

What will being stranded in space on the ISS for so long do to the Nasa astronauts?

Channel: Tech Tech March 18, 2025 By Josh Milton
Picture of 'Hiccuping' star 150 times bigger than the sun

This is what a star 150 times bigger the sun looks like when it 'hiccups'

Channel: Tech Tech December 18, 2024 By Jay Davis
Mystery of secret tunnels at ancient house owned by Freemasons

Mystery of secret tunnels under one of UK's most fascinating houses may finally be solved

Channel: UK UK December 19, 2024 By Josh Layton
This image provided by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology shows an artist???s illustration of ancient humans from Ranis, Germany and the Czech Republic traveling together 45,000 years ago.(Tom Bj??rklund/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology via AP)

DNA reveals exactly when Humans and Neanderthals interbred

Channel: Tech Tech December 16, 2024 By Lucia Botfield
Scientist pipetting medical samples into microplate in laboratory

Scientists issue dire warning over ‘mirror bacteria’ that could trigger global disaster

Channel: Tech Tech December 13, 2024 By Jasper King
EMBARGOED TO 0001 FRIDAY DECEMBER 13 Natalie?Boller, 63, has a Genio Nyxoah bilateral hypoglossal nerve stimulator implant fitted for obstructive sleep apnoea, by Consultant ENT and Sleep Surgeon Ryan Chin Taw Cheong, at University College London Hospital (UCLH). Picture date: Wednesday December 4, 2024. PA Photo. Patients with a common sleep disorder have been fitted with an app-controlled device that zaps the nerves in the tongue to help them breathe overnight in a UK first. The technology could spell the end for uncomfortable machinery which some people need to sleep at night. See PA story HEALTH Sleep. Photo credit should read: Lucy North/PA Wire

A tongue-zapping implant controlled by your phone could soon help you get a good night sle

Channel: Tech Tech December 13, 2024 By Josh Milton
This undated image courtesy of Google shows the company's new quantum computing chip "Willow.".

New Google computer chip so fast it 'may rely on parallel universes'

Channel: Tech Tech December 11, 2024 By Jen Mills
British antarctic survey base of Rothera, Adelaide island, Antarctica

The people who spend Christmas in Antarctica with 40,000,000 penguins for company

Channel: Travel Travel December 9, 2024 By Jen Mills
Collections / Swiped - Matt and Emma Episode 1

This is what happened when a group of children gave up their mobile phones

Channel: Tech Tech December 8, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson
Canada, Nunavut Territory, Repulse Bay, Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) swimming beside melting iceberg near Arctic Circle on Hudson Bay

Ominous milestone in the Arctic which could happen by 2027

Channel: World World December 4, 2024 By Jen Mills
UNITED KINGDOM, Newcastle upon Tyne: 10 October 2024: The Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, are seen this evening in Blakehope due to a strong solar storm. Credit: Lewis Brown / Story Picture Agency

People who can ‘hear the Northern Lights’ reveal what they sound like

Channel: Tech Tech November 27, 2024 By Jen Mills