This is important because China, I think, produces the world majority of rare earth magnets.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-magnet-rare-earth-mineral-clean-energy-b2565041.html
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
This is important because China, I think, produces the world majority of rare earth magnets.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-magnet-rare-earth-mineral-clean-energy-b2565041.html
“By shutting this “off switch,” immune cells called macrophages regain their ability to soak up cholesterol, potentially stopping heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and more before they start. The team also fingered nitric oxide synthase as an accomplice, hinting at a two-pronged drug strategy that could revolutionize treatment for millions.”
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-find-an-off-switch-for-cholesterol-and-it-could-save-millions/
It uses all the top tier US models as a team of medical experts. This should get released soon!
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-medical-superintelligence-diagnosis/
More important still, though, is using AI to improve AI, which is already starting to happen.
https://singularityhub.com/2025/06/26/the-dream-of-an-ai-scientist-is-closer-than-ever/
Fascinating potential rewrite of physics:
https://scitechdaily.com/space-emerges-from-time-groundbreaking-theory-upends-einstein/
Time would be analogous to a spiderweb (“timeweb”). We travel along the strands radiating from the center (the Big Bang). The perpendicular supporting strands are junctures where you can leave your strand and move over to a different strand, thus allowing you to travel into a different future. You could potentially return to your original strand via another perpendicular strand, or travel to a different timeline by taking a different perpendicular strand, but every timeline you traveled to would be the same date (although if the Earth of a different timeline was near a high-mass object, like a neutron star or black hole, relativistic effects could decouple the sync!).
Alas, according to Sabine, it’s all bollocks: https://youtu.be/LWzK6nITCK0?si=FP2JH3ImQOiPR7VZ
But how to get it…and for a reasonable price?
https://scitechdaily.com/this-anti-aging-drug-rivals-calorie-cutting-for-longer-life-study-finds/
I suspect it’s very low power, though.
A very interesting solution to the origin of our universe:
The technological singularity predictions of a few decades ago no longer sound like science fiction, as they are within our grasp right on time:
“While operating for weeks in the Saudi desert, solar cells with this material adhered to them were 9.4 oC cooler than those without the new material. They also showed an increased power output of more than 12% and an increased lifespan of more than 200% while reducing their cost of generating electricity by nearly 20%.”
https://scitechdaily.com/new-material-supercharges-solar-panel-power-lifespan/
Wow. This is the most detailed description of the future of AI that I have yet seen, including both utopian and dystopian possibilities:
Truly life-like AI video with audio narration and other sounds all generated with simple prompts is here:
https://youtu.be/caXrIUtl2s0?si=U7yjHidccPXXlwxZ
Truly amazing.
Although I have noticed a slight tell: over-articulation of the mouth.
This is a really good description of how evolutionary principles are being used to create scientific and technological breakthroughs and allow AI to self improve.
Who would have thought my evolution degree would be more useful in creating the technological singularity than a programming degree? ;-)
“Additionally, we learned that certain Alzheimer’s risk factors—such as cardiovascular health, ATN (amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration), and immune biomarkers—are present and related to cognition in individuals in their forties and even earlier.”
So where do we get these tests?
https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-risk-may-begin-before-30-new-study-warns/
"Researchers found the PHGDH gene directly causes Alzheimer’s and discovered a drug-like molecule, NCT-503, that may help treat the disease early by targeting the gene’s hidden function."
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-hidden-cause-of-alzheimers-hiding-in-plain-sight/
Yow!
“The system delivers up to 80X faster performance and 20X lower power usage compared to CPU-based predecessors.”
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/2m-supercomputer-powered-by-nvidia
Great, but WHICH compounds, vitamins and antioxidants?
“A study led by researchers from TruDiagnostic explored the potential anti-aging effects of the Cel System, a natural supplement composed of plant compounds, vitamins, and antioxidants. In a year-long trial involving adults aged 54 to 84, participants who took the supplement experienced reduced biological age, improved strength, better body composition, and shifts in DNA methylation patterns linked to stress and brain function.”
Battery technology just keeps surging ahead in leaps and bounds:
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-identify-a-potential-new-alzheimers-disease-marker/