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Moon, Mars And Beyond: Space Exploration Highlights Coming Up In 2020

Science stands still for no one, and with a new year comes a new calendar of exciting events in spaceflight and exploration. New Atlas rounds up some of the most important milestones to look forward to in 2020.

MDMA For PTSD Granted Expanded Access By FDA, Patient Treatments Begin

The FDA’s Expanded Access program is designed to allow patients with serious illnesses access to treatments still in the processes of clinical investigation.

Immune Discovery 'may Treat All Cancer'

"It raises the prospect of a 'one-size-fits-all' cancer treatment, a single type of T-cell that could be capable of destroying many different types of cancers across the population."

US Government Joins The Trillion Tree Initiative

There were once six trillion trees on the planet, now there are only three trillion and we’re still losing ten billion trees per year. That leads to a changing climate, a shrinking habitat for wildlife, and harder lives for billions of people. The scale of the problem calls for radical action.

From Washington State To Washington, D.C., Lawmakers Rush To Regulate Facial Recognition

In Washington, D.C. this week, the House Oversight and Reform Committee pledged to introduce legislation in the “very near future” that could regulate facial recognition use by law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

Venture Capital Accelerating And Shifting To AI And Other Breakthrough Technologies

There could even be a faster rush if there are breakout companies in each of the areas. Massive SpaceX success or other space startups could create a boom like there was in internet stocks. This could also happen in AI and antiaging.

Brain Barriers Breached To Attack Tumors

Yale researchers have found a way to get immune system rescuers through the brain’s protective drainage system.

Antiaging Treatments That Are Closest To FDA Approval

There are a few dozen antiaging rejuvenation treatments that are progressing through pre-clinical and clinical trials. Lifespan.io is tracking the antiaging rejuvenation treatments on a rejuvenation roadmap. Two treatments are in phase 3 clinical trial.

New Harvard Study Fights Fat With Salty, Icy Injections

Injecting an icy saline slurry into fat deposits could be a new fat-reduction

AI Startups Raised $18.5 Billion In 2019, Setting New Funding Record

While overall U.S. venture capital funding dipped in 2019, the artificial intelligence sector bucked this trend by reaching a new annual high for money raised by startups.

Ark Invest’s Big Five Technologies In 2020 Will Be Worth Multiple Trillions Around 2030

Ark Invest has 11 Big Ideas for 2020. However, Five Ideas are clearly the biggest. AI and Sequencing will supercharge biotechnology for nearly $10 trillion in impact by 2024.

Cancer Death Rate In U.S. Sees Sharpest One-Year Drop

Breakthrough treatments for lung cancer and melanoma have driven down cancer mortality overall, and from 2016 to 2017 spurred the largest-ever decline.