Lifeboat Foundation

Featured Stories

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  Xerox researcher Frédérique Segond, who helped develop an evolutionary search engine that analyzes the meaning of words and contexts and accepts queries in everyday language, joins our Scientific Advisory Board.

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  Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Current [email protected] projects include the search for cures of: Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Coronavirus, Huntington’s Disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and Parkinson’s Disease. Your participation can help lead to a cure for these diseases, so donate computing cycles generously!
   
  Join our [email protected] team and change the world!

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  The research paper Human Brain/Cloud Interface has been published by our Amara D. Angelica, Frank J. Boehm, Krishnan Chakravarthy, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Steven A. Garan, Tad Hogg, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Nuno R. B. Martins, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Yuriy Svidinenko, and Melanie Swan.

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  Victoria Jaguar joins our Biotech/Medical Board. Her extensive medical experience includes a variety of clinical work in addition to 10 years specialized work in organ and tissue donation.

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  Read I, Nanobot by Alan H. Goldstein.
   
  Scientists are on the verge of breaking the carbon barrier — creating artificial life and changing forever what it means to be human. And we’re not ready.

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  Lifeboat Foundation launches 3 books! The Lifeboat Foundation has launched three books. They are: The Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen — and What to Do, Fourth Edition by Daniel Berleant, Visions of the Future, Second Edition edited by J. Daniel Batt (with 42+ authors!), and Prospects for Human Survival by Willard H. Wells.

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  The Lifeboat Foundation presented the Lifeboat to the Stars award to Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Savile for their collaborative book Tau Ceti. The authors split the $1,000 prize, and each received a handsome trophy in an hourglass design.
   
  This award honors the best work of science fiction of any length contributing to an understanding of the benefits, means, and difficulties of interstellar travel.
   
  Coordinating judge was Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, and the other judges were Catherine Asaro, Jason Batt, Sherry E. Bell, Kevin M. Berry, Brenda Cooper, Niklas Järvstråt, Jim Karkanias, Rouslan Krechetnikov, Eva-Jane Lark, Mike E. McCulloch, George Perry, John K. Strickland Jr., and Allen G. Taylor.

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  We now have a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson on our Quotes page.

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  Sarah Tabrizi, who discovered new targets for treating Huntington’s disease, joins our Neuroscience Board.

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  Catherine Asaro, author of the Nebula Award winning novel The Quantum Rose, joins our Physics Board. Catherine earned her PhD in Physics from Harvard and recently completed two terms as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (SFWA).

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  Bindeshwar Pathak, the great humanist and social reformer of contemporary India, joins our Sustainability Board. After Gandhi, Dr. Pathak is the man, more than any other in India, who has championed sanitation and upliftment of the untouchables as the mission of his life. For the last three decades he has been working relentlessly to keep the ecosystem clean and bring the marginalized sections of society in the mainstream.