The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission came to an end today (Sept. 30) as the spacecraft touched down on the surface of Comet 67P.
Month: September 2016
This Startup Employs Robots That Bake Pizza En Route for Delivery
Its co-founder may have this skeptical New Yorker convinced.
Elon Musk Reveals Spaceship and Plan to go Interplanetary
ITS credit: SpaceX On September 27, 2016 at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in what could be one of the most important announcements IN HISTORY Elon Musk of SpaceX unveils his new spacecraft, the closest thing humanity has ever seen to a real spaceship and a plan to go to Mars and make our species […]
Zuck's photos from Facebook's futuristic Arctic data center
Why pay for air conditioning when you can just build a data center near the Arctic Circle and pump in the frosty winds? That’s why Facebook created these..
Cell Regeneration in Your Eyes Could Treat Retinal Blindness
Cell Regeneration in Your Eyes Could Treat Retinal Blindness Diseases
Scientists stop light in a cloud of atoms
They may not be wearing the robes of Jedi warriors, but Australian scientists have created their own version of a Star Wars scene by stopping light in a cloud of very cold atoms, a development that provides a essential building block for quantum computing.
Breakthrough Quantum Cat Experiment Captured on Camera
The paradox of Schrödinger’s cat-in which a quantum cat is both alive and dead at the same time until we check to see which state it’s in-is arguably the most famous example of the bizarre counter-intuitive nature of the quantum world. Now, Stanford physicists have exploited this feature weirdness to make highly detailed movies of the inner machinery of simple iodine molecules.
SanDisk outs the 'world's first' 1TB SD card
If you handle a lot of 4K video, you’ll know that most available SD cards will struggle to handle all of your high-quality footage. The two-year old SanDisk 512…
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Illumina, Secret Giant Of DNA Sequencing, Is Bringing Its Tech To The Masses | Fast Company
With spin-off investments Grail and Helix, and a new software-savvy CEO, Illumina is poised to make DNA an even bigger part of your life.
Anti-ageing chocolate which reduces wrinkles developed by Cambridge University spin-off
A daily 7.5g bar of the chocolate can change the underlying skin stucture of a
50 year old to that of someone in their 30s, say developers
Gamers beat scientists to making a protein discovery
It’s no great shock to see citizen scientists make discoveries that professionals miss, but making it through a video game? That’s different. Gamers playing Fol…
Lifespan.io / Life Extension Advocacy Foundation
Lifespan.io / Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, Seaford, New York. 15.446 curtidas · 982 falando sobre isso · 4 estiveram aqui. Let’s Crowdfund the…
Spaceflight Startup Wants to Launch Rockets out of the Ocean
Ripple Aerospace’s plan calls for reusable rockets to be built in shipyards, transported to open ocean, and launched from the sea, without even a laun…
New EU rules decree free, public 100Mbps Wi-Fi in every town in Europe – ExtremeTech
In the same address that claims the EU is in an
Organisms might be quantum machines
Few of us really understand the weird world of quantum physics – but our bodies might take advantage of quantum properties
Cold plasma will heal non-healing wounds
Russian scientists have found that treating cells with cold plasma leads to their regeneration and rejuvenation. This result can be used to develop a plasma therapy program for patients with non-healing wounds. The paper has been published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
Study finds a key to nerve regeneration
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a switch that redirects helper cells in the peripheral nervous system into “repair” mode, a form that restores damaged axons.
Ripple Aerospace Awarded Innovation Grant
Ripple Aerospace Awarded Innovation Grant Innovation Norway awards funding for breakthrough maritime rocket startup paving the way for Northern Europe’s first indigenous commercial launch company Oslo, September 14th 2016: Low cost access to space is one step closer to becoming a reality for Norway’s Ripple Aerospace after it was announced last Wednesday that it has […]
First-Ever Discovery: Complex Organic Molecules Found on Rosetta's Comet
The ESA’s Rosetta comet orbiter has found complex, solid organic molecules in dust particles that came of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, lending credence to the theory that organic compounds, or even life itself came from the stars.
The Neural Network Zoo – The Asimov Institute
With new neural network architectures popping up every now and then, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Knowing all the abbreviations being thrown around (DCIGN, BiLSTM, DCGAN, anyone?) can be a bit overwhelming at first. So I decided to compose a cheat sheet containing many of those architectures. Most of these are neural networks, some are completely …
Making babies without eggs 'on horizon'
Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs.
Motherless babies possible as scientists create live offspring without need for female egg
Motherless babies could be on the horizon after scientists discovered a method of creating offspring without the need for a female egg.
NASA analysis finds August 2016 another record month
August 2016 was the warmest August in 136 years of modern record-keeping.
Tech Insider UK
This virtual character can translate speech into sign language when held up to a hearing person.
A $40 dongle lets you use wired headphones and charge your iPhone 7
After Apple got rid of the headphone jack on its new iPhones yesterday you were probably thinking: How am I supposed to charge my phone and use wired headphones…
Physicists discover 'smoke rings' made of laser light
Most basic physics textbooks describe laser light in fairly simple terms: a beam travels directly from one point to another and, unless it strikes a mirror or other reflective surface, will continue traveling along an arrow-straight path, gradually expanding in size due to the wave nature of light. But these basic rules go out the window with high-intensity laser light.
The 'Impossible' EM Drive Is About to Be Tested in Space
Time to get to the bottom of this crazy thing.
Aubrey de Grey & Matthew O'Connor AMA! • r/Futurology
I am Dr. Aubrey De Grey, biologist, gerontologist PhD and author of the book Ending Aging and Chief Science Officer at the **SENS Research…
At Last, Google's DeepMind AI Can Make Machines Sound Like Humans
Google has announced WaveNet, a speech synthesis program that uses AI and deep learning techniques to generate speech samples better than current technologies. By analyzing samples 16,000 a second, it can generate human-like speech and even its own music compositions.
Is Dronesurfing the Next Action Sport?
It was inevitable, and also awesome.
The Future of Fueling Stations
The Future of Fueling Stations By: Carla M. Parsons Follow up article to http://radicalsciencenews.org/the-future-of-transportation-is-near/ (From Back to the Future 2: Universal Studios) We’ve all wondered what the 2010’s would be like, but have we really reached the future we ought to have, and if not, is there a way to fix it? Before we […]
Scientists predict the existence of a new boson: New Madala boson might assist in the understanding of dark matter
Scientists at the High Energy Physics Group (HEP) of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg predict the existence of a new boson that might aid in the understanding of Dark Matter in the …
Brain circuit that drives sleep-wake states, sleep-preparation behavior is identified
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that’s indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward system, an archipelago of interconnected brain clusters crucial to promoting behavior necessary for animals, including humans, to survive and reproduce.
Sellafield's Nuclear Safety Failings, Panorama – BBC One
Richard Bilton uncovers the truth about Sellafield.
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The Guardian
Te Urewera national park has been granted legal personhood, meaning nobody owns it. The park has the same rights and powers as a citizen. The ruling…
Sellafield’s Nuclear Safety Failings, Panorama – BBC One
Richard Bilton uncovers the truth about Sellafield.
This motorcycle is being driven by a robot
At the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, Yamaha demoed Motobot â a humanoid, motorcycle-riding robot.
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Aquila’s First Flight !
The internet provides information, opportunity and human connection, yet less than half the world has access. We’re proud to…
Thousands to Receive Basic Income in Finland
Over the course of the next year, Finland is putting Universal Basic Income to the test. Thousands of individuals are going to be getting a basic income to trial (what could be) the economics of the future.
Neuromorphic Chips: a Path Towards Human-level AI
Neuromorphic chips are the only current technology which can conceivably “mimic the mammalian cortex with practical power consumption”…
Machine learning just got more human with Google's RankBrain
An introduction to Google’s AI RankBrain and what it means for you.
With MIT's "Gravito-Magnetic Trap" ATOMS move A Million Times Slower [VIDEO]
Atoms move a million times slower — it takes them half a minute to move one inch! Only half-a-billionth of a degree above absolute zero! MIT scientists have cooled a sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded — only half-a-billionth of a degree above absolute zero. At absolute zero (-273 degrees C or -460 degrees F), all atomic motion comes to a standstill since the cooling process has extracted all the particles’ energy. By improving cooling methods, scientists have succeeded in getting closer and closer to absolute zero. At room temperature, atoms move at the speed of a jet airplane. At the new record-low temperature, atoms are a million times slower — it takes them half a minute to move one inch.
In an ordinary container, particles bounce off the walls. In our container, atoms are repelled by magnetic fields, explained physics graduate student Aaron Leanhardt.
For reaching the record-low temperatures, the MIT researchers invented a novel way of confining atoms, which they call a gravito-magnetic trap. As the name indicates, the magnetic fields act together with gravitational forces to keep the atoms trapped.
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter of a dilute gas of bosons cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (that is, very near 0 K or −273.15 °C). Under such conditions, a large fraction of bosons occupy the lowest quantum state, at which point macroscopic quantum phenomena become apparent.
In this video Bose-Einstein Condensate of sodium atoms is created in lab at MIT by Martin Zwierlein. Using highly focused, single frequency lasers it is possible to cool the single sodium atoms, negating their thermal vibrations by inducing electronic transitions which effectively pushes them into place. This brings the atoms down to millikelivn temperatures.
Via: MIT
More details on Audi's Tesla Model S competitor emerge
Audi’s upcoming four-door luxury electric car will have a 311-mile range, along with Level 4 self-driving features (essentially full autonomy, for those..
Peter Diamandis Thinks Nanotech Will Interface With Human Minds
Peter Diamandis is no stranger to the singularity. The entrepreneur founded a think tank called “Singularity University,” focused on scientific advanc…