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Nov 11, 2022

Construction on the world’s largest community of 3D-printed homes is now underway in Texas — see what the homes will look like

Posted by in category: habitats

The three to four-bedroom homes will be in a master-planned community in Georgetown, Texas. The units will be open for reservations in 2023.

Nov 11, 2022

NASA leaves its Artemis I rocket exposed to winds above design limits

Posted by in categories: climatology, space

Early on Thursday morning, Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach on Florida’s eastern coast. Because Nicole had a very large eye, nearly 60 miles in diameter, its strongest winds were located well to the north of this landfalling position.

As a result of this, Kennedy Space Center took some of the most intense wind gusts from Nicole late on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. While such winds from a Category 1 hurricane are unlikely to damage facilities, they are of concern because the space agency left its Artemis I mission—consisting of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft—exposed on a pad at Launch Complex-39B. The pad is a stone’s throw from the Atlantic Ocean.

How intense were the winds? The National Weather Service hosts data from NASA sensors attached to this launch pad’s three lighting towers on a public website. It can be a little difficult to interpret the readings because there are sensors at altitudes varying from 132 feet to 457 feet. Most of the publicly available data appears to come from an altitude of about 230 feet, however, which would represent the area of the Space Launch System rocket where the core stage is attached to the upper stage. The entire stack reaches a height of about 370 feet above the ground.

Nov 11, 2022

What Happens to the Dopamine System When We Experience Aversive Events?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Summary: The dopamine system helps the brain anticipate the occurrence and duration of unpleasant events, but without taking errors into account.

Source: Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

A new study at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience has examined how the dopamine system processes aversive unpleasant events.

Nov 11, 2022

Colonizing Giant Stars

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

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Nov 11, 2022

How Real Holograms are Created by Artificial Intelligence (Lightfield)

Posted by in categories: holograms, robotics/AI

Commercial Holograms may soon get into the hand of regular consumers with the help of the biggest Hologram company called Lightfield. Holography is a technique that enables a wavefront to be recorded and later re-constructed. Holography is best known as a method of generating three-dimensional images, but it also has a wide range of other applications. In principle, it is possible to make a hologram for any type of a light field.

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Nov 11, 2022

Three Things AI Machines Won’t Be Able to Achieve

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI

In this bonus interview for the series Science Uprising, computer scientist and AI expert Selmer Bringsjord provides a wide-ranging discussion of artificial intelligence (AI) and its capabilities. Bringsjord addresses three features humans possess that AI machines won’t be able to duplicate in his view: consciousness, cognition, and genuine creativity.

Selmer Bringsjord is a Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Director of the Rensselaer AI and Reasoning Laboratory. He and his colleagues have developed the “Lovelace Test” to evaluate whether machine intelligence has resulted in mind or consciousness.

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Nov 11, 2022

Using an acoustic field to create a liquid metal conductive network inside a polymer

Posted by in category: futurism

A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, working with a colleague from Institute for Basic Science, both in the Republic of Korea, has found an easy way to create an electronic network inside a polymer. They used an acoustic field to connect liquid metal dots.

In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their technique and its possible uses. Ruirui Qiao and Shi-Yang Tang with the University of Queensland in Australia and the University of Birmingham, in the U.K., respectively, have published a Perspectives piece in the same journal outlining the work done by the team.

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Nov 11, 2022

Don’t understand Elon Musk? Here’s the theory that makes simple sense of a complicated man

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, neuroscience

This describes the essential Musk — with the caveat that it leaves out his autism and emotional fragility. He has the right philosophy and the brains to make serious progress, but with some surprisingly unexpected naïve schoolboy level mistakes and misunderstandings about human nature. Regardless, he will learn from them.


We may have cracked the code.

Nov 11, 2022

Chemists create an ‘artificial photosynthesis’ system ten times more efficient than existing systems

Posted by in categories: chemistry, climatology, solar power, sustainability

For the past two centuries, humans have relied on fossil fuels for concentrated energy; hundreds of millions of years of photosynthesis packed into a convenient, energy-dense substance. But that supply is finite, and fossil fuel consumption has tremendous negative impact on Earth’s climate.

“The biggest challenge many people don’t realize is that even nature has no solution for the amount of energy we use,” said University of Chicago chemist Wenbin Lin. Not even is that good, he said: “We will have to do better than nature, and that’s scary.”

One possible option scientists are exploring is “”—reworking a plant’s system to make our own kinds of fuels. However, the chemical equipment in a single leaf is incredibly complex, and not so easy to turn to our own purposes.

Nov 11, 2022

This child was treated for a rare genetic disease while in the womb

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Babies born with infantile-onset Pompe disease typically have enlarged hearts and weak muscles. But 1-year-old Ayla has a normal heart and walks.