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Jan 18, 2021

The superconductor breakthrough that could mean an energy revolution

Posted by in categories: energy, materials

We’ve finally made a room-temperature superconductor, so materials that transport electricity without wasting any of it are within our grasp.

Jan 18, 2021

20 Best Aging Biomarkers to Track for Longevity

Posted by in categories: biological, life extension

I’m curious what biomarkers people here currently track? I did some research and came up with these 20 but any you would add/take away? (9 of them were mostly included to be able to use Morgan Levine’s biological age calculator).


This is the first article in a two-part series on the best aging biomarkers to track for longevity. The second article will compare different tests and testing companies on the market and supply a sample testing schedule you can use.

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Jan 18, 2021

Cellular Compartmentation And Protein Sorting (Nuclear Transport, Ran GTPase Cycle) Part 1

Posted by in category: futurism

This Video Explains Cellular Compartmentation And Protein Sorting (Nuclear Transport, Ran GTPase Cycle)

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Jan 18, 2021

Neuroscientists: This Is How Shrooms Break Down Your Sense of Self

Posted by in category: futurism

It all comes down to blocking one key neurotransmitter.

Jan 18, 2021

Scientists’ discovery is paving the way for novel ultrafast quantum computers

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Scientists at the Institute of Physics of the University of Tartu have found a way to develop optical quantum computers of a new type. Central to the discovery are rare earth ions that have certain characteristics and can act as quantum bits. These would give quantum computers ultrafast computation speed and better reliability compared to earlier solutions. The University of Tartu researchers Vladimir Hizhnyakov, Vadim Boltrushko, Helle Kaasik and Yurii Orlovskii published the results of their research in the scientific journal Optics Communications.

While in ordinary computers, the units of information are binary digits or bits, in quantum computers the units are quantum bits or qubits. In an ordinary , information is mostly carried by electricity in memory storage cells consisting of field-effect transistors, but in a quantum computer, depending on the type of computer, the information carriers are much smaller particles, for example ions, photons and electrons. The information may be carried by a certain characteristic of this particle (for example, spin of electron or polarization of photon), which may have two states. While the values of an ordinary bit are 0 or 1, also intermediate variants of these values are possible in the quantum bit. The intermediate state is called the superposition. This property gives quantum computers the ability to solve tasks, which ordinary computers are unable to perform within reasonable time.

Jan 17, 2021

Big Brother gets even bigger: Moscow to create database with residents’ salaries, vehicle information & even school results

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI, surveillance, transportation

Moscow has revealed a plan to spend $2.4 million on a giant database containing information about every single city resident, including passport numbers, insurance policies, salaries, car registrations – and even their pets.

It will also include work and tax details, school grades, and data from their ‘Troika’ care – Moscow’s unified transport payment system, used on the metro, busses and trains.

The new proposal will undoubtedly increase fears about ever-growing surveillance in the Russian capital, where the number of facial recognition cameras has recently been increased.

Jan 17, 2021

Virgin Orbit launches 10 satellites to orbit in landmark test flight

Posted by in category: satellites

LauncherOne has reached orbit for the first time.


Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket blasts its way toward space after separating from its carrier plane during the successful Launch Demo 2 mission on Jan. 172021.

(Image: © Virgin Orbit)

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Jan 17, 2021

AI Weekly: Meet the people trying to replicate and open-source OpenAI’s GPT-3

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

A grassroots group of researchers is attempting to create an open source language model as powerful as OpenAI’s GPT-3.

Jan 17, 2021

Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea

Posted by in categories: ethics, robotics/AI

The “Luda” AI chatbot sparked a necessary debate about AI ethics as South Korea places new emphasis on the technology.

Jan 17, 2021

Telescopes on Far Side of the Moon Could Illuminate the Cosmic Dark Ages

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

The far side of the moon is poised to become our newest and best window on the hidden history of the cosmos. Over the course of the next decade, astronomers are planning to perform unprecedented observations of the early universe from that unique lunar perch using radio telescopes deployed on a new generation of orbiters and robotic rovers.

These instruments will study the universe’s initial half-billion years—the first few hundred million or so of which make up the so-called cosmic “dark ages,” when stars and galaxies had yet to form. Bereft of starlight, this era is invisible to optical observations. Radio telescopes, however, can tune in to long-wavelength, low-frequency radio emissions produced by the gigantic clouds of neutral hydrogen that then filled the universe. But these emissions are difficult, if not downright impossible, to detect from Earth because they are either blocked or distorted by our planet’s atmosphere or swamped by human-generated radio noise.

Scientists have dreamed for decades of such studies that could take place on the moon’s far side, where they would be shielded from earthly transmissions and untroubled by any significant atmosphere to impede cosmic views. Now, with multiple space agencies pursuing lunar missions, those dreams are set to become reality.