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Nov 5, 2018
New virus could help destroy cancer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
A new study investigates the potential use of a virus against cancer. Researchers hope that the findings will be useful for different types of cancer.
Nov 5, 2018
Tiny device bends light to create radiation
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Huge facilities, typically the size of several football stadiums, usually generate synchrotron radiation. The new device is smaller than a match.
Nov 5, 2018
Physicists measured Earthâs mass using neutrinos for the first time
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
Counting tiny particles that can zip straight through the Earth reveals what the planet is like on the inside.
Nov 5, 2018
Transforming Robot Changes Shape at Will
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Researchers have created a âmodularâ robot which can analyze its environment and reconfigure itself to overcome obstacles and achieve tasks.
This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on October 31, 2018. It is a Nature Video production.
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Nov 5, 2018
Mystery particle spotted? Discovery would require physics so weird that nobody has even thought of it
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
Scientists at Cernâs Large Hadron Collider have seen something that may force us to abandon everything we thought we knew about the world on the level of particles.
Nov 5, 2018
A Giant Space Laser on Earth Could Blast Messages at Alien Planets
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
And hey, it might work within âdecades to centuries.â
Scientists want to equip Earth with some planetary porch lights.
Nov 5, 2018
The Future of AI with Kai-Fu Lee
Posted by MĂŒslĂŒm Yildiz in categories: business, robotics/AI, transportation
KaiâFu Lee who is a venture capitalist, technology executive, writer, and an artificial intelligence (AI) expert is speaking with Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity and Googleâs self-driving cars program, about: â the realities of AI in business â which companies are leading AI development â how employees can adapt their skills for ever-changing technology.
Kai-Fu Lee is speaking with Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity and Googleâs self-driving cars program, about:
Nov 5, 2018
âRobots need human rightsâ: Why activists want a better life for machines
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: robotics/AI, transhumanism
One of the UKâs biggest sites, Metro, has run a major story on the Transhumanist Bill of Rights.
We meet the campaigners calling for the UN to adopt a Bill of Rights which lets âdigital entitiesâ pursue life, liberty and happiness.
Nov 5, 2018
What do the six-tailed Great Comet of 1744 and Comet McNaught of 2007 have in common?
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Aside from being comets, they both offer valuable insight about how solar wind affects the dust tailâthe long stream of dust following in the cometâs path. Scientists used a temporal map, which layers information from multiple images, to discover that variations of solar wind push the dust around like a ruffled featherâsuggesting that the dust is electronically charged. This discovery sheds light on the processes that formed dust into asteroids, moons, and planets in the early days of our solar system.