September 2019 – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 01 Oct 2019 06:22:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 New aluminum batteries for renewables storage https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/new-aluminum-batteries-for-renewables-storage Tue, 01 Oct 2019 06:22:09 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/new-aluminum-batteries-for-renewables-storage

The devices, developed by a European research team, are said to have twice the energy density of conventional aluminum devices. The scientists used a cathode made of anthraquinone, instead of one based on graphene, increasing energy density.

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‘Alien’ life discovered deep underground point to ‘subterranean Galapagos’ https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/alien-life-discovered-deep-underground-point-to-subterranean-galapagos Tue, 01 Oct 2019 06:21:53 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/alien-life-discovered-deep-underground-point-to-subterranean-galapagos

‘ALIEN’ sulphur breathing creatures have been discovered thriving in rock miles underground, in a boost for finding life elsewhere in the Universe, scientists have revealed.

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Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/artificial-blood-developed-for-patients-of-any-blood-type Tue, 01 Oct 2019 06:21:22 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/artificial-blood-developed-for-patients-of-any-blood-type

Japanese researchers said they have developed artificial blood that can be transfused into patients regardless of their blood type and can vastly improve the chances for survival of seriously injured people.

The artificial blood created by a team of scientists primarily from the National Defense Medical College has proved effective in experiments on rabbits.

For possible applications on humans, the artificial blood gets around problems with identifying blood types in emergency situations and overcomes limits on storing real blood from donors.

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Scientists find way to travel across ‘very distant points in space’ in a split second https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/scientists-find-way-to-travel-across-very-distant-points-in-space-in-a-split-second Tue, 01 Oct 2019 06:18:35 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/scientists-find-way-to-travel-across-very-distant-points-in-space-in-a-split-second

A WORMHOLE could allow space travel to the most distant regions of the universe in an instant and now a recent scientific paper has outlined a way to actually build on these anomalies of physics.

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Unbridled Adoption Of Artificial Intelligence May Result In Millions Of Job Losses And Require Massive Retraining For Those Impacted https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/unbridled-adoption-of-artificial-intelligence-may-result-in-millions-of-job-losses-and-require-massive-retraining-for-those-impacted Tue, 01 Oct 2019 03:42:17 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/unbridled-adoption-of-artificial-intelligence-may-result-in-millions-of-job-losses-and-require-massive-retraining-for-those-impacted

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the large accounting and management consulting firm, released a startling report indicating that workers will be highly impacted by the fast-growing rise of artificial intelligence, robots and related technologies.

Banking and financial services employees, factory workers and office staff will seemingly face the loss of their jobs—or need to find a way to reinvent themselves in this brave new world. 

 The term “artificial intelligence” is loosely used to describe the ability of a machine to mimic human behavior. AI includes well-known applications, such as Siri, GPS, Spotify, self-driving vehicles and the larger-than-life robots made by Boston Robotics that perform incredible feats.  

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Is It a Wave or a Particle? It’s Both, Sort Of https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/is-it-a-wave-or-a-particle-its-both-sort-of Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:04:44 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/is-it-a-wave-or-a-particle-its-both-sort-of

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of “Your Place in the Universe.” Sutter contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Is it a wave, or is it a particle? This seems like a very simple question. Waves are very distinct phenomena in our universe, as are particles. And we have different sets of mathematics to describe each of them. So, if we want to go about describing the entire universe, this appears to be a very handy classification scheme — except when it isn’t. And it isn’t in one of the most important aspects of our universe: the subatomic world.

When it comes to things like photons and electrons, the answer to the question “Do they behave like waves or particles?” is … yes.

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Flying Replacement Batteries Could Massively Boost a Drone’s Flight Time https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/flying-replacement-batteries-could-massively-boost-a-drones-flight-time Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:03:54 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/flying-replacement-batteries-could-massively-boost-a-drones-flight-time

Borrowing a trick from the Air Force, whose planes can complete long-range missions thanks to in-flight refueling from tanker aircraft, researchers at UC Berkeley showed off a novel way to keep small drones in the air almost indefinitely: flying replacement batteries that can be swapped without landing.

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Should Children Form Emotional Bonds With Robots? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/should-children-form-emotional-bonds-with-robots Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:02:44 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/should-children-form-emotional-bonds-with-robots

For better and worse, toys powered by AI are becoming an intimate part of kids’ lives.

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You’re Never Alone in Video Games Anymore https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/youre-never-alone-in-video-games-anymore Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:23:05 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/youre-never-alone-in-video-games-anymore

Even if you play games solo, you’re increasingly accompanied by a virtual sidekick.

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A ten-qubit solid-state spin register with remarkable quantum memory https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/a-ten-qubit-solid-state-spin-register-with-remarkable-quantum-memory Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:04:54 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/a-ten-qubit-solid-state-spin-register-with-remarkable-quantum-memory

In years to come, quantum computers and quantum networks might be able to tackle tasks that are inaccessible to traditional computer systems. For instance, they could be used to simulate complex matter or enable fundamentally secure communications.

The elementary building blocks of quantum information systems are known as qubits. For to become a tangible reality, researchers will need to identify strategies to control many qubits with very high precision rates.

Spins of individual particles in solids, such as electrons and nuclei have recently shown great promise for the development of quantum networks. While some researchers were able to demonstrate an elementary control of these qubits, so far, no one has reported entangled quantum states containing more than three spins.

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