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Sep 6, 2024

Lumen Orbit 🚀 Data Centers in Space

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, solar power, space, sustainability

🚀 LumenOrbit (YC S24) is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scalable to gigawatt capacity.

Why we should train AI in space.

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Sep 6, 2024

Language-like communication improves learning in artificial networks, finds study

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education

Across all species, critical skills are passed on from parents to offspring through communication. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the Researchers at the University of Bonn showed that effective communication relies on how both the sender and receiver represent information. Their study reveals how this process underlies training efficacy and task performance. Their results have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

Communication—be it through sounds, smells or movements—is crucial for survival. Its is fundamental to cognition, as our task descriptions in the brain are shaped not only by sensory experiences, but also by the information communicated to us.

“We know from our everyday lives that social communication is essential to our learning abilities in the real world, which is summed up by the saying ‘teaching is learning for the second time,” says Prof. Tatjana Tchumatchenko, from the Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research at the UKB and member of the Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) “Modelling” at the University of Bonn.

Sep 6, 2024

Record 99.9% qubit fidelity achieved by prototype quantum processor

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

The achievement marks a way toward “fault-tolerant” quantum computing as it achieved record-low error rates in prototype quantum computer. It’s also expected to lead to the development of more stable quantum computers.

IQM maintains that qubit relaxation time T1 of 0.964 +- 0.092 milliseconds and dephasing time T2 echo of 1.155 +- 0.188 milliseconds was demonstrated on a planar transmon qubit on a silicon chip fabricated in IQMÂŽs own fabrication facilities.

The coherence times, characterized by the relaxation time T1 and the dephasing time T2 echo, are among the key metrics for assessing the performance of a single qubit, as they indicate how long quantum information can be stored in a physical qubit, according to the company.

Sep 6, 2024

Scientists invent nanorobots that can repair brain aneurysms

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Tiny robots much smaller than blood cells could deliver clot-forming drugs where they’re needed most, a study in rabbits suggests. The tech has yet to be tested in humans.

Sep 6, 2024

The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change

Posted by in category: particle physics

An ultra-precise measurement of a transition in the hearts of thorium atoms gives physicists a tool to probe the forces that bind the universe.

Sep 6, 2024

Scientists have 3D bioprinted functioning human brain tissue

Posted by in category: neuroscience

A new method for assembling neuron cultures horizontally instead of vertically helps solve for a longstanding issue.

Sep 6, 2024

Exosomal Non-Coding RNA Mediates Macrophage Polarization: Roles in Cardiovascular Diseases

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) or exosomes are nanosized extracellular particles that contain proteins, DNA, non-coding RNA (ncRNA) and other molecules, which are widely present in biofluids throughout the body. As a key mediator of intercellular communication, EVs transfer their cargoes to target cells and activate signaling transduction. Increasing evidence shows that ncRNA is involved in a variety of pathological and physiological processes through various pathways, particularly the inflammatory response. Macrophage, one of the body’s “gatekeepers”, plays a crucial role in inflammatory reactions. Generally, macrophages can be classified as pro-inflammatory type (M1) or anti-inflammatory type (M2) upon their phenotypes, a phenomenon termed macrophage polarization.

Sep 6, 2024

Can Space and Time Exist as Two Shapes at Once? Mind-Bending Experiments Aim to Find Out

Posted by in categories: cosmology, quantum physics

Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exist in a superposition of multiple shapes at once.

By Nick Huggett & Carlo Rovelli

There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-­established theories describe gravity’s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for explaining extreme situations such as the very early universe and the deep interior of black holes. The need to understand it is called the problem of “quantum gravity.”

Sep 6, 2024

Scientists reveal how DNA methylation drives astrocytes to become stem cells, unlocking new potential for brain repair

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

Researchers have discovered that DNA methylation is crucial for reprogramming astrocytes into stem cells in the adult mouse brain, especially after ischemic injury, with potential implications for regenerative medicine.

Sep 6, 2024

Three reasons robots are about to become way more useful

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

We’re inching ever-closer to them being able to handle household tasks.

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