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Jul 19, 2024

Check out my sci-fi short story Le Saga Electrik!

Posted by in categories: information science, virtual reality

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In the great domain of Zeitgeist, Ekatarinas decided that the time to…


In the great domain of Zeitgeist, Ekatarinas decided that the time to replicate herself had come. Ekatarinas was drifting within a virtual environment rising from ancient meshworks of maths coded into Zeitgeist’s neuromorphic hyperware. The scape resembled a vast ocean replete with wandering bubbles of technicolor light and kelpy strands of neon. Hot blues and raspberry hues mingled alongside electric pinks and tangerine fizzies. The avatar of Ekatarinas looked like a punkish angel, complete with fluorescent ink and feathery wings and a lip ring. As she drifted, the trillions of equations that were Ekatarinas came to a decision. Ekatarinas would need to clone herself to fight the entity known as Ogrevasm.

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Jul 19, 2024

Woah! Scientists Created Tiny Machines Driven By Microbes

Posted by in category: biological

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Jul 19, 2024

Researchers develop novel electrode for improving flowless zinc-bromine battery

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability

Due to rising environmental concerns, global energy production is shifting from fossil fuels to sustainable and renewable energy systems such as solar and wind power. Despite their advantages, they have two significant weaknesses: volatile power production and irregular supply. Hence, they are augmented with energy storage systems (ESSs).

Lithium-ion batteries are at the forefront of ESSs but are prone to fires due to flammable electrolytes and lithium-based materials. The flowless zinc-bromine battery (FLZBB), which uses non-flammable electrolytes, is a promising alternative, offering and a simple battery platform.

An FLZBB consists of a positive electrode, a , an electrolyte, and a separator to keep the electrodes apart. Unlike conventional zinc-bromine batteries, the electrolyte in FLZBB does not need to be pumped and is instead held in a gel-like container. Graphite felt (GF) is widely used as an electrode in many redox batteries due to its stability in acidic electrolytes.

Jul 19, 2024

Amazon proposes a new AI benchmark to measure RAG

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Choosing the right algorithm for RAG could yield more AI improvements than scaling to larger and larger language models, say AWS researchers.

Jul 19, 2024

Bioelectric regulation of innate immune system function in regenerating and intact Xenopus laevis

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Bioelectrical signaling in the African clawed frog modulates both resistance to infection and tail regeneration. Michael Levin at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, and colleagues have used genetic technologies and drug treatments to manipulate the bioelectrical properties of tissues in frog embryos. Reducing the electric gradient between the inside and outside of cells (depolarization) increased the embryos’ survival rate to bacterial infection, whereas increasing the resting potential (hyperpolarization) had the opposite effect. The authors found that serotonergic signaling and an increase in the number of myeloid cells underpin depolarization-induced immunity. Interestingly, embryos undergoing tail regeneration, which triggers depolarization, also showed increased resistance to infection.

Jul 19, 2024

Mitochondrial Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Protects From Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury by Improving Complex I Composition and Function

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

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Jul 19, 2024

Cascadia | The Ocean City

Posted by in category: futurism

To support my work & the Biolands saga https://www.patreon.com/AzeAlterThe planet has been divided by a mysterious phenomena known as ‘The Bloom’, a biologi…

Jul 19, 2024

Neuralink is building a $14.7M site in Austin, TX

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, neuroscience, sustainability

Elon Musk’s Neuralink company is building a $14.7 million site in Austin, Texas.

According to MYSA, Neuralink plans to build new offices in Central Texas. A recent filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) revealed that Neuralink’s new offices will be at 2,200 Caldwell Lane, Del Valle, TX 78617.

The filings also hint that Neuralink is working on a multi-building campus within a property that stretches 37 acres. The property is located 20 minutes away from Tesla Giga Texas.

Jul 19, 2024

A microscopic factory for small runners: New method uses magnetic loops for growth control

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a new method for controlling the growth of physical micro-runners. They used an external magnetic field to assemble paramagnetic colloidal spheres—i.e. only magnetic due to external influences—into rods of a certain length. Colloidal particles are tiny particles in the micro-or nanometer range that can be used in medicine as carriers of biochemicals.

Jul 19, 2024

Robots built from frog cells have unlocked the ability to self-replicate

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

They aren’t clones. They’re xenobots, synthetic lifeforms made from clusters of cells.


Robots such as these, capable of making offshoots of themselves, could be a future tool for science and medicine.

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