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Jun 29, 2019

China at a Glance Newsletter

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Huawei clash with US ‘inevitable’, says founder Ren Zhengfei. Sign up to our daily newsletter for a comprehensive understanding of the China issues that matter to Asia.

Jun 29, 2019

The Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Books to Read in 2019

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Here is a list of the top 5 books on artificial intelligence for beginners. These books will help you understand the current landscape of the technology as well as learn what the future holds.

Jun 28, 2019

Why does time always run forwards and never backwards?

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There’s egg on your face, literally. You tried to juggle some eggs, it all went wrong, and now you’ve got to shower and change your clothes.

Wouldn’t it be faster to just un-break the egg? Breaking it only took a few seconds, so why not do that again, but in reverse? Just reassemble the shell and throw the yolk and the white back inside. You’d have a clean face, clean clothes, and no yolk in your hair, like nothing ever happened.

Why don’t things happen in reverse all the time?

Jun 28, 2019

New property of light discovered

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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain and the U.S. has announced that they have discovered a new property of light—self-torque. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they happened to spot the new property and possible uses for it.

Scientists have long known about such properties of light as wavelength. More recently, researchers have found that light can also be twisted, a property called . Beams with highly structured angular momentum are said to have orbital angular momentum (OAM), and are called . They appear as a helix surrounding a common center, and when they strike a flat surface, they appear as doughnut-shaped. In this new effort, the researchers were working with OAM beams when they found the light behaving in a way that had never been seen before.

The experiments involved firing two lasers at a cloud of argon gas—doing so forced the beams to overlap, and they joined and were emitted as a single beam from the other side of the argon cloud. The result was a type of vortex beam. The researchers then wondered what would happen if the lasers had different orbital angular momentum and if they were slightly out of sync. This resulted in a beam that looked like a corkscrew with a gradually changing twist. And when the beam struck a , it looked like a crescent moon. The researchers noted that looked at another way, a at the front of the beam was orbiting around its center more slowly than a photon at the back of the . The researchers promptly dubbed the new property self-torque—and not only is it a newly discovered property of light, it is also one that has never even been predicted.

Jun 28, 2019

Inflatable Moth Butt Featherdusters

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This is not a moth penis, although it is involved in reproduction. And it’s inflatable.

Jun 28, 2019

Bacteria Could Boost Athlete Performance

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The gut of elite athletes has a bacterium that enhances performance.

Jun 27, 2019

A dome of flowers 💐 Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

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Jun 27, 2019

Should humanity resurrect dinosaurs and bring the Neanderthals back to life?

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It’s already theoretically possible to bring back mammoths.

Jun 27, 2019

Man’s Emotional Support Alligator Loves To Give Hugs

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He’s a rescue and his name is Wally.

Jun 27, 2019

Turtle study shows hearts can be programmed to survive without oxygen

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University of Manchester and University of North Texas scientists are the first to show that an embryonic living heart can be programmed to survive the effects of a low oxygen environment in later life.