Had fun reading some papers from the just finished Artificial Life Conference. Reading about adversarially-trained neural networks engaging in coevolutionary interactions for example.
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Harvesting plants in microgravity with resident farmer, astronaut Ricky Arnold, studying tiny organisms and their big role in astronaut health and uncovering how the crew catches đ€âs aboard the International Space Station. For all this and more, watch the latest episode of NASAâs Space to Ground:
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August 17th sees our friends at UC Berkeley hosting an aging research summit which is shaping up to be pretty interesting.
Please join us for a day of speakers, awards, poster sessions, and valuable networking focused on cutting-edge aging research and technologies. Our aim is no less than to reimagine aging and elder care. A percentage of the proceeds from this event will support scholarships for students interested in research on aging & elder careâŠ
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Design firm Volerian recently displayed its concept for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle at the recent Farnborough International Airshow 2018.
Volerian says its propulsion system can be used in most situations where a propeller or fan would normally be used.
This applies to both conventional and VTOL propulsion and to large and small aircraft.
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Healthcare can be transformed with the innovation and insights of AI and machine learning. From robot-assisted surgery to virtual nursing assistants, diagnosing conditions facilitating workflow and analyzing images, AI and machines can help improve outcomes for patients and lower costs for providers.
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The financial costs of flooding in Canadaâs maritime region could spike by 300 per cent by the end of the century if steps are not taken to address the impacts of climate change.
A study done by researchers at the University of Waterloo looked at the Halifax, Nova Scotia area, a region hard hit by recent riverine flooding. The team, made up economists, geographers and political scientists, merged data on flood probability, climate change and financial payout information from the insurance/re-insurance market and used the information to develop a forecast.
âUntil recently there hasnât been a lot of work exploring what increased flooding will cost, and who will get stuck with the bill,â says Andrea Minano, coordinator of the Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum (CCRF) and a researcher at Waterlooâs Faculty of Environment. âThe increases in flood losses put into question the long term insurability in the Halifax area, and highlight a broader problem facing many other areas in Canada if no actions are taken to mitigate and adapt to climate change.â
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A new study carried out by an international team of researchers, using the chemistry of ocean sediments has highlighted a widespread picture of Atlantic circulation changes associated with rapid climate change in the past.
The new integrated dataset, published today in the journal Nature Communications, provides new insights into the interactions of melting ice, ocean circulation and climate change, with potential implications for future long-term changes in the Earth systems with global climate change.
Dr. Hong Chin Ng from the University of Bristolâs School of Earth Sciences, is the studyâs lead author.
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Itâs almost the weekend and what better way to celebrate than a nice long interview with one of the Heroes of aging research? Today we bring you a mega-interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey.
Today we have an interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey from the SENS Research Foundation. This interview conducted by Yuri Deigin was originally published in Russian language and he has kindly translated it into English so our audience can enjoy it too.
Yuri: Aubrey, thank you very much for agreeing to this interview. Why donât we dive right in? I am sure everybody asks you this: how and when did you become interested in aging, and when did you decide to make it your lifeâs mission to defeat it?
Aubrey de Grey: I became interested in aging and decided to work on it in my late 20s, so, in the early 1990s. The reason I became interested was because that was when I discovered that other biologists were almost all not interested in it. They did not think that aging was a particularly important or interesting question. I had always assumed, throughout my whole life, that aging was obviously the worldâs most important problem. I thought that people who understood biology would be working on it really hard. Then, I discovered that wasnât true and that hardly any biologists were working on it. The ones that were werenât doing it very well, not very productively as far as I could see. I thought Iâd better have a go myself, so I switched fields from my previous research area, which was artificial intelligence.
BEIJING â Next time when your kids ask you to bring them a star from the sky, you donât have to shrug and walk away. Tell them to wait, instead.
A group of Chinese scientists are mulling a bold idea to capture a small near-Earth asteroid, which might be a potential threat, and bring it back to Earth to exploit its resources.
âSounds like science-fiction, but I believe it can be realized,â said Li Mingtao, a researcher at the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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