3D printing is inspiring new materials at JPL.
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Scientists have created a new superfluid that has a negative mass, meaning that if it’s pushed to the right, it accelerates to the left and vice versa.
A cloud of supercooled atoms that behaves as a superfluid has demonstrated a negative mass, meaning it accelerates opposite to the direction it’s pushed.
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Calling all the Heroes!
Posted in life extension
Calling all the Longevity Superheroes, science needs you! We are proud to launch our brand new campaign and this time there is a twist.
We have launched our Lifespan Heroes campaign to raise funds for LEAF so we can continue delivering quality content, exclusive interviews, scientific commentaries, advocacy and more. We have done an amazing job over the last two years with our volunteers but now we need some help from our heroes — the longevity community.
Spring is the best time to celebrate life and remember all the good things we have achieved to improve and protect human life. One of the organizations which contributed the most to the development of healthcare systems around the globe is the World Health Organization founded by the United Nations. WHO’s Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 – a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day.
The main goals of the WHO are to provide leadership on matters critical to health, engage in partnerships where joint action is needed, shape the research agenda, support the dissemination of knowledge among all nations, set norms and standards in healthcare, articulate ethical and evidence-based policies. Let’s remember the definition of health by the WHO:
Watch F8 Live
Posted in futurism
It’s in San Jose, and I’ll be doing a short talk at the reception on Friday night, April 28, and giving a formal 45-min talk on Saturday, April 29, 1:30PM on Technology and Liberty, and how radical science like transhumanism needs freedom to grow. Please join me at this major event! https://ca.lp.org/pricing/
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In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems—such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s latest automatic translator—have resulted from a technique called “deep learning.”
Deep learning is in fact a new name for an approach to artificial intelligence called neural networks, which have been going in and out of fashion for more than 70 years. Neural networks were first proposed in 1944 by Warren McCullough and Walter Pitts, two University of Chicago researchers who moved to MIT in 1952 as founding members of what’s sometimes called the first cognitive science department.
Neural nets were a major area of research in both neuroscience and computer science until 1969, when, according to computer science lore, they were killed off by the MIT mathematicians Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, who a year later would become co-directors of the new MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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