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Dec 11, 2015

Farma bioreactor could let owners brew drugs at home

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

MIT Media Lab graduate Will Patrick has designed a prototype desktop bioreactor that could enable the production of pharmaceutical drugs at home.

The cylinder-shaped Farma kitchen appliance could be used to grow, measure, filter and dry synthetically designed microbes.

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Dec 11, 2015

Computing with time travel

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, time travel

Why send a message back in time, but lock it so that no one can ever read the contents? Because it may be the key to solving currently intractable problems. That’s the claim of an international collaboration who have just published a paper in npj Quantum Information.

It turns out that an unopened message can be exceedingly useful. This is true if the experimenter entangles the message with some other system in the laboratory before sending it. Entanglement, a strange effect only possible in the realm of , creates correlations between the time-travelling message and the laboratory system. These correlations can fuel a quantum computation.

Around ten years ago researcher Dave Bacon, now at Google, showed that a time-travelling quantum computer could quickly solve a group of problems, known as NP-complete, which mathematicians have lumped together as being hard.

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Dec 11, 2015

Reality Check: The Universe Is (Probably) Not a Hologram

Posted by in category: space

An experiment at Fermilab to determine if everything in the universe is just a hologram reassures us it probably isn’t.

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Dec 11, 2015

Britain should lead way on genetically engineered babies, says Chief Scientific Adviser

Posted by in category: genetics

But at a conference in London yesterday, Sir Mark Walport, who advises the government on scientific matters, said he believed there were ‘circumstances’ in which the genetic editing of human embyros could be ‘acceptable’.

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Dec 10, 2015

Tesla unveils a battery to power your home, completely off grid

Posted by in categories: energy, habitats

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Dec 10, 2015

A Self-Driving Car From Chinese Search Giant Baidu Hits the Road in Beijing

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

China’s leading search company is developing a self-driving car with BMW.

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Dec 10, 2015

Super-literate software reads and comprehends better than humans

Posted by in category: computing

But does it write book reports?


Get ready for a new generation of computers that can read millions of texts and understand the relationships between characters.

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Dec 10, 2015

Germany just fired up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, physics

On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics fired up a monster machine that it hopes will change the world.

The machine is called the Wendelstein 7-X, or W7-X for short. It’s a type of nuclear-fusion machine called a stellarator and is the largest, most sophisticated of its kind.

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Dec 10, 2015

This Floating Rubik’s Cube is the World’s First 3D Color Hologram

Posted by in category: futurism

Researchers just made the first true 3D hologram, which can be viewed from any angle like a real object.

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Dec 10, 2015

Skyscraper-style chip design boosts performance 1,000-fold

Posted by in category: computing

For decades, engineers have designed computer systems with processors and memory chips laid out like single-story structures in a suburb. Wires connect these chips like streets, carrying digital traffic between the processors that compute data and the memory chips that store it.

But suburban-style layouts create long commutes and regular traffic jams in electronic circuits, wasting time and energy.

That is why researchers from three other universities are working with Stanford engineers, including Associate Professor Subhasish Mitra and Professor H.-S. Philip Wong, to create a revolutionary new high-rise architecture for computing.

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