Dec 4, 2015
Human gene editing gets green light
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
Gene editing research can move forward, but not for reproductive purposes, international summit committee says.
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Dec 4, 2015
SpaceX Will Try Its Next Rocket Landing on Solid Ground
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space travel
Following two failed landings at sea, the next Falcon 9 rocket will attempt to touch down at Cape Canaveral.
After SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket returns to flight later this month, the company will try to land the first stage booster back on solid ground, according to NASA officials. If successful, it would mark not only the first successful landing and recovery of the company’s flagship rocket, but also the first terrestrial rocket landing for SpaceX after two failed landing attempts at sea.
The launch—which could come as soon as December 15, though a flight plan has not been confirmed by the U.S. Air Force—marks a big next step for SpaceX. The mission will be the company’s first since a June launch in which an unmanned Falcon 9 bound for the International Space Station broke apart mid-flight. The landing attempt will also follow the successful launch and landing of a reusable rocket by rival spaceflight company Blue Origin last week.
Dec 4, 2015
20 Million Driverless Cars May Be On The Road By 2025
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Dec 4, 2015
An organic mixed ion-electron conductor for power electronics
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: electronics, materials, sustainability
Researchers at Linköping University’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Sweden, have developed power paper — a new material with an outstanding ability to store energy. The material consists of nanocellulose and a conductive polymer. The results have been published in Advanced Science.
One sheet, 15 centimetres in diameter and a few tenths of a millimetre thick can store as much as 1 F, which is similar to the supercapacitors currently on the market. The material can be recharged hundreds of times and each charge only takes a few seconds.
It’s a dream product in a world where the increased use of renewable energy requires new methods for energy storage — from summer to winter, from a windy day to a calm one, from a sunny day to one with heavy cloud cover.
Dec 4, 2015
Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: quantum physics
The extremely sensitive quantum-spacetime-measuring tool will serve as a template for continuing scientific exploration.
Dec 3, 2015
The Universe is a Quantum Algorithm, and the proof has been found in the … Stock Market
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, cosmology, information science, quantum physics
Which mean for us?
Recently, quantum gates and quantum circuits have been found when portfolios of stocks were simulated in quantum computation processes, pointing out to the existence of a bizarre quantum code beneath the stock market transactions. The quantum code of the stock market might prove to have a more profound signification if is related to the recent finding of quantum codes at the deepest levels of our reality, such as quantum mechanics of black holes and the space-time of the universe. Could this mysterious stock market quantum code be a tiny fragment of a quantum code that our universe uses to create the physical reality?
John Preskill’s talk „Is spacetime a quantum error-correcting code?” held at the Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico, and previously at Kavli Institute for Theoretical physics, may represent a turning point in physical research related to questioning the existence and evolution of our Universe. The essence of this talk may change forever our understanding of the Universe, shifting the perspective of physical research from masses and energies to codes of information theory.
Dec 3, 2015
I visited one of the largest megachurches in the US as an atheist Transhumanist presidential candidate — here’s what happened
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism
A new article on visiting Alabama’s largest megachurch on the Immortality Bus and discussing transhumanism. Make sure to check out the 2-min YouTube video embedded in the story:
The pastor considered whether robots could be saved.
Dec 3, 2015
Event Horizon Telescope reveals magnetic fields at Milky Way’s central black hole
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, physics
Most people think of black holes as giant vacuum cleaners sucking in everything that gets too close. But the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are more like cosmic engines, converting energy from infalling matter into intense radiation that can outshine the combined light from all surrounding stars. If the black hole is spinning, it can generate strong jets that blast across thousands of light-years and shape entire galaxies. These black hole engines are thought to be powered by magnetic fields. For the first time, astronomers have detected magnetic fields just outside the event horizon of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
“Understanding these magnetic fields is critical. Nobody has been able to resolve magnetic fields near the event horizon until now,” says lead author Michael Johnson of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The results appear in the Dec. 4th issue of the journal Science.
“These magnetic fields have been predicted to exist, but no one has seen them before. Our data puts decades of theoretical work on solid observational ground,” adds principal investigator Shep Doeleman (CfA/MIT), who is assistant director of MIT’s Haystack Observatory.
Dec 3, 2015
Antidepressant may help prevent memory loss, dementia
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
The prescription antidepressant escitalopram (trademarked as Lexapro) shows promise as a deterrent to dementia.
