Dec 11, 2015
Reality Check: The Universe Is (Probably) Not a Hologram
Posted by Andreas Matt 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 Amnon H. Eden 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’.
Dec 10, 2015
Tesla unveils a battery to power your home, completely off grid
Posted by Matthew White in categories: energy, habitats
Dec 10, 2015
A Self-Driving Car From Chinese Search Giant Baidu Hits the Road in Beijing
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Dec 10, 2015
Super-literate software reads and comprehends better than humans
Posted by Scott Davis 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.
Dec 10, 2015
Germany just fired up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy
Posted by Sean Brazell 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.
Dec 10, 2015
This Floating Rubik’s Cube is the World’s First 3D Color Hologram
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Researchers just made the first true 3D hologram, which can be viewed from any angle like a real object.
Dec 10, 2015
Skyscraper-style chip design boosts performance 1,000-fold
Posted by Shailesh Prasad 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.
Dec 10, 2015
The insanely fast Hyperloop will soon begin testing in Nevada
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: transportation
Plans to build a test track for a Hyperloop are moving ahead. Hyperloop Technologies will build a major test center near Las Vegas to explore linear electric motor designs and evaluate its implementation.
