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Oct 10, 2015
Physicists say energy can be teleported ‘without a limit of distance’
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, energy, particle physics, quantum physics
A team of physicists has proposed a way of teleporting energy over long distances. The technique, which is purely theoretical at this point, takes advantage of the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement where two particles share the same existence.
The researchers, who work out of Tohoku University in Japan, and led by Masahiro Hotta,describe their proposal in the latest edition of Physical Review A. Their system exploits properties of squeezed light or vacuum states that should allow for the teleportation of information about an energy state. In turn, this teleported quantum energy could be made useable.
Unlike teleportation schemes as portrayed in Star Trek or The Fly, this type of teleportation describes entanglement experiments in which two entangled particles are joined despite no apparent connection between them. When a change happens to one particle, the same change happens to the other. Hence, the impression of teleportation. Physicists have conducted experiments using light, matter, and now, energy.
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Oct 10, 2015
Our Aging World: The Striking Statistics About Cancer
Posted by Roy in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Many people may not know it but the most important risk factor for cancer is growing older. Most cancers occur in people over the age of 65.
Many people may not see cancer as an age-related disease, but it’s a major hurdle we’ll have to overcome in the pursuit of longer lives.
Oct 10, 2015
h+ Magazine: Synthetic Biology — The True Savior of Mankind
Posted by Harry J. Bentham in categories: biological, biotech/medical, disruptive technology, DNA, environmental, ethics, futurism, genetics, health, innovation, science, sustainability, transhumanism
Fear of scientists “playing god” is at the centre of many a plot line in science fiction stories. Perhaps the latest popular iteration of the story we all love is Jurassic World (2015), a film I find interesting only for the tribute it paid to the original Michael Crichton novel and movie Jurassic Park.
Full op-ed from h+ Magazine on 7 October 2015 http://hplusmagazine.com/2015/10/07/opinion-synthetic-biolog…f-mankind/
In Jurassic Park, a novel devoted to the scare of genetic engineering when biotech was new in the 1990s, the character of John Hammond says:
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Oct 10, 2015
These Mysterious Blazing-Fast Ripples Racing Around a Star Defy Explanation
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Scientists were looking for planets forming in the large disk of dust surrounding a young star when they encountered a surprise: fast-moving, wavelike arches racing across the disk like ripples in water.
The team first spotted the five structures in data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile while searching for lumps and bumps that might indicate planets forming around the young star. When the researchers looked back at images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2010 and 2011, they managed to spot the same features — but in new locations. A new video of the mysterious ripples, describes the strange features as seen by ESO scientists.
“Our observations have shown something unexpected,” Anthony Boccaletti, a researcher from LESIA (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS/UPMC/Paris-Diderot) in France and lead author on the paper, said in a statement. “The images from [the Very Large Telescope instrument] SPHERE show a set of unexplained features in the disk, which have an archlike or wavelike structure unlike anything that has ever been observed before.” [The Top 10 Strangest Things in Space]
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Oct 9, 2015
This HIV breakthrough could lead to a cure, scientists say
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, innovation
Scientists in the UK and Australia have identified three biomarkers, which when they attached to T-cells (part of the immune system) in high numbers prior to anti-retroviral therapy, increase the chance of early rebound.
Oct 9, 2015
Scientists paint quantum electronics with beams of light
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, electronics, materials, quantum physics
A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and the Pennsylvania State University have accidentally discovered a new way of using light to draw and erase quantum-mechanical circuits in a unique class of materials called topological insulators.
In contrast to using advanced nanofabrication facilities based on chemical processing of materials, this flexible technique allows for rewritable ‘optical fabrication’ of devices. This finding is likely to spawn new developments in emerging technologies such as low-power electronics based on the spin of electrons or ultrafast quantum computers.
The research is published today in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s new online journal Science Advances, where it is featured on the journal’s front page.
Oct 9, 2015
Greek town glimpses mass transit future: driverless buses
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
TRIKALA, Greece (AP) — There’ll be no arguing with the driver on this bus: the rides are free and there’s no driver anyway.
Trikala, a rural town in northern Greece, has been chosen to test a driverless bus in real traffic conditions for the first time, part of a European project to revolutionize mass transport and wean its cities off oil dependency over the next 30 years.
Trials of the French-built CityMobil2 buses started last week and will last through late February.
Oct 9, 2015
A Whole New World: Disney App Renders Coloring Book Pages as 3D Images — By Lulu Chang | Digital Trends
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: augmented reality, media & arts
Oct 9, 2015
The Light L16 uses 16 cameras on its front to take 52-megapixel photos
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: electronics
Light’s compact L16 camera has 16 camera modules on its front, and is gunning to kill DSLRs.