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Apr 18, 2016

Scientists discover huge galaxy that appeared out of nowhere

Posted by in category: space

Scientists discovered a new galaxy called Crater 2 that orbits our milky way galaxy which seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) explains. Buzz60.

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Apr 18, 2016

Book: Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects: Designing and Planning Beyond Earth

Posted by in categories: architecture, education, engineering, space

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“This book considers two key educational tools for future generations of professionals with a space architecture background in the 21st century: (1) introducing the discipline of space architecture into the space system engineering curricula; and (2) developing space architecture as a distinct, complete training curriculum.”

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Apr 18, 2016

Are Aliens Real? If They Are, Science Says They Won’t Look Like What You Expect

Posted by in categories: alien life, science

Little green men seem a little unimaginative.

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Apr 18, 2016

A “time slice” theory of consciousness suggests we’re not continually aware of our surroundings

Posted by in category: neuroscience

How do you perceive your own consciousness?

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Apr 18, 2016

Report: One Web to Build Satellites in Florida

Posted by in category: satellites

Space tourism … and much more.

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Apr 18, 2016

NYU Holodeck to be a model for year 2041 cyberlearning

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI, virtual reality

NYU-X Holodeck (credit: Winslow Burleson and Armanda Lewis)

In an open-access paper in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Education, Winslow Burleson, PhD, MSE, associate professor, New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, suggests that “advanced cyberlearning environments that involve VR and AI innovations are needed to solve society’s “wicked challenges*” — entrenched and seemingly intractable societal problems.

Burleson and and co-author Armanda Lewis imagine such technology in a year 2041 Holodeck, which Burleson’s NYU-X Lab is currently developing in prototype form, in collaboration with colleagues at NYU Courant, Tandon, Steinhardt, and Tisch.

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Apr 18, 2016

People paralysed from neck down will be able to walk in 20 years’ time

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, engineering

Professor John Donoghue, director of Switzerland’s Wyss Centre for Bio and Neuro Engineering, predicts that in about 20 years time patients will have movement restored to all four limbs.

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Apr 18, 2016

Scientists have finally made a substance that’s even stronger than graphene

Posted by in categories: entertainment, materials

Much like in comic books, scientists are on an endless quest to discover or create the strongest, most durable substance possible. Theories about how to go about that have long circulated, but nobody has been able to overcome the challenge—until now. A team of Austrian researchers has finally worked out a way to stabilize what they are calling the strongest of all known materials, an exotic form of carbon called carbyne.

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Apr 18, 2016

Black Hole ‘Firewalls’ Pits Einstein’s Theory Against Quantum Mechanics

Posted by in categories: cosmology, quantum physics

When Black Hole Firewalls pit theory of relativity against Quantum Mechanics.


A worldwide study reconciles the theory of black hole “firewalls,” which pits the two theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics against one another.

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Apr 18, 2016

Artificial Intelligence’s Ultimate Challenge? Cyber Attacks

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, information science, quantum physics, robotics/AI

AI is hackable as long as it’s underpinning technology is still supported on legacy platform technology and connected to a legacy infrastructure. Only when the underpinning technology & net infrastructure is updated to Quantum will we see a secured AI environment.


At MIT, machine learning specialists are training deep learning algorithms to spot cyber attacks. It may be AI’s ultimate test.

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