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Feb 13, 2016
Grail | Pan-cancer blood screening test for circulating tumor DNA
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: biotech/medical
Powered by Illumina sequencing technology, GRAIL will develop a pan-cancer screening test by directly measuring circulating nucleic acids in blood.
Feb 13, 2016
Bill Nye: Could Genetic Engineering And Replicators Be The Key To Colonizing Mars?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: engineering, genetics, space
Speaking to packed house of journalists, scientists and members of The Planetary Society, Bill Nye the Science Guy, along with some very, very smart people, discussed how human beings might survive for long periods of time on Mars.
Feb 13, 2016
Mind Uploading
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, engineering, neuroscience
Minduploading.org is a collection of pages and articles designed to explore the concepts underlying mind uploading. The articles are intended to be a readable introduction to the basic technical and philosophical topics covering mind uploading and substrate-independent minds. The focus is on careful definitions of the common terms and what the implications are if mind uploading becomes possible.
Mind uploading is an ongoing area of active research, bringing together ideas from neuroscience, computer science, engineering, and philosophy. This site refers to a number of participants and researchers who are helping to make mind uploading possible.
Realistically, mind uploading likely lies many decades in the future, but the short-term offers the possibility of advanced neural prostheses that may benefit us.
Feb 13, 2016
NASA Offers Space Tech Grants to Early Career University Faculty
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate is seeking proposals from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of outstanding early-career faculty members who are beginning independent research careers. The grants will sponsor research in specific high-priority areas of interest to America’s space program.
Aligned with NASA’s Space Technology Roadmaps and priorities identified by the National Research Council, the agency has identified topic areas that lend themselves to the early stage innovative approaches U.S. universities can offer for solving tough space technology challenges.
“These grants will allow us to support university faculty in conducting research and technology development to solve some of the challenges that we face on our journey to Mars,” said Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington. “Engaging the creative and innovative researchers at universities across the country provides opportunities to develop space technologies that drive robotic and human exploration of the solar system and beyond.”
Feb 13, 2016
Global Healthspan Policy Institute
Posted by Matt Johnstone in categories: health, policy
The world’s most prestigious thinktank dedicated to advancing the most productive and quality years of life.
Feb 13, 2016
New graphene lens could help computers beam data at the speed of light
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, materials
Researchers have used graphene to create a lens that’s so flat, it’s 300 times thinner than a sheet of paper and weighs just 1 microgram. That means it’s small enough to split a beam of single photons — something that’s going to be crucial if we ever want to develop optical computers that process data at the speed of light.
These optical computers require devices called photonic chips, which store information as photons rather than electrons, and allow that information to move at light speed — and people are pretty excited about it. NASA is already using it, and the technology is getting more and more impressive. But there are still some limitations, and one of those is having lenses thin enough to split beams of light and divert them around the chip.
Attempts to make these lenses in the past have required expensive and impractical materials such as gold, but researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have been working on a solution, and they’ve managed to produce a lens using graphene oxide that’s not only thin enough to overcome the diffraction limit, but is also cheap, strong, flexible, and easy to produce.
Feb 13, 2016
MIT Researchers Develop Artificial Intelligence Chip For Mobile Devices
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, robotics/AI
MIT researchers have developed a chip that can run neural networks. It’s 10 times more efficient than a mobile graphics processors, and it could allow us to have AIs on mobile devices.
Despite the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, most mobile devices remain behind in adapting and implementing these changes in their software. More glaringly, any kind of mobile software that utilizes AI software (such as deep learning and neural networks) offloads these tasks online to outside networks.
It’s all due to one main reason: Power consumption.
Feb 13, 2016
World’s Largest Anti-Submarine Robot Ship Ready for Sea-Trials in April
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: military, robotics/AI, transportation
The U.S. Navy’s largest unmanned surface vehicle designed to track Chinese and Russian subs will be christened in April.
