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Jan 12, 2025
With NSF grant, Yale and industry team up to harness quantum’s potential
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: computing, quantum physics
A Yale-led project that aims to develop quantum technology into practical applications has been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Erasure Qubits and Dynamic Circuits for Quantum Advantage (ERASE), a pilot project led by Yale physicist Steven Girvin, is a collaboration between academia and an industrial hardware partner, Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI), a Connecticut-based company that aims to bring to market the first practical quantum computers.
Jan 12, 2025
Consciousness, Gödel, and the incompleteness of science
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: mathematics, neuroscience, science
In the early 20th century, the mathematician Godel showed that any mathematical system is incomplete, using a version of the self-referential paradox: ‘this sentence is not true’. Here, neuroscientist and philosopher, Erik Hoel, argues this incompleteness extends to the scientific project as a whole; in part due to science’s reliance on mathematics. More radically, Hoel argues, this incompleteness of science may account for why we can’t find scientific evidence for consciousness anywhere in the world.
Let’s say you lived in a universe where you really were some sort of incarnated soul in a corporeal body. Or some sort of agent from a vaster reality embedded in a simulation (depending on definitions, the two scenarios might not be that different). What would the science in such a dualistic universe look like?
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Jan 12, 2025
Reality goes beyond physics
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biological, physics
Of all the sciences, physics has been seen as the key to understanding everything. As Feynman said, “physics is the fundamental science.” But in this article, one of the world’s leading physicists, George F. R. Ellis, who collaborated with Stephen Hawking in work on spacetime’s geometry, argues that much of reality extends far beyond physics. Both complex objects like biological organisms and abstract entities like the rules of chess influence the world in ways that cannot be predicted by studying their simple physical constituents. Science, Ellis insists, is far richer than any single framework can ever capture.
1. Abstract Causation
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Jan 12, 2025
Breakthrough in Planet X Hunt: New Telescope Could Uncover Solar System’s Biggest Mystery
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: innovation, space
Scientists are closer than ever to uncovering one of astronomy’s most elusive mysteries: Planet X. A groundbreaking telescope is set to revolutionize the search for the enigmatic ninth planet and challenge our understanding of the solar system’s boundaries.
Jan 12, 2025
A glimpse of the future: Robots in nursing homes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: life extension, robotics/AI
Discover how robots are transforming nursing homes, enhancing care, and supporting workers in an aging world.
Jan 12, 2025
Meet the Ultrathin Conductor Set to Replace Copper in Advanced Electronics
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, nanotechnology
Stanford researchers have uncovered a new material, niobium phosphide, that surpasses copper in electrical conductivity when fashioned into ultrathin films.
This breakthrough could revolutionize the efficiency and performance of future electronics by alleviating the limitations posed by traditional metal wires in nanoscale circuits.
Nanoscale Electronics Challenges
Jan 12, 2025
Our Dream — Sovietwave Mix
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: existential risks, robotics/AI
The early science fiction writers conceived ideas that to their contemporaries would have been impossible wells the world set free about nuclear war before world War one also wells the sleeper awakes where tv and television for media and recording predicted as well another writer wrote a book in the 19th century Paris in the 20th century.
Tracklist:
00:00 ППК — Воскрешение (Robot’s Outro)
01:41 Gummy Boy — Don’t Leave.
05:11 PRNRML — Загадка 1
06:57 Зодиак — Зодиак
12:16 Творожное озеро — Гроза (vwqp remix)
14:41 Dmitriy Ivankov — Phobos.
21:41 Наукоград — Время
25:55 Priroda — 8080
29:15 NTorchestra — Млечными путями в Прекрасное далеко
33:50 ППК — Воскрешение
Jan 12, 2025
Record-Breaking Neutron Star Spins 716 Times Per Second, Unleashes Fiery Thermonuclear Fury
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: energy, space
Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery: a neutron star spinning at a staggering rate of 716 times per second, making it the fastest-spinning neutron star in the known universe, tied only with PSR J1748–2446. This stellar body, located in the binary system 4U 1820–30 within the NGC 6,624 globular cluster near the Milky Way’s center, is around 26 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius.
The discovery was made using NASA’s Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray telescope mounted on the International Space Station. Gaurava K. Jaisawal from DTU Space shared that during observations of thermonuclear bursts, the team detected oscillations corresponding to a spin rate of 716 Hz, confirming the extreme speed.
Neutron stars, remnants of massive stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel, are known for their rapid rotation and intense density. This newfound star is no exception, showcasing powerful thermonuclear blasts that briefly make it up to 100,000 times brighter than the Sun. These explosions occur as material from its companion star—a white dwarf in this case—accretes onto the neutron star’s surface, igniting under extreme pressure.
Jan 12, 2025
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious energetic burst from 8 billion years ago
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: space
FRBs are so powerful that even after traveling billions of light-years, only around 50 have been traced back to their host galaxies.