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Jan 28, 2024
Sketch2NeRF: Multi-view Sketch-guided Text-to-3D Generation
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
Jan 28, 2024
Plant-Based Rubber Innovations Fuel Sustainable Tire Growth
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: innovation, sustainability
Alternative sources of rubber from plants are being studied as a more sustainable substitute to natural rubber.
Jan 28, 2024
Smartphone Spectroscopy Takes the Lab to the People
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, mobile phones
By 2020, the number of smartphone users in the world is expected to reach almost 2.9 billion — nearly doubling in six years from about 1.6 billion in 2014. Technology companies and researchers have been directly and indirectly imbuing smartphones with additional capabilities, including spectroscopy for biological and medical applications, among other uses (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The Changhong H2 is the first consumer device with an integrated imaging spectrometer. Courtesy of Consumer Physics.
Jan 28, 2024
Physicists identify a surprising phenomenon of aging in materials over time
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: life extension, physics
Physicists in Darmstadt are investigating aging processes in materials. For the first time, they have measured the ticking of an internal clock in glass. When evaluating the data, they discovered a surprising phenomenon.
We experience time as having only one direction. Who has ever seen a cup smash on the floor, only to then spontaneously reassemble itself? To physicists, this is not immediately self-evident because the formulae that describe movements apply irrespective of the direction of time.
A video of a pendulum swinging unimpeded, for instance, would look just the same if it ran backwards. The everyday irreversibility we experience only comes into play through a further law of nature, the second law of thermodynamics. This states that the disorder in a system grows constantly. If the smashed cup were to reassemble itself, however, the disorder would decrease.
Jan 27, 2024
Diamonds Could Be Raining From The Sky on Far More Planets Than We Realized
Posted by Josh Seeherman in categories: particle physics, space
So cool and fascinating!!
If it were ever possible to take a flight through the extreme conditions of Neptune’s atmosphere, we might experience the fascinating phenomenon of diamond rain tapping at our window.
According to a new study by an international team of researchers, such a blizzard of bling could be relatively common throughout the Universe.
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Jan 27, 2024
Nanoscale Power Plants: Turning Heat Into Power With Graphene Ribbons
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: computing, encryption, nanotechnology, quantum physics
Quantum physicist Mickael Perrin uses graphene ribbons to build nanoscale power plants that turn waste heat from electrical equipment into electricity.
When Mickael Perrin started out on his scientific career 12 years ago, he had no way of knowing he was conducting research in an area that would be attracting wide public interest only a few years later: quantum electronics.
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Jan 27, 2024
New Discovery Brings Nearly Dead Plants Back to Life
Posted by Paul Battista in category: life extension
Scientists have been aware of a specific organelle in plant cells for more than a hundred years. However, UC Riverside scientists have only now discovered the organelle’s key role in aging.
The researchers initially set out to understand more generally which parts of plant cells control plant responses to stress from things like infections, too much salt, or too little light. Serendipitously, they found this organelle, and a protein responsible for maintaining the organelle, control whether plants survive being left too often in the dark.
Because they had not expected this discovery, which is described in a Nature Plants journal article, the research team was thrilled.
Jan 27, 2024
Genie: Achieving Human Parity in Content-Grounded Datasets Generation
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
Jan 27, 2024
Artificial Intelligence | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
From January 2019, Scott Pelley’s interview with “the oracle of AI,” Kai-Fu Lee. From this past April, Pelley’s report on Google’s AI efforts. And from this past March, Lesley Stahl’s story on chatbots like ChatGPT and a world of unknowns. #news #artificialintelligence #technology “60 Minutes” is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen’s Top 10. Subscribe to the “60 Minutes” YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1S7CLRu Watch full episodes: http://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more “60 Minutes” from “60 Minutes: Overtime”: http://cbsn.ws/1KG3sdr Follow “60 Minutes” on Instagram: http://bit.ly/23Xv8Ry Like “60 Minutes” on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1Xb1Dao Follow “60 Minutes” on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1KxUsqX Subscribe to our newsletter: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Download the CBS News app: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Try Paramount+ free: https://bit.ly/2OiW1kZ For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected] 0:00 Introduction 0:11 The Oracle of AI 12:56 The Revolution (Part 1) 27:33 The Revolution (Part 2) 40:00 Who is minding the chatbots?