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Jan 25, 2024

Coal: Don’t Burn It, Compute With It

Posted by in categories: energy, materials

A certain fossil fuel works well as a 2D insulating films that could help launch a new era of semiconductors made with 2D materials.

Jan 25, 2024

It all started at Peet’s

Posted by in category: futurism

Ten years ago, neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca was just getting his lab up and running. He had not yet published the research for which he would become renowned: a novel technique for growing 3D clusters …

Jan 25, 2024

New Room Temperature Superconductor Throws Hat In The Ring — This Time, It’s Graphite

Posted by in category: materials

New research reports magnetic and electrical effects that suggest superconductivity.

Jan 25, 2024

Ingenuity is Over and Moon Sniper is On It’s Head

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education, food, health

What brought the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission to and end and how did the Japanese Moon Snipper land on it’s head?

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Jan 25, 2024

The fountain of youth is … a T cell?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

“If we give it to aged mice, they rejuvenate. If we give it to young mice, they age slower. No other therapy right now can do this.”


The fountain of youth has eluded explorers for ages. It turns out the magic anti-aging elixir might have been inside us all along.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Assistant Professor Corina Amor Vegas and colleagues have discovered that T cells can be reprogrammed to fight aging, so to speak. Given the right set of genetic modifications, these white blood cells can attack another group of cells known as senescent cells. These cells are thought to be responsible for many of the diseases we grapple with later in life.

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Jan 25, 2024

Permutation City by Greg Egan [2/2] FULL AUDIOBOOK

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBV0U5q5nhU

“Permutation City” by Greg Egan explores the nature of reality, consciousness, and existence. Set in a future where people can upload their consciousness into virtual realities, known as “Autoverse.” A software engineer, René Barjavel, becomes embroiled in a complex and mind-bending exploration of identity and the nature of existence as he grapples with the implications of living in a world where reality itself may be a simulation.

Jan 25, 2024

Permutation City by Greg Egan [1/2] FULL AUDIOBOOK

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vUIqJun885s

“Permutation City” by Greg Egan explores the nature of reality, consciousness, and existence. Set in a future where people can upload their consciousness int…

Jan 25, 2024

Framework Laptop 16 review: the Franken-notebook

Posted by in category: computing

The Framework Laptop 16 is the most customizable laptop we’ve ever seen, with tons of input and port options, and the promise of upgradable graphics. It has a bright screen and solid battery life, but it’s expensive, and you could get something with more performance for the price.


Framework introduces replaceable graphics for the first time, along with customizable keyboards and other accessories.

Jan 25, 2024

Sustainable Water Solutions: UT Austin’s Filter System Aims to Transform Global Access

Posted by in categories: engineering, particle physics, sustainability

How can clean drinking water be produced in the simplest most cost-effective way possible? This is what a recent study published in Nature Sustainability hopes to find out as an international team of researchers led by The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have developed a novel method for producing clean drinking water using only a syringe and a hydrogel filter. This study holds the potential to develop cheaper and simpler methods for producing clean drinking water for individuals around the world.

“The pressing concern of particle-polluted water, particularly in remote and underdeveloped regions where people frequently rely on contaminated water sources for consumption, demands immediate attention and recognition,” said Dr. Guihua Yu, who is a professor of materials science in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin and a co-author on the study. “Our system, with its high efficiency in removing diverse types of particles, offers an attractive yet practical solution in improving freshwater availability.”

For the study, the researchers developed their water purification system that incorporates a biodegradable hydrogel filter capable of removing particles as small as approximately 10 nanometers (0.0000003937 inches) from water that is injected into the hydrogel using a syringe. Once injected, the water passes through the hydrogel and into any drinking or storage water apparatus. Along with filtering out particles at 10 nanometers, the researchers also noted the filter efficiency rate is 100 percent, both of which surpass commercially available filters. For context, the researchers note that commercial filter efficiency rates for particles larger than 10 nanometers are approximately 40 percent and 80 percent, respectively. Additionally, the device can be scaled at various sizes and is reusable, resulting in both reduced cost and environmental impact.

Jan 25, 2024

Google shows off Lumiere, a space-time diffusion model for realistic AI videos

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Lumiere, on its part, addresses this gap by using a Space-Time U-Net architecture that generates the entire temporal duration of the video at once, through a single pass in the model, leading to more realistic and coherent motion.

“By deploying both spatial and (importantly) temporal down-and up-sampling and leveraging a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model, our model learns to directly generate a full-frame-rate, low-resolution video by processing it in multiple space-time scales,” the researchers noted in the paper.

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