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Aug 5, 2023
Photonic Computing System Rethinks How to Power Familiar AI Tool
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: robotics/AI
Researchers from MIT have demonstrated a photonics-based computing system that could lead to machine-learning programs several orders of magnitude more powerful than the one behind ChatGPT. The researchers reported a greater than 100-fold improvement in energy efficiency and a 25-fold improvement in compute density — a measure of system power — over state-of-the-art digital computers for machine learning.
In the near term, the researchers’ experimental, laser-based system could be further developed to improve these metrics by two more orders of magnitude, the researchers said.
Aug 5, 2023
Future cities: Urban planners get creative | DW Documentary
Posted by 21st Century Tech Blog in categories: climatology, education, robotics/AI, sustainability
The future of cities as seen by architects and urban planners. Future cities: Urban planners get creative | DW DocumentaryYOUTUBE.COMFuture cities: Urban planners get creative | DW Documentary.
Will the cities of the future be climate neutral? Might they also be able to actively filter carbon dioxide out of the air? Futurologist Vincente Guallarte thinks so. In fact, he says, our cities will soon be able to absorb CO2, just like trees do.
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Aug 5, 2023
Unleashing Photonic Power: Groundbreaking Advancements in Optical Computing
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: materials, robotics/AI
In a breakthrough for optical computing, researchers developed a nanosecond-scale volatile modulation scheme integrating a phase-change material.
Technological advancements such as autonomous driving and computer vision have spurred a significant increase in demand for computational power. Optical computing, characterized by its high throughput, energy efficiency, and low latency, has attracted significant interest from both academia and industry. However, current optical computing chips are hampered by their power consumption and size, which limit the scalability of optical computing networks.
Nonvolatile integrated photonics has emerged to address these issues, offering optical computing devices the ability to perform in-memory computing while operating with zero static power consumption. Phase-change materials (PCMs), with their high refractive index contrast between different states and reversible transitions, have become promising candidates for enabling photonic memory and nonvolatile neuromorphic photonic chips. This makes PCMs ideally suited for large-scale nonvolatile optical computing chips.
Aug 5, 2023
Powerful gene editing approach boosts rotifers in pantheon of laboratory animals
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Rotifers are excellent research organisms for studying the biology of aging, DNA repair mechanisms, and other fundamental questions. Now, using an innovative application of CRISPrCas9, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, have devised a method for making precise, heritable changes to the rotifer genome, enabling the larger community of scientists to deploy the rotifer as a genetically tractable lab organism.
Aug 5, 2023
Superconductor Levitates At Room Temperature, But Questions Remain
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: materials
Scientists with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology have replicated LK-99’s levitation abilities at room temperature, which they showcased in a video uploaded to Billibilli.
Aug 5, 2023
Unraveling the Mysteries of Topology: Scientists Debunk Existing Assumptions
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: materials, physics
Topology has become a critical factor in the field of modern condensed matter physics and beyond. It explains the way solid materials may possess two distinct and seemingly conflicting characteristics. An example of this is topological insulators, materials whose bulk acts as an insulator, and can still conduct electricity at their surfaces and edges.
Over the past several decades, the idea of topology has revolutionized the understanding of electronic structure and the overall properties of materials. Additionally, it has opened doors to technological advancements by facilitating the integration of topological materials into electronic applications.
At the same time, topology is quite tricky to measure, often requiring combinations of multiple experimental techniques such as photoemission and transport measurements. A method known as high harmonic spectroscopy has recently emerged as a key technique to observe the topology of a material. In this approach a material is irradiated by intense laser light.
Aug 5, 2023
Insect that could cause the next global pandemic, according to WHO
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: biotech/medical
Tropical mosquitoes are increasingly widespread across the planet, and their leap to new continents could be incubating the next global human pandemic.
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Aug 5, 2023
CDC detects coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes at unlicensed California lab
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: biological, biotech/medical, chemistry, law, life extension
Local and federal authorities spent months investigating a warehouse in Fresno County, California, that they suspect was home to an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full of lab mice, medical waste and hazardous materials.
The Fresno County Public Health Department has been “evaluating and assessing the activities of an unlicensed laboratory” in Reedley, the health department’s assistant director, Joe Prado, said in a statement Thursday. All of the biological agents were destroyed by July 7 following a legal abatement process by the agency.
“The evaluation required coordination and collaboration with multiple federal and state agencies to determine and classify biological and chemical contents onsite, in addition to assessing jurisdictional authority under this unique situation,” Prado said.
Aug 5, 2023
The Lunar Codex Will Archive the Work of 30,000 Artists—on the Moon
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, space
When Samuel Peralta contacts artists about putting their work on the moon, they don’t always believe him.
“I say, ‘I’d like to put your art on the moon,’ and they think this is some sort of a scam,” the semiretired physicist and author tells the New York Times’ J. D. Biersdorfer.
But it’s true. Peralta is the mastermind behind the Lunar Codex, a series of time capsules containing the work of 30,000 artists from 157 countries that will journey to the lunar surface. Peralta wants the project to honor artists after the difficulties they faced during the pandemic, he tells the Toronto Star’s Kevin Jiang.