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Jul 9, 2023

AI Can Now Move Bitcoin With New Lightning Labs Tools

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, climatology, robotics/AI

“In the end, open source will win,” say Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Michael Levin, developing an AI tool for the Bitcoin-based payment protocol.

Jul 9, 2023

16 Characteristics of Critical Thinkers

Posted by in category: futurism

Intuition is trustworthy after you have probed deeper to gain information and insight.

Jul 9, 2023

Synthetic Evolution: Genetically Minimal Artificial Cells Prove “Life Finds a Way”

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, education, evolution, genetics

Scientists discovered that a synthetic cell with a reduced genome could evolve as quickly as a normal cell. Despite losing 45% of its original genes, the cell adapted and demonstrated resilience in a laboratory experiment lasting 300 days, effectively showcasing that evolution occurs even under perceived limitations.

“Listen, if there’s one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but… ife finds a way,” said Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic.

The Jurassic period is a geologic time period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period about 201.3 million years ago to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period 145 million years ago. It constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic Era and is divided into three epochs: Early, Middle, and Late. The name “Jurassic” was given to the period by geologists in the early 19th century based on the rock formations found in the Jura Mountains, which were formed during the Jurassic period.

Jul 9, 2023

Scientists soften hair follicles using microRNA to regrow hair

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Just as stiffened joints can hinder mobility, it appears the stem cells of hair follicles can also grow stiff, obstructing hair growth.

Jul 9, 2023

New priming method improves battery life, efficiency

Posted by in categories: climatology, particle physics, sustainability

Silicon anode batteries have the potential to revolutionize energy storage capabilities, which is key to meeting climate goals and unlocking the full potential of electric vehicles.

However, the irreversible depletion of lithium ions in silicon anodes puts a major constraint on the development of next-generation lithium-ion batteries.

Scientists at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering have developed a readily scalable method to optimize prelithiation, a process that helps mitigate lithium loss and improves battery life cycles by coating silicon anodes with stabilized lithium metal particles (SLMPs).

Jul 9, 2023

Wearable Sensors that Detect Gas Leaks

Posted by in categories: chemistry, health, holograms, military, wearables

Gas accidents such as toxic gas leakage in factories, carbon monoxide leakage of boilers, or toxic gas suffocation during manhole cleaning continue to claim lives and cause injuries. Developing a sensor that can quickly detect toxic gases or biochemicals is still an important issue in public health, environmental monitoring, and military sectors. Recently, a research team at POSTECH has developed an inexpensive, ultra-compact wearable hologram sensor that immediately notifies the user of volatile gas detection.


[Professor Junsuk Rho’s research team at POSTECH develops wearable gas sensors that display instantaneous visual holographic alarm.].

Jul 9, 2023

Gartner: 79% of strategists see AI as critical to businesses

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

The technological research firm’s recent survey that found corporate strategists view AI and analytics as paramount to future business success.

Jul 9, 2023

Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Titles like AI Dungeon are already using generative AI to generate in-game content. Nobody knows who owns it.

Jul 9, 2023

Scientists make loudspeakers that can absorb sound for pure silence

Posted by in category: particle physics

This is according to a press release by the institution published last week.

“We wanted to reduce the effect of the membrane as much as possible, since it’s heavy. But what can be as light as air? The air itself,” explained Stanislav Sergeev, a postdoc at EPFL’s Acoustic Group and first author.

“We first ionize the thin layer of air between the electrodes that we call a plasmacoustic metalayer. The same air particles, now electrically charged, can instantaneously respond to external electrical field commands and effectively interact with sound vibrations in the air around the device to cancel them out.”

Jul 9, 2023

Electrons are extremely round, a new measurement confirms

Posted by in category: space

The near-perfect roundness deepens the mystery behind how the universe came to be filled with matter as opposed to antimatter.