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Researchers from the Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre at the University of Technology Sydney have developed a portable, non-invasive system that can turn silent thoughts into text.
The technology is expected to aid communication for people who are unable to speak due to illness or injury, as well as enable seamless communication between humans and machines (like operating a bionic arm or a robot).
Bulky and hard to wrangle, molecules have long defied physicists’ attempts to lure them into a state of controlled quantum entanglement, whereby the molecules are intimately linked even at a distance.
Now, for the first time, two separate teams have succeeded in entangling pairs of ultra-cold molecules using the same method: microscopically precise optical ‘tweezer traps’
Quantum entanglement is a bizarre yet fundamental phenomenon of the quantum realm that physicists are trying to tap into to create the first, commercial quantum computers.
The hunt for a theory of quantum gravity suggests that space-times might emerge more easily than anyone imagined.
Osaka-based Marukan Co., Ltd., the maker of a new range of nutritional cat food with AIM protein to prevent kidney disease, wants to help extend the lives of cats to 30 years.
Learn more about a protein-enriched cat food aiming to help cats live longer.
Potentially very useful discovery.
Scientists have solved a decades-long puzzle and unveiled a near unbreakable substance that could rival diamond as the hardest material on Earth. The research is published in the journal Advanced Materials.
Researchers found that when carbon and nitrogen precursors were subjected to extreme heat and pressure, the resulting materials—known as carbon nitrides—were tougher than cubic boron nitride, the second hardest material after diamond.
The breakthrough opens doors for multifunctional materials to be used for industrial purposes including protective coatings for cars and spaceships, high-endurance cutting tools, solar panels and photodetectors, experts say.
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal and presented at this week’s American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2023 examines how 17 exoplanets could harbor interior oceans of liquid water, and possibly even geysers, much like two moons within our solar system, Europa and Enceladus. This study was conducted by a team of researchers across academia and multiple research institutions and holds the potential to help scientists better understand the prospects and conditions for finding life beyond our solar system, including the examination of how life could form outside of a star’s habitable zone (HZ).
Image of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, and its geysers taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in November 2010, which could mirror exoplanets with interior oceans and geysers. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
“Our analyses predict that these 17 worlds may have ice-covered surfaces but receive enough internal heating from the decay of radioactive elements and tidal forces from their host stars to maintain internal oceans,” said Dr. Lynnae Quick, who is a planetary geophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author of the study. “Thanks to the amount of internal heating they experience, all planets in our study could also exhibit cryovolcanic eruptions in the form of geyser-like plumes.”
This brain implant can reverse paralysis.
His brain implant made headlines in 2016. Now, he’s fighting for everyone to afford one.
By Chuck Brooks
Realizing the potential of Smart Cities will require public-private cooperation and security by design.
The idea of smart cities is starting to take shape as the digital era develops. A city that has developed a public-private infrastructure to support waste management, energy, transportation, water resources, smart building technology, sustainability, security operations and citizen services is referred to as a “smart city”. Realizing the potential of Smart Cities will require public-private cooperation and security by design.
A smart city functions as an applied innovation lab. Automation, robotics, enabling nanotechnologies, artificial intelligence (human/computer interface), printed electronics and photovoltaics, wearables (flexible electronics), and information technologies like real-time and predictive analytics, super-computing, 5G wireless networks, secure cloud computing, mobile devices, and virtualization are a few of the fascinating technological trends of the digital era that are influencing the development of smart cities.
Evolution has produced a range of diverse proteins, and now a generative model called Chroma can expand that set by allowing the user to design new proteins and protein complexes with desired properties and functions.
