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Feb 7, 2023

NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface

Posted by in category: space

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet’s barren surface.

This time, it appears to be an iron-nickel meteorite dubbed Cacao, which measures roughly a foot across and can be seen in an ultra-high resolution image, stitched together from 19 individual photos taken by the rover on January 28.

The mysterious object’s lovely silver metallic hue stands out like a sore thumb in the surrounding, rust-colored landscape, a sulfate-bearing region of the Red Planet’s Mount Sharp.

Feb 7, 2023

Metatrend #18: Cellular Agriculture & Vertical Farming

Posted by in category: food

How do you feed 8 billion people, all of whom want access to higher-quality, more nutritious and lower-cost protein?

Do we raise more cows, pigs, and chicken? Will we be forced to clear-cut more rainforest to raise grains?

Over the next decade, we are reinventing how we feed a hungry planet, transforming what we eat and how we grow it.

Feb 7, 2023

Watch nuclear fusion reactor form plasma: “You can’t take your eyes off it”

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics, space travel

What does the inside of a nuclear fusion reactor look like?

“It looks like the future,” Stuart White, head of communications at Tokamak Energy, told Newsweek. “A spaceship. It’s extremely striking, powerful and exciting. You can’t take your eyes off it.”

Nuclear fusion is a technology that creates energy in the same way as the sun: it occurs when two atoms are thrust together with such force that they combine into a single, larger atom and release huge amounts of energy in the process.

Feb 7, 2023

Potential therapeutic target for schizophrenia identified

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

Targeting calcium signaling in neurons represents a promising therapeutic approach for treating a rare form of schizophrenia, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Biological Psychiatry.

“This is the first time that human are made and characterized from with the 16p11.2 duplication, one of the most prominent genetic risk factors in schizophrenia, and the first time that signaling is found as a central abnormality in schizophrenia neurons,” said Peter Penzes, Ph.D., the Ruth and Evelyn Dunbar Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and senior author of the study.

Schizophrenia is characterized by auditory and visual hallucinations, delusions, and trouble with forming and sorting thoughts, which severely impacts productivity and overall quality of life. The disease, which affects roughly one percent of the , has strong genetic associations, however the exact genes involved are unknown.

Feb 7, 2023

Google Unveils Bard, Its ChatGPT Rival for AI-Powered Conversation

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

With a Microsoft event Tuesday expected to center on ChatGPT, the AI chatbot war is heating up.

Feb 7, 2023

Dubai’s Crypto Regulator Plans to Quadruple Headcount

Posted by in category: finance

Dubai’s crypto regulator plans to quadruple its headcount over the next few months to handle hundreds of license applications after drawing up new rules to attract industry players to the Middle Eastern financial hub.

Feb 7, 2023

AI’s ‘big brass ring’ will be worth trillions, ex-Meta executive predicts

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

It’s only a matter of time before AI can achieve AGI, or “artificial general intelligence,” John Carmack said, which would be a massive breakthrough.

Feb 7, 2023

Gen-1: The Next Step Forward for Generative AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Use words and images to generate new videos out of existing ones.

Realistically and consistently synthesize new videos by applying the composition and style of an image or text prompt to the structure of your source video. It’s like filming something new, without filming anything at all. No lights. No cameras. All action.

Continue reading “Gen-1: The Next Step Forward for Generative AI” »

Feb 7, 2023

Phil Newman at Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2022

Posted by in category: life extension

Phil Newman, Founder and CEO, Longevity. Technology at Rejuvenation Startup Summit 2022.

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Feb 7, 2023

N-Electron Valence Perturbation Theory with Reference Wave Functions from Quantum Computing: Application to the Relative Stability of Hydroxide Anion and Hydroxyl Radical

Posted by in categories: computing, information science, quantum physics

Quantum simulations of the hydroxide anion and hydroxyl radical are reported, employing variational quantum algorithms for near-term quantum devices. The energy of each species is calculated along the dissociation curve, to obtain information about the stability of the molecular species being investigated. It is shown that simulations restricted to valence spaces incorrectly predict the hydroxyl radical to be more stable than the hydroxide anion. Inclusion of dynamical electron correlation from nonvalence orbitals is demonstrated, through the integration of the variational quantum eigensolver and quantum subspace expansion methods in the workflow of N-electron valence perturbation theory, and shown to correctly predict the hydroxide anion to be more stable than the hydroxyl radical, provided that basis sets with diffuse orbitals are also employed.