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Nov 28, 2024

It’s an enigmatic 300-acre circle in the middle of the desert: It’s generating 500,000 MW

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

The 300-acre circle in the middle of the desert is enigmatic: It is producing 500,000 MW. It is a solar energy and melts salt to produce electricity.

Nov 28, 2024

OpenAI Moves To Trademark Its o1 ‘Reasoning’ Models

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

OpenAI has filed a trademark application for its latest AI model, o1, as the firm moves to shield its IP.

Nov 28, 2024

How to REVERSE AGING: The Latest Scientific Advances

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

Bill Faloon discusses advancements in age reversal therapies and their transition from research to clinical application, emphasizing the potential for delaying and reversing biological aging. He highlights advancements in age reversal, discussing therapies like young plasma, gene editing, yamanaka factors and exosome treatments, emphasizing their potential to reverse aging, improve health, and extend lifespan.

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Nov 28, 2024

Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) offers an explanation for the nature and source of consciousness. Initially proposed by Giulio Tononi in 2004, it claims that consciousness is identical to a certain kind of information, the realization of which requires physical, not merely functional, integration, and which can be measured mathematically according to the phi metric.

The theory attempts a balance between two different sets of convictions. On the one hand, it strives to preserve the Cartesian intuitions that experience is immediate, direct, and unified. This, according to IIT’s proponents and its methodology, rules out accounts of consciousness such as functionalism that explain experience as a system operating in a certain way, as well as ruling out any eliminativist theories that deny the existence of consciousness. On the other hand, IIT takes neuroscientific descriptions of the brain as a starting point for understanding what must be true of a physical system in order for it to be conscious. (Most of IIT’s developers and main proponents are neuroscientists.) IIT’s methodology involves characterizing the fundamentally subjective nature of consciousness and positing the physical attributes necessary for a system to realize it.

In short, according to IIT, consciousness requires a grouping of elements within a system that have physical cause-effect power upon one another. This in turn implies that only reentrant architecture consisting of feedback loops, whether neural or computational, will realize consciousness. Such groupings make a difference to themselves, not just to outside observers. This constitutes integrated information. Of the various groupings within a system that possess such causal power, one will do so maximally. This local maximum of integrated information is identical to consciousness.

Nov 28, 2024

Linda Jiang — Head of Strategy and Government Partnerships, Healthcare, Lyft

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, health, neuroscience

The Quickest Route To Healthy


Linda Jiang is Head of Strategy and Government Partnerships, Healthcare, at Lyft (https://www.lyft.com/healthcare), where she’s responsible for accelerating the growth of the business, driving public sector strategy, and partnering with policymakers and regulators to bring access to the rideshare service to millions of people who need it for healthcare access.

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Nov 28, 2024

Red Light Therapy Reduces Blood Glucose: Glen Jeffery, PhD

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Nov 28, 2024

Fermi paradox

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Nov 28, 2024

Pushing the limits of artificial enzymes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

Researchers from CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), supported by INSPIRE Faculty and WISE Kiran Fellowships, explored the chemistry between proteins and nanozymes to advance artificial enzymes. Their work focuses on using manganese-based oxidase nanozyme (MnN) to crosslink collagen, a key structural protein, aiming to develop biomaterials for future medicinal and biomedical applications.

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Nov 28, 2024

Nanorobot hand made of DNA grabs viruses for diagnostics and blocks cell entry

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, chemistry, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

A tiny, four-fingered “hand” folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly sensitive rapid detection and can even block viral particles from entering cells to infect them, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report. Dubbed the NanoGripper, the nanorobotic hand also could be programmed to interact with other viruses or to recognize cell surface markers for targeted drug delivery, such as for cancer treatment.

Led by Xing Wang, a professor of bioengineering and of chemistry at the U. of I., the researchers describe their advance in the journal Science Robotics.

Inspired by the gripping power of the human hand and bird claws, the researchers designed the NanoGripper with four bendable fingers and a palm, all in one nanostructure folded from a single piece of DNA. Each finger has three joints, like a human finger, and the angle and degree of bending are determined by the design on the DNA scaffold.

Nov 28, 2024

Nanostructures pave the way for advanced robotics—and mini dinosaurs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

Researchers at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have made a significant advance in the field of molecular robotics by developing custom-designed and programmable nanostructures using DNA origami.

This innovative approach has potential across a range of applications, from targeted to responsive materials and energy-efficient optical signal processing. The method uses “DNA origami,” so-called as it uses the natural folding power of DNA, the building blocks of human life, to create new and useful biological structures.

As a proof-of-concept, the researchers made more than 50 , including a “nano-dinosaur,” a “dancing robot” and a mini-Australia that is 150 nanometers wide, a thousand times narrower than a human hair.

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