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Aug 17, 2022
“More is different”: why reductionism fails at higher levels of complexity
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
Aug 17, 2022
2D boundaries could create electricity
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: energy, materials
There’s still plenty of room at the bottom to generate piezoelectricity. Engineers at Rice University and their colleagues are showing the way.
A new study describes the discovery of piezoelectricity—the phenomenon by which mechanical energy turns into electrical energy —across phase boundaries of two-dimensional materials.
The work led by Rice materials scientists Pulickel Ajayan and Hanyu Zhu and their colleagues at Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, the University of Southern California, the University of Houston, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Research Laboratory and Pennsylvania State University appears in Advanced Materials.
Aug 17, 2022
Scientists Want to Block Out the Sun. Should We? Is it Even Possible?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biotech/medical, engineering
Iron could massively boost ocean algae populations.
Scientists suggest we could fertilize the world’s oceans with iron to fight climate change. Iron would lead to phytoplankton blooms, which would help to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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Aug 17, 2022
Nuclear War Would Cause a Global Famine and Kill Billions, Rutgers-Led Study Finds
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: climatology, existential risks, military
We might all starve.
Researchers from Rutgers University calculated the possible effects of nuclear wars. The result shows that a nuclear war between countries such as Russia and USA could kill billions and cause starvation within two years.
It also demonstrates that large deficits would arise in imports due to the depletion of crops.
Aug 17, 2022
Tasmanian tiger: Scientists hope to revive marsupial from extinction
Posted by Raphael Ramos in category: existential risks
Experts behind the project claim the technology for “de-extinction” already exists, but others are sceptical.
Aug 17, 2022
Watch NASA’s massive new rocket crawl toward its first launch
Posted by Tristan Hambling in category: space
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DEPUvjlrOeQ
The Space Launch System will start rolling out to its launchpad a few days ahead of schedule. It is headed to space for the first time as early as August 29th.
Aug 17, 2022
Holographic Conversational Video Experience allows you to communicate with deceased relatives
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: holograms, robotics/AI
The company StoryLife developed technology Holographic Conversational Video Experience that allows you to communicate with holograms of deceased relatives.
What we know
A U.S. startup has learned how to create a digital clone of a person before they die. It uses two dozen synchronized cameras to do so. They record answers to questions and then the resulting material is used to train artificial intelligence.
Aug 16, 2022
The problem with our cybersecurity problem
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: cybercrime/malcode
We’ve got a cybersecurity problem, but it’s not the one we think we have. The problem is how we think about cybersecurity problems.
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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