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Jul 18, 2022
Swave Photonics Sees Holograms Getting Real
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: computing, holograms, virtual reality
Swave Photonics has designed holographic chips on a proprietary diffractive optics technology to “bring the metaverse to life.”
Can virtual reality become indistinguishable from actual reality? Swave Photonics, a spinoff of Imec and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has designed holographic chips on a proprietary diffractive optics technology to “bring the metaverse to life.” The Leuven, Belgium–based startup has raised €7 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its multi-patented Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) technology.
“Our vision is to empower people to visualize the impossible, collaborate, and accomplish more,” Théodore Marescaux, CEO and founder of Swave Photonics, told EE Times Europe. “With our HXR technology, we want to make that extended reality practically indistinguishable from the real world.”
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Jul 18, 2022
Massively targeted evaluation of therapeutic CRISPR off-targets in cells
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: biotech/medical
Thorough evaluation of CRISPR RNA-guided nucleases off-targets in cells is required for advancing gene therapies. Here the authors report SURRO-seq for the simultaneous investigation of thousands of off-target sites for therapeutic RNA-guided nucleases in cells.
Jul 18, 2022
MIT Physicists Harness Quantum “Time Reversal” for Detecting Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: cosmology, particle physics, quantum physics
A new technique to measure vibrating atoms could improve the precision of atomic clocks and of quantum sensors for detecting dark matter or gravitational waves.
Gravitational waves are distortions or ripples in the fabric of space and time. They were first detected in 2015 by the Advanced LIGO detectors and are produced by catastrophic events such as colliding black holes, supernovae, or merging neutron stars.
Jul 18, 2022
Chemists Just Rearranged Atomic Bonds in a Single Molecule For The First Time
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: chemistry, engineering, particle physics, transportation
So precise.
If chemists built cars, they’d fill a factory with car parts, set it on fire, and sift from the ashes pieces that now looked vaguely car-like.
When you’re dealing with car-parts the size of atoms, this is a perfectly reasonable process. Yet chemists yearn for ways to reduce the waste and make reactions far more precise.
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Jul 18, 2022
A New, High-Risk Subtype of Cancer Has Been Discovered
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Up until recently, almost all pediatric liver cancers were classified as either hepatoblastoma or hepatocellular carcinoma. However, pediatric pathologists have noted that certain liver tumors have histological characteristics that do not readily match either of these two carcinoma models. The outcomes for patients with these tumors are poor and the tumors are less likely to respond to chemotherapy.
Dr. Pavel Sumazin, an associate professor of pediatrics at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center and Baylor College of Medicine, sought to better understand this high-risk cancer.
Jul 18, 2022
California Bullet Train Gets $4.2 Billion Green Light For First Phase While Bigger Challenges Loom
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: law, transportation
The country’s most expensive public infrastructure project finally appears to have the money and legal approval to complete its first leg.
Jul 18, 2022
A cosmic time machine: how the James Webb Space Telescope lets us see the first galaxies in the universe
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: space, time travel
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Jul 18, 2022
High-Flying Experiment: Do Stem Cells Grow Better in Space?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Scientists are shooting stem cells into space, hoping to make discoveries that help people on Earth.
Researcher Dhruv Sareen’s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether they’ll grow better in zero gravity.
Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are trying to find new ways to produce huge batches of a type of stem cell that can generate nearly any other type of cell in the body — and potentially be used to make treatments for many diseases. The cells arrived over the weekend at the International Space Station on a supply ship.
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Jul 18, 2022
This New ‘AI-Powered Drone’ Can Fly Even in Hurricanes!
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: climatology, drones, robotics/AI
This new AI-powered drone can resist strong winds and continue its flight thanks to a deep-learning technique created by Caltech engineers.