Tesla’s outspoken CEO thinks the biggest threat facing the planet is people not having enough babies. Demographers disagree.
Insilico Medicine is radiating heat amid the biotech winter, kindling its fires with a Sanofi collaboration that could be worth up to $1.2 billion in biobucks—the AI drug discovery company’s larges | Insilico Medicine is radiating heat amid the biotech winter, kindling its fires with a Sanofi collab that could be worth up to $1.2 billion in biobucks—the AI drug discovery company’s largest deal to date.
Advances in brain-computer interface technology are impressive, but we’re not close to anything resembling mind control.
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Many fear that future automation may turn out to be the bane of civilization rather than its liberator. How do we ensure we take the path to a prosperous world and not one of ruin?
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He’s hoping that his plastic orbs, which rest between 15 and 36 feet below the ocean’s surface and hold about 528 gallons of air, will provide a water-conserving, overall sustainable alternative to on-land agricultural operations, particularly helping dry coastal nations grow more food without having to desalinate more water — a costly and resource-intensive process. The plants require just a small bit of starter water, but from there, they’re self-sustaining. Sunlight heats the submerged spheres, which contain humid air that naturally condenses into freshwater on the walls and drips back into the soil.
“Since the underwater farm needs an external source of water only for the start-up of plants growing,” reads the company’s site, “our system could be useful for those locations far from the bodies of water available.”
Recently, two patients in the United Kingdom received two small doses of lab-grown blood samples as part of the RESTORE trial.
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About the RESTORE trial
The RESTORE trial is a single-center, randomized, controlled, phase I cross-over trial that is a joint effort between the National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) and the University of Bristol. The aim of this trial is to determine whether blood cells manufactured from donor stem cells perform better than red blood cells (RBCs) obtained from the same donor in recipients.
The findings come, in part, from nine patients involved in an ongoing Swiss study that is seeking to restore movement to people with paralysis.
All nine rapidly regained the ability to stand and walk with the help of implants that electrically stimulate spinal nerves that control lower-body movement.
Now the researchers are reporting that they’ve identified a specific group of cells in the lower spine that appear necessary for that movement recovery to happen.
A team of researchers at Universität Heidelberg has built an early universe analog in their laboratory using chilled potassium atoms. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their simulator and how it might be used. Silke Weinfurtner, with the University of Nottingham, has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue outlining the work done by the team in Germany.
Understanding what occurred during the first few moments after the Big Bang is difficult due to the lack of evidence left behind. That leaves astrophysicists with nothing but theory to describe what might have happened. To give credence to their theories, scientists have built models that theoretically represent the conditions being described. In this new effort, the researchers used a new approach to build a physical model in their laboratory to simulate conditions just after the Big Bang.
Beginning with the theory that that the Big Bang gave rise to an expanding universe, the researchers sought to create what they describe as a “quantum field simulator.” Since most theories suggest it was likely that the early universe was very cold, near absolute zero, the researchers created an environment that was very cold. They then added potassium atoms to represent the universe they were trying to simulate.
Placing a particle of light in a superposition so that it is travelling both forwards and backwards in time could prove useful for quantum computation.
IBM has unveiled ‘Osprey’, the successor to its Eagle system, featuring the highest ever qubit count for a quantum processor.