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Apr 22, 2022
Navigating ESG Requirements is a Work in Progress for Companies Pursuing a Greener Future
Posted by Len Rosen in category: futurism
Guest contributor describes some of the challenges technology companies face in developing ESG standards and measuring their performance.
Apr 22, 2022
How to generate smart games using machine learning?
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Machine learning and machine learning algorithms are finding new applications in game building. Machine learning NPCs with machine learning processors have made it possible to have a virtual player.
Study reveals the different ways the brain parses information through interactions of waves of neural activity.
Apr 22, 2022
Interacting Brain Waves Key to How We Process Information
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biological, computing, neuroscience
Summary: Study reveals the different ways the brain parses information through interactions of waves of neural activity.
Source: Salk Institute.
For years, the brain has been thought of as a biological computer that processes information through traditional circuits, whereby data zips straight from one cell to another. While that model is still accurate, a new study led by Salk Professor Thomas Albright and Staff Scientist Sergei Gepshtein shows that there’s also a second, very different way that the brain parses information: through the interactions of waves of neural activity.
Apr 22, 2022
New ‘Helical Engine’ could reach 99% the speed of light
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: space
When it comes to space, there’s a problem with our human drive to go all the places and see all the things. A big problem. It’s way too big.
Apr 22, 2022
The Large Hadron Collider has restarted after 3 years of upgrades
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cosmology, particle physics
Scientists shut down the particle accelerator in 2018 to allow for upgrades (SN: 12/3/18). On April 22, protons once again careened around the 27-kilometer-long ring of the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, located at the particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva.
The LHC is coming out of hibernation gradually. Researchers started the accelerator’s proton beams out at relatively low energy, but will ramp up to slam protons together at a planned record-high energy of 13.6 trillion electron volts. Previously, LHC collisions reached 13 trillion electron volts. Likewise, the beams are starting out wimpy, with relatively few protons, but will build to higher intensity. And when fully up to speed, the upgraded accelerator will pump out proton collisions more quickly than in previous runs. Experiments at the LHC will start taking data this summer.
Physicists will use this data to further characterize the Higgs boson, the particle discovered at the LHC in 2012 that reveals the source of mass for elementary particles (SN: 7/4/12). And researchers will be keeping an eye out for new particles or anything else that clashes with the standard model, the theory of the known particles and their interactions. For example, researchers will continue the hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance that so far can be observed only by its gravitational effects on the cosmos (SN: 10/25/16).
Apr 22, 2022
An architect designs semi-floating buildings that can help cool the planet
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: climatology, sustainability
Architect Andreas Tjeldflaat from design and research studio, Framlab, has his head high up in the clouds.
His latest project, titled Oversky, was recently on display at an exhibition on architecture and climate change at Sweden’s Bildmuseet art museum.
Oversky deals with a series of semi-floating structures in the ariel space between roads and buildings. The modular structures would be based on the technology that allows zeppelins to float, known as the lighter-than-air technology, and would be interconnected and supported by various infrastructural links that connect the street, known as “the cloudscape”.
Apr 22, 2022
Incredible video shows cancer being killed by immune system cell
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Microscope footage shows how a fiery T cell latches onto a cancer cell in an attempt to destroy it.
Apr 22, 2022
Astronomers say a new type of stellar explosion on distant dead stars — called ‘micronova’ — could be plentiful in our universe
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Using NASA satellite data, researchers observed a new class of stellar explosion, which is similar to novas, but localized and short-lived.
Alloy GRX-810 can be used to build better rocket engines capable of withstanding far harsher conditions.
Apr 22, 2022
NASA invents ‘revolutionary’ material 1,000 times better than state-of-the art spaceship alloys
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, space travel
NASA scientists have invented a new metal alloy that is 1,000 times more durable than current state-of-the-art materials used in aviation and space exploration.
The US space agency believes that Alloy GRX-810 could revolutionise space travel, as it can withstand far harsher conditions than existing materials used within rocket engines.
The material has twice the strength, three-and-a-half times the flexibility and more than 1,000 times the durability under stress at high temperatures.