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Aug 16, 2022
Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth, due to ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancer, study suggests
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry
PFAS are nicknamed “forever chemicals” because they last so long without breaking down. That’s made them pervasive in rainwater and soils.
Aug 16, 2022
Dr. Katherine High, MD — Gene Therapy Pioneer — President, Therapeutics, Asklepios BioPharmaceutical
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: biotech/medical, business, chemistry, genetics
Gene therapy pioneer — dr. katherine high, MD — president, therapeutics, askbio.
Dr. Katherine High, MD, is President, Therapeutics, at Asklepios BioPharmaceutical (AskBio — https://www.askbio.com/), where she is also member of the AskBio Board of Directors, and has responsibility for driving the strategic direction and execution of pre-clinical and clinical programs of the company.
Aug 16, 2022
The Next Big Leap in Computing
Posted by Ken Otwell in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4A85foHPZY&feature=youtu.be
For AI — reading and writing to memory is the biggest energy and time sink by far. A couple of new solution approaches here:
In this video I talk about NEW Technology which will enable the Next BIG Leap in Computing.
#IBM #AI #computing.
Aug 16, 2022
$1B Giant Magellan Telescope to Have 4x the Resolution of James Webb
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
It will be able to deliver images sharp enough to see the torch engraved on a dime from nearly 160 kilometers away.
The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered, has secured a new $205M funding infusion that will be used to accelerate its construction. When finished, it will be four times more powerful than the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Aug 16, 2022
Researchers find way to shrink a VR headset down to normal glasses size
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: innovation, virtual reality
Ignore the ribbons, this is a very promising breakthrough for VR.
Researchers from Stanford University and Nvidia have teamed up to help develop VR glasses that look a lot more like regular spectacles. Okay, they are rather silly looking due to the ribbons extended from either eye, but they’re much, much flatter and compact than your usual goggle-like virtual reality headsets today.
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“Machines Like Us” argues that the artificial intelligence community needs to revisit symbolic reasoning to solve AI’s “common sense” problem.
Aug 16, 2022
First demonstration of a new particle beam technology at Fermilab
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, particle physics
Physicists love to smash particles together and study the resulting chaos. Therein lies the discovery of new particles and strange physics, generated for tiny fractions of a second and recreating conditions often not seen in our universe for billions of years. But for the magic to happen, two beams of particles must first collide.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced the first successful demonstration of a new technique that improves particle beams. Future particle accelerators could potentially use the method to create better, denser particle beams, increasing the number of collisions and giving researchers a better chance to explore rare physics phenomena that help us understand our universe. The team published its findings in a recent edition of Nature.
Aug 16, 2022
Ancient Equations Offer New Look at Number Groups
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: information science, mathematics
Ever since Archimedes, mathematicians have been fascinated by equations that involve a difference between squares. Now two mathematicians have proven how often these equations have solutions, concluding a decades-old quest.
Aug 16, 2022
Particle physicists want to build the world’s first muon collider
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
The accelerator would smash together this heavier version of the electron and, researchers hope, discover new particles.