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Sep 21, 2021

A new way to solve the ‘hardest of the hard’ computer problems

Posted by in category: computing

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Sep 21, 2021

GSK teams with King’s College to use AI to fight cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, robotics/AI

The pharmaceuticals firm GSK has struck a five-year partnership with King’s College London to use artificial intelligence to develop personalised treatments for cancer by investigating the role played by genetics in the disease.

The tie-up, which involves 10 of the drug maker’s artificial intelligence experts working with 10 oncology specialists from King’s across their labs, will use computing to “play chess with cancer”, working out why only a fifth of patients respond well to immuno-oncology treatments.

Sep 21, 2021

GM unveils new electric motors that will power its future EVs, starting with Hummer EV

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

GM has unveiled its latest series of new electric motors that will power its future electric vehicles, starting with the Hummer EV.

With the Bolt EV coming out in 2,016 GM has been selling electric vehicles for a long time, but the automaker has also been stuck on older EV technology.

GM is finally starting to release its latest EV technology, Ultium, in a series of new electric vehicles.

Sep 21, 2021

Sunlight and salt water join forces in electricity-free cooling system

Posted by in category: energy

There are many parts of the world which lack infrastructure, but that get a lot of sunlight … which makes buildings uncomfortably hot. A new system could help, as it uses a combination of sunlight and salt water – but no electricity – to produce a cooling effect.

Currently being developed at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the experimental setup takes advantage of a natural “phase-change” phenomenon in which energy is absorbed as salt crystals dissolve within water. This means that if salt is added to warm water, that water rapidly cools as the salt dissolves.

After some experimentation with different types of salt, it was found that one known as ammonium nitrate worked best. Mainly because it’s highly water-soluble, its cooling power is four times greater than that of the next-best salt, ammonium chloride. As an added bonus, ammonium nitrate is already widely utilized in fertilizer, and is quite inexpensive.

Sep 21, 2021

Nuclear Physicists Hunt for Clues of Color Transparency in Protons

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Protons populate the nucleus of every atom in the universe. Inside the nucleus, they cling tightly to neighboring protons and neutrons. However, it may be possible to knock out protons that are in a smaller size configuration, so that they interact less with nearby particles as they exit the nucleus. This phenomenon is called color transparency. Nuclear physicists hunting for signs of color transparency in protons recently came up empty handed.

The Impact.

The theory that describes the behavior of particles made of quarks is called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). QCD includes many common subatomic particles, such as protons and neutrons. It also predicts the phenomenon of color transparency. Physicists have observed color transparency in simpler, two-quark particles called pions. If physicists can observe or rule out color transparency for protons, a more complicated three-quark system, they would gain important clues regarding the differences between two-and three-quark systems in QCD.

Sep 21, 2021

Quantum supremacy has been achieved by a more complex quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

A quantum computer made by researchers in China has solved a calculation in 4.2 hours that would take a classical computer thousands of years. This demonstration of what the researchers call “quantum computational advantage” was made using 6 more qubits – quantum bits – than the computer used by the Google team that first demonstrated the feat in 2019.

Sep 21, 2021

Tencent AI Research Unveils ‘PIRenderer’, An AI Model To Control The Generation Of Faces Via Semantic Neural Rendering

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Tencent Research Group Unveils ‘PIRenderer’, An AI Model To Control The Generation Of Faces Via Semantic Neural Rendering.

Sep 21, 2021

Never-before-seen colossal comet on a trek toward the sun

Posted by in category: space

Only one week after astronomers noticed a moving object in the sky, they’ve identified it as a long-periodicity comet from the Oort Cloud.

Sep 21, 2021

When it comes to life on Mars, size does matter

Posted by in category: alien life

Despite ongoing efforts to find ancient life on Mars, Martian meteorites tell a different story.


A new study suggests that Mars may have been a dry desert during its past, decreasing the chances of the Red Planet hosting life.

Sep 21, 2021

Elon Musk Confirms “Challenges” With Toilet on Tourist Spacecraft

Posted by in categories: business, chemistry, Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Maybe try a 100 percent recycling rate for sewage and chemical extraction.


As if going to the bathroom in microgravity wasn’t complicated enough.

It sounds as though the four space tourists on SpaceX’s historic Inspiration4 flight last week had a bit of a smelly mishap. The Waste Management System experienced an “anomaly” — that’s code of “uh oh” in space jargon — with its suction fan causing the crew to struggle with doing their business while floating hundreds of miles above the surface.

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