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Nov 27, 2020

The futuristic cargo ship made of wood

Posted by in categories: climatology, futurism

Back to wood?


The shipping industry’s climate impact is large and growing, but a team in Costa Rica is making way for a clean shipping revolution with a cargo ship made of wood.

Nov 27, 2020

Protein storytelling through physics

Posted by in categories: biological, physics, robotics/AI

Computational molecular physics (CMP) aims to leverage the laws of physics to understand not just static structures but also the motions and actions of biomolecules. Applying CMP to proteins has required either simplifying the physical models or running simulations that are shorter than the time scale of the biological activity. Brini et al. reviewed advances that are moving CMP to time scales that match biological events such as protein folding, ligand unbinding, and some conformational changes. They also highlight the role of blind competitions in driving the field forward. New methods such as deep learning approaches are likely to make CMP an increasingly powerful tool in describing proteins in action.

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Nov 27, 2020

House Built Using Lego-Like Wooden Blocks

Posted by in category: habitats

These wooden lego-like blocks by Gablok let you easily construct a house in just days. (Follow Tech That Matters for more.)

Nov 27, 2020

5 NASA spacecraft are leaving the solar system for good

Posted by in category: space travel

Mankind’s journey in deep space.

Nov 26, 2020

US Army Developing Tech To Read Soldiers’ Minds

Posted by in categories: military, neuroscience

US army wants to be able read soldiers minds. This would enable machines to detect stress and soldier intentions to correct them. It could also allow them to communicate with each other with just their brain signals.


Communicating silently through the mind sounds at home in a Marvel film, but now the US Army is delivering technology to do it. With that said, it may be a while before tangible results are seen.

Research funded by the US Army has managed to decode brain signals that impact action, and has also managed to separate signals that change behaviour from those that do not.

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Nov 26, 2020

China and Japan Race to Dominate Future of High-Speed Rail

Posted by in categories: economics, transportation

Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultra-fast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential.

Magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains use powerful magnets to glide along charged tracks at super fast speeds made possible by the lack of friction. A handful of short distance and experimental maglev trains are already in operation, but Asia’s two biggest economies are vying to develop what would be the world’s first long-distance intercity lines.

Nov 26, 2020

Trillion-transistor chip breaks speed record

Posted by in categories: physics, robotics/AI, supercomputing

The biggest computer chip in the world is so fast and powerful it can predict future actions “faster than the laws of physics produce the same result.”

That’s according to a post by Cerebras Systems, a that made the claim at the online SC20 supercomputing conference this week.

Working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, Cerebras designed what it calls “the world’s most powerful AI compute system.” It created a massive chip 8.5 inch-square chip, the Cerebras CS-1, housed in a refrigerator-sized computer in an effort to improve on deep-learning training models.

Nov 26, 2020

Redefining fintech: China’s fintech industry in wake of Ant Group IPO suspension

Posted by in category: finance

A five-part series on China’s ongoing debate about how technology ought to fit alongside financial services in fintech, and how regulators can ringfence systemic risks around the growth industry in the event of disruptions or defaults.

Nov 26, 2020

Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

The newly measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process that forged the first atomic nuclei matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.

Nov 26, 2020

Glow-in-the-dark wombats take scientists by surprise in accidental discovery

Posted by in category: futurism

Glow in the dark wombats.

Scientists find out wombats also glow or have biofluorescence (when under UV light). Not long ago they found out that the platypus also glow.


Australian scientists are surprised to learn that many animals glow under UV light, though more research is required to discover why.

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