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Feb 14, 2021

Life-Changing Prosthetics

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

These amputees have undergone targeted muscle reinnervation to improve their ability to move and lift objects! đŸ‘€đŸ€Ż

Johns Hopkins University

Feb 14, 2021

Visualizing Quantum Computation

Posted by in category: quantum physics

How to visualize a Quantum Computation. In particular, this article presents a way to understand how superpositions work through a graphical tree.

Feb 14, 2021

The Power of Synthetic Biology

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biological

Check out this amazing video about Synthetic Biology! (Credit: Vasil HnĂŁtiuk, Denis Sibilev, and Andrei Myshev)

Feb 14, 2021

Anti-viral coating on face masks may kill coronavirus, UK study finds

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

According to ‘The Daily Telegraph’, the invisible coating on facemasks attacks the virus by rapturing its outer layer, effectively eliminating all new mutant variants, including the UK’s so-called Kent variant and the South African variant.

Feb 14, 2021

Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, quantum physics

Some thoughts triggered by the death of the mathematician John Conway.


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Feb 14, 2021

Medical Science in Speculative Fiction

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

Medically healing nanites and magic spells are one way to get a character back on their feet again, but most characters aren’t packing those kinds of tools in their medical kits. What do authors and readers need to know to keep medical services realistic for the time, place, and overall setting within the story? Our experts share their knowledge on setting bones in space to mixing poultices in the forest to stave off infection in order to keep the healing real. They will also share tips and tricks on realistic wounds, character pain management, and other speculative medicinal practices.

Feb 14, 2021

Refreshing: Coca-Cola introduces 100% recycled bottles in the US

Posted by in category: materials

The new bottles will cut the company’s use of new plastic by over 20 percent in North America compared to 2018, it said.

Feb 14, 2021

New AI ‘Ramanujan Machine’ uncovers hidden patterns in numbers

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI

A new artificially intelligent ‘Ramanujan Machine’ can generate hundreds of new mathematical conjectures, which might lead to new math proofs and theorems.

Feb 14, 2021

Bite Reinvents Toothpaste to Go Zero Waste

Posted by in category: futurism

These tablets come in a jar instead of a disposable tube.

Feb 14, 2021

The Doctor Will Sniff You Now

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

It’s 2050 and you’re due for your monthly physical exam. Times have changed, so you no longer have to endure an orifices check, a needle in your vein, and a week of waiting for your blood test results. Instead, the nurse welcomes you with, “The doctor will sniff you now,” and takes you into an airtight chamber wired up to a massive computer. As you rest, the volatile molecules you exhale or emit from your body and skin slowly drift into the complex artificial intelligence apparatus, colloquially known as Deep Nose. Behind the scene, Deep Nose’s massive electronic brain starts crunching through the molecules, comparing them to its enormous olfactory database. Once it’s got a noseful, the AI matches your odors to the medical conditions that cause them and generates a printout of your health. Your human doctor goes over the results with you and plans your treatment or adjusts your meds.