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Feb 19, 2021
UK plans to launch $1.1 billion ‘high-risk, high-reward’ science research agency
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: innovation, science
ARIA’s launch comes hot on the heels of the European Innovation Council’s new fund, which stands at $12 billion. The EIC was set up by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, to try to help start-ups across Europe to scale up and compete with rivals in the U.S. and Asia, which have spawned several tech giants with market caps that run well into hundreds of billions of dollars.
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will fund “high-risk, high-reward” scientific research in the hope of achieving “groundbreaking” discoveries.
Feb 19, 2021
Hackers abuse Google Apps Script to steal credit cards, bypass CSP
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: business
Attackers are abusing Google’s Apps Script business application development platform to steal credit card information submitted by customers of e-commerce websites while shopping online.
Feb 19, 2021
A Longtime Educator Says K-12 Schools Need To Encourage Creativity And Curiosity
Posted by Julia Brodsky in categories: education, innovation
It is about time to revisit our assumptions about the public school system. What should be the goal of school education?
If we want to change a classroom to embrace innovation and questioning, we need the leaders and the school system as a whole to embrace innovation and questioning.
Feb 19, 2021
Dr. Hassan Tetteh, MD, Health Mission Chief, Dept. of Defense, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: biotech/medical, business, ethics, government, health, military, policy, robotics/AI
Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh, MD, is the Health Mission Chief, at the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, serving to advance the objectives of the DoD AI Strategy, and improve war fighter healthcare and readiness with artificial intelligence implementations.
Dr. Tetteh is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, adjunct faculty at Howard University College of Medicine, a Thoracic Staff Surgeon for MedStar Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and leads a Specialized Thoracic Adapted Recovery (STAR) Team, in Washington, DC, where his research in thoracic transplantation aims to expand heart and lung recovery and save lives.
Feb 19, 2021
Incredible Sneak Peek of Mars Landing Sent Back
Posted by Lon Anderson in categories: health, robotics/AI, space
The six-wheeled robot’s latest data since touching down yesterday include a series of images captured as the rover’s “jet pack” lowered it to the ground.
Less than a day after NASA ’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover’s health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected.
Feb 19, 2021
White Matter Changes in Brain Found in Frontotemporal Dementia
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Study reveals those with frontotemporal dementia have greater white matter hyperintensity than those with other forms of dementia. The amount of white matter hyperintensity was associated with the severity of FTD symptoms.
Feb 19, 2021
Incredibly detailed video shows DNA twisting into weird shapes to squeeze into cells
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Scientists recently captured a high-resolution video of DNA shimmying into weird shapes in order to squeeze inside cells.
Feb 19, 2021
Exciting New Tech for People With Low-Vision, Blindness
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: innovation, virtual reality
Innovations in smart canes, electronic glasses, virtual reality and more are helping people with sight-stealing eye conditions navigate the world.
Feb 19, 2021
Twisted trilayer graphene could help make high-temperature superconductors
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, particle physics
Two’s company, but three’s a crowd – unless you’re trying to make graphene superconduct at higher temperatures. That is the finding of researchers at Harvard University in the US, who discovered that the superconducting state in three stacked and twisted layers of graphene is more robust to temperature increase than the equivalent state in two-layer graphene. The researchers also found evidence that superconductivity in the trilayer system comes from strong interactions between electrons, rather than weak ones as in most conventional superconductors – corroborating a result reported a few days earlier by a separate team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
A sheet of graphene consists of a simple repetition of carbon atoms arranged in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice. When two sheets of graphene are placed atop each other and slightly misaligned, they form a moiré pattern, or “stretched” superlattice that dramatically changes the electronic interactions in the material compared to its pristine counterpart. The misalignment angle is critical: in 2018, the MIT group, led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, discovered a so-called “magic” angle of 1.1° where the material switches from an insulator to a superconductor. This means the twisted graphene can carry electrical current with no resistance below a superconducting transition temperature, Tc, of 1.7 K.
