Oct 16, 2020
Graphene ‘Wonder Material’ Can Now Be Made Using Trash
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: innovation, materials
Graphene out garbage?
A recent breakthrough promises to make graphene out of garbage in a flash.
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Oct 16, 2020
New jets promise to revive supersonic travel
Posted by Raphael Ramos in category: transportation
Is supersonic travel coming back?
Almost 20 years after Concorde was retired, new supersonic passenger aircraft are finally emerging.
Oct 16, 2020
Weather Broadcast AR with Unreal Engine
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: augmented reality, climatology
Oct 16, 2020
Big global study finds remdesivir doesn’t help Covid-19 patients
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: biotech/medical
🤔 (CNN)In a study it described as both conclusive and disappointing, the World Health Organization said the antiviral drug remdesivir has “little or no effect on mortality” for patients hospitalized with coronavirus and it doesn’t seem to help patients recover any faster, either.
Until now, remdesivir has been the only drug that appeared to have specific effects for coronavirus. It was the only drug with an Emergency Use Authorization for Covid-19 from the US Food and Drug Administration.
Results of the WHO study have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.🙄 But WHO posted them to a pre-print server.
Oct 16, 2020
Israeli robotic bee hive startup Beewise raises $10 million in series A funding
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
:oooooo.
The Israeli Beewise hopes to replace the old hives and make them smarter so that bees can be monitored remotely and treated without human contact.
Oct 16, 2020
Enzymatic DNA synthesis enters new phase
Posted by Paul M. Vittay in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry
Several startups are now pursuing the potential of enzymatic synthesis as a faster and more efficient route for synthesizing longer DNA sequences than is possible with traditional chemical means.
Oct 16, 2020
#51 Longevity Dialogues Part 1, The Long View. With Sergey Young, David Wood, and Jose Cordeiro
Posted by Mark Sackler in categories: innovation, life extension
First in a series of Longevity Dialogues. Suggestions for future focus encouraged.
Host Mark Sackler conducts a lively discussion on issues involved with the anticipated implementation and implications of radical life extension. With XPrize innovation board member Sergey Young, and futurist authors David Wood and Jose Cordeiro.
Oct 16, 2020
For The First Time, Physicists Have Achieved Superconductivity at Room Temperature
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: materials, physics
A major new milestone has just been achieved in the quest for superconductivity. For the first time, physicists have achieved the resistance-free flow of an electrical current at room temperature — a positively balmy 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit).
This has smashed the previous record of −23 degrees Celsius (−9.4 degrees Fahrenheit), and has brought the prospect of functional superconductivity a huge step forward.
Oct 16, 2020
Smart Prisons: Managing and Rehabilitating Prisoners with Psychology, Empathy and AI
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: law enforcement, policy, robotics/AI, virtual reality
Re-Imagining Prisons — with AI, VR, and Digitalization.
Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Ms Pia Puolakka, Project Manager of the Smart Prison Project, under the Criminal Sanctions Agency, within Finland’s Central Administration Unit.
Oct 16, 2020
Ultrafast camera films 3D movies at 100 billion frames per second
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: entertainment, mobile phones
In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech’s Lihong Wang has developed technology that can reach blistering speeds of 70 trillion frames per second, fast enough to see light travel. Just like the camera in your cell phone, though, it can only produce flat images.
Now, Wang’s lab has gone a step further to create a camera that not only records video at incredibly fast speeds but does so in three dimensions. Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering in the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, describes the device in a new paper in the journal Nature Communications.
The new camera, which uses the same underlying technology as Wang’s other compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) cameras, is capable of taking up to 100 billion frames per second. That is fast enough to take 10 billion pictures, more images than the entire human population of the world, in the time it takes you to blink your eye.
