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Jan 10, 2021

Ultra-Fast Space Travel Possible After Scientists Discover Hidden Super-Highways

Posted by in category: space

A space bend just as in sci-fi movies.


Scientists have discovered a network of celestial superhighways caused by gravitational effects of the planet that enable space matters to cover astronomical distances in very less time. The research now calls for more study on the topic to use these paths to send space probes to the far end of our solar system.

Jan 10, 2021

Paralyzed Man Controls Two Robotic Arms With His Mind For The First Time

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

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Jan 10, 2021

World’s Fastest, Most Powerful Neuromorphic Processor for AI Unveiled

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI

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Optical micro-combs.

The invention could revolutionize neural networks and neuromorphic processing in general. “This breakthrough was achieved with ‘optical micro-combs’, as was our world-record internet data speed reported in May 2020,” said in a statement Swinburne’s Professor David Moss.

Jan 10, 2021

MIT Deep-Learning Algorithm Finds Hidden Warning Signals in Measurements Collected Over Time

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI, satellites

A new deep-learning algorithm could provide advanced notice when systems — from satellites to data centers — are falling out of whack.

When you’re responsible for a multimillion-dollar satellite hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, you want to be sure it’s running smoothly. And time series can help.

A time series is simply a record of a measurement taken repeatedly over time. It can keep track of a system’s long-term trends and short-term blips. Examples include the infamous Covid-19 curve of new daily cases and the Keeling curve that has tracked atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations since 1958. In the age of big data, “time series are collected all over the place, from satellites to turbines,” says Kalyan Veeramachaneni. “All that machinery has sensors that collect these time series about how they’re functioning.”

Jan 10, 2021

From Hobart, to London, to Dhaka: using cameras and AI to build an automatic litter detection system

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Using AI and cameras to track and monitor the accumulation of litter in rivers.

Using AI to help people keep the earth clean! 😃


This automated approach can be used in any other city around the world, helping to reduce how much waste enters local waterways and reaches the ocean.

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Jan 9, 2021

Deepening Astronomical Mystery: On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole

Posted by in category: cosmology

Astronomers are searching for signs of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy cluster Abell 2261. Nearly all large galaxies contain central black holes, and the galaxy in the middle of Abell 2261 is expected to contain a particularly massive one.

Jan 9, 2021

Nanoparticle vaccine for COVID-19

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Before the pandemic, the lab of Stanford University biochemist Peter S. Kim focused on developing vaccines for HIV, Ebola and pandemic influenza. But, within days of closing their campus lab space as part of COVID-19 precautions, they turned their attention to a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Although the coronavirus was outside the lab’s specific area of expertise, they and their collaborators have managed to construct and test a promising vaccine candidate.

“Our goal is to make a single-shot vaccine that does not require a cold-chain for storage or transport. If we’re successful at doing it well, it should be cheap too,” said Kim, who is the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry. “The target population for our vaccine is low-and middle-income countries.”

Their vaccine, detailed in a paper published in ACS Central Science (“A Single Immunization with Spike-Functionalized Ferritin Vaccines Elicits Neutralizing Antibody Responses against SARS-CoV-2 in Mice”), contains nanoparticles studded with the same proteins that comprise the virus’s distinctive surface spikes.

Jan 9, 2021

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft will reach Mars orbit on February 10

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The rover won’t land on the Red Planet until May.


China’s Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter and rover are speeding toward the Red Planet and preparing to arrive on Feb. 10, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) has said.

Tianwen-1 has been in space for nearly 24 weeks and was around 81 million miles (130 million kilometers) from Earth and 5.15 million miles (8.3 million km) from Mars on Jan. 3 Beijing time, according to CNSA.

Jan 9, 2021

Inside the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Quantum Lab

Posted by in categories: engineering, quantum physics

Basic science, practical engineering — and an attempt to focus on the most productive lines of effort.

Jan 9, 2021

Black holes leak energy when they eat plasma near the event horizon

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

When magnetic fields around a black hole reconnect, they can slow down plasma particles near the event horizon, which cause the black hole to lose energy when it swallows them.