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Feb 27, 2021

Radical Remission l Meet the Creator Kelly Turner

Posted by in category: futurism

Meet the Creator and Director of the Radical Remission Docuseries! 👋
For the past fifteen years, Kelly Turner, Ph.D. has conducted research in 10 countries and analyzed over 1500 cases of radical remission. She slowly began interviewing these radical remission survivors—one by one—until their stories filled the pages of her notebook
enough to fill a book, in fact.
Her book Radical Remission went on to be a New York Times bestseller, and now, it’s a docuseries, too—brought to you by Hay House Productions and directed by Kelly Turner herself.
The inspiring Radical Remission Docuseries starts on March 16th — but you can register here now!

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Feb 26, 2021

Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas

Posted by in category: computing

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. They demonstrated the emission of discrete twisting laser beams from antennas made up of concentric rings roughly equal to the diameter of a human hair, small enough to be placed on computer chips.

Feb 26, 2021

Sub-diffraction optical writing enables data storage at the nanoscale

Posted by in categories: computing, nanotechnology, space

The total amount of data generated worldwide is expected to reach 175 zettabytes (1 ZB equals 1 billion terabytes) by 2025. If 175 ZB were stored on Blu-ray disks, the stack would be 23 times the distance to the moon. There is an urgent need to develop storage technologies that can accommodate this enormous amount of data.

Feb 26, 2021

Researchers prove fragments of splitting atomic nuclei begin spinning after scission

Posted by in category: futurism

A large international team of researchers has proven that fragments of splitting atomic nuclei begin spinning after scission occurs during nuclear fission. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their experiments, which may one day fully explain why such fragments begin spinning in the first place.

Feb 26, 2021

Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer

Posted by in categories: drones, military

The Defense Department is hungry for small drones that will track objects and fly into buildings, combat zones and other dangerous areas with little help from remote pilots. Self-piloting drones will become a key part of fighting and other military activities in the years to come, said Mike Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, a Pentagon organization that aims to facilitate cooperation between the military and the tech industry.


While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, start-ups are still plumbing the industry’s decades-long ties to the military.

Feb 26, 2021

Mars Perseverance rover’s parachute has inspiring hidden message

Posted by in categories: internet, space

A video shared by NASA on Monday revealed the first-ever look at a spacecraft landing on Mars — and the internet was quick to take up a challenge to decode a message hidden in the parachute of the Perseverance rover.

Feb 26, 2021

Cosmologists create 4,000 virtual universes to solve Big Bang mystery

Posted by in categories: cosmology, supercomputing

A supercomputer presses the rewind button on the universe’s creation.


Cosmologists simulated 4000 versions of the universe in order to understand what its structure today tells us about its origins.

Feb 26, 2021

A deep learning technique to solve Rubik’s cube and other problems step-by-step

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Colin G. Johnson, an associate professor at the University of Nottingham, recently developed a deep-learning technique that can learn a so-called “fitness function” from a set of sample solutions to a problem. This technique, presented in a paper published in Wiley’s Expert Systems journal, was initially trained to solve the Rubik’s cube, the popular 3D combination puzzle invented by Hungarian sculptor ErnƑ Rubik.

Feb 26, 2021

An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The Trevor Project, America’s hotline for LGBT youth, is turning to a GPT-2-powered chatbot to help troubled teenagers—but it’s setting strict limits.

Feb 26, 2021

Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Neutron Star Remnant Left Behind from Supernova 1987A

Posted by in category: cosmology

A new study of x-ray bursts from a local magnetar confirms the origin of a fast radio burst.


Every now and then there is a burst of radio light in the sky. It lasts for just milliseconds before fading. It’s known as a Fast Radio Burst (FRB), and they are difficult to observe and study. We know they are powerful bursts of energy, but we aren’t entirely sure what causes them.

The more we’ve learned about FRBs, the stranger they appear. Most occur outside our galaxy, but there are a few that seem to originate within the Milky Way. Most seem to appear at random in the sky, but a few of them are repeating FRBs. Some of them even repeat with surprising regularity. Because of this, astronomers generally think they can’t be caused by a cataclysmic event, such as the last radio burst of a neutron star as it collapses into a black hole.