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Jun 17, 2020

Technological Singularity Will Be Late But Antiaging and Advanced Biotech is Near

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity

A rejuvenation roadmap, and some info on Rejuvenate Bio.


Ray Kurzweil predicted the Technological Singularity will be reached in 2045. This actually means there will be strong AI, something like AGI that is 1 billion times more capable than the human brain in many aspects.

Jun 17, 2020

BREAKING: Physicists announce first direct evidence for ‘axions’

Posted by in category: particle physics

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An experiment buried underground in Italy has turned up a mysterious result, and a never-before-seen “axion” particle seems like the most likely explanation.

Jun 17, 2020

A dark matter experiment’s unexpected result may signal new particles

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

An excess of events spotted in the XENON1T experiment could be signs of solar axions or weird, new properties of neutrinos, but not dark matter itself.

Jun 17, 2020

The Boring Company: map shows Elon Musk’s big plans for Las Vegas

Posted by in category: Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging firm is currently completing a tunnel at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Jun 17, 2020

Physicists Managed to ‘Reverse Time’ on a Quantum Scale

Posted by in category: quantum physics

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Jun 17, 2020

Artist Depiction

Posted by in categories: entertainment, space

You’ve seen his art.


A conversation with space artist Don Davis about his life and work.

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Jun 17, 2020

Simultaneous nodal superconductivity and broken time-reversal symmetry in CaPtAs

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

In the vast majority of superconducting materials, Cooper pairs have what is known as even parity, which essentially means that their wave function does not change when electrons swap spatial coordinates. Conversely, some unconventional superconductors have been found to contain odd-parity Cooper pairs. This quality makes these unconventional materials particularly promising for quantum computing applications.

Past studies have predicted that noncentrosymmetric , which have a crystal structure with no center of inversion, could exhibit unique and unusual properties. In recent years, noncentrosymmetric superconductors have become a popular topic of research due to the structure of the Cooper pairs contained within them, which have a mixture of odd and even parity.

CaPtAs is a new noncentrosymmetric superconductor discovered by researchers at Zhejiang University. Together with scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institut and other institutes worldwide, these researchers have recently carried out a study investigating in this compound. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, offers evidence that in its superconducting state, CaPtAs simultaneously exhibits both nodal superconductivity and broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS).

Jun 17, 2020

DeepMind’s AI system finds its way around simulated cities it hasn’t seen before

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In a paper, researchers at DeepMind propose a system that can efficiently navigate virtual city environments it hasn’t seen before.

Jun 17, 2020

These Tiny Neutron Generators Could Pave the Way for Fusion

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nuclear energy

The Madison, Wisconsin-based startup Phoenix has scouted a team of nuclear elites for a new frontier: small reactors that can revolutionize medical imaging, munitions scanning, and even non-destructive testing for quality assurance.

And in the longer term, scientists say training people to run neutron generators helps to familiarize and speed up the future of nuclear fusion.

Jun 17, 2020

What is Beyond the Universe?

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

Circa 2014


Roughly 13.75 billion years ago, our universe came into existence. Very shortly thereafter, primordial light started shooting across the cosmos and spreading throughout the early universe. At this juncture, the universe itself was also expanding. The inflation of the universe slowed after the first initial burst, but since then, the rate of expansion has been steadily increasing due to the influence of dark energy.

Essentially, since its inception, the cosmos has been growing at an ever increasing rate. Cosmologists estimate that the oldest photons that we can observe have traveled a distance of 45–47 billion light-years since the Big Bang. That means that our observable universe is some 93 billion light-years wide (give or take a few light-years). These 93 some-odd billion light-years contain all of the quarks, quasars, stars, planets, nebulae, black holes…and everything else that we could possibly observe; however, the observable universe only contains the light that has had time to reach us.

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