đ€Ż AWESOME! NASA has just released a 4K video tour of Earthâs moon and the footage will make your jaw drop. Credit: NASA (You can also read about this here: https://www.realitybeyondmatter.com/2018/07/nasa-releases-4kâŠWydp6i5AjE)
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Jun 22, 2019
Helaman Ferguson, Sculptor
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in category: materials
Dimensions: 3.5Ⳡx 3.0Ⳡx 1.8ⳠDate: 1993 Material: original stone is virginia albamarle serpentine, reproductions silicon bronze Special Engraving: the matrix (0,1 | 1,1) Weight: 4 oz Copyright Notice: © 1993 Copyright Registered: 1996.
The Fibonacci numbers are ubiquitious in nature and mathematics. This palmsize sculpture encapsulates the generating matrix for these numbers. In a problem published 800 years ago, Leonardo of Pisa, a.k.a. Fibonacci formulated his famous rabbit problem: beginning with a newborn fertile pair of rabbits, how many pairs will accumulate monthly if each pair produces another pair from their second month on? The solution of this leads to a recursively defined sequence of integers, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ⊠This sequence has the property that two consequtive terms added give the next term.
The Fibonacci Matrix Torus has raised (esker) curves or continuous crests which wind around the torus either the short way or both the short and long way. This gives the matrix with first row (0, 1) and second row (1, 1) respectively. The powers of this matrix give matrices whose entries are always Fibonacci numbers.
Jun 22, 2019
Florida town pays $600,000 virus ransom
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: biotech/medical, computing
Computers for Riviera Beach have been locked up for more than three weeks following the attack.
Jun 22, 2019
Artificial intelligence learns to recognize nerve cells
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: mapping, robotics/AI
Is it possible to understand the brain? Science is still far from answering this question. However, since researchers have started training artificial intelligence on neurobiological analyses, it seems at least possible to reconstruct the cellular structure of a brain. New artificial neural networks developed by the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and Google AI can now even recognize and classify nerve cells independently based on their appearance.
The human brain consists of about 86 billion nerve cells and about as many glial cells. In addition, there are about 100 trillion connections between the nerve cells alone. While mapping all the connections of a human brain remains out of reach, scientists have started to address the problem on a smaller scale. Through the development of serial block-face scanning electron microscopy, all cells and connections of a particular brain area can now be automatically surveyed and displayed in a three-dimensional image.
âIt can take several months to survey a 0.3 mm piece of brain under an electron microscope,â says Philipp Schubert, doctoral student in Winfried Denkâs Department at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. âDepending on the size of the brain, this seems like a lot of time for a tiny piece. But even this contains thousands of cells.â Such a data set would also require almost 100 terabytes of storage space. However, it is not the collection and storage but rather the data analysis that is the difficult part.
Jun 22, 2019
Forget Mooreâs Law â Quantum Computers Are Improving According to a Spooky âDoubly Exponential Rateâ
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: computing, quantum physics
Jun 22, 2019
Restoring the Bodyâs Normal Function
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, engineering
Scientists are engineering T-cell to fight diseases and restore the bodyâs immune function. (Credit: Sensu Film)
Jun 22, 2019
Beagles and other scent hounds could be used to help in early detection of lung cancers, study finds
Posted by Heather Blevins in category: biotech/medical
A recent study suggests that dogs with a strong sense of smell could help detect certain lung cancers early.
Jun 22, 2019
Beautiful, solar-powered EV charging stations promise to charge a vehicle in 15 minutes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: solar power, sustainability, transportation
See what are possibly the most beautiful and sustainable electric vehicle charging stations in the world â complete with green roofs and solar power.
Jun 22, 2019
NASA Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
The Curiosity missionâs scientists picked up the signal this week, and are seeking additional readings from the red planet.
Jun 22, 2019
A Russian Biologist Wants To Create More Gene-Edited Babies
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, health
Russian Biologist Seeks To Edit Genes Of Human Embryos With CRISPR : Shots â Health News A Moscow scientist claims he has a safe way of editing genes in human embryos â a method that could protect resulting babies from being infected with HIV. Approval of the experiment seems unlikely.