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Feb 4, 2020

Researchers create ‘intelligent’ interaction between light and material

Posted by in categories: biological, chemistry, computing

A collaboration between McMaster and Harvard researchers has generated a new platform in which light beams communicate with one another through solid matter, establishing the foundation to explore a new form of computing.

Their work is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, an associate professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at McMaster, explains that the technology brings together a form of hyrdrogel developed by the Harvard team with manipulation and measurement techniques performed in her lab, which specializes in the that respond to light.

Feb 4, 2020

FAA to Begin Certification Process for Civilian, Delivery Drones

Posted by in categories: drones, government

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Government regulators plan to review drone designs in the same way they review other aircraft, a major step toward allowing routine drone deliveries and other flights over congested cities.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Feb. 3 announced it’s seeking comment from the public and the drone industry on what criteria should be used for determining whether these novel new devices are safe.

Feb 4, 2020

Robot bartender serves up drinks in Japanese pub

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

TOKYO – Japan’s first robot bartender has begun serving up drinks in a Tokyo pub in a test that could usher in a wave of automation in restaurants and shops struggling to hire staff in an aging society.

The repurposed industrial robot serves drinks in is own corner of a Japanese pub operated by restaurant chain Yoronotaki. An attached tablet computer face smiles as it chats about the weather while preparing orders.

The robot, made by the company QBIT Robotics, can pour a beer in 40 seconds and mix a cocktail in a minute. It uses four cameras to monitors customers to analyze their expressions with artificial intelligence (AI) software.

Feb 4, 2020

Lasers etch a ‘perfect’ solar energy absorber

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, physics, solar power, sustainability

The University of Rochester research lab that recently used lasers to create unsinkable metallic structures has now demonstrated how the same technology could be used to create highly efficient solar power generators.

In a paper in Light: Science & Applications, the lab of Chunlei Guo, professor of optics also affiliated with Physics and the Material Sciences Program, describes using powerful femto-second pulses to etch with nanoscale structures that selectively absorb light only at the solar wavelengths, but not elsewhere.

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Feb 4, 2020

Ocean-Studying Satellite to Launch from Vandenberg AFB Gets Familiar Name

Posted by in category: satellites

Spacecraft’s new moniker honors NASA’s retired Earth Science Division leader Michael Freilich.

An artist’s concept depicts the Sentinel-6A satellite, which NASA and several partners have renamed in honor of noted earth scientist Michael Freilich, who retired from the space agency but oversaw many missions from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is set to launch this fall from the Central Coast. (NASA illustration)

Feb 4, 2020

Greener fuels to propel rocket launches into space

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, space travel

3D printed catalysts and new propellant types are making rockets more environmentally-friendly.

Feb 4, 2020

In this video, I’m going to talk about the incredible benefits of cryotherapy

Posted by in category: futurism

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Feb 4, 2020

Oddball sexaquark particles could be immortal, if they exist at all

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

These supremely stable particles could explain dark matter.

Feb 4, 2020

Handheld Device “Prints” New Skin Directly Onto Wounds

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

It could be a welcome alternative to skin grafts for burn victims.

Feb 4, 2020

Drugmaker Regeneron working with U.S. HHS to develop coronavirus treatment

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

(Reuters) — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc ( REGN.O ) is working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop a treatment for the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 400 people in China, the HHS said on Tuesday.

The company will use the same technology that was used to develop an experimental drug to treat Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the agency said.