Ishikawa Komuro Lab’s high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. For more information, see Hizook.com — https://youtu.be/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hizook.com%2Fbl…cxMjg2MTI5
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Oct 16, 2019
How evolution builds genes from scratch
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: evolution
De novo genes are even prompting a rethink of some portions of evolutionary theory. Conventional wisdom was that new genes tended to arise when existing ones are accidentally duplicated, blended with others or broken up, but some researchers now think that de novo genes could be quite common: some studies suggest at least one-tenth of genes could be made in this way; others estimate that more genes could emerge de novo than from gene duplication. Their existence blurs the bou…
Scientists long assumed that new genes appear when evolution tinkers with old ones. It turns out that natural selection is much more creative.
Oct 16, 2019
Halo: The Master Chief Collection on PC: everything we know
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: entertainment
After years in the wilderness, Halo: The Master Chief Collection will bring Halo Reach, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3: ODST (minus the Firefight mode), Halo 3 and Halo 4 to PC.
The only previous games in the FPS series to launch on PC were Halo and Halo 2, both well over a decade ago (if you don’t count the Halo Wars spin-offs). This is obviously a big moment, and it seems like Microsoft is making some good decisions in bringing them to PC: Namely launching them on Steam, rather than trapping them on the Microsoft Store (though you can buy it there too). There’s much more to go into below, too.
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Oct 16, 2019
Stephen Hawking’s ‘black hole time machine’ proposal to NASA revealed
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: cosmology
STEPHEN HAWKING declared “a supermassive black is a time machine” and explained how a space agency like NASA could use the phenomenon to fast-forward the clocks.
Oct 16, 2019
Skydio has a motorized charging box to make its self-flying drone truly autonomous
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: drones, mapping, robotics/AI, surveillance
With the Skydio 2 Dock, a drone-in-a-box solution, the California startup wants to let companies rely on its obstacle-dodging, self-flying drone for automated mapping and surveillance — no humans needed.
Oct 16, 2019
Virtual-reality applications give science a new dimension
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: augmented reality, science, virtual reality
Circa 2018
Virtual- and augmented-reality tools allow researchers to view and share data as never before. But so far, they remain largely the tools of early adopters.
Oct 16, 2019
SpaceX says 12,000 satellites isn’t enough, so it might launch another 30,000
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: satellites
Oct 16, 2019
In-Silico Clinical Trials — Virtual Bodies For Real Drugs — Dr. William Pruett — University of Mississippi Medical Center — ideaXme — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience, science
Oct 16, 2019
Microsoft Wants to Censor Xbox Live Voice Chat in Real Time
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Oct 16, 2019
This med student was given last rites before finding a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
He lay in a hospital bed at the University of Arkansas, stricken with a rare disease. His blood platelet count was so low that even a slight bump to his body could trigger a lethal brain bleed. A doctor told him to write his living will on a piece of paper.
Fajgenbaum was rushed to a CT scan. Tears streamed down his face and fell on his hospital gown. He thought about the first patient who’d died under his care in medical school, and how her brain had bled in a similar way from a stroke.
He didn’t believe he’d live out the scan.
