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Dec 20, 2018

Ira Pastor — Ayersville Schools Discussion — Bioquark Inc.

Posted by in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience

Had a great time with my regenerative biology Q&A session with Ayersville (Ohio, USA) Schools 2nd graders and high school advanced anatomy class — so happy to see kids out there that are interested in these topics at such a young age — creating the future, one mind at a time — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uu9f7nafc

Dec 20, 2018

Quantum Maxwell’s demon ‘teleports’ entropy out of a qubit

Posted by in categories: computing, law, quantum physics

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ETH Zurich, and Argonne National Laboratory, U.S, have described an extended quantum Maxwell’s demon, a device locally violating the second law of thermodynamics in a system located 1–5 meters away from the demon. The device could find applications in quantum computers and microscopic refrigerators cooling down tiny objects with pinpoint accuracy. The research was published Dec. 4 in Physical Review B.

The second law says that the entropy — that is, the degree of disorder or randomness — of an isolated system never decreases.

“Our demon causes a device called a qubit to transition into a more orderly state,” explained the study’s lead author Andrey Lebedev of MIPT and ETH Zurich. “Importantly, the demon does not alter the qubit’s energy and acts over a distance that is huge for quantum mechanics.”

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Dec 20, 2018

Faint glow within galaxy clusters illuminates dark matter

Posted by in category: cosmology

More information: Mireia Montes et al, Intracluster light: a luminous tracer for dark matter in clusters of galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2858, dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2858

Provided by: ESA/Hubble Information Centre.

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Dec 20, 2018

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Highlights Moon and Mars Exploration

Posted by in category: space travel

We’re returning to the Moon, to stay, and nine American companies will work on developing technologies to get there. Watch the latest episode of Watch this Space with NASA’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine to learn how we’re going forward to the lunar surface.

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Dec 20, 2018

NASA is using HoloLens AR headsets to build its new spacecraft faster

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, space travel

Lockheed Martin engineers wear the goggles to help them assemble the crew capsule Orion—without having to read thousands of pages of paper instructions.

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Dec 20, 2018

What if consciousness is just a product of our non-conscious brain?

Posted by in category: neuroscience

‘’If we are indeed “subjects of unconscious authoring” then continuing to characterise psychological states in terms of being conscious and non-conscious is unhelpful. It constrains the theoretical understanding of psychological processes. ‘’


If consciousness is a by-product of our brains’ nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?

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Dec 20, 2018

The NASA InSight lander placed its seismometer on Mars on Dec

Posted by in category: space

19, marking the first time a science instrument has ever been placed onto the surface of another planet. The lander is set to study the interior of Mars and listen for marsquakes. Details: https://go.nasa.gov/2EDHdXt

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Dec 20, 2018

What If We’re Living in a Computer Simulation?

Posted by in category: computing

How do you know that you’re not living in a computer simulation?

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Dec 20, 2018

Earth’s mysterious ‘deep biosphere’ may harbor millions of undiscovered species

Posted by in category: biological

Scientists say the underground ecosystems are a “subterranean Galapagos” just waiting to be studied.

This unidentified nematode from the Kopanang gold mine in South Africa lives 1.4 kilometers below the surface. Gaetan Borgonie / Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium.


Dec 20, 2018

Researchers demonstrate teleportation using on-demand photons from quantum dots

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, quantum physics

https://paper.li/e-1437691924#/


A team of researchers from Austria, Italy and Sweden has successfully demonstrated teleportation using on-demand photons from quantum dots. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group explains how they accomplished this feat and how it applies to future quantum communications networks.

Scientists and many others are very interested in developing truly —it is believed that such networks will be safe from hacking or eavesdropping due to their very nature. But, as the researchers with this new effort point out, there are still some problems standing in the way. One of these is the difficulty in amplifying signals. One way to get around this problem, they note, is to generate photons on-demand as part of a quantum repeater—this helps to effectively handle the high clock rates. In this new effort, they have done just that, using semiconductor .

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