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Jul 15, 2019

7 astonishing statistics you need to know to understand modern China

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

Home to the world’s largest floating solar energy plant.

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Jul 15, 2019

China has 99% of the world’s electric buses

Posted by in categories: futurism, sustainability

Next stop: a cleaner future.


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Jul 15, 2019

This start-up has invented an amazing way to make food last longer

Posted by in category: food

A natural solution to food waste.

Jul 15, 2019

Here are four creative ways companies are fighting food waste

Posted by in category: food

815 million people go hungry every day.

Jul 15, 2019

Israel and Arab countries are joining forces to save Red Sea coral reefs

Posted by in category: futurism

A coral coalition.


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Jul 15, 2019

Game-theory research better allocates military resources, fight cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode, military, robotics/AI

U.S. Army game-theory research using artificial intelligence may help treat cancer and other diseases, improve cybersecurity, deploy Soldiers and assets more efficiently and even win a poker game.

New research, published in Science, and conducted by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, developed an artificial intelligence program called Pluribus that defeated leading professionals in six-player no-limit Texas hold’em poker.

The Army and National Science Foundation funded the mathematics modeling portion of the research, while funding from Facebook was specific to the poker.

Jul 15, 2019

Maria Blasco at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Leading telomere researcher Maria Blasco press conference at the Ending Age-Related Diseases conference, New York, NY, July 12, 2019.

Jul 15, 2019

Rare Human-Sized Giant Jellyfish Caught On Camera

Posted by in category: electronics

Two divers caught a jellyfish as big as a human on camera this weekend.

Jul 15, 2019

Green light for a new generation of dynamic materials

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, sustainability

Developing synthetic materials that are as dynamic as those found in nature, with reversibly changing properties and which could be used in manufacturing, recycling and other applications, is a strong focus for scientists.

In a world-first, researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Ghent University (UGent) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have pioneered a novel, dynamic, reprogrammable material—by using green LED and, remarkably, darkness as the switches to change the material’s polymer structure, and using only two inexpensive compounds. One of these compounds, naphthalene, is well known as an ingredient in moth repellents.

The new dynamic material could potentially be used as a 3D printing ink to print temporary, easy-to-remove support scaffolds. This would overcome one of the current limitations of the 3D process to print free-hanging structures.

Jul 15, 2019

Path to Million Qubit Quantum Computers Using Atoms and Lasers

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Atom Computing is building quantum computers using individually controlled atoms.

As one of the world’s leading researchers in atomic clocks and neutral atoms, Benjamin Bloom (co-founder of Atom Computing) built the world’s fastest atomic clock, and it is considered the most precise and accurate measurement ever performed.

Ben has shown that neutral atoms could be more scalable, and could build a stable solution to create and maintain controlled quantum states. He used his expertise to lead efforts at Intel on their 10nm semiconductor chip, and then to lead research and development of the first cloud-accessible quantum computer at Rigetti.