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Jun 24, 2017

The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Geoffrey Hinton, a scientist at the heart of artificial intelligence’s recent breakthroughs, has helped make Toronto a leading research location.

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Jun 24, 2017

Private Enterprise Is Making Sci-Fi Technology A Reality

Posted by in category: space travel

Private enterprises are working to convert sci-fi concepts, such as affordable fusion power and commercial space travel, into 21st century realities. And they’re bringing in the funding to make it happen.

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Jun 23, 2017

SpaceX successfully launches and lands used rocket

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX successfully launched a used rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday afternoon. It landed safely minutes later.

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Jun 23, 2017

Atomic imperfections move quantum communication network closer to reality

Posted by in categories: engineering, quantum physics

An international team led by the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering has discovered how to manipulate a weird quantum interface between light and matter in silicon carbide along wavelengths used in telecommunications.

The work advances the possibility of applying quantum mechanical principles to existing optical fiber networks for secure communications and geographically distributed quantum computation. Prof. David Awschalom and his 13 co-authors announced their discovery in the June 23 issue of Physical Review X.

“Silicon carbide is currently used to build a wide variety of classical electronic devices today,” said Awschalom, the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at UChicago and a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. “All of the processing protocols are in place to fabricate small quantum devices out of this material. These results offer a pathway for bringing quantum physics into the technological world.”

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Jun 23, 2017

Magnetic nanoknots evoke Lord Kelvin’s vortex theory of atoms

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, mathematics, nanotechnology

(Phys.org)—In the late 1800s when scientists were still trying to figure out what exactly atoms are, one of the leading theories, proposed by Lord Kelvin, was that atoms are knots of swirling vortices in the aether. Although this idea turned out to be completely wrong, it ushered in modern knot theory, which today is used in various areas of science such as fluid dynamics, the structure of DNA, and the concept of chirality.

Now in a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, mathematical physicist Paul Sutcliffe at Durham University in the UK has theoretically shown that nanoparticles called magnetic skyrmions can be tied into various types of knots with different magnetic properties. He explains that, in a sense, these nanoknots represent a “nanoscale resurrection of Kelvin’s dream of knotted fields.”

Skyrmions are the name of a general class of particles that are made by twisting a field. When this field is a magnetic field, the skyrmions are called magnetic skyrmions. Magnetic skyrmions have attracted a lot of attention recently due to their potential applications in spintronics, where electron spins (which are related to the electron’s magnetic properties) are exploited in the design of transistors, storage media, and related devices.

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Jun 23, 2017

This robot is learning how to print a human organ

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Kentucky-based software company Advanced Solutions has developed what it calls the world’s first 3D human tissue printer that operates on a six axis robot.

Called the BioAssemblyBot, the machine is the second generation of 3D printers focused on producing biomedical materials intended to revolutionizing healthcare.

The goal is to 3D print human organs, Advanced Solutions president and CEO Michael Golway told CNBC on Friday.

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Jun 23, 2017

Goodbye Dental Implants, Grow Your Own Teeth In Just 9 Weeks

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism

Everyone knows that there are dental implants that were invented to benefit our lives in many ways, they are extremely useful and a great solution to fill the gap. But, trust me, once you read this you will be amazed.

A group of experts in the dental field has made some amazing discoveries and there has been a really incredible development in the technology of dental implants that goes far beyond the classic implant or denture. They say that these discoveries will give us the chance to grow new and genuine teeth in the oral cavity.

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Jun 23, 2017

This solar paint creates energy from water vapor

Posted by in categories: energy, habitats

This solar paint will turn your house into a power station.

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Jun 23, 2017

California’s next governor: Who’s running, who’s on the fence?

Posted by in category: futurism

I’m in this new LA Times story featuring the major candidates in the California Governor race. My profile is the only one that mentions science: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-governo…story.html #libertarian


This is who’s running for governor of California in 2018, and who might be running.

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Jun 23, 2017

Afrojack & David Guetta ft. Ester Dean — Another Life (Official Video)

Posted by in category: media & arts

Official video for Afrojack & David Guetta ft. Ester Dean – Another Life.

Download or stream Another Life here: https://Afrojack.lnk.to/AnotherLIfe

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