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Jan 6, 2018
The World’s Fastest Jet Will Fly You From L.A. To Sydney in 6 Hours
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MdE9wHkgfbA
The XB-1 will be the first independently-developed supersonic jet, and the fastest civil airplane ever made. Oh, and tickets are $6,600.
Jan 6, 2018
A nonaddictive opioid painkiller with no side effects
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
What if scientists could develop an opioid-based painkiller that is not addictive and has limited side effects?
That is possible based on new findings by an international team of scientists that included contributions from top researchers at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.
The international team captured the crystal structure of the kappa opioid receptor—critical for providing pain relief—in action on the surface of human brain cells. The researchers also made another important discovery: a new opioid-based compound that, unlike current opioids, activates only the kappa opioid receptor, raising hopes that they may develop a painkiller that has no risk of addiction and, therefore, none of the devastating consequences and side effects that accompany it.
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Jan 6, 2018
Quantum ‘spooky action at a distance’ becoming practical
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics, security
A team from Griffith’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics in Australia have demonstrated how to rigorously test if pairs of photons — particles of light — display Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance”, even under adverse conditions that mimic those outside the lab.
They demonstrated that the effect, also known as quantum nonlocality, can still be verified even when many of the photons are lost by absorption or scattering as they travel from source to destination through an optical fiber channel. The experimental study and techniques are published in the journal Science Advances.
Quantum nonlocality is important in the development of new global quantum information networks, which will have transmission security guaranteed by the laws of physics. These are the networks where powerful quantum computers can be linked.
Jan 6, 2018
Facebook Engineer Asserts That Augmented Reality Will Replace Smartphones in 5 Years
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: augmented reality, mobile phones
Jan 6, 2018
The moon is about to do something it hasn’t done in more than 150 years
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, space
Call it whatever you like—a blue red moon, a purple moon, a blood moon—but the moon will be a special sight on Jan. 31.
Three separate celestial events will occur simultaneously that night, resulting in what some are calling a super blue blood moon eclipse. The astronomical rarity hasn’t happened for more than 150 years.
A super moon, like the one visible on New Year’s Day, is the term for when a full moon is closest to the Earth in its orbit, appearing bigger and brighter than normal.
Jan 6, 2018
This AI-Fortified Bot Will Build the First Homes for Humans on Mars
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: habitats, robotics/AI, space
These humanoid bots can handle tools, shoot and upload photos, catch flying objects, and navigate obstacles—even think for themselves.
Jan 5, 2018
Robomart: Self-Driving Grocery Stores
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Jan 5, 2018
Experiments Show The Effects of a Fourth Spatial Dimension
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: quantum physics, space
We’re used to dealing with three physical dimensions and one extra dimension of time as we move through the Universe, but two teams of scientists have shown that a fourth spatial dimension could reach beyond the limits of up and down, left and right, and forwards and backwards.
As you might expect given this is bending the laws of physics, the experiments involved are partly theoretical and very complex, and touch on our old friend quantum mechanics.
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Jan 5, 2018
Even if you don’t know you’re sick yet, your face will give you away
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but humans can judge whether another person is sick by looking at a photo for just a few seconds.
That may not sound remarkable — until you consider that the sick people in the photos were in the very early stages of illnesses. They were participants in a scientific experiment and had agreed to be infected with a bacterium that would cause an inflammatory response. Their portraits were taken just two hours after infection.