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Mar 12, 2019

A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality

Posted by in category: quantum physics

Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.

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Mar 12, 2019

Stephen Hawking’s legacy will be honoured with a new 50p coin

Posted by in category: cosmology

A new 50p coin will memorialise Stephen Hawking, who died last year, while paying respect to his groundbreaking research on black holes.

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Mar 12, 2019

Light provides control for 3D printing with multiple materials

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

3D printing has revolutionized the fields of healthcare, biomedical engineering, manufacturing and art design.

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Mar 12, 2019

Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oil

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, food, genetics

NEW YORK (AP) — Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That’s according to the company making the oil, which says it’s the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S.

Calyxt said it can’t reveal its first customer for competitive reasons, but CEO Jim Blome said the oil is “in use and being eaten.”

The Minnesota-based company is hoping the announcement will encourage the food industry’s interest in the oil, which it says has no trans fats and a longer shelf life than other soybean oils. Whether demand builds remains to be seen, but the oil’s transition into the food supply signals gene editing’s potential to alter foods without the controversy of conventional GMOs, or genetically modified organisms.

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Mar 12, 2019

Semiconductor-coated nanoparticles kill bacteria, cancer cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

Nature India: All about science in India.

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Mar 12, 2019

Sir Martin Rees on the Future: Prospects for Humanity

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, singularity

Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees on the #Future: Prospects for #Humanity https://www.singularityweblog.com/martin-rees/ #AI #Singularity #Futurism


Martin Rees has been concerned with our ever-heavier ‘footprint’ on the global environment and with the runaway consequences of our powerful technologies.

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Mar 12, 2019

“HD 140283” a star older than the Universe

Posted by in category: cosmology

The age our universe is about 3.8 billion years which was formed after big bang. But we discovered a star named HD 140283 found to be older than the universe.

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Mar 12, 2019

Quantum physicists succeed in controlling energy losses and shifts

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Quantum computers need to preserve quantum information for a long time to be able to crack important problems faster than a normal computer. Energy losses take the state of the qubit from one to zero, destroying stored quantum information at the same time. Consequently, scientists all over the globe have traditionally worked to remove all sources of energy loss—or dissipation—from these machines.

Dr. Mikko Mottonen from Aalto University and his research team have taken a different approach. “Years ago, we realized that quantum computers actually need dissipation to operate efficiently. The trick is to have it only when you need it,” he explains.

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Mar 12, 2019

NASA Space Apps Philippines Photo

Posted by in category: space

Proposed NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration lunar gateway #NASA #NASAMoonToMars #Moon2Mars

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Mar 12, 2019

Aging Analytics Agency Photo

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Press Release for Aging Analytics Agency and Vetek Association’s new 500+ page open-access report on the Longevity Industry in Israel, featuring quotes from Nir Barzilai MD, the founding director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Rafi Eitan, former chairman of the Israel Pensioners’ Party “GIL”, founding minister of the Israel Ministry for Senior Citizens, and the current chairman of Vetek Association, Ilia Stambler, the Chief Science Officer of Vetek Association and Eric Kihlstrom, Director of Aging Analytics Agency and former Interim Director of the £98-million Healthy Ageing Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

Link to the Press Release: http://analytics.dkv.global/data/pdf/Longevity-in-Israel/Lon…elease.pdf

Link to the Report: https://www.aginganalytics.com/longevity-in-israel

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