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Jul 30, 2018
Google Glass Is BackâNow With Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
An app for Glass aimed at factory workers can understand spoken language and respond with oral responses. Next up: image recognition.
Jul 30, 2018
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: mathematics, particle physics
New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called âoctonions.â
Jul 30, 2018
Self-healing graphene could make robots that fix themselves with water
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, robotics/AI
Adding graphene to a gel makes a 3D-printable substance that dries to be strong and conductive and heals when wet.
Jul 30, 2018
New strain of ebolavirus discovered in Sierra Leone
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
The ranks of the ebolavirus genus have grown for the first time in a decade, with the identification of a new strain in free-tailed bats in Sierra Leone. It is not yet known if it is harmful to humans, but its discovery will assist scientists trying to better understand how the virus hides between outbreaks, and by extension help our efforts to better contain them.
Jul 30, 2018
Scientists Poke Holes in Supernova âFirewallâ Theory
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
Love is a burning thing and it makes a fiery ring. Black holes, however, do not.
New research disproves the so-called âfirewallâ theory, which suggests the ring of fire around a supernova would incinerate anything sucked into its gravitational pull.
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Jul 30, 2018
Tomato, ToMacco: Farmers are elevating their crops with vertical farming
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: cosmology, humor, sustainability
With more than 5.6 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether youâre throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or doing legal research on whether it can really be considered assault if your victim habitually made the âcows outstanding in their fieldâ joke. We explore some of Wikipediaâs oddities in our 5,690,195-week series, Wiki Wormhole.
This weekâs entry: Vertical farming
What itâs about: Ah, the farmerâs life. The smell of the soil, the green of the leaves, the view from the 45th floor. Yes, like bathrooms before them, farms are moving into the future by moving indoors. Hydroponic farming has made vertical farms possible, in which floor after floor of a building is devoted to growing food. One such farm in Buffalo, New York contains 17 million plans, and a âwindowless farmâ in Kyoto produces 6 million heads of lettuce a year.
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Jul 30, 2018
An Interview With Dr. JoĂŁo Pedro de MagalhĂŁes
Posted by Nicola BagalĂ in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
A new interview on LEAF with biogerontologist Dr. JoĂŁo Pedro de MagalhĂŁes.
Today, we have an interview with Dr. JoĂŁo Pedro de MagalhĂŁes, the biogerontologist who created and runs senescence.info. In the unlikely event that his name is new to you, we had another interview with him last year, which you can check out here.
How do you think we age; are we programmed to die, do we wear out, or is the truth a mixture of both?
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Jul 30, 2018
Move over, graphene: Iron ore mineral becomes newest 2D material
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, particle physics
When it comes to new materials, thin is most definitely in. Brazilian researchers have created a new two-dimensional material called hematene, which is made up of sheets of iron ore just three atoms thick. And as is often the case with 2D materials, hematene seems to have different properties to its regular form.
Jul 30, 2018
Artificial intelligence can predict your personality
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: information science, robotics/AI
âThe eyes are the window of the soul.â Cicero said that. But itâs a bunch of baloney.
Unless youâre a state-of-the-art set of machine-learning algorithms with the ability to demonstrate links between eye movements and four of the big five personality traits.
If thatâs the case, then Cicero was spot on.
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