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Mar 25, 2018

How Do Forensic Engineers Investigate Bridge Collapses, Like the One in Miami?

Posted by in category: futurism

Investigators will study video, design plans and the “accelerated bridge construction” method for clues.

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Mar 25, 2018

Life, death, immortality, the 21st century way

Posted by in categories: life extension, transhumanism

New article in Republican Herald out with #transhumanism for Palm Sunday:


Today is Palm Sunday, the first day of Holy Week. It is a week of great drama, but not of tragedy. A few days after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, Christ will be crucified. On Easter, the first day of a new week, he will rise from the dead to live eternally.

Belief in this resurrection is the core of Christian faith, and on Easter Christians proclaim, “Oh death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”

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Mar 24, 2018

The travelling speed camera

Posted by in categories: cosmology, electronics

The ULTRACAM has been a staple in ESO for almost 16 years. This high-speed camera is able to do 500 photographs per second in three different wavelengths and, since 2002 has been operating at the William Herschel Telescope at La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), the New Technology Telescope at La Silla (Chile) (where this picture was taken) and, most recently, at the Very Large Telescope at Paranal (Chile) and the Thai National Telescope at Chiang Mai (Thailand).

Some of its past targets have included: the study of black holes, “hot-Jupiters” or variable stars.

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Mar 24, 2018

Citizen Scientists Help Identify a New Type of Aurora

Posted by in category: futurism

In a first, amateur aurora chasers brought Steve, a new type of aurora, to the notice of scientists, who discovered that a distinct phenomenon drives its formation.

Citizen Scientists Help Identify a New Type of Aurora

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Mar 24, 2018

Ancient Earth Globe lets you travel back in time for a look at the planet

Posted by in category: futurism

An interactive site shows Earth 600 million years ago, and lots and lots about dinosaurs.

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Mar 24, 2018

Spot the Fake: Artificial Intelligence Can Produce Lifelike Photographs

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

By pitting AIs against one another, tech companies are creating realistic computer-generated images

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Mar 24, 2018

Mount Etna is ‘sliding towards the sea’

Posted by in category: futurism

Measurements show the entire bulk of Europe’s most active volcano is edging eastwards, Scientists say.

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Mar 24, 2018

Russia wants to build a bridge to North Korea. Literally

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

A proposal for a vehicle crossing between the two countries shows dreams of a future beyond sanctions.

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Mar 24, 2018

At Amazon’s MARS Conference, Jeff Bezos Plots The Future With 200 (Very) Big Brains

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Amazon’s “summer camp for geeks” brought together some of the world’s leaders in AI, home automation, robotics, and space exploration. And, naturally, a robotic dog.

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Mar 24, 2018

AI microscopes for the ocean

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In five years, small autonomous AI microscopes, networked in the cloud and deployed around the world, will continually monitor the condition of the natural resource most critical to our survival: water.

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