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Jun 6, 2024

Can AI Learn Like Us? Unveiling the Secrets of Spiking Neural Networks

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Recent MBZUAI Ph.D. graduate Hilal Mohammad Hilal AlQuabeh aims to raise the bar in AI by helping neural networks learn smarter.

Jun 6, 2024

“Sparks of Chemical Intuition”—and Gross Limitations!—in AlphaFold 3

Posted by in categories: chemistry, robotics/AI

Observations after 3 weeks of DeepMind releasing its hitherto most advanced model for biomolecular structure prediction.

Jun 6, 2024

Calcium oxide’s quantum secret: nearly noiseless qubits

Posted by in categories: chemistry, computing, engineering, particle physics, quantum physics

Calcium oxide is a cheap, chalky chemical compound commonly used in the manufacturing of cement, plaster, paper, and steel. But the material may soon have a more high-tech application.

UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering researchers and their collaborator in Sweden have used theoretical and computational approaches to discover how tiny, lone atoms of bismuth embedded within solid calcium oxide can act as qubits — the building blocks of quantum computers and quantum communication devices.

These qubits are described in Nature Communications (“Discovery of atomic clock-like spin defects in simple oxides from first principles”).

Jun 6, 2024

Better farming through nanotechnology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, nanotechnology

(Nanowerk News) Advanced technologies enable the controlled release of medicine to specific cells in the body. Scientists argue these same technologies must be applied to agriculture if growers are to meet increasing global food demands.

In a new Nature Nanotechnology journal review paper (“Towards realizing nano-enabled precision delivery in plants”), scientists from UC Riverside and Carnegie Mellon University highlight some of the best-known strategies for improving agriculture with nanotechnology.

Jun 6, 2024

Tesla builds 50 million 4680 battery cells at Giga Texas

Posted by in category: sustainability

Tesla announced major progress in 4,680 battery cell production with a new milestone at Giga Texas.

Jun 6, 2024

Scientists Made a Quantum Leap in the Fifth State of Matter

Posted by in category: futurism

And the implications are enormous.

Jun 6, 2024

This bold new theory of ‘quantum weirdness’ could rewrite the story of evolution

Posted by in categories: biological, cosmology, evolution, quantum physics

“… living systems evolve to exploit any aspect of physics that enables exploration of all possible ‘fitness landscapes’.”

Indeed!


In 1990, within the intellectual haven of Haverford College, I embarked on a transformative academic journey into biophysics – the captivating intersection of physics and biology.

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Jun 6, 2024

The brain can store nearly 10 times more data than previously thought, study confirms

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Scientists harnessed a new method to precisely measure the amount of information the brain can store, and it could help advance our understanding of learning.

Jun 6, 2024

WATCH LIVE: SpaceX launches Starship on 4th flight test from Texas

Posted by in category: space travel

More: https://www.clickorlando.com/news/space-news/2024/06/06/spac…arship-on–

Jun 6, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Timebombs

Posted by in categories: existential risks, media & arts

Many fear future technologies may doom our civilization, but could the pursuit of technology, and civilization itself, be what dooms humanity?
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