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Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Engineers have created a new material that is stronger than […]

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:52:25 +0000

Engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities. New material is a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other one-dimensional polymers. #Engineering #Science

New lightweight material is stronger than steel | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

https://news.mit.edu/2022/polymer-lightweight-material-2d-0202

MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel, as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Scientists identify over 140,000 virus species in the human […]

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:11:27 +0000

Scientists identify over 140,000 virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science #Science #Health #Medicin

Scientists identify over 140,000 virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science – Wellcome Sanger Institute

https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/scientists-identify-over-140000-virus-species-in-the-human-gut-half-of-which-are-new-to-science/

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) explored and catalogued the biodiversity of the viral species found in 28,060 public human gut metagenomes and 2,898 bacterial isolate genomes cultured from the human gut

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Scientists have developed a "wearable microgrid" that […]

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:08:54 +0000

Scientists have developed a “wearable microgrid” that harvests / stores energy from human body to power small electronics #Technology #Science

A self-sustainable wearable multi-modular E-textile bioenergy microgrid system | Nature Communications

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21701-7

Though energy-harvesting wearable systems have been reported in the literature, their system design imposes limitations that hinder their overall performance. Here, the authors report a system-level wearable e-textile microgrid system that relies solely on human activity for energy harvesting.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Chemists create and capture einsteinium, the elusive 99th […]

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:25:40 +0000

Chemists create and capture einsteinium, the elusive 99th element #Science #Chemistry

Chemists create and capture einsteinium, the elusive 99th element | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/einsteinium-experiments-uncover-chemical-properties.html

Scientists have uncovered some of its basic chemical properties for the first time.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Taking a look at some of the bigger physics breakthroughs of […]

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:31:48 +0000

Taking a look at some of the bigger physics breakthroughs of 2020 #Science

solum • Modern Breakthroughs: Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved With 90% Accuracy […]

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 13:13:07 +0000

Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved With 90% Accuracy Over a 44km (27 miles) Distance #Science

Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved With 90% Accuracy Over a 44km Distance

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-achieve-sustained-high-fidelity-quantum-teleportation-over-44-km

Scientists are edging closer to making a super-secure, super-fast quantum internet possible: they’ve now been able to ‘teleport’ high-fidelity quantum information over a total distance of 44 kilometres (27 miles).

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: In world first, a Chinese quantum supercomputer took 200 […]

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:08:18 +0000

In world first, a Chinese quantum supercomputer took 200 seconds to complete a calculation that a regular supercomputer would take 2.5 billion years to complete. #Computers #Science

Chinese photonic quantum computer demonstrates quantum supremacy

https://phys.org/news/2020-12-chinese-photonic-quantum-supremacy.html

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has built and tested a photonic quantum computer that demonstrates quantum supremacy. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their computer, which they call Jiuzhang, and how well it performed while conducting Gaussian boson sampling.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: AI solves 50-year-old science problem in ‘stunning a […]

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:33:21 +0000

AI solves 50-year-old science problem in ‘stunning advance’ that could change the world: Protein folding.

AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery | DeepMind

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-scientific-discovery

Our Nature paper describes AlphaFold, a system that generates 3D models of proteins that are far more accurate than any that have come before.

solum • Modern Breakthroughs: New organ found in the body

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:06:49 +0000

New organ found in the body

Scientists discover new organ in the throat | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/new-salivary-gland.html

A secret set of salivary glands has been hiding behind the nose.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Russian scientists have supposedly created an artificial […]

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:37:48 +0000

Russian scientists have supposedly created an artificial intelligence which decodes your brain waves and recreates what you see.

Researchers have created a tool to decode brainwaves into images – Biorxiv

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/787101v2.full

Natural image reconstruction from brain waves: a novel visual BCI system with native feedback.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Google researchers have reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy”.

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:19:55 +0000

Google researchers have reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy”.

Google researchers have reportedly achieved “quantum supremacy” – Technology

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614416/google-researchers-have-reportedly-achieved-quantum-supremacy/

According to a report in the Financial Times, a team of researchers from Google led by John Martinis have demonstrated quantum supremacy for the first time.

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Fri, 14 Jun 2019 06:42:35 +0000

Power Shift: The Battery Revolution Has Begun – Medium

https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/power-shift-the-battery-revolution-has-begun-bc3f750e8c89

Our energy system is woefully antiquated and based on a preposterously rickety 19th century concept. But a revolution to large-scale energy storage is finally under way.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: In a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives, […]

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:32:46 +0000

In a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives, researchers from the University of British Columbia have figured out how to convert blood types A, B and AB into the universal Type O, which all patients can receive in a transfusion, regardless of their own blood type.

Blood donation breakthrough sees scientists convert all types to O using gut bacteria – RT

https://www.rt.com/news/461682-blood-type-gut-bacteria/

In a breakthrough that could save thousands of lives, scientists have found a way to convert all blood types to the universal type that is safe for all patients to receive, by using microbes found in the human gut.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: For nearly 20 years, scientists have debated the viability of […]

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:59:25 +0000

For nearly 20 years, scientists have debated the viability of an EmDrive, a hypothetical type of engine that could propel a spacecraft without the need for any fuel. Now we’re about to test it.

New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics – Futurism

https://futurism.com/test-emdrive-breaks-laws-physics

If The EmDrive works, we might one day be able to propel spacecraft without the need for any fuel.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Researchers have created a powerful new molecule for the […]

Sat, 25 May 2019 14:25:58 +0000

Researchers have created a powerful new molecule for the extraction of salt from liquid. The work has the potential to help increase the amount of drinkable water on Earth. The new molecule is about 10 billion times improved compared to a similar structure created over a decade ago.

Building a better salt trap: IU researchers synthesize a molecular cage to trap chloride – News

https://news.iu.edu/stories/2019/05/iub/releases/23-chemistry-chloride-salt-capture-molecule.html

New molecule could help reduce growing level of salt contaminants flowing into freshwater streams and lakes across the U.S.

Journal Reference:

Chloride capture using a C–H hydrogen bonding cage

BY YUN LIU, WEI ZHAO, CHUN-HSING C…Read more

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial met […]

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:43:43 +0000

Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism: Cornell engineers constructed a DNA material with capabilities of metabolism, in addition to self-assembly and organization – three key traits of life.

Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism – Cornell Chronicle

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/harvard-university-uncovers-dna-switch-180000109.html

Cornell professor of biological and environmental engineering Dan Luo and research associate Shogo Hamada have created a DNA material capable of metabolism, in addition to self-assembly and organization.

solum • Modern Breakthroughs: Harvard University uncovers DNA switch that controls genes […]

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 01:42:04 +0000

Harvard University uncovers DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration

Harvard University uncovers DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration – Yahoo News

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/harvard-university-uncovers-dna-switch-180000109.html

Humans may one day have the ability to regrow limbs after scientists at Harvard University uncovered the DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: New ‘Pied Piper’ device granted ‘breakthrough’ designa […]

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:47:42 +0000

New ‘Pied Piper’ device granted ‘breakthrough’ designation by FDA for brain tumors. The device lures aggressive cancer cells from deep in the brain into its trap.

https://gfycat.com/genuinewarmheartedblackbird-andy-biotech

The device is described in more detail in the Nature Materials paper, Guiding intracortical brain tumour cells to an extracortical cytotoxic hydrogel using aligned polymeric nanofibres.

Abstract

Glioblastoma multiforme is an aggressive, invasive brain tumour with a poor survival rate. Available treatments are ineffective and some tumours remain inoperable because of their size or location.

The tumours are known to invade and migrate along white matter tracts and blood vessels. Here, we exploit this charact…Read more

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Mexican scientist cures the Human Papilloma Virus - […]

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:34:24 +0000

Mexican scientist cures the Human Papilloma Virus – Researchers at Mexico National Polytechnic Institute was able to completely eradicate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in 29 patients using non-invasive photodynamic therapy: a method using oxygen and light frequencies.

Mexican scientist cures the Human Papilloma Virus

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/mexican-scientist-cures-human-papilloma-virus

This scientific achievement was accomplished through photodynamic therapy, a non-invasive technique

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Using laser, MIT successfully transmits audio directly into a […]

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:08:06 +0000

Using laser, MIT successfully transmits audio directly into a patient’s ear

New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People | News Releases | The Optical Society

https://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2019/new_technology_uses_lasers_to_transmit_audible_mes/

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory report using two different laser-based methods to transmit various tones, music and recorded speech at a conversational volume.

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Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:42:47 +0000

A huge conflict: What is zero raised to the power of zero? – Medium

https://medium.com/however-mathematics/a-huge-conflict-what-is-zero-raised-to-the-power-of-zero-80298dc1995

What is zero raised to the power of zero? This is a question that asked more than 35 billion and 378 million times. And 98% of people hasn’t answered correctly.

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Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:21:47 +0000

Finally, Fusion Power Is About to Become a Reality – Medium

https://medium.com/s/2069/finally-fusion-power-is-about-to-become-a-reality-c6b8b5915cf5

Long considered a joke, or a pipe dream, fusion is suddenly making enormous leaps.

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Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:40:51 +0000

Time Crystals: Matter in Four Dimensions – Medium

https://medium.com/futuresin/time-crystals-matter-in-four-dimensions-c36c6ba5347c

Time crystals used to be nothing more than mathematical anomalies up until just a short while ago.

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs:

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:35:26 +0000

The Industrial Revolution was the most important event in history – Vox

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/8/18052076/human-history-in-one-chart-industrial-revolution

Almost all the gains in human well-being in history happened since the Industrial Revolution.

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs:

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:29:27 +0000

Childhood´s End – Edge

https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-childhoods-end

The digital revolution isn’t over but has turned into something else.

solum • Modern Breakthroughs: Researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer […]

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 04:06:33 +0000

Researchers have identified a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s, and even restores memories in mice. The next step is to verify the compounds aren’t toxic in preparation for translation to clinical trials on humans.

New compound shows promise in treatment of Alzheimer’s | YaleNews

https://news.yale.edu/2019/01/02/new-compound-shows-promise-treatment-alzheimers

Researchers have found a drinkable cocktail of designer molecules that interferes with a crucial first step of Alzheimer’s and even restores memory in mice.

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-after-22-trillion-di […]

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 09:40:51 +0000

Even After 22 Trillion Digits, We’re Still No Closer To The End Of Pi

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs:

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 09:40:45 +0000

35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote | The Star

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/12/27/35-years-ago-isaac-asimov-was-asked-by-the-star-to-predict-the-world-of-2019-here-is-what-he-wrote.html

The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though …

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Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:05:59 +0000

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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Mon, 24 Dec 2018 10:34:26 +0000

Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions | New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/science/subsurface-microbes.html

The real journey to the center of the Earth has begun, and scientists are discovering subsurface microbial beings that shake up what we think we know about life.

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs:

Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:33:01 +0000

An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/eye-scanning-lie-detector-polygraph-forging-a-dystopian-future/

EyeDetect is pitched as more efficient and accurate than a polygraph, but a WIRED investigation found that a reliable lie detector is still a fantasy.

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs:

Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:31:18 +0000

Quantum Computing Needs You to Help Solve Its Core Mystery | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/quantum-computing-needs-you-to-help-solve-its-core-mystery/

Come get your qubits! The builders of quantum computers want more coders to use their machines and figure out what they’re actually good for.

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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:31:06 +0000

'Bionic mushrooms' fuse nanotech, bacteria and fungi — ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181107082454.htm

Researchers have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and made it bionic, supercharging it with 3D-printed clusters of cyanobacteria that generate electricity and swirls of graphene nanoribbons that can collect the current.

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Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:29:23 +0000

The 5 Kinds of Problems where Deep Learning is Applicable — Medium

https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-5-kinds-of-problems-where-deep-learning-is-applicable-e48f91186bbd

What’s not apparent to many practitioners and researchers in Deep Learning is that the rich variety of methods developed over the past several years are relevant to systems that have different kinds of goals. Deep Learning arose…

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs: Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic […]

Sun, 16 Dec 2018 15:26:03 +0000

Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: World's first flight of an aeroplane with solid-state […]

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:06:37 +0000

World\’s first flight of an aeroplane with solid-state propulsion, using ionised wind.

Under the wings there\’s around 4 or 5 rows of rods and control surfaces / wing flaps. An electric rod is charged to 20,000 volts, ionising the air around it. Behind the rod on the flap is the negative node, which is charged to -20,000 volts, creating a magnetic field. The ionised particles rush to the negative pole, and run into non-ionised (air) particles along the way, causing a breeze.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: A glimpse into a smart warehouse where robots sort products […]

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:07:55 +0000

A glimpse into a smart warehouse where robots sort products from Alibaba to their clients.

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YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs:

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 06:49:04 +0000

The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01835-3

Networks that harness entanglement and teleportation could enable leaps in security, computing and science.

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: A newly created camera captures 10 trillion frames per […]

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:30:00 +0000

A newly created camera captures 10 trillion frames per second, enough to capture light as it travels.

https://i.imgur.com/wxdiXsY.gifv

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Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:47:06 +0000

IBM just proved quantum computers can do things impossible for classical ones

https://thenextweb.com/science/2018/10/18/ibm-just-proved-quantum-computers-can-do-things-impossible-for-classical-ones/

The debate over whether quantum computers will ever be able to do anything better than classical ones is over. A team of researchers just proved they can.

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-trans […]

Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:42:29 +0000

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-transplant-katie-stubblefield-story-identity-surgery-science/

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown […]

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:55:16 +0000

Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells.

The ability to reverse ageing is something many people would hope to see in their lifetime. This is still a long way from reality, but in a latest experiment, scientists have reversed the ageing of human cells, which could provide the basis for future anti-degeneration drugs.

TLDR: Old human cells rejuvenated via delivering Hydrogen sulphide directly to the mitochondria

Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-successfully-reversed-aging-of-human-cells-in-the-lab

The ability to reverse ageing is something many people would hope to see in their lifetime. This is…

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) […]

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:32:59 +0000

Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieved yet another first Wednesday (July 25, 2018), revving full-blown atoms (with electrons oribiting them) up to near the speed of light.

Large Hadron Collider Just Spat Electron-ified Atoms to Almost the Speed of Light

https://www.livescience.com/63211-lhc-atoms-with-electrons-light-speed.html

The Large Hadron Collider accelerated lead nuclei with orbiting electrons along its tunnel for the first time, opening new scientific doors.

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs: https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-coming-to-a-portfolio-near […]

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:28:40 +0000

https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-coming-to-a-portfolio-near-you-1523066839

YersiniaP • Modern Breakthroughs: https://welovephilosophy.com/2012/12/17/do-numbers-exist/

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 13:08:06 +0000

https://welovephilosophy.com/2012/12/17/do-numbers-exist/

Jonas • Modern Breakthroughs: https://medium.com/@jordangreenhall/generation-omega-6eaf1a0a0ac4

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:04:35 +0000

https://medium.com/@jordangreenhall/generation-omega-6eaf1a0a0ac4

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Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:15:51 +0000

The 360-Degree Selfie: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017 – MIT Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603496/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-the-360-degree-selfie/

Inexpensive cameras that make spherical images are opening a new era in photography and changing the way people share stories.

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Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:27:46 +0000

We Can Now Store Light as Sound, And It's a Game Changer For Computing

https://www.sciencealert.com/light-has-been-stored-as-sound-for-the-first-time

Last year, scientists took a big step towards creating the next generation of computers.

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Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:33:26 +0000

How To Become A Centaur

https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-case

The old story of AI is about human brains working against silicon brains. The new story of IA will be about human brains working with silicon brains. As it turns out, most of the world is the opposite of a chess game: Non-zero-sum — both players can win.

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Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:43:27 +0000

Google's quantum computing breakthrough: Our new chip might soon outperform a supercomputer | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-quantum-computing-breakthrough-our-new-chip-might-soon-outperform-a-supercomputer/

New Bristlecone processor could deliver ‘quantum supremacy’ over traditional computing, researchers hope.