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Luís F. Simões

Singularity University, class of 2010: projects that aim to impact a billion people wit... - 8 views

www.kurzweilai.net/ty-webinar-today-sneak-preview

AI robotics biomedicine biotechnology electronics energy nanotechnology singularity futures social ethics space synthetic biology computer science defence

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  • Luís F. Simões on 22 Sep 10
     
    At the link below you find additional information about the projects: Education: Ten weeks to save the world http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100915/full/467266a.html
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  • LeopoldS on 23 Sep 10
     
    this is the podcast I was listening to ...
  • Dario Izzo on 23 Sep 10
     
    We can do it in nine :)
  • LeopoldS on 24 Sep 10
     
    why wait then?
  • Juxi Leitner on 24 Sep 10
     
    hmm, wonder how easy it is to get funding for that, 25k is a bit steep for 10weeks :)
  • Dario Izzo on 26 Sep 10
     
    well, we wait for the same fundings they get and then we will do it in nine.... as we say in Rome "a mettece un cartello so bboni tutti". (italian check for Juxi)
  • LeopoldS on 26 Sep 10
     
    and what you think about the project subjects?
  • LeopoldS on 26 Sep 10
     
    I like the fact that there are quite a lot of space projects .... and these are not even bad in my view: The space project teams have developed imaginative new solutions for space and spinoffs for Earth. The AISynBio project team is working with leading NASA scientists to design bioengineered organisms that can use available resources to mitigate harsh living environments (such as lack of air, water, food, energy, atmosphere, and gravity) - on an asteroid, for example, and also on Earth . The SpaceBio Labs team plans to develop methods for doing low-cost biological research in space, such as 3D tissue engineering and protein crystallization. The Made in Space team plans to bring 3D printing to space to make space exploration cheaper, more reliable, and fail-safe ("send the bits, not the atoms"). For example, they hope to replace some of the $1 billion worth of spare parts and tools that are on the International Space Station.
  • Dario Izzo on 26 Sep 10
     
    and all in only a three months summer graduate program!! that is impressive. God I feel so stupid!!!
  • LeopoldS on 26 Sep 10
     
    well, most good ideas probably take only a second to be formulated, it's the details that take years :-)
  • Dario Izzo on 26 Sep 10
     
    I do not think the point of the SU is to formulate new ideas (infact there is nothing new in the projects chosen). Their mission is to build and maintain a network of contacts among who they believe will be the 'future leaders' of space ... very similar to our beloved ISU.
Christophe Praz

Small cube robots that self-assemble - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch

robot self-assembling technology AI

shared by Christophe Praz on 14 May 14 - No Cached
  • Christophe Praz on 14 May 14
     
    Using the angular momentum transmitted by an internal flywheel as an impulse, these cubes can move, jump, roll across the ground and climb over and around one another. They stick together using a set of small magnets, smart !
  • Thijs Versloot on 19 May 14
     
    That is indeed a great way of using modular robots to build larger structures. I think we did bump into this some time back, but never really considered it much. Considering now the working group on structure assembling, I think we should add it to the list of building strategies and seriously consider it.
Nina Nadine Ridder

Air travel and climate: A potential new feedback? - 0 views

phys.org/...limate-potential-feedback.html

climate_science travel winds feedbacks

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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 14 Jul 15
     
    Global air travel contributes around 3.5 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions behind/driving anthropogenic climate change, according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But what impact does a warming planet have on air travel and how might that, in turn, affect the rate of warming itself?
Nina Nadine Ridder

Failed strut caused SpaceX rocket blast: CEO Elon Musk - 3 views

phys.org/...t-spacex-rocket-blast-ceo.html

launchers SpaceX Falcon9 space_flight technology

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  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 21 Jul 15
     
    The SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion was caused by a failed strut that allowed a helium bottle to burst free inside the rocket's liquid oxygen tank, CEO Elon Musk said Monday. "One of those struts broke free during flight," Musk told reporters on a conference call to discuss the June 28 blast on what was supposed to be a routine cargo mission to the International Space Station.
  • Thijs Versloot on 21 Jul 15
     
    I guess this is how it starts as they mentioned they will inspect struts individually before each flight. Also for the space shuttle they believed a rapid inspection between launches would be feasible, but in the end there was a need for individual assessment almost. And we haven't even considered human spaceflight yet.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Jul 15
     
    as predicted, first failure, first inquiry board, first new safety procedures ... and certainly many more will follow and all will make sense but with the risk of loosing the competitive edge
Thijs Versloot

Alien star invaded the Solar System - 2 views

www.bbc.com/...science-environment-31519875

space science PHY

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  • Thijs Versloot on 23 Feb 15
     
    An alien star passed through our Solar System just 70,000 years ago, astronomers have discovered. No other star is known to have approached this close to us. An international team of researchers says it came five times closer than our current nearest neighbour - Proxima Centauri. Passing straight through the Oort Cloud region. This must have left some sort of mark maybe? A binary system of a red and brown dwarf (8% and 6% solar masses) so maybe not a too significant impact on trajectories in the Oort cloud?
  • Paul N on 24 Feb 15
     
    I read this earlier and thought it might be another one of those alien conspiracy stuff. Freaky stuff.
  • LeopoldS on 11 Mar 15
     
    what about taking a ride on one of these? - especially if they come with some companion planets? when is the next shuttle coming?
Thijs Versloot

Breakthrough observation of Mott transition in a superconductor - 1 views

www.utwente.nl/...transition-in-a-superconductor

technology science superconductors

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  • Thijs Versloot on 14 Sep 15
     
    An international team of researchers, including the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in The Netherlands and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, announced today in Science the observation of a dynamic Mott transition in a superconductor.
LeopoldS

Scientists Develop Robots That Simulate Human Development - International Business Times - 2 views

www.ibtimes.com/...baby-and-child-robots.htm

robots AI science

shared by LeopoldS on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 16 Jun 10
     
    anyone for a crying baby robot?
Ma Ru

The latest Nikon equipment to be used in the Russian segment of the International Space... - 1 views

dpreview.com/...10061402nikoniss.asp

technology photography human spaceflight NASA ISS

shared by Ma Ru on 14 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 14 Jun 10
     
    Just right for joint space-photography geeks like me...
nikolas smyrlakis

Seventh Graders Find a Cave on Mars | International Space Fellowship - 4 views

spacefellowship.com/...aders-find-a-cave-on-mars.html

space nasa imaging mars

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Luzi Bergamin

International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, Hyderabad » Prize Winners 2010 - 0 views

www.icm2010.in/prize-winners-2010

mathematics PHY

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  • Luzi Bergamin on 25 Aug 10
     
    This years winners of the fields medal. Some about mathematical physics but NOT string theory. Hey, I didn't even know that this still exists... :-)
Joris _

SPACE.com -- Bigelow Aerospace Soars with Private Space Station Deals - 0 views

www.space.com/...tion-first-clients-101019.html

technology

shared by Joris _ on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • A private space company offering room on inflatable space habitats for research has found a robust international market
  • A question that continues to float through the halls of NASA and the Congress: Is there a commercial market for utilizing space?
Dario Izzo

If you're going to do good science, release the computer code too!!! - 3 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ce-climate-emails-code-release

open science

shared by Dario Izzo on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • Les Hatton, an international expert in software testing resident in the Universities of Kent and Kingston, carried out an extensive analysis of several million lines of scientific code. He showed that the software had an unacceptably high level of detectable inconsistencies.
  • pacome delva on 09 Feb 10
     
    haha. this guy won't have any new friends with this article! I kind of agree but making your code public doesn't mean you are doing good science...and inversely! He takes experimental physics as a counter example but even there, some teams keep their little secrets on the details of the experiment to have a bit of advance on other labs. Research is competitive in its current state, and I think only collaborations can overcome this fact.
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  • Juxi Leitner on 10 Feb 10
     
    well sure competitiveness is good but to verify (and that should be the case for scientific experiments) the code should be public, it would be nice to have something like bibtex for code libraries or versions used.... :) btw I fully agree that the code should go public, I had lots of trouble reproducing (reprogramming) some papers in the past ... grr
  • Francesco Biscani on 10 Feb 10
     
    My view is that the only proper way to do scientific communication is full transparency: methodologies, tests, codes, etc. Everything else should be unacceptable. This should hold both for publicly funded science (for which there is the additional moral requirement to give back to the public domain what was produced with taxpayers' money) and privately-funded science (where the need to turn a profit should be of lesser importance than the proper application of the scientifc method).
  • Dario Izzo on 08 Nov 10
     
    Same battle we are fighting since a few years....
Ma Ru

Body from scratch - 3 views

edition.cnn.com/video

bio technology

shared by Ma Ru on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • Ma Ru on 24 Feb 10
     
    Crazy, crazy, craaaazyyyyy!!!
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 25 Feb 10
     
    the "engineered ear" is awesome
nikolas smyrlakis

How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive | Magazine - 1 views

www.wired.com/...st_essay_distraction

twitter facebook distraction

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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Feb 10
     
    "This means that tweets about Lady Gaga's lingerie can help someone debugging Perl code. (Or a tweet about Perl code may help Lady Gaga's underwear stylist.) "
LeopoldS

IISC - International Institute of Space Commerce - 5 views

www.iisc.im/publications.asp

reports science engineering space

shared by LeopoldS on 07 Jan 10 - Cached
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  • LeopoldS on 07 Jan 10
     
    interesting collection / source of reports linked to space ...
nikolas smyrlakis

Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes | Autopia | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...google-maps-for-bikes

maps google bike routes

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 10 Mar 10 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 10 Mar 10
     
    not for leiden - estec yet as I checked but hopefully soon for the netherlands
pacome delva

Randomness is no lottery thanks to entangled ions - 0 views

physicsworld.com/...42310

phy quantum_cryptography quantum_entanglement

shared by pacome delva on 15 Apr 10 - Cached
  • An international team of physicists has created the first system that can produce verifiably random numbers. The technique relies on the inherent uncertainties in quantum mechanics and future versions could help cryptographers to encode information more securely than ever before.
Juxi Leitner

DARPA Looking for Partner On Wireless Spacecraft Demo | SpaceNews.com - 1 views

spacenews.com/...-wireless-spacecraft-demo.html

fractionated spacecraft tech

shared by Juxi Leitner on 12 May 10 - Cached
  • DARPA will entertain proposals from all qualified sources, be they government, commercial, national or international, the posting said. Responses to the request for information are due May 17.
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