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Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. The team has demonstrated the success of the approach as Eve discovered that a compound shown to have anti-cancer properties might also be used in the fight against malaria.

Unfortunately, "make drug discovery faster and much cheaper" actually means "increase profit margin for pharmaceutical companies"...

modifying gravity? Jai?

Shape-morphing structures inspired by nastic plant motions...

This is the biggest breakthrough in game AI (and one of the biggest in AI in general) since Deep Blue beat Kasparov in chess: For the first time, a human professional player was defeated in the game of Go. The approach was a combination of tree search and deep neural networks. Very proud of a former colleague on the team at Google Deepmind!

Funny enough, facebook also had a very similar paper around the same time.

Hilarious critique to a quite important paper from Stanford trying to push the agenda of global warming .... "You might therefore be surprised that, as I will discuss below, this paper is completely wrong. Nothing in it is correct. It fails in every imaginable respect."

also good overview: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/noaa_nasa_global_analysis_2015.pdf

just a footnote here, that climate warming aspect is not derived by an agenda of presenting the world with evil. If one looks at big journals with high outreach, it is not uncommon to find articles promoting climate warming as something not bringing the doom that extremists are promoting with marketing strategies. Here is a recent article in Science: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26612836 Science's role is to look at the phenomenon and notice what is observed. And here is one saying that the acidification of the ocean due to increase of CO2 (observed phenomenon) is not advancing destructively for coccolithophores (a key type of plankton that builds its shell out of carbonates), as we were expecting, but rather fertilises them! Good news in principle! It could be as well argued from the more sceptics with high "doubting-inertia" that 'It could be because CO2 is not rising in the first place'', but one must not forget that one can doubt the global increase in T with statistical analyses, because it is a complex variable, but at least not the CO2 increase compared to preindustrial levels. in either case : case 1: agenda for 'the world is warming' => - Put random big energy company here- sells renewable energies case 2: agenda for 'the world is fine' => - Put random big energy company here - sells oil as usual The fact that in both cases someone is going to win profits, does not correllate (still not an adequate statistical test found for it?) with the fact that the science needs to be more and more scrutinised. The blog of the Statistics Professor in Univ.Toronto looks interesting approach (I have not understood all the details) and the paper above is from JPL authors, among others.

if anybody was still doubting: Gödel was a real genius!

'Whether mysterious high-energy photon emissions from our Galaxy come from dark matter or a more mundane source might be resolved by detecting their Doppler shifts along different lines-of-sight.'

Cockroach is back!

In the wake of the financial crisis, many started questioning different aspects of the economic formalism. Here a mathematical "dynamic" alternative to economic utility theory (which has also been the target of some famous recent attacks, see prospect theory) is developed and applied to the St. Petersburg coin tossing paradox. A good read at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/chaos/26/2/10.1063/1.4940236

One article from this weeks Nature outlook articles about cognitive science. You can even play the cognitive game :). The full set of articles is quite interesting!

In this paper published on Nature, AI researchers used deep Q-network with very good adaptability and obtained performances comparable to those of a human games tester.

Bastards! And that was to be my next idea. Still no recurrency as I see it so far, so this is just some fancy way to do a markov model. Not sure if this is that particular paper or an earlier version but here it is for those interested: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf

I posted the same thing on 23/02/2016, with arxiv version of the paper instead.

uhhhh, Jai got scooped on Diigo :D

since double posted, maybe double interesting and we should have a closer look? anybody?

A rectenna at infrared wavelength. They authors mention a potential application in RTGs

Our work sheds light on many interesting directions of future exploration in the development of quantum-inspired algorithms for unsupervised machine learning, which are promisingly possible to realize on quantum devices.

Not new but still crazy: neutrinos explored as a source of some mass extinctions.

The first study of payments to Chinese scientists for publishing in high-impact journals has serious implications for the future of research

Dark matter (DM) may have its origin in a pre-big-bang epoch, the cosmic inflation.

Related paper at: http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.080501

Related paper: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00034/full