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EXACTLY what I wanted to investigate as a rapid constuction tool for shape memory alloy structures!

Yes, I agree, slime belongs to soft matter.

1mm atomic bundle teleported !!!!

Hard work in functional materials is driving the development of new wearable electronics that could be advantageous for communications and sensing is being pursued in the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America Institute. Through embroidering circuits into fabric with 0.1 mm precision full integration of electronic components such as sensors and computer memory devices into clothing is now possible.

Memristor-Based Artificial Neural Networks, huge potential for true, high-power AI

Memristors (for memory purposes - RRAM type) on the pipeline to be launched in orbit on a cubesat http://thewhitonline.com/2016/03/news/nasa-initiative-chooses-rowan-to-launch-satellite/

Artificial earthworm made from a mesh tube and shape memory alloy muscles.

ever heard of the Erdős-Bacon number? :-)

and actors probably ask who cares about Erdős :) The network of actors who co-star in movies is a famous one among networks people. Kevin Bacon became famous in that network because of fans of his who could from memory trace the paths of a large number of actors back to him :) see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon#History If you have you publications in http://academic.research.microsoft.com/, it gives you a nice tool to visualize your graph up to Erdős. Apparently I have a path of length 4, and several of length 5: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/VisualExplorer#36695545&1112639

and for the actors http://oracleofbacon.org/

Researchers have successfully stored a single data bit in only 12 atoms.

Quote: "This is exactly what we are pursuing - self-assembling materials that organize at smaller sizes, say, less than 20 or even 10 nanometers"

Direct Self-Assembly (DSA) is one of the competitors for the next-generation 'lithography' together with direct-write via electron beam and the more traditional extreme UV (EUV) lithography. Although there are huge benefits to use DSA, the technology does have some drawbacks when it comes to line edge roughness. It seems however particularly good for repetitive structures that are used in memory chips. As long as EUV is struggling to get it working, DSA definitely has a fighting chance to enter the market one day.

Devices made from resonating graphene "drums" could be used as microwave amplifiers and memory chips in quantum computers. So say researchers at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, who are the first to demonstrate optomechanical coupling between a mechanical resonator and a superconducting microwave cavity.

This study from NASA shows that cosmic rays have a deleterious effect on the brain, more than expected, resulting in in symptoms similar to dementia (memory loss, decline in problem solving skills, general cognitive functions). A reason more to investigate into hibernation?

by Maria Popova "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought." For as long as I can remember - and certainly long before I had the term for it - I've believed that creativity is combinatorial: Alive and awake to the world, we amass a collection of cross-disciplinary building blocks - knowledge, memories, bits of information, sparks of inspiration, and other existing ideas - that we then combine and recombine, mostly unconsciously, into something "new."

New 3D printed macro structure exhibits selective buckling open the way for custom shape-memory materials found our neighbor scientists from the Lorentz Institut of the Leiden University. Wonder if it can be applied for self-assembled deployment of structures.

can't read the full paper from here but this looks really interesting!! Pacome, Luzi I am sure you will like it ...

I think they are taking it a bit too far....

is my memory wrong or isn't this what you have already mentioned as theoretically possible a few years back when discussing this, Luzi?

Very well possible that I mentioned this. In fact I was one of the first who took spacetime transformations in transformation optics seriously. But first, my name is not Leonhardt and I don't work at Imperial, that's why nobody cites me and second I most probably found the idea too stupid to be published. You see the two reasons why I'm not successful in science...

I knew it !!!

maybe 90' is too much but we ve been saying for so long about the power nap and never actually did it. I think the management tries to promote only politically correct methods for more creativity and new ways of working etc etc and neglects the potential power naps could have for some of us. I suggest as a first step a pillow on the desk and leaning on it after lunch for 10 - 15 '

This is the community that states mammals have cognitive maps. Good work, especially by the Moser-couple.

What I don't get is how the measure the extent of matching: how "close", or realistic is the modelisation they achieve with different methods? And moreover, if weights cannot adapt and there are no direct connections between neurons and layers of neurons, isnt that a very arbitrary matching?

Not a revolution, but certainly a big improvement