Skip to main content

Home/ Advanced Concepts Team/ Group items tagged online

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
LeopoldS

Panasonic plans home-use storage cell : Business : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yom... - 1 views

www.yomiuri.co.jp/...T091221004988.htm

NRG solar batteries

shared by LeopoldS on 26 Dec 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 26 Dec 09
     
    sounds a bit optimistic to me but interesting ...
Christos Ampatzis

Evidence of life on Mars lurks beneath surface of meteorite, Nasa experts claim - Times... - 1 views

www.timesonline.co.uk/...article6934078.ece

shared by Christos Ampatzis on 27 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Christos Ampatzis on 27 Nov 09
     
    Is there life on Mars? - We should try to compress those images!
  • Francesco Biscani on 29 Nov 09
     
    "Is there life on Mars?" Yes, mostly on Saturday night...
Luzi Bergamin

Impulse Januar 2010 (WebTV, NZZ Online) - 2 views

www.nzz.ch/...pulse_januar_10_1.4431278.html

inf hacking security

shared by Luzi Bergamin on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Luzi Bergamin on 01 Feb 10
     
    Quite funny and interesting (even though I'm not known as a fan of those "gurus".) Site is in German, but interview in English.
pacome delva

Maxed out: Testing humans to destruction - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...-testing-humans-to-destruction

records human_limits

shared by pacome delva on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
Joris _ liked it
  • pacome delva on 19 Apr 10
     
    Crazy numbers...!!!
  • Ma Ru on 19 Apr 10
     
    This half-tonne deadlift is impressive indeed... So next goal for me is to get this 45 overhead and prove I'm an average human :>
LeopoldS

Experimental Detection of Trinitramide, N(NO2)3 - Rahm - 2010 - Angewandte Chemie Inter... - 0 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...abstract

PHY PRO propulsion space NRG

shared by LeopoldS on 09 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 09 Jan 11
     
    Dejan have a look at this ...
  • dejanpetkow on 10 Jan 11
     
    Would be nice to have some cross sections or transition probabilities for the possible transition (or decomposition) channels. But anyway, HEDM is one of the key short/mid-term topics in advanced energy, power, and/or propulsion.
Joris _

Alliant, EADS Unit Set Sights on Rocket Venture - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...4422204576130482887509152.html

space NASA human

shared by Joris _ on 08 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Joris _ on 08 Feb 11
     
    ... some competition in the commercial space launcher market ? I kind of wonder why EU, or ESA, still doesn't push for anything in this market!
LeopoldS

Magnetic Control of Tubular Catalytic Microbots for the Transport, Assembly, and Delive... - 2 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...abstract

bio nan technology NRG

shared by LeopoldS on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 08 Mar 11
     
    very nice paper ... 
Luzi Bergamin

Prof. Markrams Hirnmaschine (Startseite, NZZ Online) - 2 views

www.nzz.ch/...s_hirnmaschine_1.10736223.html

AI neuroscience SciFi

shared by Luzi Bergamin on 29 May 11 - No Cached
  • Luzi Bergamin on 29 May 11
     
    A critical view on Prof. Markram's Blue Brain project (in German).
  • ...4 more comments...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 29 May 11
     
    A critical view on Prof. Markram's Blue Brain project (in German).
  • LeopoldS on 30 May 11
     
    so critical that the comment needed to be posted twice :-) ?
  • Luzi Bergamin on 30 May 11
     
    Yes, I know; I still don't know how to deal with this f.... Diigo Toolbar! Shame on me!!!
  • dejanpetkow on 30 May 11
     
    Would be nice to read something about the modelling, but it appears that there is nothing published in detail. Following the article, the main approach is to model each(!) neuron taking into account the spatial structure of the neurons positions. Once achieved they expect intelligent behaviour. And they need a (type of) supercomputer which does not exist yet.
  • Ma Ru on 31 May 11
     
    As far as I know it's sort of like "Let's construct an enormous dynamical system and see what happens"... i.e. a waste of taxpayer's money... Able to heal Alzheimer... Yeah... Actually I was on the conference the author is mentioning (FET 2011) and I have seen the presentations of all 6 flagship proposals. Following that I had a discussion with one of my colleagues about the existence of limits of the amount of bullshit politicians are willing to buy from scientists. Will there be a point at which politicians, despite their total ignorance, will realise that scientists simply don't deliver anything they promise? How long will we (scientists) be stuck in the viscous circle of have-to-promise-more-than-predecessors in order to get money? Will we face a situation when we'll be forced to revert to promises which are realistic? To be honest none of the 6 presentations convinced me of their scientific merit (apart from the one on graphene where I have absolutely no expertise to tell). Apparently a huge amount of money is about to be wasted.
  • Luzi Bergamin on 01 Jun 11
     
    It's not just "Let's construct an enormous dynamical system and see what happens", it's worse! Also the simulation of the cosmological evolution is/was a little bit of this type, still the results are very interesting and useful. Why? Neither the whole cosmos nor the human brain at the level of single neurons can be modelled on a computer, that would last aeons on a "yet-to-be-invented-extra-super-computer". Thus one has to make assumptions and simplifications. In cosmology we have working theories of gravitation, thermodynamics, electrodynamics etc. at hand; starting from these theories we can make reasonable assumptions and (more or less) justified simplifications. The result is valuable since it provides insight into a complex system under given, explicit and understood assumptions. Nothing similar seems to exist in neuroscience. There is no theory of the human brain and apparently nobody has the slightest idea which simplifications can be made without harm. Of course, Mr. Markram remains completely unaffected of ''details'' like this. Finally, Marek, money is not wasted, we ''build networks of excellence'' and ''select the brightest of the brightest'' to make them study and work at our ''elite institutions'' :-). I lively remember the stage of one of these "bestofthebest" from Ivy League at the ACT...
LeopoldS

pH-Dependent Dimerization and Salt-Dependent Stabilization of the N-terminal Domain of ... - 3 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...abstract

shared by LeopoldS on 22 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 22 Aug 11
     
    how the spider silk gets so strong ...
  • jmlloren on 24 Aug 11
     
    C'mon Leopold! It is obvious from the title.
  • LeopoldS on 27 Aug 11
     
    :-)
Luís F. Simões

Gamers solve puzzle which stumped scientists for years | Mail Online - 2 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...-stumped-scientists-years.html

BIO protein folding crowdsourcing

shared by Luís F. Simões on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • A team of gamers needed just ten days to produce an answer to an enzyme riddle that had eluded experts for more than a decade.
  • Luís F. Simões on 19 Sep 11
     
    link to the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2119 additional info at: http://fold.it/portal/
LeopoldS

Technologies That Could Change the Energy Picture - WSJ.com - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...3746604574461342682276898.html

SPS NRG batteries power

shared by LeopoldS on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 20 Oct 09
     
    SPS rules ....
Joris _

DailyTech - NASA Releases iPhone App - 2 views

www.dailytech.com/...article16613.htm

shared by Joris _ on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The U.S. space agency has worked more diligently the past few years to better interact with the public.
  • Joris _ on 26 Oct 09
     
    what about ESA?
  • ...3 more comments...
  • LeopoldS on 26 Oct 09
     
    have already sent it as a suggestion to our com department ... btw: installed the app and its really well done!!
  • Francesco Biscani on 27 Oct 09
     
    God no, why give more taxpayers' money to the shittiest, greediest and most closed company out there??
  • LeopoldS on 27 Oct 09
     
    why "more" ... do they get any taxpayers money? answer to your question: because its the most efficient (and coolest) platform to convey your message to a larger audience with relatively little effort ... btw: just ordered a time capsule for home :-)
  • Francesco Biscani on 27 Oct 09
     
    I said "more" because we already gave them money in the form of Sophia and Atlas :) If we want to be consistent in promoting "open" efforts (open innovation, open source, open governance, etc.) we should avoid Apple like the plague. They are far far worse than Microsoft in terms of closedness, secrecy, shady market practices and vendor lock-in. Just google a bit and you will find lots of example of their behaviour.
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 28 Oct 09
     
    cant' really argue about the Apple practices, although I ve read some things. I think the NASA app is more like a news feed and nothing more. But that online crowdsourcing game we had in mind, now that would be cool in a mobile version - new mobiles also have accelerometers nowadays
Francesco Biscani

Why three buses come at once, and how to avoid it - physics-math - 29 October 2009 - Ne... - 4 views

www.newscientist.com/...-once-and-how-to-avoid-it.html

shared by Francesco Biscani on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Now systems complexity researchers Carlos Gershenson and Luis Pineda of the National Autonomous University of Mexico have devised a mathematical model that shows how the problem might be prevented
  • Francesco Biscani on 29 Oct 09
     
    This is from Carlos, the guy who gave a science coffee talk a couple of months ago.
Francesco Biscani

Found: first 'skylight' on the moon - space - 22 October 2009 - New Scientist - 2 views

www.newscientist.com/...irst-skylight-on-the-moon.html

moon

shared by Francesco Biscani on 28 Oct 09 - Cached
pacome delva liked it
  • A deep hole on the moon that could open into a vast underground tunnel has been found for the first time. The discovery strengthens evidence for subsurface, lava-carved channels that could shield future human colonists from space radiation and other hazards.
« First ‹ Previous 61 - 80 of 197 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page