Advanced Concepts Team

he initiative, 'Plan-S' (https://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Plan_S.pdf), brings together eleven top national research funders, plus the European Research Council, in an effort to release some of the world's highest quality and highest impact research from behind journal paywalls.

the russian made it years back for everybody and for free :)

IgNobel 2018 for literature. Btw, I never ever RTFM .. :)

And this is pure genius. We should encourage the practice in the ACT. IgNobel 2018 on Economy. Essentially, if your supervisor is not of you liking, building and using a vodoo doll of him is highly suggested to restore the Universe Karma.

Machine learning yields detection of 72 new fast radio bursts from distant galaxy. SETI folks are getting excited.

Development in brain computer interfaces developed by DARPA is progressing.

Let's get rid of Mondays. We don't work and they don't work.

Vulcan might be a thing...

Only 17 light years away!!! Around the corner :)

Micro RNA produced in the leaves is able to travel to the roots to regulate symbiosis with some friendly bacteria.

Swarm-based fabrication of interwoven composite tubes via a fully autonomous, cooperative system can help create architectural-scale structures in effective and efficient ways, including in remote environments.

Some people answering the question 'What's cooler than blasting space debris with lasers...?'.

If it fires in both directions, can we align it such that it deorbits two debris with one shot?

:) the idea of having this method for debris removal is actually an ACT one from Claudio Bombardelli (ACT RF in MAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-beam_shepherd). This is just a technological device to implement it so that the system on board is simplified (i.e. instead of two engines, you get away with one and a weird nozzle) Marcus, you cannot align it to get rid of two debris as you need to keep the spacecraft close to the debris as this is a long duration acion. One of the two would drift away (can only follow one!)

Do you have problems remembering things? Maybe you should switch your font?

The first multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving

I tried reading the abstract and my eyes glazed over at the buzzword density. Is this hot doo doo or a meaningful result?

wow, quantum, artificial life, biomimetic, quantum supremacy .... quantum machine learning, and quantum artificial intelligence and, wait for it ...... quantum complexity. All in one abstract is this the new champion?

opsss

In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star. The number of queries has trebled since 2010, while those for other major programming languages have been flat or declining.

Likely this is correlated with the increased interest in machine learning in the past decade - all the popular DL libraries are Python-based after all...

The material the team used in these initial proof-of-concept experiments did make use of one biological component - chloroplasts, the light-harnessing components within plant cells, which the researchers obtained from spinach leaves.

Is this the future of blockchain?

"Without the relevant data for reasoning about the state of AI technology, we are essentially "flying blind" in our conversations and decision-making related to AI [...] The AI Index is an initiative to track, collate, distill and visualize data relating to artificial intelligence. "

Brine deposits below the surface should in theory be able to hold enough oxygen to support microbial aerobic lifeforms. The quest continues.