Advanced Concepts Team

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!)

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

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

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.

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

Vulcan might be a thing...

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

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

Development in brain computer interfaces developed by DARPA is progressing.

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

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.

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

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 :)

Dynamic map of objects currently orbiting Earth.

Shows you stuff... in space!

Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals hiding in our midst, including subtle motions that betray what's being said and faint images of what's around a corner.

You erase it, AI reconstructs it.

Meanwhile in Australia...

Relates to robots raising children before the arrival at an exoplanet.

The bear ears add some nice biological component to it.

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.

How many people to we actually need put on that ship?

We should invite these people to the AF special issue

sounds really interesting. their simulations don't account for biological issues (mutation, migration, selection, drift, founder effect) though, so the numbers are very low. this paper (https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0094576513004669/1-s2.0-S0094576513004669-main.pdf?_tid=6bec2a5c-f05f-4024-b4de-af78ab06fd42&acdnat=1531827379_d4f0be1b193873890d6e5b4574e82f2e) takes those effects and their implications on genetic composition of populations into account, but the numbers are enormous. do you have an idea why they (marin and beluffi) wouldn't put those effects into the simulations?

Just out - I wish I could understand this :(

ignorance is a bliss :)