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Ma Ru

Olympus BioScapes 2011 Winners Gallery - 5 views

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    An out-of-this-world gallery... Can my camera do bessel beam super-resolution structured illumination microscopy too??
santecarloni

Robotics Meets Architecture - 50 Quadcopters Will Autonomously Build Twenty Foot Tower ... - 5 views

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    This December, two Swiss architects and an Italian robotics engineer will, for the first time, build a tower solely by flying robots.
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    very nice!
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    VERY nice! one of the promised apps of "swarms" at last demonstrated...and i was beginning to lose hope! (pity this article goes under this "singularity" website...)
Lionel Jacques

CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC - 1 views

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    Tomorrow, at 9am EST, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland are expected to announce, with fairly strong certainty, that they have observed the Higgs boson "God" particle at a mass-energy of 125 GeV. For just over a week, rumors have been rife that observations with 2.5 to 3.5 sigma certainty (96% to 99.9%) have been made.
Lionel Jacques

Higgs hunters close in on their quarry - 1 views

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    The first solid experimental evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson has been unveiled today by physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. Members of the ATLAS experiment revealed evidence that the Higgs particle has a mass of about 126 GeV/c2. "By 2014/2015 we could have enough additional data to eliminate large classes of theories that attempt to explain the Higgs,"
LeopoldS

Paul Allen to build behemoth plane for space launches - latimes.com - 1 views

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    spaceship1 on steroids ...
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    Looks slightly fragile in the middle...
Lionel Jacques

Artificial energy harvesting tree - 1 views

shared by Lionel Jacques on 11 Jan 12 - Cached
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    The idea has been around for already some time (2008) but I like it despite the challenges/trade-off: visible vs IR photovoltaics, black leaves would be better... Piezo + classical PV would already be great... Optimizing the leave shape & distribution for both wind and sun energy harvesting could be interesting...
santecarloni

Carbon membranes excel at separating liquids - physicsworld.com - 1 views

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    Two independent teams have made ultrathin, cabon-based membranes with extraordinary properties that could be used in a range of applications, from water filtration to petroleum processing.
LeopoldS

NYTimes/ice - GitHub - 5 views

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    Anybody tried this out already?
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    nobody? where is Francesco hiding?
santecarloni

How To Build A Speech Jamming Gun - Technology Review - 1 views

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    he drone of speakers who won't stop is an inevitable experience at conferences, meetings, cinemas and public libraries.  Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba and Koji Tsukada at Ochanomizu University, both in Japan, present a radical solution: a speech jamming device that forces recalcitrant speakers into submission. 
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    ...must...not...make...the...obvious...ACT...meeting...joke...
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    Unfortunately it won't work when it is most needed .... Read this: "Their tests also identify some curious phenomena. They say the gun is more effective when the delay varies in time and more effective against speech that involves reading aloud than against spontaneous monologue. Sadly, they report that it has no effect on meaningless sound sequences such as "aaaaarghhh".
LeopoldS

The future is bright for humanity - opinion - 05 March 2012 - New Scientist - 1 views

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    This is almost word for word the title Andrés gave to the first presentation of the team to DG ten years ago ...
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    There's a whole series of futuristic articles, may be worth having a look: http://www.newscientist.com/special/deep-future
santecarloni

How The Cost of Computation Restricts The Processes of Life - Technology Review - 1 views

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    "That's why silicon chips operate at temperatures hot enough to fry eggs." I stopped reading after this sentence... is the remaining part of the article equally scientifically (in)accurate?
santecarloni

the Tricorder project - Science Tricorder Mark 2 - 1 views

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    ... each act member should have one, together with the mug... :) Se also http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y3sHTKrGdKI
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    I want one too! On a side note, his story about transformers is a nice illustration that being able to express something in a mathematical equation is not equivalent to understanding something.
Ma Ru

The Wisdom of the Crowd in Combinatorial Problems - 5 views

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    A real scientific study...
LeopoldS

Cryptocat - 5 views

shared by LeopoldS on 18 Apr 12 - No Cached
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    tool to avoid big brother listening in ...
LeopoldS

iAMscientist - 1 views

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    crowdsourcing science funding ...
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    there have been a few of these popping out lately, thanks to Kickstarter's incredible success. This one http://www.petridish.org/ launched last month, and has a lot of projects already, including a fully funded one (219 backers, $12,247 raised) to "find the first exomoon": http://www.petridish.org/projects/help-us-find-the-first-exomoon
Nicholas Lan

Ancient language discovered on clay tablets found amid ruins of 2800 year old Middle Ea... - 1 views

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    archaeology for a bit of a change of pace. "The discovery is important because it may help reveal the ethnic and cultural origins of some of history's first 'barbarians' - mountain tribes which had, in previous millennia, preyed on the world's first great civilizations, the cultures of early Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq."
Dario Izzo

TETRIS - 5 views

shared by Dario Izzo on 27 May 12 - No Cached
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    Connected to asteroid deflection? :)
Kevin de Groote

BBC - Future - 1 views

shared by Kevin de Groote on 13 Jun 12 - No Cached
LeopoldS liked it
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    Worth following for inspiration?
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    Yes, definitely!
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    "We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com." In other words, UK is not part of the world...
santecarloni

Intel Reveals Neuromorphic Chip Design  - Technology Review - 1 views

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    Intel's goal is to build chips that work more like the human brain. Now its engineers think they know how
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