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jaihobah

Worlds that could support life are found practically in the Sun's backyard - 1 views

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    link to the nature paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature17448
jcunha

Is the gravitational-wave ringdown a probe of the event horizon? - 1 views

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    This simulation showx that the signal measured in LIGO could come from a gravaster (objects which are believed to have their insides made of dark energy) or even a wormhole as sources of gravitacional waves. Published in PRL by friends of Jai
jaihobah

The Cure For Fear | New Republic - 2 views

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    A long read but very interesting and well written.
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    PS: Does this quote from the article not sound a lot like Inception? 'In any given situation, the brain will retrieve old memories to inform an organism's behavior. If the memory is relevant to the situation, the organism can act on the information; if it is not relevant, then the organism can learn from the situation and create a new memory. With reconsolidation, researchers argued, there seemed to be a brief window in between the retrieval of an old memory and the creation of a new memory in which the old memory is vulnerable to manipulation.'
jaihobah

Tabletop Searches For Extra Dimensions And Dark Matter | Quanta Magazine - 1 views

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    Another story about the search for extra dimensions through modifications to gravity on small scales.
jaihobah

MIT's Invisible Second Skin Cream Makes Wrinkles Disappear - 0 views

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    "Applications for the film extend beyond getting rid of wrinkles, though. It can safely deliver medications for 24 hours at a time as well as protect the user's skin, particularly over wounds. Additionally, the XLP material can reduce moisture loss. "
jcunha

Accelerated search for materials with targeted properties by adaptive design - 0 views

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    There has been much recent interest in accelerating materials discovery. High-throughput calculations and combinatorial experiments have been the approaches of choice to narrow the search space. The emphasis has largely been on feature or descriptor selection or the use of regression tools, such as least squares, to predict properties. The regression studies have been hampered by small data sets, large model or prediction uncertainties and extrapolation to a vast unexplored chemical space with little or no experimental feedback to validate the predictions. Thus, they are prone to be suboptimal. Here an adaptive design approach is used that provides a robust, guided basis for the selection of the next material for experimental measurements by using uncertainties and maximizing the 'expected improvement' from the best-so-far material in an iterative loop with feedback from experiments. It balances the goal of searching materials likely to have the best property (exploitation) with the need to explore parts of the search space with fewer sampling points and greater uncertainty.
Alexander Wittig

IBM Makes Quantum Computing Available on IBM Cloud - 1 views

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    IBM for the first time ever is making quantum computing available to the public, providing access to a quantum processor via the cloud. Users can create algorithms and run experiments and get inspired by the possibilities of a quantum computer.
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    Looks interesting.. Have you tried it?
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    Mathias Troyer from ETH Zurtich gave a talk in Leiden where he showed what he wants to be the replacement to this IBM programming or the best ally of it - program quantum computers with, for instance, python code. Nice developments coming from the quantum coding field, besides the fact we are ages away from a practical quantum computer.
fichbio

Long-Term Space Flight Simulation Reveals Infradian Rhythmicity in Human Na + Balance - 3 views

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    For the first time scientists have identified monthly hormonal cycles in human males
jcunha

Advanced Research Projects from DARPA's Pentagon Demo Day - 2 views

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    Yesterday [11th May], the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) held a Demo Day for the Department of Defense in the courtyard at the center of the Pentagon to give the defense community "an up-close look at the Agency's diverse portfolio of innovative technologies and military systems at various stages of development and readiness."
jcunha

The Stratobus could be the eye in the sky for government agencies - 3 views

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    Powered by solar energy, Thales Alenia's Stratobus has an operation lifespan of five-years and only needs ground maintenance just a few days a year Can hover 12.4 miles (20km) in the air and reaches altitudes of 20,000 meters.
Athanasia Nikolaou

Giant tsunamis washed over ancient Mars. - 0 views

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    An hypothesis for explaining missing shoreline traces of ancient water ocean on mars: Some 3.4 billion years ago, giant meteoroids slammed into a frigid ocean covering Mars's northern hemisphere. The impacts kicked up enormous waves that raced across the water and swamped the shoreline, research suggests. On the scale of planetary catastrophes, such tsunamis would have dwarfed most Earthly ones.
fichbio

Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas - 1 views

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    Strongly recommended for everyone living on the Earth :)
jcunha

Advances in Robotics: Whiskered Robot, Haptic Jamming, and Humorous Humanoid - 4 views

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    The best robot prototype videos in ICRA conference. Nice whiskered robots and "self-supervised" self learning robot hands using CNNs.
fichbio

Byteflies - 1 views

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    Belgian startup company. Medical wearables will transform healthcare and patient care - they promise.
jaihobah

Couture In Orbit: when space and fashion collide | Science Museum Blog - 0 views

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    I'm not sure what's new here; space and fashion collide violently every day at the ACT...
jcunha

Quantizer - 1 views

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    A sonification experiment taking data from ATLAS and translating it into music. The outcome was played at Montreux jazz fest, listen to the results in soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/sonification-quantizer. The way it works is "A tiny subset of collision data from the ATLAS Detector (in CERN, Switzerland) is being generated and streamed in real-time into a sonification engine built atop Python, Pure Data, Ableton, and IceCast." Code's in github https://github.com/cherston/Quantizer_public
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