IEEE Spectrum September 25, 2018 Scientists have struggled to navigate the technology gap between microelectronics and the biological world. By engineering cells with synthetic biology components, a team of researchers in the US (University of Maryland, University of Nebraska, Army Research Laboratory) has experimentally demonstrated a proof-of-concept device enabling robust and reliable information exchanges between electrical and biological (molecular) domains. They are working to develop a novel biological memory device that can be written to and read from via either biological and/or electronic means. Such a device would function like a thumb drive or SD card, using molecular signals to […]
Category Archives: Emerging technology
The potential harbingers of new physics persist in LHC data
Phys.org August 31, 2018 Mesons are unstable systems and quickly disintegrate in ways that are described as channels of decay. One of these anomalies was observed by LHC scientists in the decay channel of meson B to another meson (K*; this meson contains a strange quark instead of a beauty quark) and a muon-antimuon pair. The origin of the observed anomalies remains unknown. An international team of researchers (Germany, Switzerland, Poland, USA – MIT) propose that an unknown elementary particle outside the Standard Model may be responsible for their existence… read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
These amazing future transport technologies promise to supercharge your commute
Digital Trends July 26, 2018 Here are some of the amazing modes of transportation we must look forward to – Self driving cars, Flying jet-suits, Flying cars, Elon’s city-to-city rocket system, Hyperloop, Telepresence robots… read more.
The NSF 2026 Idea Machine!
NSF July 5, 2018 The NSF 2026 Idea Machine is a competition to help set the U.S. agenda for fundamental research in science and engineering. Participants can earn prizes and receive public recognition by suggesting the pressing research questions that need to be answered in the coming decade, the next set of “Big Ideas” for future investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It’s an opportunity for researchers, the public and other interested stakeholders to contribute to NSF’s mission to support basic research and enable new discoveries that drive the U.S. economy, enhance national security and advance knowledge to sustain […]
35 Innovators Under 35 – 2018
MIT Technology Review June 27, 2018 MIT Technology Review has been presenting the list of innovators under 35 for 18 years, long enough to spot some trends. You won’t find a lot of artificial-intelligence innovation in the early days of the list, but AI now dominates. And the list has grown more gender equitable. It was once male-dominated, but this year, for the first time, it includes more women than men. We hope the list gives you a sense of what’s coming next, and what kinds of people are making it happen… read more.
R&D Special Focus: Looking Back at Past R&D 100 Award Recipients
R&D Magazine May 3, 2018 Over the past few weeks, R&D Magazine has taken an in-depth look at some of the 2017 R&D 100 Awardees on rdmag.com. The full list of 2017 R&D 100 awardees can be viewed here … read more.
Are we quantum computers? International collaboration will investigate the brain’s potential for quantum computation
Phys.org March 27, 2018 QuBrain project at UCSB is a collaborative project among an international team of leading scientists spanning quantum physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, colloid science and behavioral neuroscience to seek explicit experimental evidence to answer whether we might in fact be quantum computers. They will explore neuronal function with state-of-the-art technology from completely new angles. QuBrain has the potential for breakthroughs in the fields of biomaterials, biochemical catalysis, quantum entanglement in solution chemistry and mood disorders in humans, regardless of whether quantum processes indeed take place in the brain… read more.
Melding of concepts from different scientific fields
Science Daily March 9, 2018 Researchers in Japan developed a new methodology to analyze citations in papers that used two specified terms and tracked the changes over time. They mapped individual papers and connected these with papers they had cited, resulting in publications citing the same paper being close to each other. They found that only a few publications were required for the fusion between agent based modeling and individual based modeling and these weren’t necessarily the most cited papers. According to them three things are needed for fusion to occur: researchers being aware of issues in different fields; common […]