IEEE Spectrum January 7, 2021 According to the IEEE Spectrum the following areas may make significant progress in 2021: A Shining Light – Care222 lamp modules, Quantum Networking, Wind power, Driverless Race Cars, Robots Below, Mars or Bust, Stopping Deep fakes, Faster Data, Your Next TV, Brain Scans Everywhere…read more.
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Creating Silicon Valley 2.0
IEEE Spectrum January 12, 2021 Silicon Valley’s magical concentration of talent, capital, and culture in a single place has led to decades of unparalleled wealth creation. This spectacular success has induced attempts to emulate it in such enclaves as Silicon Mountain (one in the African nation of Cameroon, and another in the U.S. state of Colorado), Silicon Hills (Texas), Silicon Desert (Arizona), and many more. These seedlings may indeed grow to become forests, but the ingredients are there for even more promising transformations—metamorphoses that would bring far greater resources together at abstracted, or virtual, focal points. According to the author […]
Growing interest in Moon resources could cause tension, scientists find
Phys.org November 23, 2020 Numerous missions planned for the next decade are likely to target a handful of small sites of interest on the Moon’s surface, creating risks of crowding and interference at these locations. Regions richest in physical resources could also be uniquely suited to settlement and commerce. Such sites of interest are both few and small. An international team of researchers (USA – Harvard University, Missouri University of Science and Technology, UK) surveyed the implications for different kinds of mission and find that the diverse actors pursuing incompatible ends at these sites could soon crowd and interfere with […]
Science Academies submit recommendations to the G20 countries
EurekAlert September 28, 2020 In the run-up to the summit of the G20 countries in November 2020 to be held in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), the academies of science of 20 countries’ joint statement “Foresight: Science for Navigating Critical Transitions” emphasizes the necessity to consider global challenges in all their complexity and cross-linkage and emphasize the contribution of science to the management of upheavals. The statement draws on insights gained from the current coronavirus pandemic and provides valuable impulses from the international scientific community for all participants of the G20 summit. In the field of health, among other things, they recommend an […]
Wearable-tech glove translates sign language into speech in real time
Science Daily June 29, 2020 An international team of researchers (China, USA – UCLA) has developed wearable sign-to-speech translation system composed of yarn-based stretchable sensor arrays and a wireless printed circuit board. It offers a high sensitivity and fast response time, allowing real-time translation of signs into spoken words to be performed. By analysing 660 acquired sign language hand gesture recognition patterns, they demonstrated a recognition rate of up to 98.63% and a recognition time of less than 1 second…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Making matter out of light: high-power laser simulations point the way
Phys.org May 29, 2020 An international team of researchers (USA – UC San Diego, UT Austin, Johns Hopkins University, France, Romania, Germany) aimed a high-power laser at a target to generate a magnetic field as strong as that of a neutron star. This field generates gamma ray emissions that collide to produce, for the very briefest instant, pairs of matter and antimatter particles. The current method used only light to produce matter. This method closely mimics conditions during the first minutes of the universe, offering an improved model for researchers looking to learn more about this critical time period. The […]
‘Lean lab’ approach enables quick research ramp down
Science Daily May 14, 2020 According to researchers at MIT the benefits of ‘lean lab’ management principles, they call YelloBox, includes cost savings, increased productivity, and a strong safety record. The organizational strategy known as 5S which originated in Japan consists of five guiding principles to organize a workspace for efficiency and effectiveness: sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain. One major element of the system is the visual organization of everything in the lab, which includes making sure every item has an assigned location. Each item is color-coded and its location is outlined in colored tape so it […]
A billion years missing from geologic record: Where it may have gone
Science Daily May 7, 2020 The Great Unconformity, as it is known, accounts for more than one billion years of missing rock in certain places. Scientists have developed several hypotheses to explain how, and when, this staggering amount of material may have been eroded. Using the ratio of helium to thorium and uranium in certain minerals as a paleo-thermometer a team of researchers in the US (University of Colorado, UC Santa Barbara) tracked how rock moved in the crust as it was buried and eroded through the ages. They extracted grains of a particularly resilient mineral, zircon, from the stone […]
How growth of the scientific enterprise influenced a century of quantum physics
MIT News April 29, 2020 In a new book, “Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World,” Professor David Kaiser of MIT describes dramatic shifts in the history of an evolving discipline. Moving between vignettes of key physicists, original research about the growth of the field, and accounts of his own work in cosmology, the author emphasizes the vast changes in the field over time…read more. Book: “Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World”
‘Amazing’ Math Bridge Extended Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem
Quanta Magazine April 6, 2020 An international team of researchers (USA- Princeton, UK) came up with proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem tackling the theorem indirectly by means of an enormous bridge that mathematicians had conjectured should exist between two distant continents in the mathematical world. The proof boiled down to establishing this bridge between just two little plots of land on the two continents. The full bridge would offer mathematicians the hope of illuminating vast swaths of mathematics by passing concepts back and forth across it. Many problems, including Fermat’s Last Theorem, seem difficult on one side of the bridge, […]