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NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space
NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra-cold matter that behaves in astonishing ways. The experiments could unlock new discoveries about the universe while paving the way for powerful future technologies in space and on Earth.
Marco Santini on The Alpha Centauri Project: There Is A Lot Of Space For Rational Optimism
Fourteen years ago, I sat down with an Italian engineer who gave his novels away for free.
Marco Santini was not chasing royalties. He was chasing readers.
His book The Alpha Centauri Project imagines the 24th century split three ways: humans, artificial intelligences, and souls, the digitized minds of people who refused to stay dead. Their interests do not align. Their futures collide. An interstellar voyage becomes the only way to avoid a war.
It reads like a thriller. It lands like a warning.
What stayed with me was not the plot. It was his stance on the future.
Pessimistic scenarios can always exist. With rationality, optimistic ones can be created.
Lab-Grown Organs: Revolutionizing Transplants!
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Sound waves could power a new kind of chip inspired by the human brain
Neuromorphic computing is a computing approach that mimics how the human brain works. Our gray matter is a marvel of nature, capable of handling huge volumes of data with incredible energy efficiency. While modern AI hardware is becoming better at processing complex tasks, it consumes vast amounts of energy.
One of the promises of neuromorphic computing is that it places memory and processing in the same location, using far less energy than traditional AI chips. However, even the most sophisticated neuromorphic systems are fairly simple and don’t come close to matching the number of connections among human neurons.
But a new study published in the journal Science Advances suggests that by using sound waves instead of electricity, hardware can better mimic the parallel processing of neurons with even greater efficiency.
China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. For First Time Since 2017
China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that has implications for science, national security and geopolitics.
LineShine, a massive computing system in Shenzhen, China, was declared the world’s fastest by a group of researchers using a set of standard tests for supercomputers. Besides raw speed, the system stood out because it uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units, which most high-end supercomputers rely on for heavy number crunching.
That underlying design could point to a better way to blend artificial intelligence with traditional scientific tasks, said Jack Dongarra, an organizer of the so-called Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
Autism study reveals shared brain cell changes during early development
Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism, yet the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms behind it remain largely unclear. A new study published in Nature, led by Gaia Novarino at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), aims to uncover these mechanisms-and in doing so, might lay the groundwork for developing medical therapies.
Autism spectrum conditions, often abbreviated as ASD in scientific and medical literature, are, for example, neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy or intellectual disability. The underlying changes begin during early brain development, while the first signs often become apparent in early childhood and can persist throughout life.
