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Gerard Bain studied Physics and Engineering at The College of The Bahamas.

124 posts by Gerard Bain

• With lunar orbiter, South Korea will join a revived race to explore the Moon – July 31, 2022
• New magnet breakthrough could unleash smaller, more potent fusion reactors – July 27, 2022
• Aquaculture drives aquatic food yields to new high – June 29, 2022
• Could high-flying kites power your home? – April 9, 2022
• An ultra-cheap electric car conversion kit is FINALLY here! – March 17, 2022
• America Was Wrong About Ethanol — Study Shows – March 7, 2022
• NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power – March 1, 2022
• Carbon Free Steel becomes a reality at Volvo and Mercedes Benz – October 24, 2021
• Hot Energy Storage? Liquid Metal Battery Explained – July 13, 2021
• A ‘wobble’ in the moon’s orbit could result in record flooding in the 2030s, new study finds – July 12, 2021
• Producing methane for energy in underground repositories using solar energy – June 23, 2021
• Hemp conversion to graphene and diamond. Smart carbon capture? – June 20, 2021
• How mirrors could power the planet… and prevent wars – June 19, 2021
• Animal-Free Animal Products With Cellular Agriculture – June 7, 2021
• Seismic Data Helps Scientists Forecast Volcanic Explosions – June 6, 2021
• How fast we age may hinge on one unexpected mineral – May 25, 2021
• Skin and bones repaired by bioprinting during surgery – April 28, 2021
• Low-Cost, Highly Efficient Solar-Powered Desalination for Safe Drinking Water – April 27, 2021
• NASA’s Perseverance Rover Produces Oxygen on Mars – Key “First” for Human Exploration of the Red Planet – April 22, 2021
• Early indicators of magma viscosity could help forecast a volcano’s eruption style – April 8, 2021
• Faster Fusion Reactor Calculations Thanks to AI – April 5, 2021
• What’s Really Holding Back Flying Cars – March 18, 2021
• Electric Airplanes are Coming – March 10, 2021
• Can nanotechnology solve our battery production problem? – February 16, 2021
• Solar Window – February 14, 2021
• Researchers visualize neuron activity – February 2, 2021
• The Robots Return, How Have Atlas, ASIMO, Cheetah, Spot and Pepper faired 4+ Years On? – January 31, 2021
• Planes Running on Thin Air? Researchers Make Jet Fuel from CO2 – January 20, 2021
• The incredible physics behind quantum computing | Brian Greene, Michio Kaku, & more | Big Think – January 16, 2021
• 2020’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Math and Computer Science – January 7, 2021
• What If Humanity Was a Class 2 Society? | Alternative Scale | Unveiled – December 9, 2020
• The Hunt for New Batteries — with Serena Corr – December 8, 2020
• All About Electric Transportation – December 4, 2020
• Invention Using Terahertz Radiation Could Make Particle Accelerators 10 Times Smaller – September 27, 2020
• New Perovskite Solar Cell Another Nail In Natural Gas Coffin – August 2, 2020
• Invention offers new option for monitoring heart health – July 22, 2020
• There Are At Least 36 Intelligent Alien Civilizations In Our Galaxy, Say Scientists – June 17, 2020
• The truth about graphene – June 4, 2020
• Brain’s ‘updating mechanisms’ may create false memories – May 21, 2020
• Researchers develop real-time physics engine for soft robotics – May 12, 2020
• Phase-change fabric both warms and cools its wearer – April 17, 2020
• World’s most complex microparticle: A synthetic that outdoes nature’s intricacy (Update) – April 11, 2020
• Study shows potential for using fiber-optic networks to assess ground motions during earthquakes – March 31, 2020
• Could cancer immunotherapy success depend on gut bacteria? – March 8, 2020
• Machine learning picks out hidden vibrations from earthquake data – March 2, 2020
• New artificial intelligence algorithm better predicts corn yield – February 20, 2020
• Light Sails and Supernovae Can Help Us Reach the Speed of Light – February 14, 2020
• Biomedical engineers create ‘smart’ bandages to heal chronic wounds – February 13, 2020
• Japan Is Launching Its Own Space Defense Unit – January 25, 2020
• Shake Hands With The Future With BrainCo’s Brain-Controlled Prosthetic – January 9, 2020
• Randpay: a technology for blockchain micropayments that requires a recipient’s consent – December 20, 2019
• What If Humanity Was A Type I Civilization? | Unveiled – December 7, 2019
• Cows on Russian Farm Get Fitted with VR Goggles to Increase Milk Production – November 26, 2019
• Alphabet X’s “Everyday Robot” project is making machines that learn as they go – November 23, 2019
• German robotics set to shrink for first time in decade – November 22, 2019
• The UK Is Racing to Build the World’s First Commercial Fusion Power Plant – November 20, 2019
• An artificial intelligence algorithm can learn the laws of quantum mechanics – November 18, 2019
• New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity – November 17, 2019
• Unbridled Adoption Of Artificial Intelligence May Result In Millions Of Job Losses And Require Massive Retraining For Those Impacted – September 30, 2019
• Spot Launch – September 27, 2019
• More Parkour Atlas – September 24, 2019
• Wearable brain-machine interface could control a wheelchair, vehicle or computer – September 21, 2019
• The design, construction and characterization of new nanovibrational bioreactors for osteogenesis – September 19, 2019
• By exploiting a feature of the immune system, researchers open the door for stem cell transplants to repair the brain – September 16, 2019
• Japanese Woman Received the World’s First iPS Corneal Transplant – September 3, 2019
• Revealing the molecular engine that drives pancreatic cancer provides ways to turn it off – August 22, 2019
• Don’t change your DNA at home, says America’s first CRISPR law – August 10, 2019
• 7 Amazing Agriculture Technologies – August 2, 2019
• What If Humanity Was A Type III Civilization? | Unveiled – July 7, 2019
• Why SpaceX is Making Starlink – June 15, 2019
• Atlas is rockstar cross-stepper over tricky terrain – May 13, 2019
• The Challenge of Building a Self-Driving Car – May 10, 2019
• An AI used art to control monkeys’ brain cells – May 5, 2019
• The Biggest Problems We’re Facing Today & The Future of Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #46 – May 2, 2019
• Boeing Reveals Autonomous Jet Aircraft For Combat Use – February 28, 2019
• Solar Powered E-Skin for Prosthetic Limbs – February 23, 2019
• This Agile Robot Assists with Various Construction Tasks – October 5, 2018
• Chinese Scientists Just Cloned a Monkey—Here Are the Details – January 25, 2018
• Biohackers brush off FDA warning on DIY gene therapy – December 2, 2017
• Aging Expert: The First Person to Live to 1,000 Has Already Been Born – December 2, 2017
• Could intelligent machines of the future own the rights to their own creations? – December 1, 2017
• Meet Penny, an AI tool that can predict wealth from space – October 28, 2017
• The rights of synthetic lifeforms is the next great civil rights controversy – October 26, 2017
• Your computer has no idea what you’re feeling—that needs to change – October 20, 2017
• Scientists Are Building Humanoid Robots Using Skin Grafts – July 14, 2017
• Is There an AI President in Our Future? That Might Be an Upgrade – May 19, 2017
• Solar Powered e-Skin Could Take Prosthetics to the Next Level – March 27, 2017
• Could We Marsiform Ourselves? – January 10, 2017
• Why the United Nations Must Move Forward With a Killer Robots Ban – December 16, 2016
• Genevieve Bell: ‘Humanity’s greatest fear is about being irrelevant’ – November 28, 2016
• Chinese group injects CRISPR edited cells into human test subject for first time – November 16, 2016
• Elon Musk: “There’s a Pretty Good Chance We’ll End Up With Universal Basic Income” – November 7, 2016
• Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence – October 31, 2016
• Self-Learning AI: This New Neuro-Inspired Computer Trains Itself – October 17, 2016
• Dutch Bank Replaces Tellers with Technology – October 13, 2016
• This Robot Will Build Houses Out Of Brick – October 2, 2016
• Breaking Taboo: Swedish Scientist Modifies DNA in Human Embryos –“Ignores Ethical Boundaries of Science” – September 24, 2016
• Should We Build a Dyson Sphere? – August 24, 2016
• Legions of nanorobots target cancerous tumours with precision – August 15, 2016
• America’s biggest chip manufacturers have admitted that transistors are about to stop shrinking – July 25, 2016
• SkinGun helps burn victims quickly regrow skin – June 10, 2016
• Android version of literary giant Natsume Soseki to return to alma mater to lecture – June 9, 2016
• Why You Should Care About Nukes – March 29, 2016
• Brain Stimulation System Can Teach You How to Fly – March 24, 2016
• Solar Panels Grown On The Moon Could Power The Earth – March 17, 2016
• Google’s AlphaGo Beats World Champion In Third Match To Win Entire Series – March 13, 2016
• We Could Be Living On The Moon In 10 Years Or Less – March 10, 2016
• ESA Planning To Build An International Village… On The Moon! – March 5, 2016
• Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it | Sean Follmer – March 1, 2016
• Atlas, The Next Generation – February 23, 2016
• Robots could learn human values – February 20, 2016
• Is it possible to upload human consciousness into a machine? – February 17, 2016
• Robot-human eye contact helps conversation flow – February 2, 2016
• Mining the Solar System –Will it Spawn the Next Google? – November 25, 2015
• Veritasium Explores The Future of Energy — GE – November 25, 2015
• Fresh Voices: Researchers Grow New Vocal Cords From Cells – November 18, 2015
• David Eagleman: Can a Computer Simulate Consciousness? – November 11, 2015
• Facebook is building artificial intelligence to finally beat humans at Go – November 8, 2015
• Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill – October 23, 2015
• Humans will be able to use augmented intelligence to compete with robots – October 17, 2015
• Organovo & Uniquest Partner in Patenting & Bioprinting Actual Kidney Tissue – October 13, 2015
• This Company Is Building Drones With Lasers On Top – September 28, 2015
• CRISPR genome-editing discovery may upend high-stakes patent dispute — The Boston Globe – September 26, 2015
• Small-scale nuclear fusion may be a new energy source – September 26, 2015