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May 10, 2016

Kepler Findings: NASA Announces Discovery of More Than 1,200 New Alien Planets

Posted by in category: space

NASA just made a new announcement regarding the findings made by the Kepler Space Telescope.

NASA just announced that they have found 1,284 new planets. This is the most exoplanets that have ever been announced at one time, and it doubles the number of known Kepler exoplanets (informally known as ‘alien planets’).

“This announcement more than doubles the number of known exoplanets,” says Timothy Morton, associate research scholar at Princeton University, and a member of the study.

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May 10, 2016

Interesting Futurism Animation 30

Posted by in category: futurism

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May 10, 2016

Technology Will Replace the Need for Big Government

Posted by in categories: employment, government, habitats, robotics/AI, security

My new article on how some technologies will inevitably make the government smaller:


However, there’s reason to believe that in the near future, government might dramatically shrink—not because of demands by fiscally astute Americans, but because of radical technology.

Indubitably, millions of government jobs will soon be replaced by robots. Even the US President could one day be replaced, which—strangely enough—might bring sanity to our election process.

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May 10, 2016

‘Second Skin’ May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say

Posted by in category: entertainment

The researchers say an invisible film composed of polymers can be applied to the face and could make bags under the eyes, wrinkles and other dermatologic problems vanish.

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May 10, 2016

This Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants to Give Us All Robot Bodies

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

My surreal meeting with robotics pioneer Scott Hassan.

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May 10, 2016

With This App, You Never Have To Carry Your Passport Again

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, transportation

You will never have to carry physical documents of your passport into the airport ever again. De La Rue, a Britain-based commercial banknote printer and passport manufacturer, is working on a technology that can store “paperless passports” in smartphones.

This would act similar to mobile boarding cards, the Telegraph reported. “Paperless passports are one of many initiatives that we are currently looking at, but at the moment it is a concept that is at the very early stages of development,” a spokesman of the company was quoted as saying.

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May 10, 2016

Tiny Tests Probe for Dark Matter and Other Exotic Physics

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Experiments that can fit on a tabletop are probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and searching for evidence of extra dimensions.

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May 10, 2016

Viewpoint: Black Holes Produce Complexity Fastest

Posted by in categories: cosmology, quantum physics

Theoretical results suggest a precise speed limit on the growth of complexity in quantum gravity, set by fundamental laws and saturated by black holes.

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May 9, 2016

Scientists ‘improve’ prosthetic limbs — with something you may have in your KITCHEN

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

Pretty cool; who knew.


SCIENTISTS have found a revolutionary way to improve how plastic, prosthetic limbs are created.

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May 9, 2016

Photonics researchers create first nanoscale ‘optical parametric amplifier’

Posted by in categories: energy, nanotechnology

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Rice University photonics researchers have unveiled a new nanoparticle amplifier that can generate infrared light and boost the output of one light by capturing and converting energy from a second light.

The innovation, the latest from Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), is described online in a paper in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters (“Toward Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Optical Parametric Amplification (SPOPA) with Engineered Nanoparticles: A Nanoscale Tunable Infrared Source”). The device functions much like a laser, but while lasers have a fixed output frequency, the output from Rice’s nanoscale “optical parametric amplifier” (OPA) can be tuned over a range of frequencies that includes a portion of the infrared spectrum.

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