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Sep 21, 2018
How AI Can Help Stop Cyberattacks
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
As corporations struggle to fight off hackers and contain data breaches, some are looking to artificial intelligence for a solution.
They’re using machine learning to sort through millions of malware files, searching for common characteristics that will help them identify new attacks. They’re analyzing people’s voices, fingerprints and typing styles to make sure that only authorized users get into their systems. And they’re hunting for clues to figure out who launched cyberattacks—and make sure they can’t do it again.
As hackers get smarter and more determined, artificial intelligence is going to be an important part of the solution.
Sep 20, 2018
Paging Mr. Spock: ‘Star Trek’ planet Vulcan found?
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
A planet has been found right where the creator of “Star Trek” and three astronomers thought Vulcan would be.
(CNN)Maybe the final frontier isn’t so far out of reach. Astronomers have found an exoplanet reminiscent of the planet Vulcan from “Star Trek,” orbiting a star in a system only 16 light-years from Earth.
Sep 20, 2018
Astronauts Going to Mars Will Absorb Crazy Amounts of Radiation. Now We Know How Much
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
In episode five of The Most Unknown, astrophysicist Rachel Smith and astrobiologist Luke McKay travel to Hawaii’s powerful W.M. Keck Observatory to explore forming stars at the center of our galaxy.
Sep 20, 2018
Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
AS MISMATCHES go, it’s a big one. When physicists bring the Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity together they get a clear prediction. In the very early universe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have come into being. Since the one famously annihilates the other, the result should be a universe full of radiation, but without the stars, planets and nebulae that make up galaxies. Yet stars, planets and nebulae do exist. The inference is that matter and antimatter are not quite as equal and opposite as the models predict.
This problem has troubled physics for the past half-century, but it may now be approaching resolution. At CERN, a particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, three teams of researchers are applying different methods to answer the same question: does antimatter fall down, or up? Relativity predicts “down”, just like matter. If it falls up, that could hint at a difference between the two that allowed a matter-dominated universe to form.
Sep 20, 2018
Scientists Create Immature Human Eggs From Stem Cells
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
Japanese Researchers Create Immature Human Eggs From Stem Cells : Shots — Health News A Japanese research team made immature human eggs from stem cells that were derived from human blood. The technique brings scientists a step closer to being able to mass-produce human eggs.
Sep 20, 2018
Quick and not-so-dirty: A rapid nano-filter for clean water
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: innovation, nanotechnology
Australian researchers have designed a rapid nano-filter that can clean dirty water over 100 times faster than current technology.
Simple to make and simple to scale up, the technology harnesses naturally occurring nano-structures that grow on liquid metals.
The RMIT University and University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers behind the innovation have shown it can filter both heavy metals and oils from water at extraordinary speed.
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Sep 20, 2018
Skeletal stem cells found in humans for first time, promising new treatments for fractures and osteoporosis
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Sep 20, 2018
There’s a planet exactly where Star Trek said Vulcan should be
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Astrophysicists just found a planet orbiting the star HD 26965, 16 light years away from Earth. Finding exoplanets is always fun, and the fact that this one is in the star’s habitable zone (where liquid water could exist on its surface) is a bonus. But that’s not why people are particularly psyched about the announcement.
See, HD 26965 also goes by 40 Eridani A—the star orbited by Spock’s homeworld in Star Trek. That means they found Vulcan. Ok, fine, they found a real-world analog to a completely fictional world, but you can’t blame Star Trek fans for being excited.