Category: Humans
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Formation. Growth. (Gods?!)
Scientists used high-performance TEM to image the process of gold atoms assembling into nanocrystals. It was discovered that the atoms undergo a spontaneous transition between disordered and crystalline states. (1) Order out of chaos. Chaos out of order. So much known of a motto, that we usually fail to see beyond our self. The obvious…
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Complex calculations…
A calculation so complex that it takes twenty years to complete on a powerful desktop computer can now be done in one hour on a regular laptop. Physicists have now designed a new method to calculate the properties of atomic nuclei incredibly quickly. (1) Calculating. Calculating. Calculating. But we will never calculate everything. We will…
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Being human… Not being one…
With only 1 percent difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line of research. Researchers have developed a new approach to pinpoint adaptive human-specific changes in the way genes are regulated in the brain. (1) But…
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Navigating into the unknown… (Where are you going?)
As engineers increasingly turn to machine learning methods to develop adaptable robots, new work makes progress on safety and performance guarantees for robots operating in novel environments with diverse types of obstacles and constraints. (1) Computers trying to navigate into the unknown. Like humans before them. Like gods before them. Like God in the beginning.…
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From the depths of the cosmos!
Cataclysmic astrophysical events such as black hole mergers could release energy in unexpected forms. Exotic low-mass fields (ELFs), for example, could propagate through space and cause feeble signals detectable with quantum sensor networks such as the atomic clocks of the GPS network or the magnetometers of the GNOME network. These results are particularly interesting in…
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