With great power comes great responsibility. There is a famous superhero who was told that by his uncle 😉 and that advice applies to everything. We are in the information age, and a Nordic publication poses some very intelligent and forward thinking knowledge regarding this new are: Planet Earth is becoming hyperconnected. This transformation is called…
One Of World’s Largest Telescopes To Be Linked To Supercomputer
Detecting planets, galaxies, quasars and other formations is just part of the challenge of astronomy. The other piece is analyzing the data and making sense of it as well as computer modeling to help illustrate things that we cannot necessrily make sense of as invidicuals. Now China is embarking on ambitious endeavor that may yield…
Is DIY Surgery With Robots The Future Of Health?
Science is pushing then envelope in all areas including health, and these advancements are improving surgical robots capabilities: In 2015, if you need an operation, you go to a hospital. The Open Surgery Machine imagines a future in which getting an appendectomy is as DIY as downloading a template from Thingsverse and firing up your…
NASA Is Working On This Healing Device…Seriously!
Star Trek fans and people of the world rejoice! Apparently, what was once science fiction is closer to science reality: NASA and Houston-based company GRoK Technologies will work on the development of new “breakthrough products,” noninvasive medical technologies designed to “regenerate bone and muscle tissues.” It really sounds like something out of Star Trek, but…
3D Printing With Precision Of One Atom
The 3D printing revolution has taken the world by storm. This may be the biggest technological breakthrough as an industry since the internet. And now things may be progressing further: John Bashonger has tipped us off to a possible precursor for an “atomic precision” 3D printhead where the interaction of tailored light with a single…
Scientists Can Steer Lightning With Lasers..Cool!
Wow now they are getting closer to modifying lightning with science and meteorologists may be able to help stave off dangerous strikes if this advances further: Lightning could one day be tamed with the use of lasers, research suggests. At present, lightning rods on tall buildings can increase the likelihood that the high voltage bolts will…
Internet of Things May Eclipse The Regular Internet
Who remembers the internet of the 90’s? There were some chat boards, many did not have email and it was super slow. By the late 90’s mass adoption started taking place. Compare it to 15 years later or so and there are over 1 billion online with smartphones. The internet of things may eclipse the…
Jetpack Will Be Available Next Year
A new Zealand company has actually made a jetpack that will be commercially available very soon: Known as the Martin Jetpack, the device runs using normal petrol and is powered by two huge fans that can blast a pilot weighing up to 120 kg into the air at speeds of 74 km/h. The jetpack can…
Touch This Hologram..Wow
Finally a holograph you can touch..wow! Even in Star Wars when r2d2 projected the message to Luke you couldn’t touch it. Here is more on how it is done: We present a method of rendering aerial and volumetric graphics using femtosecond lasers. A high-intensity laser excites a physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary…
4D Printing and Why is it Cool?
The 3D printing revolution is already disrupting the process of manufacturing and growing at a super fast rate. Now we have 4D printing. Wat what? Yes that is correct in in this case, the 3D printed materials can move, representing the 4th dimension…time. Eventually there will probably be frameworks or embedded repositories within the materials…
What Happens Inside the Google Brain?
This may be the one of the most important developments in the history of this generation and for many to come. Not just this actual program called DeepMind but the understanding of AI, quantum computing and algorithms, and how they will change our future: The future of artificial intelligence begins with a game of Space…
NASA Building Their Own Search Engine
Is Google the end all be all in the search world? Well NASA has plans to build their own search engine and here is more about it: The idea is to organize access to the Deep Web’s content, and build a search engine alternative to Google, that will give NASA a better way to access…
Super Computer Beats Human in IQ Test
Who’s smarter computers or people? Obviously computers can excel at many repetitive tasks but what about an actual IQ test? Computers have never been good at answering the type of verbal reasoning questions found in IQ tests. Now a deep learning machine unveiled in China is changing that. Just over 100 years ago, the German…
10 Billion Times Brighter Than The Sun
What is a synchrotron and how does it work? Here is a rare look into one of the synchrotrons that creates a super bright light: By the numbers, the Diamond synchrotron facility in Oxfordshire, England, was a massive undertaking. The particle accelerator cost more than $500 million to build and is housed in a circular…
World’s Thinnest Lightbulb Made With Graphene
Finally the world’s thinnest light bulb! This is pretty cool: This movie clip schematically shows the light emission from graphene and radiation spectrum engineering by strong optical interference effect. Vibration of graphene during light emission is due to the flexural mode of graphene at high temperature. Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist…
They’re 3D Printing a Bridge in Amsterdam
3D printing has taken the world by storm and usually is most common in producing miniatures and small plastic parts for simple devices. Now in Amsterdam they are very ambitious and going to try to 3D print a bridge. “We research and develop groundbreaking, cost-effective robotic technology with which we can 3D-print beautiful, functional objects…
Computer That Runs on Water
Uh sweet finally a computer that runs on water! Ok aside from sounding cool what is the benefit? Here is more on the breakthrough: The new fluidic computer uses electromagnetic fields to accurately pump these droplets around a set of physical gates to perform logical operations. Suspended in oil and timed to move in very…
SpaceX Wants To Launch Internet in Outer Space
Elon Musk is on his way to perhaps launching the internet in space whoa?! Here is more on his ambitions: The prize: the chance to sell high-speed satellite internet connections to the billions of people throughout the world who don’t yet have access—and in the process become a global telecommunications company to rival giants like…
Nano Surfaces With Almost Zero Friction
Nano technology is starting to get exciting and the potential for applications is endless. Here is an incredible look into the future of frictionless surfaces: For the first time, researchers in the US have made friction almost completely vanish between two surfaces at the nanoscale. The discovery paves the way for engineering surfaces that can…
CERN Supercollider Will be Smashing Atoms for Three Years Straight
The CERN supercollider on May 28th ran at a record 13TEV which is insane. Now they started back up at the LHC and may be running it for a while…like 3 years straight. Here is more on what is happening at CERN: Physicists now expect the particle collider to run non-stop for the next 3…
