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Could Life Be Hiding In Our Galaxy’s Ocean Worlds?

Posted in Science on 1st Apr, 2021
by Alex Muller

Scientists hope to send landers to these moons too and more directly sample the oceans below. And although detecting exomoons is still a challenge, more sensitive instruments and creative new methods may, in the future, yield insight into how frequently they occur and what they're made of.

Relativity Space Aims To 3D Print 95 Percent Of A Rocket And Send It To Orbit.

Posted in Hardware on 31st Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

The company says 3D printing benefits, like vastly simplified designs that can only be achieved additively, accelerated prototyping, and design flexibility, apply too.

Lightning Strikes May Have Provided Missing Ingredient For Earth's First Organisms

Posted in Science on 31st Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

On early Earth, there would have ranged from 100 million to 1 billion lightning strikes a year

Interview With Dr. Anton Kolonin Founder Of The Autonio Blockchain Project:

Posted in Business, Interviews, Software on 20th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

Interview with Dr. Anton Kolonin who has taken the lead in AI research and development at Autonio.

Bruce Pon Of Ocean Protocol Discusses The Ocean Protocol Blockchain And How Important Big Data In This Modern Age And For The Future:

Posted in Interviews, Online, Software on 17th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

Ocean Protocol is a blockchain used to create a marketplace for large data sets. Founder Bruce Pon answers some questions:

AI Tools That Can Diagnose Dementia With Impressive Accuracy

Posted in Medicine, Software on 6th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

The team is also exploring ways that other neurological medical conditions, like aphasia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and depression, can affect a patient’s use of language.

AI Is Being Used To Understand The Interactions Of Multiple Drugs

Posted in Medicine, Science on 6th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

The aim is to create a user-friendly tool, that gives physicians guidance on whether it’s a good idea to prescribe a particular pharmaceutical drug to a particular patient and to help researchers in developing drug protocols for complex diseases, with fewer side-effects.

Adapting Immunotherapy Solutions To Fight Fungal Infections

Posted in Medicine on 6th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

Progress in cancer immunotherapy is showing a lot of promise in other areas of medicine.

Even With All The SpaceX Starship Flights Exploding, Enormous Progress Is Being Made On The Project

Posted in Hardware, Science on 6th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

A lot of progress is being made on the starship project and a lot of data is being collected with each flight.

Northrop Grumman Commissioned To Build The Propulsion System For A Mars Ascent Vehicle

Posted in Hardware, Science on 6th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

This project will be the first to launch an orbital rocket from the surface of Mars.

Scientists Communicated With People While They Were In A Lucid Dream

Posted in Science on 6th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

Once aware, they can consciously control the content of their dreams, untethered by the rules and physical laws of the real world.

Facebook’s New Computer Vision Model Achieves State-of-the-art Performance

Posted in Software on 5th Mar, 2021
by Alex Muller

Self-supervised learning has long been a focus for Facebook AI because it enables machines to learn directly from the vast amount of information available in the world, rather than just from training data created specifically for AI research