Nanorobots: Where We Are Today and Why Their Future Has …
网页2016年5月16日 · The new nano-engines could lead to nanorobots small enough to enter living cells to fight disease, the researchers say. Professor Jeremy Baumberg from the Cavendish Laboratory, who led the research, has named the devices ‘actuating nanotransducers’ (ANTs). ‘Like real ants, they produce large forces for their weight…’ ” …
Newly Discovered Brain Wave Helps Lock in Memories While We …
网页2024年8月19日 · A new study from Cornell University suggests a way the brain balances itself during sleep. In recordings from multiple areas of the hippocampus in mice and rats, the team discovered a previously undetected brain wave that keeps brain cells in check. Dubbed BARR (for barrage of action potentials), these brain waves reset neurons so …
The Rise of AI Art—and What It Means for Human Creativity
网页2019年6月17日 · AIVA is an AI that composes soundtrack music for movies, commercials, games, and trailers. Its creative works span a wide range of emotions and moods. The scores it generates are indistinguishable from those created by the most talented human composers. The AIVA music engine allows users to generate original scores in …
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web …
网页2024年8月17日 · Emma Roth | The Verge. “The Swedish furniture chain announced that the autonomous drones will soon operate alongside workers in its Perryville, Maryland, distribution center, where Ikea started installation this summer. The Verity-branded drones also come with a new AI-powered system that allows them to fly around warehouses 24/7.
A New ‘Guest Star’ Will Appear in the Sky Soon. Here’s How Novas …
网页August 13, 2024. The stars aren’t fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancient people thought. Once in a while, a star appears where there wasn’t one before, and then it fades away in a matter of days or weeks. The earliest record of such a “guest star,” named so by ancient Chinese astronomers, is a star that suddenly appeared in ...
NASA's Plan to Build a Base Camp on the Moon Sounds Like Sci …
网页2020年4月8日 · That’s just one reason NASA is planning to build a new lunar base camp. In a report released last week, the agency laid out its multi-phase plan for what it’s calling the Artemis program, which will be the core of its spaceflight and exploration endeavors for the next decade. Artemis’s goals cover three domains: low-Earth orbit, the moon ...
The Benefits of a Mini Wind Turbine for Home | Singularity Hub
网页2017年7月9日 · According to its creator, Semtive Energy CEO Ignacio Juarez, a Nemoi turbine can power a four-person household at wind speeds of just 10-13 miles per hour. It’s also made of 95 percent recyclable aluminum, can be quickly assembled by one person, and is locally manufactured. Semtive Energy / Flickr. Nemoi was …
How Many Galaxies Are There in the Universe | Singularity Hub
网页2021年1月15日 · Added to existing Hubble observations, their results suggested such galaxies make up 90 percent of the total, leading to a new estimate—that there may be up to two trillion galaxies in the universe. Such estimates, however, are a moving target. As more observations roll in, scientists can get a better handle on the variables at play and ...
New Optical Switch Is Up to 1,000 Times Faster Than Silicon …
网页2021年11月1日 · As Moore’s Law slows, people are starting to look for alternatives to the silicon chips we’ve long been reliant on. A new optical switch up to 1,000 times faster than normal transistors could one day form the basis of new computers that use light rather than electricity.. The attraction of optical computing is obvious. Unlike the electrons that modern computers rely on, photons travel at ...
Google DeepMind’s New AlphaFold AI Maps Life's Molecular …
网页2024年5月9日 · Deciphering protein architectures could lead to new treatments. That was the promise of AlphaFold 2, an AI model from Google DeepMind that predicted how proteins gain their distinctive shapes based on the sequences of their constituent molecules alone. Released in 2020, the tool was a breakthrough half a decade in the making.