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Sep 30, 2018

Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference

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The mathematics of mind-time

The special trick of consciousness is being able to project action and time into a range of possible futures.

Karl Friston

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Sep 28, 2018

Microsoft talks about Project Silica, a new way of storing data

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At the Storage Developer Conference, Microsoft presented a new paper that talks about how data can be stored in quartz glass cubes using laser light. The project is done in collaboration with University of Southampton Optoelectronics Research Centre. You can check out the full video of the Storage Developer Conference below.

The idea is to help companies store data easily and not compromise with the speed or the performance of the servers.

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Sep 28, 2018

Hvad det er som Balder holder?

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Det er da selvfølgelig et neurostimulations-pandebånd. Georg Gearløs’ tænkehat findes nu i virkeligheden. Det er noget med at bestemte områder i hjernen får tilført meget små impulser af strøm — man kan indstille den så den øger koncentrationsevnen — eller kreativiteten! Efter sigende. Skal jeg have den på næste gang jeg freestyler? Selvfølgelig skal jeg det. Glæder mig til at aflægge rapport PlatoScience 😬

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Sep 27, 2018

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos will now sell rocket engines, too

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Tory Bruno, chief of United Launch Alliance, “a real visionary and risk taker.”

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Sep 27, 2018

Asteroids have been hitting the Earth for billions of years. In 2022, we hit back

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Payback time.


DART is a test of the kinetic impactor technique, a potential method to deflect an asteroid on course to impact the Earth. Kinetic impactors are one of only a small number of approaches we think are mature enough to deploy in the near future if they are needed (though we hope they won’t be). The most powerful asteroid-deflection technique is the use of a nuclear device. While such a device makes for good (and bad) sci-fi movies, there is widespread desire to develop alternate techniques.

The kinetic impactor concept is rather straightforward: ram the threatening object with a spacecraft and change its orbit so that it misses our planet. In theory, we could heave ever-larger masses at ever-faster speeds to deflect ever-larger objects. However, we think there is a practical limit — we don’t want to break up an incoming object into several pieces, lest we replace one big impact with multiple, only-slightly-smaller impacts. Exactly where that tradeoff lies is still uncertain, but we believe we can keep an object intact if we change its speed by less than the object’s own escape speed. In other words, since we think a lot of these objects are loose aggregates of gravel held together by gravity, we don’t want to shove so hard that we accidentally overcome that weak gravity and disperse the gravel.

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Sep 26, 2018

The ‘game-changing’ technique to create babies from skin cells just stepped forward

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Scientists are trying to create human sperm and eggs in a dish. They’ve already done it in mice, and one scientist says it is only a matter of time before there’s “a game changer like no other” for human reproduction.

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Sep 26, 2018

New, Ultra-Colorful Neon Fish Species Discovered

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In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of feet underwater, the Greek goddess of love lives on—in the form of a dazzling reef fish.

In a new study published on Tuesday in ZooKeys, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences describe a new species of anthias, a common type of reef fish, named Tosanoides aphrodite or the Aphrodite anthias. The pink and yellow creature so transfixed researchers when they discovered it during a deep-water dive that they didn’t notice a large sixgill shark swimming directly above them.

“This one is without a doubt the most spectacularly colored fish I’ve ever described,” says Luiz Rocha, an ichthyologist with the California Academy of Sciences, in an email.

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Sep 26, 2018

Philippine inventor aims to cut travel times with passenger drone

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BATANGAS, Philippines (Reuters) — A Philippine inventor has unveiled what he calls a flying sports car that represents the future of transport, riding it out of a warehouse toward a cheering crowd, leaving a cloud of dust in his wake.

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Sep 26, 2018

Author Correction: In vitro inhibition of hepatic stellate cell activation by the autophagy-related lipid droplet protein ATG2A

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Sep 26, 2018

New research shows the world’s ice is doing something not seen before

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Do you know how an ice sheet can move? You’ll find out below.

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