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Nov 30, 2016
Voice synthesiser produces speech from muscle movement
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
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Nov 30, 2016
These 2.5-Billion-Year-Old Bacteria Predate the Rise of Oxygen on Earth
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: futurism
Fossilised bacteria have been uncovered in two separate locations in South Africa, and they’ve been dated to 2.52 billion years ago — long before oxygen started to saturate Earth’s atmosphere.
Instead of thriving in oxygen, like the trees and multicellular organisms that came after them did, these bacteria oxidised sulphur to survive, suggesting that life could be sustained on a planet with less than one-thousandth of a percent of Earth’s current oxygen levels.
The fossils were uncovered in a layer of hard, silica-rich rock in the Kaapvaal Craton of the Limpopo Province in South Africa — one of the two remaining areas in the world where Earth’s crust from 3.6 to 2.5 million years ago is still accessible.
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Nov 29, 2016
MIT Creates AI Able to See Two Seconds Into the Future
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
On Monday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced its new artificial intelligence. Based on a photograph alone, it can predict what’ll happen next, then generate a one-and-a-half second video clip depicting that possible future.
Nov 29, 2016
Get Ready for the Easy Bake Oven of Homemade Body Parts
Posted by Carse Peel in category: futurism
Nov 28, 2016
Exeter’s New Living Systems Institute hosts ‘Global Conversation’
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
The pioneering and world-leading research conducted at the University of Exeter’s state-of-the-art Living Systems Institute (LSI) will form the basis of the latest high-profile Global Conversation event.
The iconic new research facility, located on the University’s Streatham Campus, will host 100 specially-invited guests at the prominent event, held on Monday, 28 November.
The event, the first Global Conversation to be held on campus, gives the distinguished guests an exclusive opportunity to preview the new £52 million LSI facility, which brings together world-leading scientists and researchers from diverse discipline backgrounds.
Nov 28, 2016
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Long-Lived Diamond Batteries
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: futurism
The diamonds are made from radioactive graphite and can generate a small electric current for thousands of years.
Nov 28, 2016
Theory challenging Einstein’s view on speed of light could soon be tested
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: futurism
New paper describes for first time how scientists can test controversial idea that speed of light is not a constant.