Mike McCueInnovation How Epidemics of the Past Changed the Way Americans Lived smithsonianmag.com - Katherine A. Foss, Zócalo Public Square At the end of the 19th century, one in seven people around the world had died of tuberculosis, and the disease ranked as the third leading cause of …
Mike McCueTechnology Quantum entanglement over 30 miles of fiber has brought super secure internet closer MIT Technology Review - Will Douglas Heaven The lab test suggests a reliable quantum internet between cities might be possible. Albert Einstein wanted nothing to do with it: he mocked the …
Mike McCue Researchers develop lithium-sulphur battery that can power a phone for five days dpreview.com - Brittany Hillen Researchers led by Monash University in Australia have developed what they say is the 'most efficient' version of a lithium-sulfur battery; one …
Mike McCueSamsung Galaxy Fold Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Fold is the first real foldable tablet Engadget - Cherlynn LowInside the making of the world's first ready-for-sale laptop with a bending screen. It's been more than seven months since I first laid eyes on Lenovo's foldable tablet PC prototype, and the company is
Mike McCueNuclear Energy The Tiny, Simple Nuclear Reactor That Could Change Energy Popular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertThe next step in nuclear power is 1/100th the size of today's reactors. An energy startup in Oregon wants us to rethink our reluctance to embrace nuclear energy, Wired reports. NuScale Power studies new
Mike McCueQuantum Physics Objective Reality Doesn't Exist, Quantum Experiment Shows Live Science - Alessandro Fedrizzi Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now, it seems they have even infected science — at least the quantum realm. This may …
Mike McCue This Scientist Believes Aging Is Optional Outside Magazine - Graham AverillThe oldest-known living person is Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who is a mind-boggling 116 years old. But if you ask David Sinclair, he’d argue that 116 is just middle age. At least, he thinks it should
Mike McCueBattling For Quantum Computing SupremacyGoogle claims it made a technological breakthrough: using a programmable superconducting processor to achieve quantum computing supremacy. This promises to help computers compile calculations at speeds far superior to today's modern technology. But not everyone is buying into the claim—IBM calls it a "quantum flop." Here's a look at Google's achievement, IBM's argument, what quantum computing is and how we might all benefit.
Mike McCue Why scientists are so excited about “quantum supremacy” Vox - Brian ResnickScientists at Google on Wednesday declared, via a paper in the journal Nature, that they’d done something extraordinary. In building a quantum computer that solved an incredibly hard problem in 200 seconds
Mike McCue Scientists have discovered a shape that blocks all sound–even your co-workers Fast Company - Mark WilsonOffices and tiny apartments could be transformed by the work of Boston University researchers, who recently unveiled an “acoustic metamaterial” that blocks all sound. A team of Boston University researchers
Mike McCueHIV And AIDS: Possible Cure In SightAlmost 12 years after Timothy Ray Brown became the first person to be cured of infection by HIV, scientists say a second patient appears to be free of the virus and is in long-term remission. While these cases are a massive breakthrough in the global fight against the disease, researchers believe it will take years to translate the latest successes into practical treatment.
Mike McCue Could This Radical New Approach to Alzheimer’s Lead to a Breakthrough? Fortune - Rick Tetzeli In a small lab in Jackson Hole, Wyo., 65-year-old Paul Cox believes he’s closing in on a treatment that might prevent Alzheimer’s disease. And ALS. …
Mike McCue Scientists Identify The Physical Source of Anxiety in The Brain ScienceAlert - Peter Dockrill We're not wired to feel safe all the time, but maybe one day we could be. A 2018 study investigating the neurological basis of anxiety in the brain …
Mike McCue Scientists develop 10-minute universal cancer test The Guardian - Ian Sample Science editorInexpensive procedure shows whether patient has cancerous cells in the body, but does not reveal where or how serious it is Scientists have developed a universal cancer test that can detect traces of disease
Mike McCue E Ink’s new digital paper lets you draw with almost no lag TNW - Matthew HughesThe hypothetical pinnacle of digital paper is when it becomes indistinguishable from the real article, both in terms of reading and writing. Today, at the Connected Ink conference in Tokyo, E Ink Holdings
Mike McCue Wearable tech helps an MIT scientist remember his whole life Quartz - Natasha FrostThink back to a recent event: where you were, what it looked like, how it made you feel. Perhaps you recall the decor in the room, or who was with you. If you’ve got a really good memory, you might even
Mike McCue MIT researchers develop new chip design to take us closer to computers that work like human brains CNBC - Andrew Zaleski While the pace of machine learning has quickened over the last decade, the underlying hardware enabling machine-learning tasks hasn't changed much: …
Mike McCue How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? With a Telescope as Big as the Earth The New York Times - By SETH FLETCHERWe live 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. That’s a rounding error by cosmological standards, but still — it’s far. When the light now reaching Earth from the galactic center first took
Mike McCue Astronomers Have Found the Universe's Missing Matter WIRED - Katia Moskvitch For decades, some of the atomic matter in the universe had not been located. Recent papers reveal where it’s been hiding. Astronomers have finally …
Mike McCue Let there be light: 'ghost' particle found a mile beneath Antarctica holds key to breakthrough in physics The Telegraph - By Henry BodkinThe secrets of the origins of light are set to be unlocked by the discovery of an elusive “ghost” particle a mile beneath Antarctica, scientists have announced. Astronomers have for the first time identified
Arthur van HoffInsects Robotic insect takes flight powered by frickin' laser beams Engadget - Rob LeFebvreMiniscule robotic drones might be the future, but they've been tricky to get off the ground. Until now, any wing-flapping insect robot had to have a power source, making it too heavy to lift off with tiny
Mike McCue A new physics discovery could change the game for quantum computing Quartz - Robert YoungFrom tunneling through impenetrable barriers to being in two places at the same time, the quantum world of atoms and particles is famously bizarre. Yet the strange properties of quantum mechanics are mathematical
Mike McCue Why Decentralization Matters Medium - Chris Dixon During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were built on open protocols that were controlled …
Mike McCue Tiny Lab-Grown 'Brains' Raise Big Ethical Questions NPR - Jon HamiltonBits of human brain tissue no larger than a pea are forcing scientists to think about questions as large as the nature of consciousness. These clusters of living brain cells are popularly known as minibrains,
Arthur van HoffArtificial Intelligence NVIDIA's AI fixes photos by recognizing what's missing Engadget - Jon FingasMost image editing tools aren't terribly bright when you ask them to fix a photo. They'll borrow content from adjacent pixels (such as Adobe's recently demonstrated context-aware AI fill), but they can't
Arthur van Hoff Watch traffic flow better in 30 simulations of a 4-way intersection boingboing.net - Andrea James YouTuber euverus modded Cities: Skylines to demonstrate how 30 different types of intersections have dramatically different amounts of traffic flow. …
Mike McCue Alzheimer's gene neutralised in human brain cells for the first time The Telegraph - By Henry BodkinScientists have claimed an important breakthrough in the battle against Alzheimer’s after neutralising the most significant gene responsible for the disease for the first time. A team in California successfully
Arthur van Hoff Waymo's 360-degree demo ride shows what self-driving cars 'see' Engadget - Richard LawlerOne of the big steps necessary to roll out self-driving cars is getting the public to trust them, and Waymo's latest attempt to achieve that is with a new 360-degree experience. Viewable on a computer,
Mike McCue New DNA nanorobots successfully target and kill off cancerous tumors – TechCrunch TechCrunch - Sarah BuhrScience fiction no more — in an article out today in Nature Biotechnology, scientists were able to show tiny autonomous bots have the potential to function as intelligent delivery vehicles to cure cancer
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