Two cloned macaques named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are held by a nurse at the non-human-primate research facility under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu province, Jan. 22, 2018. China on Thursday announced it successfully cloned world’s first macaques from somatic cells by method that made Dolly. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
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German Archaeologists Find Collection of Ancient Clay Seals in Turkey
Archaeologists from the University of Münster, Germany, have unearthed a large collection of 1,800-year-old clay seals, or bullae, at the ancient city of Doliche, which was part of the province of Syria in Roman times. Mosaic floor of a late antique church at Doliche. Image credit: University of Münster. “This unique group of over 1,000…
DHS Announces Program To Illegally Scan American Faces
Both Congress and the Department of Homeland Security have never justified the biometric scanners at airports that could cost Americans $1 billion in 2018. As TSA agents continue to prove their incompetence in the “War on Terror,” the Department of Homeland Security is now allocating $1 billion in taxpayer funding to create a facial recognition…
Physicists Prove Existence of New Form of Matter: Excitonium
New research led by a University of Illinois physicist has proved the existence of a new form of matter — ‘excitonium,’ a solid crystal of excitons. The research, led by Professor Peter Abbamonte, is published in the December 8 issue of the journal Science. Artist’s depiction of the collective excitons of an excitonic solid. These…
A.I. The facts of today.
A disruptive force known as the fourth industrial revolution is already underway. Known as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIot), the digital enterprise or simply “smart manufacturing,” it’s a phenomenon that’s creating a host of opportunities for manufacturers around the world. Toyota Motor North America has already achieved significant maintenance savings from a smart- manufacturing…
3D Robot Perception
Seminar November 6 Mon Ben BurchfielPhD CandidateDuke, Aurora Tech Monday, November 6 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm GHC 6501 Bayesian Eigenobjects: A Unified Framework for 3D Robot Perception Abstract: Robot-object interaction requires several key perceptual building blocks including object pose estimation, object classification, and partial-object completion. These tasks form the perceptual foundation for many higher…
Self Supervised Robot Learning
PhD StudentRobotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Monday, November 6 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Newell Simon Hall 1507 Scaling up Self Supervised Robot Learning Abstract Robot learning holds promise in alleviating several real world problems, by performing complex behaviors in complex environments. But what is the right way to train these robots? Our methods on…
Science is ready to make men pregnant, fertility expert claims
Men could get pregnant as early as “tomorrow” due to huge leaps in the transplantation of wombs, according to the outgoing president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Richard Paulson told the society’s annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas that there was no anatomical reason why a womb could not be successfully implanted…
The Start of the A.I.-N.A.S.A. Digital Clone Projectaims to prolong life of machines by studying their ‘DNA’
A New York-based company has created software which can define whether a machine is healthy or is in need of some urgent rest and recuperation. The program is able to collect information regarding the lifespans of materials used to build the machines. The program is the brainchild of Sentient Science, the company whose main goal…
Majorana ‘zero modes’ spotted in superconducting nanowires
An important property of Majorana quasi particles has been measured for the first time by physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark. They found evidence that electrons in tiny nanowires form entangled states that are highly isolated from noise and other external stimuli. Because they are protected from outside influences, these Majorana “zero modes”…
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