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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 06, 2016
In the summer of 1942, 10 months after they started, the engineers loaded the first pair of working jet engines, each producing 1,300 pounds of thrust, onto a railcar and shipped them to the Muroc Army Air Field, in California’s Mojave Desert. The aircraft designer Larry Bell was working in parallel with the GE team and building America’s first jet, the XP-59. On Oct. 2, 1942, the plane soared to 6,000 feet, a small first step for a technology that ended up shrinking the world.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 11, 2016
A number of people, including reportedly Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams, have had their corpses frozen in the hope that they can be revived in the future. This process, called cryopreservation, presents many challenges, chief among them keeping the delicate structure of the brain intact. But that may be changing. Our haul this week includes that story, plus tales of the world’s fastest data line, gravity waves and more.
A Homerun For Ted Williams?
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STEM

The Future of Science Is Big (Data) and Tiny (Nanoscale) - Interview with France Córdova of the National Science Foundation

France Cordova Director Of The National Science Foundation
December 27, 2015

The head of the National Science Foundation discusses the promises and challenges of science and tech research, including the need to scale up the U.S. innovation ecosystem and make it more evenly distributed geographically.

 
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Breakthrough

Engines of Inference: Peter Tu’s Tech Uses Computer Vision to Understand Emotions, Human Behavior

November 06, 2015
If Peter Tu’s technology takes off, an airplane could know when pilots get distracted in the cockpit and offer suggestions to help them make better decisions. Similarly, doctors could receive important tips on communicating and improving body language when presenting patients with a diagnosis.
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No Screw Left Unexamined: This Digital Test Bed Can Track the Lives of Machines

October 03, 2015
New machines may not have souls, but they do have lives. Tracking them is the idea behind the Industrial Digital Thread Testbed. This mouthful of a name hides a clear goal: give each machine and even individual parts a digital “birth certificate,” track them through their lifetime, and make sure that the information is properly recorded. “It will give us the digital story of a part’s life from birth to death,” says Dave Bartlett, chief technology officer of GE Aviation. “This has never existed before at this level. Previously, records were disjointed and … very hard to pull together.”
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artificial-intelligence

Stuart Armstrong: Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity?

Dr Stuart Armstrong James Martin Research Fellow At The Future Of Humanity Institute Oxford University
October 02, 2015

Unless we have clear evidence that artificially intelligent beings we create pose no threat, we need to seriously consider the risk.

 

Will a Democrat or a Republican win the 2040 U.S. election? Will Google be remembered positively or negatively in 2090? Will humans create new universes by 3002?
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Expect Big Science Projects in 2015, International Year of Light

Txchnologist
January 15, 2015
If science and technology gets your blood pumping, expect 2015 to be quite a workout.
 

The calendar should be chock-full of big announcements and exciting events. From designing genomes to exploring the outer reaches of our solar system, from a major push into developing targeted medicines to serious investments in materials science and understanding the fundamental mechanics of the universe, there will be no shortage of significant news.

Keep an eye out for these projects happening this year:

Space
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Bruce Katz and Mark Muro: What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced Industries

Bruce Katz Brookings Institution
Mark Muro Brookings
December 22, 2014
Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely to take incremental but not transformative steps on critical economic issues. In other words, less gridlock but little impact.
 
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Chris Fox: 3D Printing to Get to Mars

Chris Fox Manufacturing Net
December 18, 2014
On a recent trip to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, the aerospace organization provided some insight to the inner-workings of spacecraft manufacturing. At the Marshall Space Flight Center, they specialize in what can best be described as, the guts of a rocket.
 
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Dennis DeTurck and Bruce Lenthall: Transforming STEM Education

Dennis Deturck University Of Pennsylvania
Bruce Lenthall University Of Pennsylvania
December 12, 2014
Imagine an introductory college physics class where instead of sitting in a lecture hall, students work in small teams to predict the height from which an object must slide or roll downhill to successfully complete a loop-the-loop without leaving the track. They then do the experiment and analyze how accurate their predictions were.
 
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