Inspired by the mastery of artificial intelligence (AI) over games like Go and Super Mario, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) trained an AI agent — an autonomous computational program that observes and acts — how to conduct research experiments at superhuman levels by using the same approach. The Brookhaven team published their findings in the journal Machine Learning: Science and Technology and implemented the AI agent as part of the research capabilities at NSLS-II.
As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, NSLS-II enables scientific studies by more than 2000 researchers each year, offering access to the facility’s ultrabright x-rays. Scientists from all over the world come to the facility to advance their research in areas such as batteries, microelectronics, and drug development. However, time at NSLS-II’s experimental stations — called beamlines — is hard to get because nearly three times as many researchers would like to use them as any one station can handle in a day — despite the facility’s 24/7 operations.
“Since time at our facility is a precious resource, it is our responsibility to be good stewards of that; this means we need to find ways to use this resource more efficiently so that we can enable more science,” said Daniel Olds, beamline scientist at NSLS-II and corresponding author of the study. “One bottleneck is us, the humans who are measuring the samples. We come up with an initial strategy, but adjust it on the fly during the measurement to ensure everything is running smoothly. But we can’t watch the measurement all the time because we also need to eat, sleep and do more than just run the experiment.”
On December 2nd, we brought you the news that Microsoft Research developed a new method that allows it to read and write much faster in DNA format. In the last month or so, three other new developments have popped up in DNA storage.
Scientists at the Center for Synthetic Biology from the Northwestern University, Illinois, have revealed a demonstration on DNA storage encoding that manages to fulfill three bits of information in an hour, according to Technology Networks. This new method “relies on an enzymatic system.”
Then, a team from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has devised a microchip that can significantly improve the speed at which data can be written in DNA form, according to the BBC. The team expects a 100x improvement over current technologies for DNA storage.
Finally, a team in China at Southeast University in the country’s Jiangsu Provincemade has been reported to be engineering a new process that could produce the first mass-market DNA storage device, according to TechRadar.
Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists from McGill University develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a major advance in regenerative medicine.
“People recovering from heart damage often face a long and tricky journey. Healing is challenging because of the constant movement tissues must withstand as the heart beats. The same is true for vocal cords. Until now there was no injectable material strong enough for the job,” says Guangyu Bao, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.
The team, led by Professor Luc Mongeau and Assistant Professor Jianyu Li, developed a new injectable hydrogel for wound repair. The hydrogel is a type of biomaterial that provides room for cells to live and grow. Once injected into the body, the biomaterial forms a stable, porous structure allowing live cells to grow or pass through to repair the injured organs.
This is the same type of double double DOUBLE down on hyperbolic and aggressive anti expert BS that has pushed a not insignificant portion of the population of the US to throw a violent tantrum against covid19 vaccines and wearing a piece of cloth on their face to keep from DYING. Similarly, ultra environmentalists on the far left have ceased to try to protect the environment FOR future generations. Now they want to protect the environment FROM future generations. They’ve become ANTIHUMAN, often to a disturbingly horrific — if hilariously stupid — extent. LITERALLY. Unless you think we shouldn’t build anything on the sterile, irradiated and dead surface of the moon by polluting it — or any other moon, asteroid, or planet by stepping on it’s surface with our filthy monkey feet. Or throwing trash into the SUN because we’d be…
👉😏🙄POLLUTING IT!🙄🤪👈
There is a reason why experts are experts. It isn’t because they want to eat children on pizza with Hillary Clinton with space lizards, nor because they want an irradiated earth beneath their feet. Nuclear power is clean, cheap, and safe. Until fusion gets here, and with electric vehicles quickly becoming the dominant mode of transportation every minute that ticks by, nuclear power isn’t just preferential, its absolutely REQUIRED if we want to get a handle on global warming while simultaneously maintain or improve the standard and quality of life we are accustomed to, and that developing nations will, already are, and SHOULD be seeking for themselves too. Building nuclear power into the foundation of a developing nations energy generation and distribution infrastructure from day one will PREVENT all the massive amount of damage that will inevitably exponentially accelerate global warming and pollution, lowering the quality of life in that nation which will in turn prompt even GREATER use of fossil fuels to mitigate temporarily. Heat caused by fossil fuel powered global warming is dealt with symptomatically by turning up the air-conditioning. Dangerous spikes in particulates and pollution in the air is symptomatically dealt with by using high energy consuming industrial or home air filtration systems, etc. If all that energy comes from coal or other fossil fuels, that lovely tesla you’ve got plugged in to charge in your garage overnight is doing just as much damage to the environment as that douchebag down the street with his fire eagle painted hummer filling up on gasoline before he goes to a kid Rock show that he’s actually LOOKING FORWARD TO!
《☆This isn’t breaking news exactly, but still relevant. I apologize in advance for its, uh, occasional rantishness and length! 😉☆》
Helen Caldicott is the world’s most prominent anti-nuclear activist. Helen has been featured on CNN, 60 Minutes, CBC and Democracy Now speaking about the dangers of nuclear power and radiation.
In the 80s, Dr. Helen Caldicott campaigned against nuclear weapons testing in the pacific (still responsible today for the majority of tritium we’re exposed to), and against the notion of a winnable nuclear war. She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts.
However, she has always made inaccurate statements regarding civilian nuclear power.
Since the Fukushima-Diachii radiation release caused zero fatalities, and is also projected (by the United Nations) to cause a total of zero fatalities… http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/.… tone has dramatically changed when speaking to supporters. This has not been acknowledged by prime-time media, as they continue to use her as a source. Any person or media outlet should check Caldicott’s history of statements (on ANY subject) against a domain expert before using her as a source. MY ERROR: At 36:30 “1000 Mt GHG” means 1,000 Megatonnes (million metric tons) of Greenhouse Gasses, and NOT merely metric tonnes. Theme Music by: http://KiloWattsMusic.com “Electric Car” by “They Might Be Giants”: http://youtu.be/jAv6M1Bai0c http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beard Seinfeld 102nd episode http://youtu.be/IrEQiOclEUI Robert Stone @ FCCJ http://youtu.be/GZ0X6zOiuUA Caldicott “Loving This Planet” @ New School http://youtu.be/u-Of-3VontE Caldicott “Shut Down All Nuclear Power Plants!” @ RT Google Hangout http://youtu.be/UHMor_mprp4 Caldicott @ N.H. Peace Action http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/30… Caldicott vs Monbiot @ Democracy Now! http://youtu.be/NOmAsdYG3F8 Ben Heard @ IQ2 http://youtu.be/ayIyiVua8cY Robert Hargraves “Energy Cheaper Than Coal” @ ThEC12 http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates Bill Gates “Innovate to Zero!” @ TED http://fora.tv/2011/05/03/Bill_Gates_… Bill Gates “Energy Innovation” @ WIRED http://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show… Dr. Arjun Makhijani “Carbon Free Nuclear Free” @ AtomicInsights http://youtu.be/pLkBdD-sM8E Pandora’s Promise @ Google http://youtu.be/iLX8jCKL9I4 Jiang Mianheng @ ThEC12 http://youtu.be/N2vzotsvvkw Kirk Sorensen @ TEDxYYC http://youtu.be/whkvDTdI9yo Q&A with Robert Stone & Michael Shellenberger @ Texas A&M University http://youtu.be/EArymchGU18 Busy Sidewalk http://youtu.be/tfOpPnfW0lo Pumps “Boom with No Boundaries” http://youtu.be/IYwXJYpTzlk Wave “Ocean Film Tour” http://youtu.be/jdl1OOK7kMQ Sombrio Bridge Time Lapse http://youtu.be/px5Pt-w7Vls Aluminum MacBook Unboxing http://youtu.be/BugnfrZlZC4 Pumpjack Oil Pumps Deliver Texas Crude Oil http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/ Who Killed Electric Car? GM EV1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26… Penn & Teller “Environmental Hysteria” “Dr. Helen Caldicott” is Thorium Documentary Part 11, build of iteration v504f.
…her tone has dramatically changed when speaking to supporters. This has not been acknowledged by prime-time media, as they continue to use her as a source. Any person or media outlet should check Caldicott’s history of statements (on ANY subject) against a domain expert before using her as a source.
MY ERROR: At 36:30 “1000 Mt GHG” means 1,000 Megatonnes (million metric tons) of Greenhouse Gasses, and NOT merely metric tonnes.
Due to last years success, I am back with an updated list of my 5 most promising anti-aging compounds.
There are more than 200 different geroprotective compounds. Some of these are already available as supplements, some are in clinical trials and some have FDA approval. Which are my top 5 that I think i most promising in terms of their anti-aging effects (so focusing more on healthspan than lifespan). And note the use of “promising” — there is still much work to be done to better investigate the long-term safety, dose and timings of different supplements which you should always bear in mind.
Anyway, I made this video more for a bit of fun and to make a longer summary video to pull ideas together from multiple previous videos with some new info too! So hope you like it! And disclaimer — this is not recommendation or health advise — i am not a medical doctor!!
Do my top 5 match yours?
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Few developments have rocked the biotechnology world or generated as much buzz as the discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems, a breakthrough in gene editing recognized in 2020 with a Nobel Prize. But these systems that naturally occur in bacteria are limited because they can make only small tweaks to genes. In recent years, scientists discovered a different system in bacteria that might lead to even more powerful methods for gene editing, given its unique ability to insert genes or whole sections of DNA in a genome.
New research from The University of Texas at Austin dramatically expands the number of naturally occurring versions of this system, giving researchers a wealth of potential new tools for large-scale gene editing.
Other scientists had identified clusters of genes that use CRISPR to insert themselves into different places in an organism’s genome, dubbed CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs). Earlier work has shown they can be used to add an entire gene or large DNA sequence to the genome, at least for bacteria.
Roddenberry Entertainment has created a non-fungible token (NFT) of sci-fi legend Gene Roddenberry’s signature on the first-ever Star Trek contract. It will be stored on the DNA code of bacteria.
Scientific ingenuity means cameras keep on getting smaller and smaller, and the latest to appear is not only incredibly tiny – the same size as a grain of salt – it’s also able to produce images of much better quality than a lot of other ultra-compact cameras.
Using a technology known as a metasurface, which is covered with 1.6 million cylindrical posts, the camera is able to capture full-color photos that are as good as images snapped by conventional lenses some half a million times bigger than this particular camera.
And the super-small contraption has the potential to be helpful in a whole range of scenarios, from helping miniature soft robots explore the world, to giving experts a better idea of what’s going on deep inside the human body.
Combining knowledge of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering, scientists from McGill University develop a biomaterial tough enough to repair the heart, muscles, and vocal cords, representing a major advance in regenerative medicine.
“People recovering from heart damage often face a long and tricky journey. Healing is challenging because of the constant movement tissues must withstand as the heart beats. The same is true for vocal cords. Until now there was no injectable material strong enough for the job,” says Guangyu Bao, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.
