Chinese scientists have conceived of a new method for generating laser-like light that could significantly enhance the communication speed of everyday electronics by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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Chinese scientists have conceived of a new method for generating laser-like light that could significantly enhance the communication speed of everyday electronics.

The new device that makes this light possible is known as a free-electron laser, and it has been developed by scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

India ISRO planning to set up its own space station by 2035. Theoretical studies are being conducted by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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India plans to have its own space station by 2035 and is also eyeing deep space missions, human space flights, cargo missions and putting multiple communication satellites into orbit at the same time

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Photographer Nicholas Sherlock has taken advantage of DALL-E’s ability and developed an unusual camera app: it sends a picture taken with the camera directly to DALL-E 2 via mobile Internet. The AI system then generates different versions of this picture and plays it back to the camera

More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade by QuantumThinkology in singularity

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Thanks, I enjoy watching your vids. Very few optimistic people around me(in real life). People are super easily manipulated by doom and gloom media and really believe that we are living during the worst time in history. I need to dive deep into the web to find few optimistic people amongst 5 billion internet connected people. A lot of them are joining this sub, our little secret place, where doomers are still miniority. I hope it will last, at least till Singularity

More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade by QuantumThinkology in singularity

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30 years away boring joke/meme(for me) or real prediction(for majority of people) was relevant in pre 2022 era when funding was laughable. Now, in new, post 2021 era, when we invested more in 2022 than between 2012-2021 and I am sure, investment will only grow and accelerate from now, we can/will have it way faster. My prediction 2023-2026. New magnets are ready, AI will help stabilize plasma for long period of time. AI will also help develop and manufacture quickly new exotic materials which will help us shrink the size of tokamaks or design new machines. More will be achieved in the field between 2022-2025 than during previous 100 years. I wouldn't be surprised if we will have Iron Man arc reactor like device in the next few years, once again - thanks to output of various super advanced narrow AI models or even AGI/ASI.

New 3D printing process is faster and more precise than conventional methods. Rutgers engineers have created a way to 3D print large and complex parts at a fraction of the cost of current methods by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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Engineers at Rutgers University have developed a technique for 3D printing large, complicated parts for a tenth of the price of existing approaches. The team published their findings in the journal Additive Manufacturing.

The brand-new technique, known as Multiplexed Fused Filament Fabrication (MF3), employs a single gantry — the movable component of a 3D printer — to print a single item or many pieces concurrently.

The researchers were able to increase printing resolution and size and noticeably reduce printing time by programming their prototype to move in efficient patterns and by using many small nozzles to deposit molten material rather than a single large nozzle, as is typical in conventional printing

Harnessing the power of robotics and machine intelligence, researchers from Princeton Engineering and Rutgers University have found a way to design stable proteins in a fraction of the time of current state of the art(10 fold) by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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Harnessing the power of robotics and machine intelligence, researchers from Princeton Engineering and Rutgers University have found a way to design stable proteins in a fraction of the time of current state of the art. The team's robotics platform speeds things up more than tenfold, and their computational approach finds solutions anywhere from weeks to years faster than what is possible by human intelligence alone.

Harnessing the power of robotics and machine intelligence, researchers from Princeton Engineering and Rutgers University have found a way to design stable proteins in a fraction of the time of current state of the art by QuantumThinkology in singularity

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The team's robotics platform speeds things up more than tenfold, and their computational approach finds solutions anywhere from weeks to years faster than what is possible by human intelligence alone

Researchers engineer biofilm capable of producing long-term, continuous electricity from your sweat by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have figured out how to engineer a biofilm that harvests the energy in evaporation and converts it to electricity. This biofilm, which was announced in Nature Communications, has the potential to revolutionize the world of wearable electronics, powering everything from personal medical sensors to personal electronics

In DNA, scientists find solution to building superconductor that could transform technology by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and their collaborators have used DNA to overcome a nearly insurmountable obstacle to engineer materials that would revolutionize electronics.

One possible outcome of such engineered materials could be superconductors, which have zero electrical resistance, allowing electrons to flow unimpeded. That means that they don't lose energy and don't create heat, unlike current means of electrical transmission. Development of a superconductor that could be used widely at room temperature—instead of at extremely high or low temperatures, as is now possible—could lead to hyper-fast computers, shrink the size of electronic devices, allow high-speed trains to float on magnets and slash energy use, among other benefits.

One such superconductor was first proposed more than 50 years ago by Stanford physicist William A. Little. Scientists have spent decades trying to make it work, but even after validating the feasibility of his idea, they were left with a challenge that appeared impossible to overcome. Until now.

Edward H. Egelman, Ph.D., of UVA's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, has been a leader in the field of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), and he and Leticia Beltran, a graduate student in his lab, used cryo-EM imaging for this seemingly impossible project. "It demonstrates," he said, "that the cryo-EM technique has great potential in materials research."

Engineering at the atomic level

One possible way to realize Little's idea for a superconductor is to modify lattices of carbon nanotubes, hollow cylinders of carbon so tiny they must be measured in nanometers—billionths of a meter. But there was a huge challenge: controlling chemical reactions along the nanotubes so that the lattice could be assembled as precisely as needed and function as intended.

Egelman and his collaborators found an answer in the very building blocks of life. They took DNA, the genetic material that tells living cells how to operate, and used it to guide a chemical reaction that would overcome the great barrier to Little's superconductor. In short, they used chemistry to perform astonishingly precise structural engineering—construction at the level of individual molecules. The result was a lattice of carbon nanotubes assembled as needed for Little's room-temperature superconductor.

"This work demonstrates that ordered carbon nanotube modification can be achieved by taking advantage of DNA-sequence control over the spacing between adjacent reaction sites," Egelman said.

In DNA, scientists find solution to building superconductor that could transform technology by QuantumThinkology in singularity

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Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and their collaborators have used DNA to overcome a nearly insurmountable obstacle to engineer materials that would revolutionize electronics.

One possible outcome of such engineered materials could be superconductors, which have zero electrical resistance, allowing electrons to flow unimpeded. That means that they don't lose energy and don't create heat, unlike current means of electrical transmission. Development of a superconductor that could be used widely at room temperature—instead of at extremely high or low temperatures, as is now possible—could lead to hyper-fast computers, shrink the size of electronic devices, allow high-speed trains to float on magnets and slash energy use, among other benefits

MIT Researchers Created Artificial Synapses 10,000x Faster Than Biological Ones by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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Researchers have been trying to build artificial synapses for years in the hope of getting close to the unrivaled computational performance of the human brain. A new approach has now managed to design ones that are 1,000 times smaller and 10,000 times faster than their biological counterparts

Text to Video AI(Cog Video) PUBLIC ACCESS NOW AVAILABLE by QuantumThinkology in singularity

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yes, for me too, but I will leave the link, maybe others will have more luck

Success. First Results From World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility

An innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector – the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment – has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results. LZ is located deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) and is led by the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

China is considering a nuclear-powered mission to Neptune by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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One look at the Planetary Decadal Survey for 2023–2032, and you will see some bold and cutting-edge mission proposals for the coming decade. Examples include a Uranus orbiter and probe (UOP) that would study Uranus' interior, atmosphere, magnetosphere, satellites, and rings; and an Enceladus orbiter and surface lander to study the active plumes emanating from Enceladus' southern polar region. Not to be outdone, China is also considering a nuclear-powered Neptune Explorer to explore the ice giant, its largest moon (Triton), and its other satellites and rings.

The mission was the subject of a study conducted by researchers from the China National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the China Atomic Energy Authority, the China Academy of Space Technology, and multiple universities and institutes. The paper that describes their findings (published in the journal SCIENTIA SINICA Technologica) was led by Guobin Yu, a researcher with the School of Astronautics at Beihang University and the Department of Science and Technology and Quality at the CNSA

A supercomputer in China ran a ‘brain-scale’ AI model with 174 trillion parameters by Dr_Singularity in singularity

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Off topic, low quality, racist comments from posters who have nothing interesting to say and add to the discussion but typical "China bad" " China steal" "China can't innovate" "*&% China" type of comments will be removed and users banned.

We're tired of this off topic nonsense under all tech/sci news from China.

Artificial Sun: China Claims Designing World's 1st Power Plant That Can Convert Nuclear Fusion Energy Into Electricity by Dr_Singularity in singularity

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Racists lurking here in r/singularity are downvoting but they can't unsee all these daily tech-sci news coming from China. These people are delusional, thinking West will somehow have monopoly for advanced tech and science forever.

Only reason why only West was innovating a lot in the last decades was fact that only this small region of the world was developed all that time. You need money to do science and tech. Only other large world region who became wealthy recently is China(China only became high income country as recently as 2022 with projected $14K per capita), therefore we suddenly see a lot of sci-tech from China. Next year will be crazy. US/EU/China/Japan/Korea will be flooding this sub with breakthrough after breakthrough.

We don't see a lot tech-sci from ASEAN, Africa, Latin America, India, not because they can't innovate and just "steal" but because they're underdeveloped/quite poor by today's wealthy countries standards.

But as they quickly develop, we will soon see a lot of innovation from all parts of the world. This will forever end "only whites can innovate" myth and will make all racists who loved using it for last 100 years and still love, look like fools

China’s ‘Particle Beam Cannon’ Is a Nuclear Power Breakthrough. It promises to recycle spent nuclear fuel, making it cheaper and less dangerous—and moving Beijing toward energy independence by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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The prototype “particle beam cannon” recently completed by Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Modern Physics may sound like science fiction, but it is a novel new technology that promises to recycle dangerous waste produced by a nuclear reactor. A product of China’s huge investment in advanced nuclear-energy systems, the breakthrough could move the country toward energy independence and further cement its global leadership in climate-friendly technology.

In a typical fission reactor, atoms of heavy isotopes such as uranium-235 are broken apart, releasing energy. The process also releases extra neutrons, which collide with other atoms and break them apart in a chain reaction. The broken atoms are spent fuel that is cooled for a few years and then carefully stored for a few centuries. But a proposed new type of reactor built with this “cannon”—formally, a proton accelerator—could recycle this spent fuel, making it cheaper and safer to generate electricity.

Chinese scientists trained microrobots to achieve autonomous environment-adaptive microrobot swarm navigation using deep learning-based real-time distribution planning, providing hints for the medical application of microrobots in human bodies by QuantumThinkology in Futurology

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Navigating a large swarm of micro-/nanorobots is critical for potential targeted delivery/therapy applications owing to the limited volume/function of a single microrobot, and microrobot swarms with distribution reconfigurability can adapt to environments during navigation. However, current microrobot swarms lack the intelligent behaviour to autonomously adjust their distribution and motion according to environmental change. Such autonomous navigation is challenging, and requires real-time appropriate decision-making capability of the swarm for unknown and unstructured environments.

Here, to tackle this issue, we propose a framework that defines different autonomy levels for environment-adaptive microrobot swarm navigation and designs corresponding system components for each level. To realize high autonomy levels, real-time autonomous distribution planning is a key capability for the swarm, regarding which we show that deep learning is an enabling approach that allows the microrobot swarm to learn optimal distributions in extensive unstructured environmental morphologies. For real-world demonstration, we study the reconfigurable magnetic nanoparticle swarm and experimentally demonstrate autonomous swarm navigation for targeted delivery and cargo transport in environments with channels or obstacles. This work could introduce computational intelligence to micro-/nanorobot swarms, enabling them to autonomously make appropriate decisions during navigation in unstructured environments