Новости за 31.07.2017

Alexander Thomas, Conversation
The rapid development of so-called NBIC technologies nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science are giving rise to possibilities that have long been the domain of science fiction. Disease, ageing and even death are all human realities that these technologies seek to end.They may enable us to enjoy greater morphological freedom we could take on new forms through prosthetics or genetic engineering. Or advance our cognitive capacities. Читать дальше...

Victoria Stern, Science

In June 2016, investigators at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens concluded that Azza El-Remessy, a faculty member who studied the impact of diabetes on the eye, had committed misconduct and recommended she be terminated. El-Remessy hired a lawyer to dispute the findings, but the following October she gave up her challenge after the university paid her $100,000essentially to leave.

Liat Clark, Wired UK
When Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change earlier this year, Stephen Hawking did not hesitate to publicise his horror.Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid," he told the BBC. The decision of one man, damaging decades of increasing global political awareness of the urgent nature of climate change, would cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet" he added.

Chris Lee, Ars Tech
All the early quantum computing work was done with light. Light is very easy to manipulate: a few mirrors, crystals, and light detectors and you to can have your very own quantum computer. Over the last two decades, though, that's changed. Almost all the major developments have used things like ions, rings of superconducting current, or defects in crystals.This was, in some sense, a reasonable progression. To perform logical operations, you have to modify one quantum state based on the state of another.

Norman Swan, Cosmos Magazine
It's every paediatrician's nightmare. A child arrives in the Emergency Department with a high fever, a rash whose spots don't go white when you press them under a glass and who turns their head away from the light. The toddler was well until a few hours before and, from the parents' story, things are going downhill fast. If you get the diagnosis wrong, the child could be dead within hours.

Dan Vergano, BuzzFeed
The best looking Mars rover on Earth went on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum last week. The concept vehicle appears expensive, sturdy, daring, cutting-edge basically everything that today's NASA is not.It's a weird mixture of the Curiosity rover, the Batmobile, and an acid trip, NASA's Dave Lavery, program executive for solar system exploration at the space agency, told BuzzFeed News at the museum.

Ross Pomeroy, RCScience
In the early 1960s, Professor Roland Mayer at Dresden University of Technology went on a hunt. His mission? Discover new practical methods of producing a group of aromatic sulfur-containing chemical compounds called thioketones.He was well aware of the dangers involved.