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Sorry I haven't been posting for a while, I was busy with APs and a robotics competition, I'll try clearing out my likes this weekend but I will have another break after next week for mocks and exams. I'll tag all of my old likes with their original dates if I can find them. And with the tag /old. Thanks for sticking with me! I'll get to posting regularly after my finals.

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VIDEO: New technique enables 3D printing from solid and liquid materials - Prints functional hydraulic robot

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This is very cool and a pretty big deal. Find out why.

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Gonorrhoea could become untreatable, says chief medic

Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease, England’s chief medical officer has said.

Dame Sally Davies has written to all GPs and pharmacies to ensure they are prescribing the correct drugs after the rise of a highly drug-resistant strain of the infection.

The warning comes after a national public health alert was triggered in September by an outbreak of highly drug-resistant gonorrhoea in the north of England.

“Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance,” Davies writes.

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Tactile body suit could let virtual reality users feel the action they are seeing

A UK based company company who has integrated EMS (Electro Muscular Stimulation) into a wireless suit, they claim is capable of allowing you to feel sensations ranging from a cool breeze to the impact of a bullet.

VR headsets are, at least for 2016, somewhat of a known quantity now. Most focus is therefore moving to delivering compelling input solutions that unlock the interactive potential of VR.

READ MORE ON ROAD TO VR

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Graphene has the potential to “clean up nuclear waste” at room temperature per new study

Graphene, the thinnest and strongest substance known to science, could be used to help detoxify nuclear waste thanks to the latest discovery involving the wonder material.

Experiments show that it can act as a “super sieve”, able to separate different atomic isotopes of hydrogen, and create the expensive “heavy water” needed by the nuclear industry, researchers said.

This is the first time that graphene – which consists of a crystal lattice of carbon arranged in layers just one atom thick – has been shown to act as a subatomic filter.

READ MORE ON THE INDEPENDENT | SCIENCE

Ref: Sieving hydrogen isotopes through two-dimensional crystals. Science (1 January 2016) | DOI: 10.1126/science.aac9726

ABSTRACT

One-atom-thick crystals are impermeable to atoms and molecules, but hydrogen ions (thermal protons) penetrate through them. We show that monolayers of graphene and boron nitride can be used to separate hydrogen ion isotopes. Using electrical measurements and mass spectrometry, we found that deuterons permeate through these crystals much slower than protons, resulting in a separation factor of ≈10 at room temperature. The isotope effect is attributed to a difference of ≈60 milli–electron volts between zero-point energies of incident protons and deuterons, which translates into the equivalent difference in the activation barriers posed by two-dimensional crystals. In addition to providing insight into the proton transport mechanism, the demonstrated approach offers a competitive and scalable way for hydrogen isotope enrichment.

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Aipoly Vision App helps visually impaired see the world through their smartphone

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Physicists confirm that time moves forward even in the quantum world

For the first time, an experiment has confirmed that the laws of thermodynamics hold true even at the quantum level – which means that even in the quantum world, you can’t unspill that glass of milk.

The reason time runs the way it does in our everyday lives is because of the second law of thermodynamics, which states that over time all systems become more disordered, or increase in entropy. And that process is irreversible, which is why time only moves forward. But theoretical physicists had predicted that on the quantum level, the process might go both ways.

That’s because when you start dealing with really, really small particles, the laws of physics – such as the Schrödinger equation – are ‘time-symmetric’ or reversible. “In theory, forward and backward microscopic processes are indistinguishable,” writes Lisa Zyga for Phys.org.

Now physicists led by the Federal University of ABC in Brazil have performed an experiment that confirms that those theories don’t match up with the reality, with thermodynamic processes remaining irreversible even in quantum systems. But they still don’t understand why that’s the case.

Click here to read more on ScienceAlert

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Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski were disheartened by the amount of plastic and garbage they saw floating in the ocean. So they invented the Seabin, an ingenious way to suck it up. Now, they’ve made the ultimate sacrifice to see it come to fruition.

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VIDEO: Disney Research shows off its crazy new robot car that can drive up walls with ease

VertiGo is a wall-climbing robot that is capable of transitioning from the ground to the wall, created in collaboration between Disney Research Zurich and ETH. The robot has two tiltable propellers that provide thrust onto the wall, and four wheels. One pair of wheels is steerable, and each propeller has two degrees of freedom for adjusting the direction of thrust.

READ MORE ON DISNEY RESEARCH

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This stretchy, drug-delivering gel could be the Band-Aid of the future

Researchers in the US have developed a sticky, stretchable gel-like material that can be used as a “smart wound dressing”. Incorporating temperature sensors and drug reservoirs, the hydrogel bandage can release medicine in response to changes in skin temperature, and embedded LEDs even light up to let you know when your meds are running low.

The hydrogel matrix that makes up the dressing has numerous advantages over conventional cloth-based bandages. It’s highly flexible and stretches easily so can be applied to any area of the body, including joints like elbows or knees.

 - ScienceAlert

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The Plasma Ball:  Inert Gas Discharge Tube

A plasma globe or plasma lamp (also called plasma ball, dome, sphere, tube or orb, depending on shape) is generally a clear glass sphere filled with a mixture of various noble gases with a high-voltage electrode in the center of the sphere. Plasma filaments extend from the inner electrode to the outer glass insulator, giving the appearance of multiple constant beams of colored light (see corona discharge and electric glow discharge). Plasma globes were most popular as novelty items in the 1980s.

The plasma lamp was invented by Nikola Tesla after his experimentation with high-frequency currents in an evacuated glass tube for the purpose of studyinghigh voltage phenomena, but the modern versions were known to be first designed by Bill Parker. Tesla called this invention an inert gas discharge tube.

More science and gifs on: rudescience  Giffed from: this video

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VIDEO: Disney can now blend video clips of actors seamlessly to get the precise emotion they want

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OpenAI the non-profit Artificial Intelligence startup for humanity

Ai scares a lot of people, and for a reason…

Tech entrepreneurs are joining hands to offer an AI solution open to the entire human race, in contrast to the artificial intelligence being developed by Amazon, Google and Facebook …

Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and other tech executives are investing $1 billion into a non-profit aimed at creating an artificial intelligence that is open source and for the use of humanity, unlike the Ai developed by Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet and which benifit their respective companies .

“Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return,” a blog post on OpenAI’s website said.

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Physicists confirm that time moves forward even in the quantum world

For the first time, an experiment has confirmed that the laws of thermodynamics hold true even at the quantum level – which means that even in the quantum world, you can’t unspill that glass of milk.

The reason time runs the way it does in our everyday lives is because of the second law of thermodynamics, which states that over time all systems become more disordered, or increase in entropy. And that process is irreversible, which is why time only moves forward. But theoretical physicists had predicted that on the quantum level, the process might go both ways.

That’s because when you start dealing with really, really small particles, the laws of physics – such as the Schrödinger equation – are ‘time-symmetric’ or reversible. “In theory, forward and backward microscopic processes are indistinguishable,” writes Lisa Zyga for Phys.org.

Now physicists led by the Federal University of ABC in Brazil have performed an experiment that confirms that those theories don’t match up with the reality, with thermodynamic processes remaining irreversible even in quantum systems. But they still don’t understand why that’s the case.

Click here to read more on ScienceAlert

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