Scientists Develop Solar Panel Material 100 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair

…e light-absorbing layers to boost the range of sunlight they can absorb. At 100 times thinner than a human hair, according to CNN, or 150 times thinner than the silicon wafers used in traditional solar panels, it’s more of a coating than a hard material, which comes with a host of advantages: it’s flexible, it can be easily applied to existing objects, and doesn’t require huge amounts of exclusive space to get the job done. Instead of having an en…

Scientists Just Cracked One-Way Superconductivity, Thought Impossible for Over 100 Years

…system. These devices are known as Josephson Junctions and are a critical component in both quantum sensors and quantum computers that use superconducting qubits. The researchers’ innovation was to replace the insulating layer found in a Josephson Junction with a 2D quantum material with unusual properties. The result is that when a current is applied to the device in one direction it is superconducting, but when the current runs in the opposite…

Six pillars: futures thinking for transforming – by Sohail Inayatullah

…ploy more people than those three industries combined (May and Jones, 2001)[1]. Since the 1990s, it has been women-run small businesses that have been the dynamo of growth in the USA: Since 1997, women-owned firms have grown at nearly twice the rate of all firms (17 percent vs. 9 percent). Growth in employment by women-owned firms has been even more dramatic – 24 percent compared to 12 percent for all firms. The number of women-owned firms with em…

Bridging the gap: How the world is becoming a better place

…on of the immense challenges that remain.   This is part of a post by Peter Diamandis, the full version of whch can be seen here: https://www.diamandis.com/blog/scaling-abundance-series-18…

Humans will achieve immortality in 7 years, says futurist

…sabled move, communicate, and restore vision. It’s another story that U.S regulators shot down his bid for Neuralink’s human trial. the original story can be found here: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/immortality-in-7-years-says-futurist  …

Massively parallel reporter assay investigates shared genetic variants of eight psychiatric disorders

…nd CRISPR perturbation. In vivo CRISPR perturbation of a pleiotropic and a disorder-specific gene suggests that pleiotropy may involve the regulation of genes expressed broadly across neuronal cell types and with higher network connectivity. https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)01435-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424014351%3Fshowall%3Dtrue&fbclid=IwY2xjawI0q1BleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZIsTNmGDZ-O…

A New Theory in Physics Claims to Solve the Mystery of Consciousness

…tivity. We can just find correlations to these experiences. After more than 100 years of neuroscience we have very good evidence that the brain is responsible for the creation of our conscious abilities. So how could it be that these conscious experiences can’t be found anywhere in the brain (or in the body) and can’t be reduced to any neural complex activity? This mystery is known as the hard problem of consciousness. It is such a difficult probl…

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

…microns. And there was already enough of the gas in the atmosphere to trap 100% of the 15-micron light Earth emits, so adding more CO2 would do nothing. What Ångström missed was that CO2 can absorb wavelengths slightly shorter or longer than 15 microns, though less readily. This light gets captured fewer times along its trip to space. But that capture rate changes if the amount of carbon dioxide doubles. Now the light has twice the molecules to d…

Tiny Particle Accelerator Is Millions of Times Smaller Than CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

…channel, structured to keep electrons focused as they gain energy. To overcome the focusing limitations posed by Earnshaw’s theorem, researchers employed an alternating phase focusing (APF) technique. This method alternates between focusing and defocusing forces to guide the electrons along their trajectory, ensuring consistent acceleration. the original story appeared here: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/tiny-particle-accelerator-is-milli…

Brain-Based Strategic Foresight: Enhancing the Capability and Capacity to Think about the Future (PART 1)

…al is a linked in post by: Tyler Mongan Facilitating Leadership Future Intelligence | Brain-Based & Tech-Augmented Strategic Foresight | Exploring Web3 Gamified Learning   and can be accessed here:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brain-based-strategic-foresight-enhancing-capability-capacity-mongan%3FtrackingId=HctBtom9eVi1Pf%252BgR0Grmg%253D%253D/?trackingId=HctBtom9eVi1Pf%2BgR0Grmg%3D%3D…

The world’s in a ‘polycrisis’ — and these countries want to quash it by looking beyond GDP

…th renewable or low or zero-carbon energy sources and that is harder to do [and] it is going to take longer to do if we have constantly growing energy demand,” Steinberger said. “That’s the climate case for it.” The South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu last month became the first country to use the U.N.’s annual climate summit to push for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. The European Parliament, the Vatican and WHO have all backed the prop…

Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct – Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse

…ries, the population will soon be half the current value. People are now becoming worried about underpopulation. As a paleontologist, I take the long view. Mammal species tend to come and go rather rapidly, appearing, flourishing and disappearing in a million years or so. The fossil record indicates that Homo sapiens has been around for 315,000 years or so, but for most of that time, the species was rare—so rare, in fact, that it came close to ext…

Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals?

…“To our knowledge, no one has done this end-to-end detangling [of animal sound] before,” says Raskin. The AI-based model developed by ESP, which was tried on dolphin signature whistles, macaque coo calls and bat vocalisations, worked best when the calls came from individuals that the model had been trained on; but with larger datasets it was able to disentangle mixtures of calls from animals not in the training cohort.Another project involves usin…

Chinese Astronauts Achieve Milestone with Artificial Photosynthesis in Space

…spacecraft. The ability to produce oxygen, rocket fuel, and other critical compounds directly in space is essential for long-duration missions, such as China’s planned crewed moon landing by 2030. This artificial photosynthesis technology lays the foundation for a self-sufficient approach to space exploration, reducing reliance on Earth-bound resources and enabling astronauts to stay in space for extended periods without resupply missions. China’s…

Cornstarch-inspired material promises tougher electronic wearables

…ng 2024 meeting of the American Chemical Society, marking a significant step forward in material science innovation. the original article appeared here: https://www.impactlab.com/2024/04/17/cornstarch-inspired-material-promises-tougher-electronic-wearables/…

In World First, Breakthrough 3D Holograms Can Now Be Touched, Grabbed and Poked

…matic universes like that of Iron Man. A New Dimension of Interaction Dr. Asier Marzo, a computer science professor at the Public University of Navarra and the study’s lead author, explained the vision behind the breakthrough. “We are accustomed to the intuitive interaction offered by our smartphones—tapping, swiping, or dragging on a screen comes naturally to us. This technology extends that intuitive behavior into three-dimensional space, allowi…

How Gen Z Fixes The Future

…ploration of inner and outer worlds. Young adults in this phase are independent, confident, educated and free to explore various aspects of life. Their curiosity-driven nature fuels activism and drives them to question everything. It can feel scary to hire someone straight out of college, but Gen Z’s innate curiosity can help you fill holes in your business you may have never known were there. They are eager to learn, find creative solutions to in…

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