Lots of interesting research and discoveries the past 10 days:
- California Startup, Tribogenics, Develops Smart Phone Sized Portable X-ray Machines from SingularityHub
- Reading the Book of Life in Prehistoric Dung from Nautilus (really clever investigation into what survived and rebounded after the K-Pg event, looks like worms laid the path for our survival)
- Statistics Done Wrong by Alex Reinhart (good simple guide to statistical dos and donts)
- Scientists create single-atom bit, smallest memory in the world from KurzweilAI
- Scientists Develop A Battery Electrode That Heals Itself from Forbes
- Nanomagnets may replace silicon-based transistors in computers, say UC Berkeley researchers from KurzweilAI
- Dinosaur Bone Damaged in WWII Revealed with 3D Printing from LiveScience
- Mouse moms can control the sexiness of their future sons from ArsTechnica (also known as “the selfish gene“)
- Sensors Embedded in Clothing? Check Out Sensoria Smart Socks from Singularity Hub (current version looks like it could be integrated into shoes instead)
- Biomaterial-delivered chemotherapy could effectively treat brain tumors from KurzweilAI
- Supercomputing’s big problem: What’s after silicon? from Computer World (time to invest in carbon nanotube manufacturers?)
- Mystery human species emerges from Denisovan genome from NewScientist
- Tencent Was Already A Covert Investor In Snapchat’s Last Round from TechCrunch (what is SC monetization plan?)
- Meteorite unveils secrets of ancient Mars from CNN (that they were skinny and green!)
- Intel rushes to exascale with redesigned Knights Landing chip from Computer World
- Why the U.S. may lose the race to exascale from Computer World (very silly race, simply a metrics contest — what matters is what useful, productive tools and activities can be run on it — not merely getting to the arbitrary number)
- Intel’s 128MB L4 Cache May Be Coming to Desktops with 14nm Broadwell-K CPUs from Hot Hardware (now if only they could make a decent gpu on time)
- Twitter implements new encryption using Perfect Forward Secrecy from The Verge (how random is random?)
- 3,700-year-old wine cellar held booze you might not want to drink from Los Angeles Times
- Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighborhood from Space Daily
- Robots Let Doctors Beam Into Hospitals from Associated Press
- The Woman Who Shot Elephants for America’s Natural History Museums from io9
- After 50,000 generations, bacteria are still evolving greater fitness from ArsTechnica
- Panelists: Work Underway To Provide Native 4K Content to UHD TVs from TWICE
- A durable, low-cost water splitter made of silicon and nickel from KurzweilAI
- Silicon Valley Goes to Space from KQED
- The overprotection of Mars from Nature
- How Life-Bearing Rocks from the Chicxulub Asteroid Impact must have Spread through the Solar System from The Physics arXiv
- Palm-Size Drones Buzz Over Battlefield from LiveScience
- Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ sex lives from Nature
- With Flexible Circuits, Wearable Electronics Gain Uses from Singularity Hub
- World’s Smallest FM Radio Transmitter Built With Graphene, ‘First Step’ For Advancing Wireless Signal Processing from International Business Times
- How Supercomputers Will Yield a Golden Age of Materials Science from Scientific American (or perhaps continue to remain face projects?)
- 28 neutrinos from outside the solar system open new era in astronomy from Los Angeles Times