Scientists discovered the purpose of a famous 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces and temples. Source: Mathematical Mystery of Ancient Babylonian Clay Tablet Solved
Mesh Robots: Age of Transformers
Researchers have taken the next step in developing soft mesh robots that can contract, reshape and grab small objects. Read more below Source: Soft, Programmable Material Could Yield Mesh Robots
“Whites” were invented in America
I usually steer cleer of race related arguments/articles in my blogs, but i came across an article which shed new light on how the race of whites were formalized in history. Apparently the first inhabitants of America were blacks, and whites only started entering this continent as Europeans started arriving to the east coast of…
Machine Learning Fools Biometric Systems
NYU Tandon researchers create synthetic fingerprints capable of spoofing smartphone fingerprint sensors. Devices typically allow users to enroll several different finger images, and a match for any saved partial print is enough to confirm identity. Frankly, that is not how I envisaged these biometrics scans to work. Partial fingerprints are less likely to be unique than…
NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope
After nine years in deep space collecting data—NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. For those who have never heard about Kepler, it was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission. Kepler highlighted thousands of planets peppered throughout the cosmos. Its discoveries have shed a new light on our place in the…
Light holds the key to a Computing Revolution
Currently, computers use electronic circuits to compute and relay information. The word “electronic” suggests that electrons carry out this acitivity. However, electrons tend to lose information when things hots up. Remember those days when aircon were a necessity for having computers Now a research study has found a way into replacing electrons with photons….
Could Pluto Return as a Planet?
Thank you for looking into fixing a change in planetary science which has bothered me from the day it was implemented – stripping Pluto from the title of being a planet. Now it turns out that Pluto might be bestowed with the title of a Planet again. For those who are lazy to read the…
Cancer-Frying Nanoparticles
Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia – is an anti-cancer technique in which magnetic particles under low field conditions are used to fry tumor cells. This is a minimal invasive technique without the side effects of radiation or chemotherapy. This technique spares healthy tissues in our body. Read more on how scientists have improved the performance of magnetic…
Researchers Use Machine Learning to Search Science Data
While Machine Learning has been used for a while in search engines, to perform “context” driven searches is a completely different ball game for existing advance search engines – including the Google. Researchers and Scientists at Berkley introduce an innovative way to perform contextual searches in Scientific data using Machine Learning. Source: Researchers Use Machine…
NASA Uses Machine Learning to Discover New Planet
NASA officials announced the discovery of Kepler-90i using Google machine learning. Source: NASA Uses Machine Learning to Discover New Planet
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