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("World's Only Moving Mud Puddle" by Physics Girl on YouTube)

Can't beat nature if it wants to move, just have to cope with it.

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Why Are These Sea Urchins Sporting Cowboy and Viking Hats? There's Science to Their Hot Looks This entry was originally posted at https://zeeth-kyrah.dreamwidth.org/49150.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Here's a brick to the face of expensive energy storage. A little heavy right now, but this is tech worth exploring further.

Now, to couple this with a durable battery pack, and that'll do fine. This entry was originally posted at https://zeeth-kyrah.dreamwidth.org/47604.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Care for cats? So did people along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago This entry was originally posted at https://zeeth-kyrah.dreamwidth.org/46834.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

Lady Simurgh pointed me to this article. This, plus optical computing, are key advances in AI. Optical memristor neurons are most likely to be the advance which makes strong AI available to the public, provided the hardware is connected and used that way. This entry was ( Read more... )

... and the called it what??

Oldest bird fossil discovered, nicknamed 'wonderchicken'

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When you find yourself in danger,
When you're threatened by a stranger,
If you are about to take a lickin' (Cluck cluck cluck cluck!)
. . .

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Researchers find a way to 3D print whole objects in secondsEssentially they use a light-sensitive resin and dose it with lasers from multiple angles in a holographic pattern, leading to shape-locking intensity along the body of focus. It's not only fast, it's more precise than other high-speed methods, and being entirely hands-off you can use it on ( Read more... )

It's not quite a fusion reactor, however:

Scientists Built a Tiny Version of the Sun in Wisconsin (from Vice.com, via Digg)

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