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Acoustic Quantum Processing

Researchers at the University of Arizona have demonstrated how quantum processing can be achieved using acoustic waves sent through aluminium rods produce classical nonseparability. This method is much more stable and less time reliant compared to the quantum processing of qubits.

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3D Ken Burns Effect From Single Image

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Researchers at Portland State University and Adobe have demonstrated being able to generate a 3D Ken Burns effect (parallax) using a single image. The system uses neural networks to generate depth predictions and object boundaries, and context aware in-painting to generate the missing pieces of the video to simluate a moving point of focus. We can tick another Star Trek TNG sci-fi concept off the list.

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Radiative Sky Cooling

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Researchers at UCLA have produced a prototype energy unit that takes advantage of radiative sky cooling to generate electricity at night. As heat is radiated from objects facing the sky at night, a thermoelectric generator can be used to generate electricity from the temperature difference, in this case 25 milliwatts per square metre using equipment costing $30.

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Quantum Entanglement Photo

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Researchers at the University of Glasgow have captured an image of quantum entenglement for the first time.

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Molecular Storage

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Researchers at Brown University have demonstrated a system to store information in metabolomes, arrays of liquid mixtures containing sugars, amino acids and other molecules. The team successfully encoded a 2KB file image file.

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LightSail In Space

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LightSail is a crowdfunded solar sail project from the Planetary Society which launched this week on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Deployment in space of the cubesat with attached solar sail is due on July 2.

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The Feynman Physics Lectures

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Clatech have made Richard Feynman's lectures in Physics from the 60's available to read online.

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The Loudest Underwater Sound

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Scientists at he SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created the loudest possible underwater sound at 270dB, by zapping micro-jets of water with n X-ray laser.

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Free Wolfram Engine for Developers

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Wolfram have launched their Wolfram Engine as a free package for developers. Described by Stephen Wolfram himself on his blog, the Wolfram engine implements the Wolfram Language, which in turn offers a huge range of computational intelligence and algorithmic processing, access to the Wolfram Knowledgebase as well as over 5000 abstracted functions like machine learning, visualisation and image computation.

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The NASA Twins

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Scientists have published the results of the study of the NASA twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly in Science Magazine. The experiment studies the physiological, molecular and cognitive changes that can happen to a human during a prolonged space mission. Scott Kelly was in the International Space Station for one year while his twin Mark stayed on earth, which allowed scientists to compare the effects of the space mission between the two identical twins.

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