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FuturologyBot t1_ivzplsp wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/lughnasadh:


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Here's the rumor statement from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

It's worth noting The Turing Test is considered obsolete. It only requires an AI to appear to be intelligent enough to fool a human. In some instances, GPT-3 already does that with some of the more credulous sections of the population.

The Winograd Schema Challenge is regarded as a much better test of true intelligence. It will require genuine reasoning ability from an AI. The answer won't be available from scanning the contents of the internet and applying statistical methods that frequently correlate with what a truly intelligent, independently reasoned answer to a question is.

In any case, if the leap to GPT-4 is as great as the one from GPT-2 to GPT-3 was, we can expect even more human-like intelligence from AI.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivzao7a wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/mossadnik:


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>Without sleep, humans can become forgetful, hallucinate, and even experience various physical and psychological problems. But new research published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology suggests that future AIs could benefit from getting some sleep too.

>Artificial neural networks often reach some superhuman heights, but when it comes to sequential learning, or learning one new thing after another, they become, well, kind of like Finding Nemo’s Dory. Unlike humans and animals who have the ability to learn and apply knowledge continuously, while these systems can certainly achieve excellence in a new task, it’s at the expense of the performance of a previous task. Once properly trained, it's very difficult to teach them a completely new task and if you succeed in training the new task, you end up damaging the old memory.

>In the neuro world, such an activity is called “catastrophic forgetting.” It’s an issue that can only be solved with something called “consolidation of memory,” a process that helps transform recent short-term memories into long-term ones, often occurring during REM sleep. This reorganization of memory might actually play a large part in why we need to sleep at all, especially as if the process does stop working, or is interrupted in some way, serious mental deficits can occur.

>To some, the concept is promising. As sleep is said to spike learning by enabling the “spontaneous reactivation of previously learned memory patterns,” the study notes that neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence could actually be the next big thing. Building on previous work in memory plasticity and sleep modeling, the team used a neural network model to simulate sensory processing and reinforcement learning in an animal’s brain, and then gave it two separate tasks to complete. In both tasks, the network learned how to discriminate between being punished and being rewarded—enough so that eventually, it could make decisions on its own.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivyjz21 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/mutherhrg:


Heavy rare earth elements (HREEs) such as Gd–Lu, Sc and Y are irreplaceable metals for a number of critical (including clean) technologies, but they are scarce. Ion-adsorption deposits, which form within weathering crusts, supply more than 95% of the global HREE demand. However, these deposits are currently mined via ammonium-salt-based leaching techniques that are responsible for severe environmental damage and show low recovery efficiency. As a result, the adoption of such techniques is restricted for REE mining, further exacerbating REE scarcity, which in turn could lead to supply chain disruptions. Here we report the design of an innovative REE mining technique, electrokinetic mining (EKM), which enables green, efficient and selective recovery of REEs from weathering crusts. Its feasibility is demonstrated via bench-scale, scaled-up and on-site field experiments. Compared with conventional techniques, EKM achieves ~2.6 times higher recovery efficiency, an ~80% decrease in leaching agent usage and a ~70% reduction in metallic impurities in the obtained REEs. As an additional benefit, the results point to an autonomous purification mechanism for REE enrichment, wherein the separation process is based on the mobility and reactivity diversity between REEs and metallic impurities. Overall, the evidence presented suggests that EKM is a viable mining technique, revealing new paths for the sustainable harvesting of natural resources.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivweb3z wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/bitfriend6:


Since there's been New Fusion News every week since the 50s I'll elaborate on why I consider this to be different:

San Diego -based General Atomics is partnering with the Savanah River Natl. Lab in South Carolina to build a fusion reactor. This is due to the SRNL's existing experience with tritium-based radioactive gas used as fuel in a fusion reation while General Atomics is one of the contractors for yet-to-be-completed ITER, and this project will use designs evolved from ITER. The SVRNL will help them design and test all the parts needed for the plant and then assist with building one, including site selection. The site selection is notable because South Carolina is one of the biggest nuclear states in the US, having sparred several times with the Obama and Trump administrations over Nevada's refusal to take their nuclear waste. South Carolina is generally supportive of nuclear power, as is nearby Georgia and Tennessee, where work on the Watts Bar 2 and Vogtle 2 reactors has recently completed - "recently" in nuclear contracting terms. The supply chain elements for a fusion reactor like engineers, materials, labor and concrete all exist in these places and there is a no aggressive environmentalist movement like California's Sierra Club to stop construction. Adjacent to this are smaller Small Modular Reactor fission reactors planned for the Oak Ridge National Lab, and conceivably that would be an ideal site as a fusion reaction needs a lot of power to start it (similar to a diesel motor and compressed air or a gasoline motor with electric spark plugs).

Whether or not the plant actually works is anyone's guess, but there's other uses for a fusion reactor namely QA testing nuclear bomb components. This is what the US government's existing non-commercial fusor does in Livermore, California. Biden is already upgrading all the national labs for next-generation energy research, including new supercomputers capable of managing a fusion reactor, so this comes at an opportune time and will probably be built.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivvpofv wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/senormoll:


This English town is using a stretch of special pavement on a pedestrian path to power mobile phone chargers on a nearby park bench. Obviously the amount of electricity generated isn't going to halt climate change, but the town does hope to draw attention to the climate crisis and the role that small, creative solutions can play. Earlier this year Telford unveiled street lights powered by mini wind turbines.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivv60ja wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/lughnasadh:


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This puts Waymo in the global lead when it comes to robo-taxis. Cruise in San Francisco is trialing a service with no safety drivers, but it only operates from 10pm-6am. Baidu is trialing operations in two Chinese cities without safety drivers, but are still basically in test mode, with very few operational cars.

If I were Uber or Lyft, I would be worried. You need these companies a lot more than they need you, if they need you at all.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivunr1m wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Surur:


Amazon has introduced a new robot called Sparrow which will help them overcome their worker shortage and take on a new role in warehouses - bin picking. Previously robots could only move bins around, and Amazon relied on humans to pick them.

> The system — as with its predecessors is an off-the-shelf Fanuc system customized with Amazon hardware and software. The former is a hydraulic-based suction system capable of lifting objects at a variety of weights.

> The latter utilizes sensors to identify the items based on a variety of different inputs, including size, shape and bar codes. An Amazon spokesperson claims the system is able to identify around 65% of the company’s entire product inventory.

Here is a gif of it in action.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivu1u81 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/upyourego:


Jay Gambetta, IBM Fellow and vice president of IBM Quantum said 2023 is a major inflection point for quantum computing, the starting point when the quantum-centric supercomputer is first realised and scaling is enabled. He said that it does so by “combining quantum communication and computation to increase computational capacity”.

British startup Universal Quantum is taking a similar approach, developing multi-chip quantum computers for more rapid scaleup.

But it is still some time before we reach any real supremacy as a study by the University of Sussex found we'd need 13 million qubits to crack 256 bit encryption in a day.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivtn2v2 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Sariel007:


>LG Disply has developed a 12-inch stretchable display that can be extended in size to 14 inches, the company announced. The displays could one day be used in materials with irregular surfaces like clothes and wearables to display messages on the uniforms of first responders, for example.

>Stretchable displays, or free-form displays as LG Display calls them, can be pulled, bent and twisted. They go a step farther than the flexible displays used in Samsung's Galaxy Fold and other smartphones, which can be folded and bent but not stretched.

>To make the display so stretchy, LG Display built the base substrate material from a silicon similar to that used in contact lenses. It also micro-LEDs smaller than 40-micrometers for the light source, allowing for high resolution and durability. And finally, the company used circuits shaped like springs to accommodate bending and folding.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivtfzfs wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Soupjoe5:


Article:

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In astronomy, the use of sound instead of light is breaking down barriers to participation and providing insight into the Universe.

For astronomers who are sighted, the Universe is full of visual wonders. From shimmering planets to sparkling galaxies, the cosmos is spectacularly beautiful. But those who are blind or visually impaired cannot share that experience. So astronomers have been developing alternative ways to convey scientific information, such as using 3D printing to represent exploding stars, and sound to describe the collision of neutron stars.

On Friday, the journal Nature Astronomy will publish the latest in a series of articles on the use of sonification in astronomy. Sonification describes the conversion of data (including research data) into digital audio files, which allows them to be heard, as well as read and seen. The researchers featured in Nature Astronomy show that sound representations can help scientists to better identify patterns or signals in large astronomical data sets.

The work demonstrates that efforts to boost inclusivity and accessibility can have wider benefits. This is true not only in astronomy; sonification has also yielded discoveries in other fields that might otherwise not have been made. Research funders and publishers need to take note, and support interdisciplinary efforts that are simultaneously more innovative and inclusive.

For decades, astronomers have been making fundamental discoveries by listening to data, as well as looking at it. In the early 1930s, Karl Jansky, a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, traced static in radio communications to the centre of the Milky Way — a finding that led to the discovery of the Galaxy’s supermassive black hole and the birth of radio astronomy. More recently, Wanda Díaz-Merced, an astronomer at the European Gravitational Observatory in Cascina, Italy, who is blind, has used sonification in many pioneering projects, including the study of plasma patterns in Earth’s uppermost atmosphere.

The number of sonification projects picked up around a decade ago, drawing in researchers from a range of backgrounds. Take Kimberly Arcand, a data-visualization expert and science communicator at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Arcand began by writing and speaking about astronomy, particularly discoveries coming from NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory. She then moved on to work that centred on the sense of touch; this included making 3D printed models of the ‘leftovers’ of exploded stars that conveyed details of the physics of these stellar explosions. When, in early 2020, the pandemic meant she was unable to get to a 3D printer, she shifted to working on sonification.

In August, NASA tweeted about the sound of the black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster; the attached file has since been played more than 17 million times. In the same month, Arcand and others converted some of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope into sound. They worked under the guidance of people who are blind and visually impaired to map the intensity and colours of light in the headline-grabbing pictures into audio.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivsa999 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/tonymmorley:


It might feel at first glance like this is superficial news; (pharmaceutical companies doing capitalist pharmaceutical things), but it's a big deal. Every new and promising antibiotic candidate is a big deal worth celebrating. 💊

>New antibiotic passes through the first phase of clinical trials with ease

The last truly novel antibiotic compounds that made it to the market were discovered in the 1980s, leaving a void of innovation that has lasted decades, with many experts worried about the very real possibility of an “antibiotic apocalypse”. ⬅️ Watch this:

>"The drug, called QPX9003, is a promising candidate for tackling Gram-negative bacteria which cause serious infections like pneumonia, urinary tract infections, peritonitis and meningitis." "Gram-negative “superbugs” are becoming increasingly hard to treat, as they develop resistance to most common antibiotics."

Hey team, I'm a progress studies researcher and progress proponent; if you enjoy my content, you're welcome to follow the majority of my work on the blue bird platform (before Elon tanks the platform)


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FuturologyBot t1_ivpe6vl wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:


From the Article

>Researchers have developed a way of printing edible QR codes -- a kind of barcode -- within cookies, meaning that the tag is embedded within the food itself. Crucially, the tag doesn't change the flavor or outer appearance of the cookie, and can be read using a backlight while the cookie remains intact. This new method has great commercial potential for improving food safety and traceability in an environmentally friendly way.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivpbm4r wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/mossadnik:


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>Experts are concerned about how fast 3D-printing technology is evolving, as several countries worldwide still do not have legal frameworks to prohibit or limit the creation of these weapons. “We are facing a serious threat if legal measures are not taken to control the production of printers and printing materials necessary for their use,” he said. “The software that allows for the production of these types of weapons should, as far as possible, be banned from the market,” he added, explaining that this could prove difficult because the weapons are often sold in parallel markets. It includes selling on the darknet and in closed forums that can be difficult for law enforcement to access.

>Although the production of 3D-printed weapons is currently limited to small arms and light weapons (SALW), it is expected that the capabilities of this technology and the quality of printing materials will evolve and lead to more powerful and sophisticated weapons. “There are already some impressions of weapons of a military nature with appreciable fire potential. The evolution of printing materials will impact the increasing sophistication and production of these weapons and the threat they represent,” the Interpol spokesperson added. Interpol urged “necessary measures” to stop the potential use of 3D-printed weapons for “illegal means.” “If this does not happen, it will be natural that the threat evolves towards producing increasingly sophisticated forms of 3D weapons that are more powerful and reliable, which poses increasing challenges to preventing and controlling their use in the future.”

>According to Interpol, “3D-printed weapons” can be categorized as fully 3D-printed firearms, hybrid 3D-printed guns and firearms whose frame is produced in 3D printing. “They can go from things like the Liberator, which is this single shot, entirely 3D-printed weapon that’s all plastic except for the firing pin and obviously the ammunition which might be able to shoot five to 10 times before it suffers a catastrophic failure, all the way to something called the FGC9, which, if built correctly, is essentially as lethal, as durable, as effective, and as accurate as a commercially purchased firearm.” Entirely 3D printed firearms are weapons on which all major components are printed, in some cases with only minor non-printed parts. These weapons have a “limited capacity of use due to the absence of metallic components and their fragile structure,” the international policing body told. Hybrid 3D Printed Firearms are weapons with printed elements used in conjunction with non-controllable metallic parts, such as springs and metallic tubes.

>3D-printed guns are illegal from the moment of creation because they lack serial numbers and are not submitted to any official test bench.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivoi3sb wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:


From the Article

>Uganda has gone to space. Despite a fire alarm causing delays on Nov. 6, the country’s first satellite, PearlAfricaSat-1, finally launched successfully into space on the morning of Nov. 7 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops space flight facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, US.
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>Uganda will be using its new satellite to get more accurate data on weather forecasting, mineral mapping, agri-monitoring, and border security. But on top of this list will be the conducting of healthtech life saving experiments. The Nile Post reports that Uganda will use the microgravity (weightlessness) provided by the satellite to perform advanced 3D biological printing of human tissue in space, including an “investigation into how microgravity influences ovary function.”
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>The satellite which has already landed on the International Space Station (ISS) will be monitored from the Mpoma ground satellite station in the capital Kampala.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivo5h91 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/CPHfuturesstudies:


Submission Statement:

Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies: In the 1990s two scholars proposed that the broad strokes of Western history can be understood as a series of cycles switching between states of stability and turmoil and spanning roughly 80 years each.

According to their theory, we may be heading towards the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new one – meaning that we will enter a period of crisis and global re-ordering.

The ‘Fourth Turning’ theory of history rests on a series of shaky assumptions, but is there some truth to it?

This article was first published in FARSIGHT - Futures Reviewed. The quarterly publication from Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivlgvv4 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/tonymmorley:


>"It delivers a dose of radiation that’s over 300 times higher than traditional radiation therapy in just a fraction of a second. This induces something called the “FLASH effect” — a not-entirely-understood phenomenon in which the radiation still attacks the tumor, but doesn’t harm surrounding tissue."

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>"Ultimately, the researchers believe FLASH radiotherapy would be most useful for treating cancers in the brain, lungs, or gastrointestinal area, as the tissues around those tumors are particularly vulnerable to damage from traditional radiation therapy."


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FuturologyBot t1_ivk7mtc wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:


From the Article

>Now, a team led by Amir Siraj, a student pursuing astrophysics at Harvard University, have outlined some of the physical parameters of such a mission, including the potential timeline, spacecraft speed, and optimal distance of a flyby.
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>Whereas past studies have mapped out the feasibility of the concept, Siraj and his co-authors, including Loeb, investigated the “requirements for a rendezvous mission with the primary objective of producing a resolved image of an interstellar object” and discuss “the characterization from close range of interstellar objects that, like ‘Oumuamua, don’t have an unequivocally identified nature,” according to a forthcoming study in the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation that was posted on Sunday to the preprint server arXiv.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivk66sj wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:


From the Article

>The reason for building a humanoid machine, Mr Jackson maintains, is to perform tasks that involve human interaction. With a bit of development Ameca might, for example, make a good companion for an elderly person—keeping an eye on them, telling them their favourite programme is about to appear on television and never getting bored with having to make repeated reminders to the forgetful. To that end, Engineered Arts aims to teach its robots to play board games, like chess. But only well enough so that they remain fallible, and can be beaten.
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>To interact successfully with people, Mr Jackson asserts, a robot needs a face. “The human face is the highest bandwidth communications tool we have,” he observes. “You can say more with an expression than you can with your voice.” Hence Ameca’s face, formed from an electronically animated latex skin, is very expressive.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivj73uc wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/tonymmorley:


Hey team, r/Futurology, can we get an agriculture flair?

>"Using the powerful gene-editing tool CRISPR, researchers are altering crops and animals to add desirable traits and remove undesirable ones." From "Boosted Tomatoes" to "Super Grains", and from "Climate-resistant cattle" to "Fast-growing beef", genetic engineering (GE) foodstuffs is the future of human agriculture; to paraphrase Mark Watney from The Martian, civilization is "going to have to science the shit out of this.”
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"Some cattle in subtropical and tropical areas have a rare, but naturally occurring genetic variant that causes them to develop a “slick” haircoat. Because this coat is shorter and lighter than the standard coat, those cattle are less prone to heat stress, which can be both deadly for cattle and costly for farmers. 🐄

Instead of trying to produce beef cattle with this trait this old-fashioned way, through imprecise selective breeding, Reombinetics used CRISPR to give beef cattle an inheritable form of the variant, leading to a line of slick-coated beef cattle. At the time of the FDA’s ruling, it said it expected to have meat from its heat-resistant animals ready for consumers within two years."

Hey team, I'm a progress studies writer and communicator; if you enjoy my work, you can follow along on the blue bird platform. 🐤


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FuturologyBot t1_ivg9h5t wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:


From the Article

>"Science fiction is awash with explorations of the impact on human society following discovery of, and even encounters with, life or intelligence elsewhere," John Elliot(opens in new tab), a computer scientist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, said in a statement(opens in new tab). Elliot is the coordinator of the University of St. Andrews' newly established SETI Detection Hub, the cross-disciplinary organization that will establish the new alien contact protocol.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivflztj wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/lughnasadh:


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This is great news, but it's worth remembering that of the 725,000 human deaths every year from mosquitoes, 600,000 of those are from malaria, and this technique doesn't work with the mosquitoes that cause it.

Still, what is hopeful about this technique is that it's so cheap and easy to operate. The boxes with the eggs can be easily distributed and take no special knowledge to operate. It really is as simple as just adding the right amount of water to the right schedule.


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FuturologyBot t1_ivev8cm wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:


From the Article

>“The launch of Tesla’s humanoid robot prototype, the “Optimus”, has again sparked debate about the financial opportunities of such innovation. The investment case for humanoid robots is sizable – we estimate that in 10-15 years a market size of at least US$6bn is achievable to fill 4$ of the US manufacturing labor shortage gap by 2030E and 2% of global elderly care demand by 2035,” wrote Goldman Sachs in its report.
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>“Should the hurdles of product design, use case, technology, affordability and wide public acceptance be completely overcome, we envision a market of up to US$152bn by 2035E in a blue-sky scenario (close to that of the global EV market and one-third of the global smartphone market as of 2021), which suggests labor shortage issues such as for manufacturing and elderly care can be solved to a large extent.”


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FuturologyBot t1_iverpzn wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/QuantumThinkology:


India plans to have its own space station by 2035 and is also eyeing deep space missions, human space flights, cargo missions and putting multiple communication satellites into orbit at the same time


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FuturologyBot t1_iveaeb3 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/filosoful:


Blood that has been grown in a laboratory has been put into people in a world-first clinical trial, UK researchers say

Tiny amounts - equivalent to a couple of spoonfuls - are being tested to see how it performs inside the body.

The bulk of blood transfusions will always rely on people regularly rolling up their sleeve to donate.

But the ultimate goal is to manufacture vital, but ultra-rare, blood groups that are hard to get hold of.

These are necessary for people who depend on regular blood transfusions for conditions such as sickle cell anaemia.


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FuturologyBot t1_ive4f10 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/fizzapop:


A Brisbane company believe they can “change the face of Australia’s energy landscape”. Craig Nicol, the founder of the company believes it’s graphene aluminium ion battery was a “world-leading piece of technology” (which was developed by the university of Queensland).


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