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Don’t fear superintelligent AI | Grady Booch

14th March 2017 82

New tech spawns brand-new anxieties, says scientist and theorist Grady Booch, but we don't have to hesitate an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by discussing how we'll […]

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New nanotech to detect cancer early | Joshua Smith

3rd March 2017 58

Exactly what if every house had an early-warning cancer detection system? Scientist Joshua Smith is establishing a nanobiotechnology "cancer alarm" that scans for traces of illness in the form of unique biomarkers called exosomes. In […]

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What time is it on Mars? | Nagin Cox

3rd March 2017 45

Nagin Cox is a first-generation Martian. As a spacecraft engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Cox works on the team that manages the United States' rovers on Mars. However working a 9-to-5 on another planet– […]

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Art made of the air we breathe | Emily Parsons-Lord

3rd March 2017 53

Emily Parsons-Lord re-creates air from unique minutes in Earth's history– from the clean, fresh-tasting air of the Carboniferous period to the soda-water air of the Great Perishing to the heavy, harmful air of the future […]

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The next step in nanotechnology | George Tulevski

31st January 2017 27

Every year the silicon computer chip diminishes in size by half and doubles in power, enabling our gadgets to become more mobile and accessible. However what takes place when our chips cannot get any smaller […]

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Why Earth may someday look like Mars | Anjali Tripathi

22nd January 2017 67

Every minute, 400 pounds of hydrogen and practically 7 pounds of helium escape from Earth's atmosphere into deep space. Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi studies the phenomenon of climatic escape, and in this remarkable and available talk, […]

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