Ancient Civilizations of The Future: Could Technologies for Preserving Individual Memories Define Us In a Million Years?
As AI becomes ingrained in our lives, we’re compelled to question whether it has the power to supersede our very agency, influencing our decisions, choices, behaviour, and the very fabric of our memories—the vital threads that guide us through life.
Does the Universe Have a Holographic Memory?
The discovery of a low-frequency vibrational “hum” in the fabric of spacetime has added to the mystery of gravitational waves first detected in 2015. Does the universe remember gravitational effects over time, and is its memory encoded at the border of black holes?
Burning Museums and Erasing History: The Societal Need for Memory
The devastating fire that consumed Brazil’s National Museum in 2018 destroyed priceless historical artifacts and works of art that were never cataloged digitally. The tragedy highlights the importance of memory and the need for technology to preserve our records of the past.
Mummies in 3D: Imaging Technology Opens New Possibilities for Preserving Memory in Archeological Findings
Advancements in imaging technology are revolutionizing the study of mummies and archeological findings, revealing the health conditions, cultural practices, and other life details of ancient humans, and allowing researchers to solve long-standing mysteries while preserving these treasures for future investigation.
Editorial Perspectives
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Job Applications and Algorithmic Barriers to Your History
Algorithms now play a major role in connecting job applicants and prospective employers. Job seekers are increasingly required to adapt their profiles to meet algorithmic requirements, raising the question whether an application is an accurate record of human history and skills development.
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Imagination is a Key Difference Between the Neural Network in Your Head and in a Machine
The differences between machine neural nets and the operation of the human brain could be better understood with the use of different language. The power of imagination in human neurons is a key difference.
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The Extraordinary Contributions of Citizen Scientists to Scientific Creativity
Citizen scientists without formal academic training, like Daniel Larsen, Pierre de Fermat, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, have made extraordinary contributions to mathematics and scientific creativity. The key may be the differences in their perspectives.
In Focus
Baby Yingliang: The Best Dinosaur Embryo Fossil Ever Found Is Remarkably Similar to a Chicken Egg
Unearthed from a 70-million-year-old fossilized egg, a perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo reveals new insights into the history of life on Earth and the connection between ancient reptiles and modern birds.
Secrets of the Andes: How Earth’s Dripping Transformed Mountains Over Millions of Years
The Earth has different layers, like an onion. The Andes Mountains formed from a slow process called lithospheric dripping, when the Earth’s hard and rocky top layer sometimes breaks and sinks into the softer and hotter layer below. This process may help us to understand how high-elevation regions on other planets are formed.
The Cold War and Whale Sharks: The Unexpected Outcome of Nuclear Tests
Discover the surprising link between nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cold War and the age of whale sharks, revealing the hidden secrets of these ocean giants through traces of radioactivity caused by human activity.
Podcasts and Webcasts
Dr. Aaron Meisner and the Search for Brown Dwarfs
Lindsay House: Looking 9 Billion Years Back for Dark Energy
Elisa Torres Durney and Girls in Quantum
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Major Advances in Quantum Computing Revolution
A quantum computer has just been used to simulate a wormhole, holding potential for future space travel. With recent advances in powerful computing capacity, and the rapid growth of the quantum computing industry, the technology promises many benefits including reduction of pollution and conflict.
Introduction to Quantum Accounting Theory, Part 2
Quantum accounting records the order of the quantum computer’s signals that begin in two states simultaneously and output to two points on the spherical limit of the qubit. The first principle of quantum accounting considers the geometry of the sphere, the time order of signals from present to past and future, and the nature of the quantum as the universal medium of the account.
The Two Key Values in Quantum Accounting, Part 2: Where is the Elusive 0?
In Part 2 of our series, we find that to balance the quantum account, zero must remain in the middle of the qubit sphere, but we face the problem and paradox of locating that point. We conclude the only way to pinpoint the middle is to define – simultaneously – the radius of the debit and credit.
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Beyond the Binary: Can Machines Achieve Conscious Understanding?
Can machines achieve true consciousness? Exploring the boundaries of machine intelligence and consciousness, this feature delves into the Turing Machine, neural networks, emotions, and the complexity of language, raising intriguing questions about the nature of consciousness and what the future might look like as we expand machine and human connections.
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Ancient Civilizations of The Future: Could Technologies for Preserving Individual Memories Define Us In a Million Years?
As AI becomes ingrained in our lives, we’re compelled to question whether it has the power to supersede our very agency, influencing our decisions, choices, behaviour, and the very fabric of our memories—the vital threads that guide us through life.
We Are All Citizen Scientists
Defending Earth against asteroid strikes is a public priority that will require global mobilization of citizen scientists led by organizations like the B612 Foundation. Co-founder and Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart helped prove, in 1969, how much progress is possible in a short seven years with citizen contributions to the Moon landing effort launched by President Kennedy in 1962.
Saving the Planet: Nobel Prize Recognizes Climate Science, but Will Mindsets Change in Time to Sustain Nature’s Potential and Value?
The scientific research on climate change is robust and presents alarming perspectives for the survival of our species. Several international organizations have been making efforts to encourage a change in our approach toward climate change. While countries have been slower than expected in taking action, there is optimism with the upcoming COP28 meeting.
Latest Technology Over Time
The Genius of Alan Turing, and the Technology that Cracked the Nazi Enigma Code
Alan Turing’s skills in mathematics and computer science helped build the “Bombe,” the computing machine that cracked the Nazi Enigma code. The technology was instrumental in the Allied victory over Hitler.
Ancient Astronomy: The Technology of the Golden Hats
With four Golden Hats now unearthed, dating back over 3,000 years, the mysteries remain. What was the purpose of this ancient technology? What was the source of the knowledge, and how was it used? Were they astronomical time calculators, or more?
What Were They Thinking? Future Technology as Imagined in Sci-fi of the 1950s and 1960s
Our 5-part series on sci-fi films of the 1950s and 1960s wraps up with a look at how life on Mars was imagined, and Jane Fonda in the campy sci-fi sex comedy “Barbarella”.
Latest Science News
Does the Universe Have a Holographic Memory?
The discovery of a low-frequency vibrational “hum” in the fabric of spacetime has added to the mystery of gravitational waves first detected in 2015. Does the universe remember gravitational effects over time, and is its memory encoded at the border of black holes?
Burning Museums and Erasing History: The Societal Need for Memory
The devastating fire that consumed Brazil’s National Museum in 2018 destroyed priceless historical artifacts and works of art that were never cataloged digitally. The tragedy highlights the importance of memory and the need for technology to preserve our records of the past.
Mummies in 3D: Imaging Technology Opens New Possibilities for Preserving Memory in Archeological Findings
Advancements in imaging technology are revolutionizing the study of mummies and archeological findings, revealing the health conditions, cultural practices, and other life details of ancient humans, and allowing researchers to solve long-standing mysteries while preserving these treasures for future investigation.