Other interesting news for 01.17.25
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Other interesting news for 01.17.25

This post collects inks to interesting news that we have considered but not included in our regular news this week.
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Giulio Prisco
Jan 17, 2025
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We're thinking to publish one post per week, on Fridays, to collect links to interesting news that we have considered but not used in the previous week. Please let us know how you like this format.

An AI model has simulated 500 million years of protein evolution and developed a new fluorescent protein.

Penn State center has received a NASA grant to search for radio and laser signals from alien civilizations.

Researchers have developed an efficient method of creating entangled photon pairs. This could transform computing, telecommunications, and sensing.

Rice researchers are studying tellurene for next-gen electronics.

Researchers have developed a new optical memory platform for super fast calculations.

Scientists are investigating non-Western modes of thinking about artificial intelligence, especially those originating from Indigenous cultures.

Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny specks of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP), an extreme state of matter that permeated the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

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Giulio Prisco

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Giulio Prisco is Senior Editor at Mindplex. He is a science and technology writer mainly interested in fundamental science, space exploration and expansion, computer science, Information Technology (IT), Virtual Reality (VR), cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cyberconsciousness, bio and nano technology, cryptography and crypto-economies, decentralized technology and governance.<br>A theoretical physicist by training and early career, in his previous lives Giulio has been a senior manager in public research organizations, an entrepreneur in the VR sector, and a consultant specialized in IT and VR. <a href="https://x.com/giulioprisco"></a><a href="https://x.com/giulioprisco">Follow Giulio on X</a>.<br>Giulio is also interested in the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of science and technology and has authored several books. <a href="https://www.turingchurch.com/"></a><a href="https://www.turingchurch.com/">See his website for more about this</a>.

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Henriq C

1 year ago
<p>A vote in favor from me. </p><p>May I ask on what basis you select those candidates? Do you manually scroll through the publications and pick generally interesting ones or is there some automation/filtering used? How do you balance between diversity and your own expertise?</p><p><br></p>