Mark Post has been provided with €300,000 to, over the course of a year, create a hamburger. While this may sound like easy earnings, the challenge is that this hamburger must be created without using any animals as a source for the meat. Taking the lead role in the department of vascular physiology ad Maastricht  [ Read More ]

Strides Toward A Better Future Humans have been living in a world with dramatically slow progression towards a future utopia like those that we see in science-fiction films. All of the slow progression is starting to fade away, leaving roam for exponential breakthroughs in all different fields of research. Growing up in the 90’s, I  [ Read More ]

This is actually quite a common question among the science and technology community in academia. And for now, the answer remains to be seen. We are just starting to see exponential progression with new innovations and breakthroughs in science and technology. The past 100 years of “Innovation” are not even worth mentioning when you compare  [ Read More ]

I want you to imagine yourself reading a newspaper. You do the same old thing while reading: line by line, word by word. This has always been the main form of retaining information. But what if you could move past the primitive style of how you read and enjoy your information. You are in luck. Thanks  [ Read More ]

If you look at our planet from space, what you see is something like a neural network with the cities as its nodes, and that is as good an image of the planet as a complex system of systems as one could hope for. With the emergence of the Internet in the mid-90′s, the world  [ Read More ]

Computer analyses of breast-cancer microscopic images were found more accurate than those conducted by humans, computer scientists at the Stanford School of Engineering and pathologists at the Stanford School of Medicine report. The researchers’ Computational Pathologist (C-Path) is a machine-learning-based method for automatically analyzing images of cancerous tissues and predicting patient survival. Since 1928, the analysis of breast-cancer characteristics  [ Read More ]

Over the past century but accelerating over the past couple of decades, we have seen the emergence of a kind of global data field. The planet itself – natural systems, human systems, physical objects – have always generated an enormous amount of data, but we didnt used to be able to hear it, to see  [ Read More ]