A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon’s water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain. The water appears to be present day and night, though it’s not necessarily easily accessible. Bandfield and colleagues came up with a …
Baidu has demonstrated that a single deep learning voice system could learn to reproduce thousands of speaker identities, with less than half an hour of training data for each speaker. This capability was enabled by learning shared and discriminative information from speakers. There are examples of speech sample recordings and synthesized speech based on different …
The Carnival of Space 500 is up at The Venus Transit. Universe Today – Astronomers Observe the Rotating Accretion Disk Around the Supermassive Black Hole in M77 Universe Today – OSIRIS-REx Sends Home an Image of the Earth and Moon Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 …
Carnival of Space 549 is up at Universe Today Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope blog – The Billion-year Race Between Black Holes and Galaxies: Mar Mezcua Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope blog – The Billion-year Race Between Black Holes and Galaxies: Guang Yang The Evolving Planet – Astronomers release most advanced universe simulation yet Brian WangBrian Wang …
DARPA’s new Epigenetic CHaracterization and Observation (ECHO) program aims to build a field-deployable platform technology that quickly reads someone’s epigenome and identifies signatures that indicate whether that person has ever—in his or her lifetime—been exposed to materials that could be associated with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Above – The epigenome is biology’s record keeper. …
DARPA wants to use genetically modified sealife that is integrated with electronics in order to monitor the oceans. The Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program envisions using the natural sensing capabilities of marine organisms to detect the presence of underwater vehicles in strategic waters such as straits and littoral regions. PALS technology would register organisms’ …
DARPA will kick off a space launch competition in two months. Currently the only details are they want fast launches. DARPA has previously funded efforts to develop a spaceplane able to achieve ten launches in ten days but this has not been successfully completed. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
The performance and reliability of quantum sensors and devices is dependent on the length of time the underlying quantum states can remain coherent. If you wait long enough, interactions with the environment will make the state behave like a conventional classical system. In many cases, this time is significantly short. DARPA, with an eye on …
A team of Ohio State researchers has received a $6.34 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop novel magnetic materials by unlocking the power of skyrmions, nanoscale spin textures that offer promise for storage miniaturization. The Ohio State collaborators are one of a handful of successful teams to win this …
The Navies of the mid-term future will be shifting to many drones and sensors and placing long duration systems all over the ocean and seafloor. There will also be a revolution in going all the way to the seafloor and have submarines and drones with wheels hiding in the hills and rocks on the ocean …
The US Air Force is already accelerating the development of a sixth-generation fighter as China ramps up its military. The Air Force is investing $10 billion in the next generation fighter platform over the next five years. This is $2.7 billion more than previously planned, for the Next Generation Air Dominance system, which will likely …