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Transparent aluminum? Scottie lives!

By On August 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Experimental set-up at the FLASH laser used to discover the new state of matter.

University of Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminum (across the pond, it’s “alumimium”) by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. ‘Transparent aluminum’ is an exotic new state of matter that previously existed […]

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The Singularity Summit 2009: Coming to NYC in October!

By On August 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

First used in its current sense  by mathematician and scifi writer Vernor Vinge in 1993, and introduced to popular culture by technology futurist Ray Kurzweil 1n 2005, the Singularity is the theoretical future point of hyper-accelerating societal, scientific and economic change made possible by the emergence of machine superintelligence.

The premier dialog on the Singularity, […]

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