Aspen Logic Inc

06/02/2017

Slicing up rat brain circuitry.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/ai-designers-find-inspiration-in-rat-brains

Reverse engineering 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue could lead to better artificial neural networks

01/24/2017

Not everything has to be done with FPGAs.

A robotic sleeve that slips around the heart mimics the heart’s natural movement, squeezing and twisting to pump blood in pigs. If it works in humans, it could buy time for heart failure patients awaiting a transplant.

10/17/2016

Ahhh quaternions! How brilliant thou art.

Lists of math holidays invariably omit a worthy one. Observed in Ireland every Oct. 16, Hamilton Day commemorates—no, not a bastard, orphan, son of a w ...

09/10/2016

Experimental physicists make some of the coolest devices on earth.

Fermilab's in-house photographer Reidar Hahn quit his newspaper job in 1987 and has never looked back.

07/25/2016

» After more than 50 years of miniaturization, the transistor could stop shrinking in just five years. That is the prediction of the 2015 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, which was officially released earlier this month.

The last ITRS report forecasts an end to traditional 2D scaling

06/22/2016

Watt they are upto at NIST ...

The NIST-4 watt balance has conducted its first measurement of Planck’s constant to within 34 parts per billion, demonstrating that the high-tech scale is accurate enough to assist the international community with the redefinition of the kilogram slated for 2018.

06/01/2016

Cool sphere packing results announced.

A Ukrainian mathematician has solved the centuries-old sphere-packing problem in dimensions eight and 24.

05/23/2016

Just saying ... we cautious about shifting education priorities and resources away from the sciences. The long term cost could be enormous.

» In ancient times, China was a world leader in science, famed for four great inventions - the compass, papermaking, printing and gunpowder. But over the centuries, as the ruling dynasties placed more focus on the arts, progress stagnated.

Super-sizing science: Five huge projects that reveal China’s plans to become a global scientific powerhouse

05/19/2016

Another popular science show with a reality TV show angle.

Professor Stephen Hawking challenges a selection of volunteers to think like the greatest geniuses in history and solve some of humanity's most enduring questions.

05/16/2016

Happy birthday indeed. (How does that look on ones resume: "Relativity Guru" -- I'll never know!)

Happy Birthday Roy Kerr! The physicist and general relativity guru was born in Kurow, New Zealand, in 1934. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1960. Three years later, while working at the University of Texas, Kerr found a set of solutions to Einstein's general relativity field equations that describes rotating black holes. Physicist Karl Schwarzschild had come up with solutions for stationary black holes in 1916, but Kerr's solutions more accurately describe the physics of actual black holes in the universe. When researchers famously detected gravitational waves in February 2016, the observations were consistent with the merger of two rotating Kerr black holes. Physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar wrote that his learning about Kerr's solution was "the most shattering experience" of his scientific life. "This incredible fact that a discovery motivated by a search after the beautiful in mathematics should find its exact replica in Nature persuades me to say that beauty is that to which the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound."
(Image credit: Melirius, CC BY-SA 3.0)

12/18/2015

Get a Nissan Leaf. You will love it.

12/01/2015

This new drug Tagrisso (formerly AZD9291) from Astrazeneca stopped my Mother-n-law's stage-4 lung cancer in its tracks two years ago. A 3rd generation Tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Tagrisso stops the growth of cells with the T970 point mutation that previously caused resistance to other TKI therapies. The astounding biochemistry research behind this drug heralds a new day in the treatment of tumors with specific mutations seen in the general public.

https://www.tagrisso.com/?source=TAGH39014&WT.mc_id=TAGH39014&umedium=paid%20search&uadpub=google&ucampaign=tagrisso—branded&ucreative=tagrisso—now%20approved&uplace=azd9291

Learn about TAGRISSO™ (osimertinib), now approved for patients with metastatic EGFR T790M mutation-positive NSCLC, as detected by an FDA-approved test, who have progressed on or after EGFR TKI therapy