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In CSU lab, laser-heated nanowires produce micro-scale nuclear fusion with record efficiency | Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering | SOURCE | Colorado State University
— Read on engr.source.colostate.edu/in-csu-lab-laser-heated-nanowires-produce-micro-scale-nuclear-fusion-with-record-efficiency/

Fast live-cell 3D phase imaging of cellular dynamics. (Left) Human fibroblast migrating on a glass substrate, showing first frame of a 25-second movie imaged
— Read on www.kurzweilai.net/super-resolution-microscopy-captures-images-in-both-space-and-time

All power to the proton: Researchers make battery breakthrough
— Read on techxplore.com/news/2018-03-power-proton-battery-breakthrough.html

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/china-s-economy-is-set-to-overtake-combined-euro-area-this-year

So the fact that the program – or any such program – does as well as it does here means, folks, that the handwriting is on the wall. Not this afternoon, and not next week, but in the easily foreseeable future retrosynthesis and synthetic organic chemistry planning are going to be taken out of the hands of chemists. At least, that’s how it’s going to seem to us, the chemists of the present. But to future chemists, the ones who will enter the science once this transformation is complete, it won’t seem like that at all. To them, synthesis planning will always have been something that you have machine help with – why would you do it any other way? Who can carry a zillion reaction examples around in their head?

Behold the rise of the machines. It’s been going on for a while, but there are landmarks along the way, and we may have just passed another one with the publication of this paper. It’s open-access, from an interestingly mixed team: the Polish Academy of Science, Northwestern University, the University of Warsaw, the
— Read on blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/03/06/retrosynthesis-here-it-comes

This is currently the coolest concept in transportation imo…

Audi and Airbus work together on a passenger drone/electric car hybrid | Electrek
— Read on electrek.co/2018/03/06/audi-airbus-passenger-drone-electric-car/

Research Blog: A Preview of Bristlecone, Google’s New Quantum Processor
— Read on research.googleblog.com/2018/03/a-preview-of-bristlecone-googles-new.html

This is speeding up…

Google unveiled that it’s working on a 72-qubit quantum computer with error rates below 1%, which is what the company said it’s required to have minimally useful quantum computers.
— Read on www.tomshardware.com/news/google-72-qubit-quantum-computer,36617.html

This essay on the difficulty of understanding comparative advantage is the best thing Paul Krugman has ever written.

web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ricardo.htm

Yet most drivers I meet are fairly happy about having these jobs as an option. It’s a conundrum. Perhaps it reflects how desperate is the plight of average people…?

Majority of drivers make less than minimum wage and many end up losing money, according to study published by MIT
— Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/01/uber-lyft-driver-wages-median-report