Author: Sic

The researchers have developed a material that allows high volumes of water to pass through extremely tiny holes called ‘nanopores’ while blocking salt and other contaminants. The material they’re using – a nanometre-thick sheet of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) riddled with these nanopore holes – is the most efficient of a number of thin-film membranes that the engineers modelled, filtering up to 70 percent more water than graphene.

via Scientists develop ‘nanopores’ that inexpensively filter the salt out of seawater – ScienceAlert.

Finding naturally born young is evidence that conservation efforts are helping rebuild the islands ecosystem, which has been damaged, possibly irrevocably, since the 17th century.

via Baby Tortoises Show Up In The Galapagos Islands For The First Time In 100 Years! | The Animal Rescue Site Blog.

http://www.tensorflow.org/

Google has open sources their machine learning library.  You are welcome.

TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API. TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google’s Machine Intelligence research organization for the purposes of conducting machine learning and deep neural networks research, but the system is general enough to be applicable in a wide variety of other domains as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWoQDzyonFA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgb9lfKW_d4

Meet the Stellarator, the $1 billion device that could reinvigorate fusion power research.  Stellarators naturally purr along in a steady state, and they don’t spawn the potentially metal-bending magnetic disruptions that plague tokamaks. Unfortunately, they are devilishly hard to build, making them perhaps even more prone to cost overruns and delays than other fusion projects.  It is the first large-scale example of a new breed of supercomputer-designed stellarators that have had most of their containment problems computed out.

http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/10/feature-bizarre-reactor-might-save-nuclear-fusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8yVq8_Lu0