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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - October 2015

Oct 2015

Jan 02, 2016

Google Working on Artificial Intelligence

Google is working on a new messaging app which will provide answers to the users' queries by using artificial intelligence.
The aim of the app is to allow users to engage with chatbots as another medium of getting search results and other information.
In a similar move, Social networking website Facebook is also working on an A.I.-based assistant, called "M," which is part of the company's Messenger app.

Jan 01, 2016

Brain Activity of Worms Recorded in 3D

Scientists have developed a new method to record 3D footage of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving animal. This development could help better understand how neurons coordinate action and perception in animals.
Researchers used the technique to capture the first 3D recordings of neural activity in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm species 1 millimetre long with a nervous system containing a mere 302 neurons.

Dec 29, 2015

Processor Capable of Transmitting Data Using Light

A team of engineers has demoed the first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications.
The researchers packed two processor cores with more than 70 million transistors and 850 photonic components onto a 3-by-6-millimeter chip.
The new chip marks the next step in the evolution of fiber optic communication technology by integrating into a microprocessor the photonic interconnects, or inputs and outputs (I/O), needed to talk to other chips.

Dec 23, 2015

Incredible Galactic Tail Discovered

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered an extraordinary ribbon of hot gas trailing behind a galaxy like a tail.
This ribbon, or X-ray tail, is likely due to gas stripped from the galaxy as it moves through a vast cloud of hot intergalactic gas.
With a length of at least 250,000 light years, it is likely the largest such tail ever detected.
The tail is located in the galaxy cluster Zwicky 8338, which is almost 700 million light years from Earth.

Dec 20, 2015

Closest Habitable Planet Found

Astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system, orbiting a star just 14 light years away.
The planet, more than four times the mass of Earth, is one of three that the team detected around a red dwarf star called Wolf 1061.
It is exciting find because all three planets are of low enough mass to be potentially rocky and have a solid surface, and the middle planet, Wolf 1061c, sits within the 'Goldilocks' zone where it might be possible for liquid water - and maybe even life - to exist.
Their masses are at least 1.4, 4.3 and 5.2 times that of Earth, respectively.

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