Welcome to our “Science Tank” section. In this area of the website, we deal with relevant discoveries from the world of science (physics, mathematics, computer science, medicine and many more) in an interdisciplinary manner. We publish important achievements from around the world with a special focus on the scientific environment in Göttingen. Have fun and stay curious.
Hard drives and other data storage systems store huge amounts of information today. However, like magnetic tapes or floppy disks in the past, these devices can become out of date over time and we will lose access to the data we collect on them. That is why scientists have developed a method to convert data into the DNA to record a living organism. This kind of "mass storage"will probably not become obsolete in the foreseeable future.
Seth Shipman of the University of California at San Francisco, who was not involved in the work, praised the performance of his colleagues from Columbia University, but points out that it will be a long time before such systems find practical application.
Hard drives and other data storage systems store huge amounts of information today. However, like magnetic tapes or floppy disks in the past, these devices can become out of date over time and we will lose access to the data we collect on them. That is why scientists have developed a method to convert data into the DNA to record a living organism. This kind of "mass storage"will probably not become obsolete in the foreseeable future.
Seth Shipman of the University of California at San Francisco, who was not involved in the work, praised the performance of his colleagues from Columbia University, but points out that it will be a long time before such systems find practical application.
Reference to Star Trek Episode: The Next Generation: Season 4 / Episode 95 - The Standgericht / The Drumhead
"In the meantime, Worf has found out how J'Dan transferred the secret information to the Romulans. J'Dan has to be treated with hypodermic syringes for his Balthasar syndrome. When he examined the syringe, however, he found that it was an optical one Contains a chip reader that has been specially designed to to read the isolinear chips of Starfleet. Digital information is extracted and then encoded in the form of amino acid sequences. "
Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded for the first time in automating the modeling of turbulence in liquids by combining fluid mechanics and artificial intelligence. Their approach is based on the combination of Reinforcement machine learning algorithms with turbulent Flow simulationscarried out on the Piz Daint supercomputer of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center.
According to a description of the research recently published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence published, the researchers developed new reinforcement machine learning (RL) algorithms and combined them with a physical approach to modeling Turbulence.
Chinese scientists have the world's first integrated Quantum communication network created connecting more than 700 fiber optic cables on earth to two satellites. It is over 4600 km long and connects users from Beijing to Shanghai. It is the largest such network in the world and an important step in terms of data security. Jianwei Pan, Yuao Chen and Chengzhi Peng from the University of Science and Technology in Hefei announced the results in "Nature"(http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03093-8). They give hope for global, practical applications of similar communication technologies in the future.
A newly founded Göttingen start-up that Silent HighTech Solution GmbH (http://silent-ht-solutions.com, PD Dr. Martin Friedrich), offers a product that optimizes and coordinates the processes in the operating room and increases the safety of the treatments carried out in the hospital. Before we turn to the description, first of all, congratulations on founding the entire Digital Think Tank team! Göttingen - the city that creates knowledge!
What is it about? It is about that Silent Operating Theater Optimization System (SOTOS) and is a for use in loud High-tech environments developed, noise-reducing information management system. The system was developed at the University Medical Center Göttingen under the direction of PD Dr. Friedrich for use in cardiac surgery or for robotic surgery (DaVinci). Overall, the team performance can be significantly improved by using the SOTOS® communication environment, which is particularly important for OR work environments (Robot-assisted DaVinci applications and cardiac surgery) was elaborately validated.
Since the fourth Star TrekFilm came out in 1986, materials scientists have wondered if transparent aluminum could really be made. Research over the past few years suggests that we may not have to wait until the 23rd century to accomplish a similar feat.
In the more than 50 years since the first episode aired in 1966, Star Trek fans always excited to see technologies that once only existed on television have become a reality - from automatic doors to tablet computers. And although some of the most anticipated technologies, such as B. Holodecks, are not (yet) fully available, there is a technology that has emerged in recent years and that is potentially even more exciting for materials scientists.
In the Star Trek universe, the term "transparent aluminum"on a transparent metal made from elemental aluminum.
Reference to Star Trek: Movie / IV - Back to the Present / The Journey Home
"In the meantime, McCoy and Scotty have appeared at Plexicorp. Scotty pretends to be a professor from Edinburgh and in return for a few materials that he needs for the Waltank offers the Plexicorp boss a formula for a completely new material (transparent aluminum ) l, which Plexicorp could develop and market. Dr. Nichols, the head of Plexicorp, goes into that. "
Astronomers have found evidence of a galaxy whose light took 13,4 billion years to reach us. This is a new record that sets the current limit of the universe we know.
Philosophers and scholars have always puzzled over the beginning of time and tried to find out when everything began. It was only in the age of modern astronomy that we came close to the answer to this question. According to the most popular cosmological models, the universe began with the Big Bang, which happened about 13,8 billion years ago. But astronomers are still unsure of what the early universe looked like and call the first billion years of its existence the "dark ages". That is why they are constantly improving their scientific instruments to see even the most distant galaxies. Thanks to new research by an international team of scientists, the oldest galaxy observed to date has been identified in our universe. It is called GN-z11 bezeichnet.
Scientists from the United States and Singapore used a robotic vacuum cleaner to eavesdrop on the sound in the rooms and identify TV programs playing in the room where the vacuum cleaner was located. The performance is even more impressive as the Standalone vacuum cleaner are not equipped with a microphone. This work shows that any device with lidar technology can likely be used for eavesdropping.
We use these types of devices at home without thinking about it much. We have shown that although such devices do not have a microphone, we can rewrite their navigation system to eavesdrop on conversations and reveal confidential information, says Professor Nirupam Roy of the University of Maryland.
This in autonomous robots used Lidar system examines the environment with the help of lasers. Their light is reflected from the surroundings of the vacuum cleaner and fed into the sensors of the vacuum cleaner to create a room map. Experts have been speculating for some time that the maps created by autonomous vacuum cleaners, which are often stored in the cloud, can be used for advertising.
On average, your computer makes a mistake every few days for no apparent reason. It is not a hacker attack, but the effect of invisible radiation that can alter the outcome of an election or lead to a plane crash.
In the Belgian federal elections in 2003, citizens voted electronically - with magnetic cards that each voter received. In the city of Schaerbeek, the unpopular candidate Maria Vindevoghel won. It would not have been exceptional if she hadn't won far more votes than there are eligible voters in her constituency. All used Magnetic cards were collected and the votes counted again. The support that the candidates received has not changed, with the exception of Mrs Vindevoghel, who this time received exactly 4096 fewer votes. A further investigation determined the cause of the error, which was referred to in the official documents as "spontaneous setting of the bit in the thirteenth position in the computer memory". To understand this mysterious explanation, one has to know how the computer stores information in its memory.
The experts at DipYourCar have the car Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X with an acrylic paint called Musou Black lacquered, which absorbs 99,4 percent of the light. As a result, the car turned black as asphalt. According to the car service providers who describe this special "tuning", the paint is darker than the legendary, super light-absorbing material Vantablack.
Zbigniew Kokosiński, PhD, professor at the Cracow University of Technology, has developed a new way of playing the game of chess - that Diagonal chess. As read on the university website, the new game method is more interesting than traditional chess and also enables beginners to play with more experienced partners. As is so often the case, Professor Kokosiński made his discovery by accident.
The author of the solution checked the website The Chess Variant Pages to see that no one had come up with such an idea yet. That's how it went Diagonal chess the scientist registered it as the latest version of the game. Dr. Kokosiński works in the Automation and Information Technology Department. He learned to play chess at the age of 8. The specialist did not intend to make a revolution in the royal game. When the university introduced the obligation to work remotely due to a pandemic, it occurred to him on April 8th that chess could be played in a completely different way.
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Hard drives and other data storage systems store huge amounts of information today. However, like magnetic tapes or floppy disks in the past, these devices can become out of date over time and we will lose access to the data we collect on them. That is why scientists have developed a method to convert data into the DNA to record a living organism. This kind of "mass storage"will probably not become obsolete in the foreseeable future.
Reinforcement machine learning algorithms with turbulent Flow simulationscarried out on the Piz Daint supercomputer of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. 
Chinese scientists have the world's first integrated Quantum communication network created connecting more than 700 fiber optic cables on earth to two satellites. It is over 4600 km long and connects users from Beijing to Shanghai. It is the largest such network in the world and an important step in terms of data security. Jianwei Pan, Yuao Chen and Chengzhi Peng from the University of Science and Technology in Hefei announced the results in "
Astronomers have found evidence of a galaxy whose light took 13,4 billion years to reach us. This is a new record that sets the current limit of the universe we know.
The performance is even more impressive as the Standalone vacuum cleaner are not equipped with a microphone. This work shows that any device with lidar technology can likely be used for eavesdropping.
On average, your computer makes a mistake every few days for no apparent reason. It is not a hacker attack, but the effect of invisible radiation that can alter the outcome of an election or lead to a plane crash.
more interesting than traditional chess and also enables beginners to play with more experienced partners. As is so often the case, Professor Kokosiński made his discovery by accident.