Limitless Possibilities – AI Technology Generates Original Proteins From Scratch

https://scitechdaily.com/limitless-possibilities-ai-technology-generates-original-proteins-from-scratch/

Surpassing All Existing Designs – Researchers Develop High-Voltage Microbattery With Exceptional Energy and Power Density

https://scitechdaily.com/surpassing-all-existing-designs-researchers-develop-high-voltage-microbattery-with-exceptional-energy-and-power-density/

Try ChatGPT!

If you haven’t tried ChatGPT yet, you really should:

https://chat.openai.com/chat

I asked it to have an intermediate level German conversation with me and also translate its responses into English, and it worked very well. We had a back-and-forth about pets, with it contributing well to the conversation. Then I asked if it could correct my mistakes, which it did with subsequent conversation, including explanations correcting the mistakes. Then I asked to translate the previous dialog into Norwegian, which it did just fine. Try it for almost anything that interests you.

The writing is on the wall. I foresee people having personalized companion robots (especially useful for lonely aging populations) within the next few years. 

Quantum Physicists Make Nanoscopic Breakthrough of Colossal Significance

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-physicists-make-nanoscopic-breakthrough-of-colossal-significance/

Perovskites, a 'dirt cheap' alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient

“By using a substrate of either a layer of metal or alternating layers of metal and dielectric material—rather than glass—he and his co-authors found they could increase the perovskite's light conversion efficiency by 250%.”

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-perovskites-dirt-cheap-alternative-silicon.html

New Blood Test Detects Alzheimer’s Disease 3.5 Years Before Clinical Diagnosis

Helpful, but still not soon enough, considering Alzheimer’s starts 20 years before symptoms start to show:the middle of a

https://scitechdaily.com/new-blood-test-detects-alzheimers-disease-3-5-years-before-clinical-diagnosis/

MIT Physicists Discover Way To Switch Superconductivity On and Off in “Magic-Angle” Graphene

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-physicists-discover-way-to-switch-superconductivity-on-and-off-in-magic-angle-graphene/

Increasing Lifespan by 10%: Scientists Identify a New Promising Anti-Aging Drug

https://scitechdaily.com/increasing-lifespan-by-10-scientists-identify-a-new-promising-anti-aging-drug/

Human Mini-Brains Grafted Into Injured Rats Restored Their Sight

Impressive. Perhaps a stopgap measure for dealing with Alzheimer’s?

https://singularityhub.com/2023/02/07/human-mini-brains-grafted-into-injured-rats-restored-their-sight/

This Vegan Egg Makes Its Debut in US Restaurants This Week

https://singularityhub.com/2023/02/08/this-vegan-egg-makes-its-debut-in-us-restaurants-this-week/

Experts say she will end humanity. Here’s the fix, w Elon Musk, ChatGPT, AI robots

This gives a great and entertaining summary of where AI is leading us:

https://youtu.be/zpRM25pUD8w

MIT Engineers Grow “Perfect” Atom-Thin Materials

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials/

Electric car batteries get a second life storing solar power

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/07/electric-car-batteries-solar-power-storage

Inside The Race To Tap A Controversial Source Of Carbon-Free Energy: Nuclear Waste

“If we just get to the 95% of energy left over in spent uranium fuel, it would be easier to stop burning so many planet-heating fossil fuels. And using more of that energy would shorten the period the final waste product needed to decay back to the radiation levels of uranium mined from the Earth.

“We’re looking at ways to recycle used nuclear fuel because it reduces the amount of waste that has to be disposed of,” Hawthorne said in a conference room outside her lab one morning last October. “It also decreases the amount of time the waste has to be isolated for, from about 300,000 years to about 300 years.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuclear-waste-solution_n_63dd62f3e4b01e928871180a

Uncovering the Link Between Immune Cells and Cognitive Decline: Study Offers a New Way to Tackle Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/uncovering-the-link-between-immune-cells-and-cognitive-decline-study-offers-a-new-way-to-tackle-alzheimers-disease/

Scientists Use Exotic DNA To Help Create “Climate-Proof” Crops

This could be critical to our survival:

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-use-exotic-dna-to-help-create-climate-proof-crops/

Heart Disease Breakthrough: New Immune Target Discovered

https://scitechdaily.com/heart-disease-breakthrough-new-immune-target-discovered/

Scoop: Biden's EV surprise

Nice. 

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/01/electric-car-ev-tax-incentives-biden