Beginning of the Future

(Image Source: CSAIL MIT) MosAIc “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” -Thomas Merton For some, art is a way of communication and for others, art is a deep mystery. A painting is just not just a surface with paint but it also represents the culture and history captured within it. Many times even for researchers it is not possible to figure out the connection between two completely different forms of art or paintings that might exist from different periods and space. What is MosAIc? To find the most unexpected and obscure relation between parallel artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Microsoft developers have created an artificial intelligence algorithm named as “MosAIc” system. This system will point out the similarities between art forms through different cultures and styles. Researchers were inspired by the uncanny resemblance betwe...

The advancement of mankind has for long been a threat to wildlife. The latest threats have come to the nesting birds on agricultural grounds which are being displaced from their habitats owing to agricultural activities. The integration of drones along with thermal imaging cameras powered by artificial intelligence can be promising for the conservation of birds. What is the current technology? Physical inspections and thermal imaging on the ground have been practiced for years but not without its fair share of problems such as; dense vegetation, objects along the path of inspection. What has been proposed? Integration of System Researchers have devised an arrangement of drones equipped with thermal imaging sensors that will capture multiple heat-sensitive images which will be fed into an Artificial Intelligence-powered software to accurately map nests and inform co-ordinates for the nest which can be relocated before agricultural activities take place. “The system works best under clou...

Copper Nugget In a world fueled by technology and science, it’s only about time groundbreaking discoveries are made. This is it. Science has always been a keen believer in borrowing from the past to propel the future. It’s always been of interest to us in creating ways to make the world a safer and better place.  The findings on how to fight bacteria are revolutionary and could limit the spread of many such pathogens who live on surfaces for days to find their next prey. What has been happening until now? Ever since the early age’s humans have been finding ways to discover surfaces that inhibit the growth of viruses and Copper is one such material which has passed the course of time. Copper’s antimicrobial properties have made it a prominent candidate for storing food and water, especially in India.  The surface of copper is conductive to electricity and in the case of a microbe touching its surface, electrons are carried away from the microbe’s membrane, ultimately re...

The material inspired by shells and grapefruits can turn back the force of a cutting tool upon itself. Named Proteus after the shape-changing god,  the material is constructed of ceramic spheres encased in cellular aluminium structures that cannot be cut even by water jets. The tough cellular skins of the grapefruit and the fracture-resistant shell of molluscs are the core of ideation of the new material.  How exactly is the idea inspired by nature?  The free fall of a grapefruit does not damage it’s pulp because it’s peel made up of vascular bundles and an open pore cellular structure. Arapaimas fish resist the attack of a piranha’s teeth through the hierarchical design of their scales. Narce of Abalon ( in simpler terms, mother of pearl) has hard organic, an inflexible layer  The system is dynamic with an evolving internal structure that creates high-speed motion when it interacts with cutting tools. The material is made from a cellular aluminium structure wrapped ...