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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
When we think about singularities, we tend to think of massive black holes in faraway galaxies or a distant future with runaway AI, but singularities are all around us. Singularities are simply a place where certain parameters are undefined. The North and South Pole, for example, are what’s known as coordinate singularities because they don’t have a defined longitude.
Optical singularities typically occur when the phase of light with a specific wavelength, or color, is undefined. These regions appear completely dark. Today, some optical singularities, including optical vortices, are being explored for use in optical communications and particle manipulation but scientists are just beginning to understand the potential of these systems. The question remains can we harness darkness like we harnessed light to build powerful, new technologies?
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For the last decade or so, there seem to have been serious efforts by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the scientific community in other countries to explore Mars and determine whether it can be liveable.
Known popularly as the ‘Red Planet’ on account of the colour its iron-oxide rich surface, Mars is roughly half the size of the Earth and has been a constant source of curiosity for scientists over the years. This is reflected in the amount of exploration and research that has gone towards the planet to ascertain whether it is possible to establish life there. Projects like the Mars Foundation based in the Netherlands and the Mars Space Mission project based in New York are composed of scientists and aerospace companies exploring how Mars can be liveable in the first half of 21
New Brigham–Wyss Diagnostic Accelerator could enable fast creation of diagnostic technologies
Today, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Boston s Brigham and Women Hospital (Brigham) announce their newly founded Diagnostic Accelerator (Brigham-Wyss DxA). By combining the institutions broad clinical and multi-disciplinary bioengineering expertise, the Brigham-Wyss DxA will enable the fast creation of diagnostic technologies through deep collaborations in a process driven by previously unmet needs.
The Brigham-Wyss DxA presents a new type of research collaboration with the potential to significantly compress the timeframe for introducing new diagnostic technologies specifically developed to solve high-value clinical problems. The collaborators plan to achieve this through a formal process by which unmet diagnostic challenges are identified by the Brigham clinical community, effectively matched with highly appropriate technologies crea