Don’t tell these engineers that they “are being exploited…” wink
Tesla is building a top-class team of roboticists including robot design modelers, actuator designers, manufacturing engineers and technicians.
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Jan 21, 2023
Preventative drug shown to stop spread of cancer as study on mice finds ‘90% effectiveness’
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Metastasisation — the spreading of cancer cells from the primary tumour into surrounding body tissues and organs — is the leading cause of death in cancer patients. Now a new study has found a potential way to stop these cancer cells from entering a person’s blood. Scientists from Israel are working to produce the world’s first preventative drug to help stop tumours that cause secondary cancer, as reported byThe Times of Israel.
Jan 21, 2023
First spacewalk of the year completed by two astronauts
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, space
Two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday performed the first spacewalk of the year, working on the exterior of the station as part of a long-term program to upgrade the ISS power system. The spacewalk took place on Friday, January 20, and lasted over seven hours, though one troublesome strut wasn’t bolted into place as planned.
The two astronauts performing the spacewalk were NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and this was the first spacewalk for each of them.
The ISS solar arrays which provide power to the station are getting old, so in a long-term project astronauts are installing new arrays called iROSAs at an offset on top of the old arrays — allowing both sets of arrays to provide power. The aim of the spacewalk yesterday was to install two mounting platforms, which would be used to install new solar arrays later this year.
Jan 21, 2023
Before and after: See the impact of California storms from space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Satellite images reveal dramatic changes to California’s valleys, mountains and coastlines.
Jan 21, 2023
YouTubers claim to have built ‘world’s biggest’ hexapod rideable robot
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: robotics/AI
HackSmith Industries/ YouTube.
Initially, the project was supposed to take three months. But it ended up lasting a year and a half and saw many failures, breakdowns, and rewrites. The team behind the YouTube channel even made three videos before scrapping them all and going with the final version.
Jan 21, 2023
Harnessing the healing power within our cells
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
University of Queensland researchers have identified a pathway in cells that could be used to reprogram the body’s immune system to fight back against both chronic inflammatory and infectious diseases.
Dr. Kaustav Das Gupta and Professor Matt Sweet from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience discovered that a molecule derived from glucose in immune cells can both stop bacteria growing and dampen inflammatory responses. Dr. Das Gupta said that the finding is a critical step towards future therapeutics that train immune cells.
The research was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Jan 21, 2023
Inside the Lab: Taking Atlas From Sim to Scaffold
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
See the people building up Atlas.
How does Atlas recognize and interact with objects? How do we develop new Atlas behaviors? Why is manipulation important for the future of robotics?
Continue reading “Inside the Lab: Taking Atlas From Sim to Scaffold” »
Jan 21, 2023
Promising Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Candidate Identified in Mouse Study
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience
A new study has identified a promising drug candidate that can protect neurons from degeneration in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease. The research is published in Science Translational Medicine.
Addressing an unmet need
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, and over the last 25 years, the prevalence of PD has doubled, presenting a large health burden across the globe.
Jan 21, 2023
ChatGPT Accepted As Co-Author On Multiple Research Papers
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in category: robotics/AI
The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT that has taken the world by storm has made its formal debut in the scientific literature, pulling up at least four authorship credits on published papers and preprints.
Editors, researchers, and publishers are currently debating whether such AI tools should be included in published literature and whether the bot should be cited as an author. Publishers are thinking of policies to be created for chatbots like chatgpt.
Research publications and preprint servers stated that AIs like ChatGPT don’t meet the criteria for study authors. They cannot assume responsibility for scientific papers. Some publishers claim that an AI’s contributions to writing papers can be recognized in sections other than those on the author list.
Jan 21, 2023
Scientists Build a Teeny Tiny Tractor Beam
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: energy, engineering, tractor beam
Tractor beams make intuitive sense. Matter and energy interact with each other in countless ways throughout the Universe. Magnetism and gravity are both natural forces that can draw objects together, so there’s sort of a precedent.
But engineering an actual tractor beam is something different.
