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Dec 26, 2021
NASA’s DART Spacecraft Opens Its “Eye” and Returns First Images From Space
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: government, space
Just two weeks after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA
Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. It’s vision is “To discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity.”
Dec 26, 2021
This Tiny Autonomous Robot Transforms The Desert Into a Verdant Landscape
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
A’seedbot is a tiny autonomous robot that aims to convert the uninhabitable sandy desert soil into a verdant landscape.
Dec 26, 2021
TIMELAPSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2028 — 3000+)
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, education, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, singularity
A documentary and journey into the future exploring the possibilities and predictions of artificial intelligence. This timelapse of the future explores what is coming, from robots that are too fast for humans to see, to A.I. bots from Microsoft (bringing back loved ones to life) and Google’s laMDA (replacing the need for online searches).
Elon Musk’s Neuralink goes from a medical and healthcare device, to helping people become superhuman – with intelligence amplification, and add-ons that connect to the brain chip.
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Dec 26, 2021
2021’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
Posted by Chris J. Kent in categories: physics, space
It was a big year. Fermilab discovered possible evidence of new physics with the muon G-2 experiment. Physicists created a time crystal, a new phase of matter that appears to violate one of nature’s most cherished laws. And we got a glimpse of an enormous pair of bubbles towering over the Milky Way. Read the articles in full at Quanta: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20211222/
Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation.
Dec 26, 2021
I promise this story about microwaves is interesting
Posted by Krys Hyff in categories: cyborgs, space
Time to have another go at reanimation?
Interview with James Lovelock 101 years old-scientist inventor.
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Dec 26, 2021
Autonomous drones could help find freshly fallen meteorites
Posted by Liliana Alfair in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Dec 26, 2021
Immune system cells from COVID-19 patients display compromised mitochondrial-nuclear expression co-regulation and rewiring toward glycolysis
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: biotech/medical
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Mitochondria are pivotal for bioenergetics, as well as in cellular response to viral infections. Nevertheless, their role in COVID-19 was largely overlooked. Here, we analyzed available bulk RNA-seq datasets from COVID-19 patients and corresponding healthy controls (three blood datasets, N = 48 healthy, 119 patients; two respiratory tract datasets, N = 157 healthy, 524 patients). We found significantly reduced mtDNA gene expression in blood, but not in respiratory tract samples from patients. Next, analysis of eight single-cells RNA-seq datasets from peripheral blood mononuclear cells, nasopharyngeal samples, and Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (N = 1,192,243 cells), revealed significantly reduced mtDNA gene expression especially in immune system cells from patients. This is associated with elevated expression of nuclear DNA-encoded OXPHOS subunits, suggesting compromised mitochondrial-nuclear co-regulation. This, together with elevated expression of ROS-response genes and glycolysis enzymes in patients, suggest rewiring toward glycolysis, thus generating beneficial conditions for SARS-CoV-2 replication. Our findings underline the centrality of mitochondrial dysfunction in COVID-19.
Dec 26, 2021
DataRobot’s DataRobot Core aims to accelerate AI system deployment
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
DataRobot ‘s new DataRobot Core platform is designed to deliver improved AI design tools to enterprises in a range of industries.
Dec 26, 2021
Astronomers Capture Supermassive Black Hole Eruption Near Earth Spanning 16 Times the Full Moon in the Sky
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cosmology, materials
Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth.
The emission is powered by a central black hole in the galaxy Centaurus A, about 12 million light years away.