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Jan 30, 2018
Spinach leaf veins help cardiac patients heal
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Jan 30, 2018
Scientists Think They’ve Found a Way to Stop Allergic Reactions Before They Happen
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, health
If you’re one of the unlucky millions of people burdened by allergies, you know that sometimes there’s only so much antihistamines can do to help.
Researchers have been working to find more effective allergy treatments, and now they’ve discovered how a particular antibody can stop an allergic reaction from happening altogether.
An allergic reaction is the immune system’s way of completely overreacting to a normally benign substance, from proteins in cat saliva to surprisingly deadly peanuts.
Jan 30, 2018
China enlists top scientists in mission to become military tech superpower
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: military, quantum physics, robotics/AI
China has gathered 120 researchers from around the military to work for its top research institute as part of a push to develop military applications for artificial intelligence and quantum technology, state media reported.
Experts from within the military to work for its top research institute as China modernises its armed forces to give them cutting-edge equipment and arms.
Jan 29, 2018
Physicists cracked the mystery of teleportation — but it’s nothing like what you see in Star Trek
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: physics
Jan 29, 2018
Why Elon Musk is selling flamethrowers
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Elon Musk’s latest product is the next in a long line of PR stunts for companies like Tesla, The Boring Company and more.
Jan 29, 2018
Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old Manuscript
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University) Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, of has confounded linguists and cryptographers. Using artificial intelligence, Canadian researchers have taken a huge step forward in unraveling the document’s hidden meaning. Named after Wilfrid Voynich, the Polish book dealer who procured the manuscript in 1912, the document is written in an unknown script that encodes an unknown language—a double-whammy of…
Jan 29, 2018
Don’t Miss the First Super Blue Blood Moon Since 1866
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, space
Jan 29, 2018
‘Robotic Habitats’ imagines a self-sustaining AI ecosystem
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: habitats, robotics/AI, space
As artificial intelligence advances at an unprecedented pace, we tend to see its arrival in emotional terms — usually, either excitement or fear. But Noumena, a collective of designers, engineers and architects, is looking at AI and robots more practically. What form will they take, how will they survive and develop, and where will they live? It aims to explore those idea with an exhibition entitled “Robotic Habitats.”
Noumena’s project assumes that deep learning systems will grow out of their narrow Go-playing abilities and soon match humans at many, if not most, tasks. While that would put them on par with us, it doesn’t mean they would live the same way, though. “Society will need to develop a framework for both to thrive,” explains Neumena on its website. “A new form of artificial life will emerge, finding space at the peripheries of humanity in order to not compete for human-dominated resources.”
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Jan 29, 2018
‘Holy Grail’ of dinosaur fossils discovered in Egyptian desert
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: education
A new species of dinosaur has been uncovered in the Egyptian desert, a rare discovery in a part of the world not known for dino fossils.
The huge animal, which was roughly the size of a school bus, is an “incredible discovery,” scientists said in a new study that was published Monday.
“This was the Holy Grail — a well-preserved dinosaur from the end of the age of dinosaurs in Africa — that we paleontologists had been searching for for a long, long time,” said Matt Lamanna of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, one of the authors of the study.
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