The neocortex is the seat of human intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells only after their evolutionary split from reptiles.
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In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca—but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren't the first things that come to mind when looking at the periodic table of the elements. However, using a technique called data sonification, a recent college graduate has converted the visible light given off by the elements into audio, creating unique, complex sounds for each one. Today, the rese
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I saw this story of a 50 year old Japanese man who facewapped his face with a young women's face. His followers didn't suspect anything of the photos he posted until he came clean and revealed his identity. https://www.insider.com/man-who-used-faceapp-pretend-woman-more-popular-than-before-2021-5 Another story I found was of a South Korean youtuber/influencer who became popular, amassed millions
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 13, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 13, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 13, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 13, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 13, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 13, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 13, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 13, March 2023.
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While many experts believe that Covid-19 arose through human contact with infected animals, most likely via a wet market in Wuhan, China, a significant number believe it probably escaped from the city's Institute of Virology.
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You'd think that, by now, Donald Trump's fans would be tired of all this. The long lines and the self-indulgent speeches and the relentless blasting of Laura Branigan's "Gloria" as they stand outside exposed to the elements. But they aren't. Not at all. After six years, the former president's rallies still have summer-camp vibes—at least at first. At last night's event in Waco, Texas—the first ra
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Nvidia TSMC cuLitho
If computer chips make the modern world go around, then Nvidia and TSMC are flywheels keeping it spinning…. At Nvidia's GTC developer conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia has developed software to make a chipmaking step, called inverse lithography, over 40 times faster.
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Keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a planetary hangout.
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Vart fjärde träd i Malmös stadsparker är inte inhemska. De saknar en evolutionär historik med ekosystemet och nu visar ny forskning att småfåglar som blåmesar och talgoxar trivs sämre i de främmande träden.
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Earth's gravity makes it harder to cultivate the proteins needed to study diseases and pathogens. And although the cost of space travel is high, private enterprise is stepping in In a small lab, squeezed into the corner of a skyscraper in downtown Tel Aviv, Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Yamin is proudly holding what he calls "a little James Bond-style suitcase factory, powered by the sun". As with m
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Half a million years ago, if a congress of primates had gotten together to design what was next, would they have designed humans? Humans are slower, weaker, and take far longer to mature to the point that they can take care of themselves. While in hindsight, the differences in brain structure and function that enabled human working memory, reasoning, reflective exploratory behavior, and overall i
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FTC Cancel Subscriptions
Subscription Breakers Tired of those pesky subscriptions that sound like a great deal, but make it incredible difficulty to cancel? That practice may become punishable by law, thanks to a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule proposal that just dropped. In a press release , the FTC said that its new "click to cancel" rule will require sellers to "make it as easy for consumers to cancel their en
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UCLA ARTEMIS Robots
I New York New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being warm and fuzzy, so researchers were pleasantly surprised when only a few were rude to some trash-collecting robots deployed in Greenwich Village. The Cornell researchers behind the experiment — which featured robotic trash cans that zoomed about Astor Place — found that only some of the people they observed reacted violently or rudely. Present
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Clone Con Anecdotal accounts were already abound of people losing money to scammers cloning the voices of their relatives. Now, it's apparently become enough of a prevalent — and serious — issue that federal regulators feel the need to step in. On Monday, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a consumer alert on emerging voice cloning scams, warning people that their desperate friend or
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Planet Dwarfer NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has spotted an absolutely towering tornado roaring on the surface of the Sun, raging with swirls of plasma to such astounding heights that even our entire planet is humbled by its scale. Astronomers at the observatory had been tracking the "solar tornado" since March 14, until it finally spun itself out four days later and dispersed into a cloud of
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Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.
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As a follow up to this post – https://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/comments/11uoyor/why_is_it_so_hard_to_check_your_own_technical/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button (thank you to all those that replied) I watched this video https://youtu.be/yH5Ds4_0lO8 and I've been wondering if a dyslexic person has some of the pros if they might be better
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Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.
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Gabrielle gets bitten multiple times while trying to catch a snake! #nakedandafraid #discoveryplus Stream Full Episodes of Naked and Afraid: https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/naked-and-afraid About Naked and Afraid: One man and one woman, who meet for the first time in the nude, are paired and tasked with surviving in some of the world's most extreme environments for 21 days with no food, water
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The journalist and academic says that the bias encoded in artificial intelligence systems can't be fixed with better data alone – the change has to be societal M eredith Broussard is a data journalist and academic whose research focuses on bias in artificial intelligence (AI). She has been in the vanguard of raising awareness and sounding the alarm about unchecked AI. Her previous book, Artificia
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ChatGPT Ethics AI
The concern, as Edward Teller saw it, was quite literally the end of the world. He had run the calculations, and there was a real possibility, he told his Manhattan Project colleagues in 1942, that when they detonated the world's first nuclear bomb, the blast would set off a chain reaction. The atmosphere would ignite. All life on Earth would be incinerated. Some of Teller's colleagues dismissed
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Hundreds of unfilled residency spots in emergency medicine are telling us that critical care is in trouble
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Since time immemorial, humans around the world have gazed up in wonder at the night sky. The starry night sky has not only inspired countless works of music, art and poetry, but has also played an important role in timekeeping, navigation and agricultural practices in many traditions.
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Scientists Oumuamua
When the first object ever known to have visited the Earth's Solar System from outer space zoomed past in 2017, it was so strange that at least one leading astronomer was convinced it was an alien vessel.
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A material made from two forms of cellulose, which is found in wood, reflects heat and can be made in a variety of colours
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Expert urges greater monitoring of side-effect of drug used to treat depression, psychosis and schizophrenia Patients who are prescribed a common antipsychotic used to treat depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia need to be told there is a risk they could develop a gambling addiction, an expert has warned. The National Problem Gambling Clinic has observed growing numbers of pat
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Two married therapists reveal 10 ways to improve the many highs and lows of your love life When couples get together, there is often the unspoken expectation that you will remain the same as you were on those first dates. An assumption that your level of curiosity, generosity, adaptability and interest will endure, or even increase, throughout your relationship. Even though we all know fairytales
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The field of public health has transformed medicine, yet failed the most vulnerable. This trajectory can be avoided.
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Black women and others with curly or kinky hair encounter a vast and confusing array of haircare options. Advice on the best products to use for a certain type of hair is often contradictory, and the results can be highly variable. Now, scientists are bringing order to this chaos by identifying properties such as the number of curls or coils in a given length of hair that could eventually help use
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NPR's Miles Parks speaks with PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT, Crystal Owens, about her scientific study, "On Oreology, the fracture and flow of 'milk's favorite cookie®.'"
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NPR's Miles Parks speaks to Thomas Bollyky, the co-author of a new report examining why COVID-19 death rates varied dramatically across the U.S. – and how that might improve future outcomes.
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Me? Once way far in time in a village coiled from stone I met an elder in a teahouse. He proposed, and I said yes I'll join you, and we walked together to the vendor of new hearts. I bought one, an olive, a fat one, did as I was told, set it on my soft chest near where my birthmark is and when I flew home and kissed my children one sniffed up "dandelion" and the other hmmmmed "wild grass." A frie
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Amy Weiss-Meyer , an Atlantic senior
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Hundreds of volunteers descended on the beaches of the North Sea coast this weekend to collect sea shells as a measure of the sea's biological diversity.
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This fat-tire electric bike is more refined than before and still an affordable (if heavy) way to get around town.
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If you've ever seen a shooting star, you might have actually seen a meteor on its way to Earth. Those that land here are called meteorites and can be used to peek back in time, into the far corners of outer space or at the earliest building blocks of life. Today, scientists report some of the most detailed analyses yet of the organic material of two meteorites. They've identified tens of thousands
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Hundreds of volunteers descended on the beaches of the North Sea coast this weekend to collect sea shells as a measure of the sea's biological diversity.
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Sure, anyone can use OpenAI's chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.
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The GOP-fueled far right differs from similar movements around the globe, thanks to the country's politics, electoral system, and changing demographics.
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Any mention of crypto was deliberately veiled at this year's festival. And that strategy might catch on.
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A fter Donald Trump sabotaged the 2022 midterm elections for Republicans by endorsing unelectable extremists, a comforting narrative took root among GOP elites. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would offer a return to "normal" politics, continuing Trump's aggressive, unapologetic defense of traditional American culture and values but without all that pesky authoritarianism. He would continue to wrap
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Will it be more like an all-in-one phone or more like a dumbphone? All-in-one mobile phone, for example, a smart phone is equipped with thermal imaging and night vision goggles at the same time, or you can add corresponding functions according to your needs. On the other hand, smartphones have changed our lives, both good and bad. In order to live a simpler and more focused life, will dumbphones
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With the accelerating rise we've seen in the implementation of AI in recent years, it is becoming more and more relevant to everyday life and industry, to the point where casual and professional discussion sees such rhetoric as "AI will be the next smart phone revolution", or even that "the Age of AI will follow the Information Age of humanity". While many of us are no doubt looking to the future
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I've been thinking about the future of AI and GPT, and I'm wondering if their evolution will continue at the same speed or if it will eventually hit a peak and stop. As we've seen with technological advancements in the past, there's usually a point where progress slows down or even stops altogether. So my question is, do you think that AI and GPT will continue to evolve at the same rate as they h
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Tomonori Totani, an astrobiologist with the University of Tokyo is proposing that the search for life beyond Earth be expanded to the study of space dust. In his paper published in the journal International Journal of Astrobiology, he suggests that space dust could be harboring signs of life blasted away from other planets by asteroid strikes.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 26 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32171-w
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 26 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31719-0
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 26 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32140-3
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 26 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32195-2
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 26 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31828-w
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Prof Nita Farahany argues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections Private thoughts may not be private for much longer, heralding a nightmarish world where political views, thoughts, stray obsessions and feelings could be interrogated and punished all thanks to advances in neurotechnology. Or at least that is wh
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And what can happen to your body if you stay awake way past your bedtime?
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Businesses want to trawl for nickel, manganese and cobalt to build electric cars and windfarms An investigation by conservationists has found evidence that deep-seabed mining of rare minerals could cause "extensive and irreversible" damage to the planet. The report, to be published on Monday by the international wildlife charity Fauna & Flora , adds to the growing controversy that surrounds propo
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So organ printing is getting pretty far. Reckon we'll see a time where we'll straight up get organs made of plastic that surpass the one's we're born with? Maybe even soon? Plastic 'n tech can break, sure, but it can't get sick. Will old folks with printed hearts not have to worry about heart disease? How might this effect aging? submitted by /u/TheRappingSquid [link] [comments]
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Some believe that machine owners and the wealthy will use A.I to replace workers and keep all the profits. Let's say hypothetically 50% of the workforce is still employed and uses A.I to help do the work of the 50% that were replaced. Losing taxes from 50% of the workforce would be a disaster for retirement, social services, schools, healthcare, roads and everything else that taxes fund. Not only
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Researchers identify 'microbe signature' found to be in infants who went on to develop disease in childhood or adolescence Bacteria in the gut of one-year-old infants could be used to predict their chances of developing type 1 diabetes in later life, scientists have announced. The disease most often occurs in children and adolescents and is triggered by the body's immune system when it attacks an
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An unresolved mystery from Voyager 2.
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A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Mar 19, 2023 thru Sat, Mar 25, 2023. Story of the Week Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change The final part of the world's most comprehensive assessment of climate change – which details the "unequivocal" role of humans, its impacts on "every region" of the
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Pressure Based Fission
Applying hydrostatic pressure as an external stimulus, researchers demonstrate a new way to regulate singlet fission (SF), a process in which two electrons are generated from a single photon, in chromophores, opening doors to the design of SF-based materials with enhanced (photo)energy conversion. Their method overrides the strict requirements that limit the molecular design of such materials by r
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Scientists have significantly advanced the race to control plant responses to temperature on a rapidly warming planet. Key to this breakthrough is miRNA, a molecule nearly 200,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
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Continued warming of the climate would see a rise in the number and spread of potentially fatal infections caused by bacteria found along parts of the coast of the United States. Vibrio vulnificus bacteria grow in warm shallow coastal waters and can infect a cut or insect bite during contact with seawater. The researchers predict that by 2041–2060 infections may spread to encompass major populati
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Practically, what the title says. I'm interested in finding a video with topics just as Al, maybe ChatGPT, robots, loT and how technology can change jobs as we know them today. Can someone recommend a short video or two (~5-10mins) on this topic? submitted by /u/Aypnia [link] [comments]
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What will happen to the economy when most business branches are replaced by artificial intelligence? Could there be a crisis in which many people will die? submitted by /u/trablon [link] [comments]
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