Epigenetic 'Clocks' Predict Animals' True Biological Age
8hA statistical analysis of chemical tags on DNA may help unify disparate theories of aging.
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Private Religious Schools Have Public Responsibilities Too
9hIs it permissible for private schools in this country to disregard state standards of proficiency in English, math, and U.S. history? This is the question at the heart of a recent wide-ranging investigative report from The New York Times . The article focuses on the Hasidic educational system in New York, whose students almost uniformly fail state standardized tests in reading and math. A key nub
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Why Household Robots Like Rosie From the 'Jetsons' Are Still Out of Reach
10minWith recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology , there is growing interest in developing and marketing household robots capable of handling a variety of domestic chores. Tesla is building a humanoid robot , which, according to CEO Elon Musk, could be used for cooking meals and helping elderly people. Amazon recently acquired iRobot , a prominent robotic vacuum manufacture
Victory Brings Its Own Dangers
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1hPutin Ukraine Biden
Last weekend I was in Kyiv, where European, American, and Ukrainian officials were mingling with journalists and policy experts at the Yalta European Strategy conference. With Ukrainian troops liberating Izium, Balakliya, and other northeastern towns, the atmosphere was triumphant. Until the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, the conference had been held in Yalta, and some participants began t
Alaskans assess damage as powerful storm rumbles north
1hResidents in towns and villages on Alaska's western coast were beginning Sunday to assess the damage from one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in decades.
Farverummet er fyldt med kompliceret matematik
4hPLUS. Det er sværere at beregne farveforskelle på en konsistent måde end at bestemme afstande i universet med Einsteins generelle relativitetsteori.
[February, 1997] The Right to Read: A dystopian story by Richard Stallman about DRM, extreme control over computers, and extreme government regulation of software
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The era of the weak yen should be boom time for robots
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Energy-Generating 'Artificial Blowhole' Completes 1-Year Test. The large gadget has been put to the test: generating electricity from waves, off the coast of Australia.
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Researchers Say It'll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI. Humans Don't Have the Cognitive Ability to Simulate the "Motivations Of an ASI or Its Methods.
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Stable Diffusion is getting even better at easily fine tuning images
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Ingen afstande uden en målestok – og den må gerne være variabel
5hPLUS. Når parallelle linjer skærer hinanden, er den korteste vej ikke en ret linje.
Madness: A Philosophical Exploration (2022) by Justin Garson — An online group discussion on Sunday September 25, free and open to everyone to join
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Yoga Teachers Furious Over Lululemon's Use of Environment-Destroying Factories
5hCoal-lulemon The Lululemon yoga company manufactures much of its expensive workout wear in coal-powered factories — and its stans are royally irked about it. In an open letter to lululemon chairman Glenn Murphy, nearly 1,700 yoga teachers and students are urging the high-end athleisure company to "practice what you preach" by committing to phase out the use of coal plants and use renewable resour
Scientists Find Weird Ultra-Strong Diamonds From Obliterated Dwarf Planet
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5hSpace Diamonds Earth
Space Bling Diamonds are forever, and they're also everywhere: in exoplanets, in meteorites, in your mother's wedding ring. Some, though, are far more exotic than what you'd find in your local mall's Swarovski. In a study published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences (PNAS), a team of researchers say they've found the largest crystals yet of a mysterio
Tesla Morale Low As Workers Still Don't Have Desks, Face Increased Attendance Surveillance
5hWorkplace Woes As companies across the country prematurely transition into a return to "normalcy," Tesla has been struggling to get its workers back in the physical workplace. On Wednesday, CNBC reported that at one Tesla factory, around one-eighth of workers were absent on any given day, compared to one-tenth company-wide. To make matters worse, it reported , Tesla still doesn't have "room or re
Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026
5hFake It 'Til You Break It "Don't believe everything you see on the Internet" has been pretty standard advice for quite some time now. And according to a new report from European law enforcement group Europol, we have all the reason in the world to step up that vigilance. "Experts estimate that as much as 90 percent of online content may be synthetically generated by 2026," the report warned, addi
Scientists Have Bad News About All These Energy Efficient LEDs
5hShine a Light We've all heard of the woes of blue light: don't look at your phone or computer before going to bed, because it'll make it harder for you to sleep. And according to a new study published Wednesday in Science Advances , that problem may extend beyond your personal beauty sleep to a much larger, environmental scale. Studying the spectral composition of the continent's lighting using i
Shy male albatrosses prefer divorce to confrontation: study
6hMost albatrosses mate for life but shy males who avoid confrontation are more likely to get dumped, researchers said Wednesday, adding it was the first time personality had been shown to predict divorce in a wild animal.
Shy male albatrosses prefer divorce to confrontation: study
6hMost albatrosses mate for life but shy males who avoid confrontation are more likely to get dumped, researchers said Wednesday, adding it was the first time personality had been shown to predict divorce in a wild animal.
Tunisian 'hanging garden' farms cling on despite drought
6hHigh in the hills of northwestern Tunisia, farmers are tending thousands of fig trees with a unique system of terracing they hope will protect them from ever-harsher droughts.
'Crowns of the forest': Indonesian helps orchids bloom again
7hOrchids in hand and a bamboo ladder on his shoulder, farmer Musimin scans the forest at the foot of Indonesia's most active volcano to point out clusters of the indigenous flowers he has been salvaging for years.
WHO raises alarm on disease in flood-hit areas of Pakistan
7hThe World Health Organization raised the alarm Saturday about a "second disaster" in the wake of the deadly floods in Pakistan this summer, as doctors and medical workers on the ground race to battle outbreaks of waterborne and other diseases.
Chinese astronauts go on spacewalk from new station
7hTwo Chinese astronauts went on a spacewalk Saturday from a new space station that is due to be completed later this year.
Tunisian 'hanging garden' farms cling on despite drought
7hHigh in the hills of northwestern Tunisia, farmers are tending thousands of fig trees with a unique system of terracing they hope will protect them from ever-harsher droughts.
'Dangerous' Typhoon Nanmadol slams into Japan
7hTyphoon Nanmadol made landfall in southwestern Japan on Sunday night, as authorities urged millions of people to take shelter from the powerful storm's high winds and torrential rain.
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7hFor millennia, poets have tried to describe the animals in their lives. Some of the most famous verses concern a particular creature—wild or adorable or filthy or dignified—closely observed. Take Elizabeth Bishop detailing the shallow, yellowed eyes of her caught fish ; Mary Oliver looking up at wild geese sweeping across the sky; D. H. Lawrence tenderly cheering on a baby tortoise , "a tiny, fra
Readers reply: if everyone isolated for a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear?
8hThe long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts • Click here for this week's question If every person in the world isolated from each other for a certain period of time, say a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear? Lily Pauls Post your answers (and new questions
Why do I pick fights with my husband? Because I want a happy marriage | Emma Beddington
8hThe right kind of argument can apparently bring couples closer together. Is bickering about the bread bin a good start? I want to get better at arguing. Not the bitter, exhausting kind that happens online, and not the kind that occurs when you put two French people in a room and within 90 seconds one of them is quoting Montaigne and the other has countered with Immanuel Kant, even though they are
Can This Huge Team Survive to Day 60? | Naked and Afraid
8hStream Naked and Afraid XL on discovery+ ► https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/naked-and-afraid-xl #NakedAndAfraid #Discovery #NakedAndAfraidXL Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Follow Us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@Discovery We're on Instagram! https://instagram.com/Discovery Join Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Discovery Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitte
Osteogenesis in human periodontal ligament stem cell sheets is enhanced by the protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR1) in vivo
8hScientific Reports, Published online: 18 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-19520-x Osteogenesis in human periodontal ligament stem cell sheets is enhanced by the protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR 1 ) in vivo
How to Use DuckDuckGo's Privacy-First Email Service
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8hMicrosoft Gmail MO
Tired of advertisers spying on your private communications? This beta promises to kick tracking technology to the curb.
Randall Munroe's 'What If? 2' answers the absurd science questions you didn't know you had
9hNPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with author Randall Munroe about his new book, "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions."
Scientists have found a mineral stronger than diamond
9h. They say lonsdaleite could be used to fortify industrial tools like drill bits and saw blades – AND teach us about the evolution of earth.
Has Trumpism Run Out of Steam?
9hJAY, Maine—Services at the New Life Baptist Church had just wrapped up, and in the parking lot outside its tiny chapel, Paul LePage was standing behind me with his arm wrapped around my head. He held a cellphone inches from my face, as if he were filming an extreme close-up. The former and perhaps future governor of Maine had insisted on reenacting an incident that had occurred a few weeks earlie
The Hobbit King
9hT he Queen is dead. Long live the King. How strange this process, how archaic and theatrical, moving and melancholy, mixing the worlds of King Arthur and Netflix . We are often told that it is this connection to the deep past that gives monarchy its meaning. But as the world prepares for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London tomorrow, the unchanging continuity is less significant than the s
ALCAR: Mitochondria-empowering anti-aging Nootropic for Biohacking hepatic encephalopathy
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The Queen's Funeral Sets Off the Biggest UK Police Operation Ever
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10hHours London Charles
Snipers on buildings. Drone no-fly zones. Temporary CCTV. The security plan is even more complex than it was for the London 2012 Olympics.
Asus' First Foldable PC Is Here. But It's Half-Baked
10hThe brand's attempt at a foldable PC is a showcase for the new form factor, but even Asus admits it's "not a mass-market product." We agree.
How to Create an Augmented Reality Filter for TikTok
10hFrom Paris to Dubai, I spoke with designers around the world about the process of creating AR effects for social media.
Android's New Notification Feature Is a Decade Overdue
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10hNotifications 16 Android
In Android 13, apps have to ask permission before they send any kind of alerts. Finally.
Why gender is at the heart of the matter for cardiac illness
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10hWomen Cardiac Illness
Studies show that women with heart disease are more likely to be misdiagnosed than men, and will have worse outcomes for surgery. What is behind this bias and how can how it be fixed? Heart diseases are still chronically misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed in women. With depressing regularity, we see stories of women failed by the health system when they come to hospitals with the symptoms of a heart
Spørg Fagfolket: Hvorfor står vindmøller altid på stribe?
10hEn læser undrer sig over, hvorfor vindmøller altid står på rad og række. Men gør de nu også det.
Who invented chocolate?
11hAlthough it's now familiar as candy, the origins of chocolate are much deeper.
Finally, we have evidence that hell is other people on social media | Torsten Bell
12hSeeing how much fun your peers are having is bad for your mental health, a study of students suggests Scrolling Twitter or refreshing Facebook definitely feels like it's bad for you, as our attention spans rot and meaning is drained from our lives. Despite those strong feelings, we're usually told the evidence isn't yet there to prove social media damages our mental health. The evidence of surging
Cobots på trykluft: Fri for elmotorer og gearkasser
14hPLUS. Gearkasse, motor og momentsensorer erstattes af ventiler og trykluft på en ny pneumatisk robotarm, som Festo lancerer næste år.
Dogs: History, evolution and behavior of our best friends
15hDogs and humans have been companions for thousands of years.
Three learning stages and accuracy–efficiency tradeoff of restricted Boltzmann machines
16hNature Communications, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33126-x Restricted Boltzmann Machines are unsupervised machine learning model that have been applied for various tasks from image analysis to many-body physics. The authors elaborate the interplay of accuracy and efficiency of this model and define possible balance regimes for applications.
Quantitative fragmentomics allow affinity mapping of interactomes
16hNature Communications, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33018-0 Protein networks have been widely explored but most binding affinities remain unknown, limiting the quantitative interpretation of interactomes. Here the authors measure affinities of 65,000 interactions involving human PDZ domains and target sequence motifs relevant for viral infection and cancer.
Leakage does not fully offset soy supply-chain efforts to reduce deforestation in Brazil
16hNature Communications, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33213-z This research quantifies the role of zero deforestation policies and potential leakages in Brazilian soybean production, the third major driver of deforestation globally. Here the authors provide the first estimates of net global avoided soy-driven deforestation from zero-deforestation import restrictions a
Main-chain engineering of polymer photocatalysts with hydrophilic non-conjugated segments for visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution
16hNature Communications, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33211-1 The introduction of hydrophilic segments into the main-chain of polymer photocatalysts allows water to efficiently enter the interior through these hydrophilic segments, and results in effective water/polymer interfaces for hydrogen evolution.
A self-assembled trimeric protein vaccine induces protective immunity against Omicron variant
16hNature Communications, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33209-9 The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has quickly become the predominant circulating variant, due to the high transmissibility and immune escape. Here, the authors develop a trimeric protein vaccine candidate and show a sustained humoral immune response, and protection from challenge (Omicron and Delta) in various
Single-cell transcriptomics reveal cellular diversity of aortic valve and the immunomodulation by PPARγ during hyperlipidemia
16hNature Communications, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33202-2 Identifying the mechanisms underlying the early inflammatory phase of aortic valve disease is crucial for disease prevention. Here the authors perform single-cell RNA sequencing to show the immunomodulatory role of PPARγ in valvular endothelial cells during hyperlipidemia.
Phylogeographic analysis reveals an ancient East African origin of human herpes simplex virus 2 dispersal out-of-Africa
16hNature Communications, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33214-y There are competing hypotheses for human herpes simplex virus 2's migration out-of-Africa. Here, the authors sequence 65 new herpes simplex virus 2 genomes with a focus on under-sampled sub-Saharan African countries, suggesting an Eastern African origin for global dispersal the virus between 22-29 thousand
Infralimbic medial prefrontal cortex signalling to calbindin 1 positive neurons in posterior basolateral amygdala suppresses anxiety- and depression-like behaviours
16hNature Communications, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33139-6 The neural mechanisms for reward generalization are not fully understood. Here the authors investigate the role of posterior basolateral amygdala calbindin-expressing cells in modulating behavioural responses related to reward and aversion.
The race to reinvent the space station
17hNasa is funding American companies to build commercial replacements for the trailblazing International Space Station
Fauci warns Covid politics could harm childhood vaccination efforts
17hChief US medical adviser says anti-vax attitudes could spill over and cause disease outbreaks
Ny teori: Saturnus ringar kan vara rester av en måne
17hFör ungefär 100 miljoner år sedan kan en av Saturnus månar ha kommit alldeles för nära sin planet. Nu misstänker en amerikansk astronom att månen slets sönder av Saturnus gravitation och av resterna bildades de ringar som omsluter planeten.
Experten förklarar: Hur vet vi att koldioxiden faktiskt ökar?
17hPå Cape Grim, ett hörn av den australiensiska ön Tasmanien, finns det i princip inga luftföroreningar. Den avlägsna och obebodda udden anses vara en global referenspunkt för ren luft, och just därför är det också här som man mätt det södra halvklotets luftkvalitet sedan 1976.
Lockheed Martin delivers 300-kilowatt laser to Defense Department – Breaking Defense
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Astronomers Think They've Figured Out How to Predict When a Supernova Will Occur
18hWatch for the signs.
Electrical conductivity and thermodynamic studies on Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate in non aqueous solvents Dimethylformamide (DMF), at different temperatures
18hScientific Reports, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-18849-7
Determination of reference genes as a quantitative standard for gene expression analysis in mouse mesangial cells stimulated with TGF-β
18hScientific Reports, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-19548-z
Somalian women with female genital mutilation had increased risk of female sexual dysfunction: a cross-sectional observational study
18hScientific Reports, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-19949-0
Latent class analysis of behavior across dog breeds reveal underlying temperament profiles
18hScientific Reports, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-20053-6
On the influence of the source of porcine colostrum in the development of early immune ontogeny in piglets
18hScientific Reports, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-20082-1
Recursive integration of synergised graph representations of multi-omics data for cancer subtypes identification
18hScientific Reports, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-17585-2
Fisher discriminant model based on LASSO logistic regression for computed tomography imaging diagnosis of pelvic rhabdomyosarcoma in children
18hScientific Reports, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-20051-8
Explainable machine learning analysis reveals sex and gender differences in the phenotypic and neurobiological markers of Cannabis Use Disorder
18hScientific Reports, Published online: 17 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-19804-2
Japan to draft nuclear fusion strategy amid fierce global race
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Karma Calculator
21hHello everyone! I was wondering would it be possible to eventually create a karma calculator for calculating if an action causes positive or negative karma? I'm just speculating, but I think the idea is interesting and would prove very useful. For example, let's say there's a candy bar in a nearby store, and there's a homeless person starving, you can give him money or buy him a candy bar. The ho
Study Shows How Microplastics Can Easily Climb The Food Chain. Should We Be Worried?
22hToo many unknowns.
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China is testing a magnet-powered floating car that goes up to 143 miles per hour—take a look
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Treasury recommends exploring creation of a digital dollar
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Drug use and long-lasting cognitive impairment?
1dI used to be pretty decent at a video game, I processed things fast, motor skills and hand-eye coordination was good, I can vividly remember how it felt like at that time. Due to mental health issues arising, I had to be on medications, such as SSRI, SNRI, NDRI, and took random supplements, and ever since then, even after quitting all meds for a long time now, I still cannot perform like how I us
Chess Is Just Poker Now
1dIt was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month, an upstart American teenager named Hans Niemann snapped the 53-game unbeaten streak of world champion Magnus Carlsen, perhaps the game's best player of all time. But the real uproar came the following day, when Carlsen posted a cryptic tweet announcing
Uber Hack Was So Huge Employees Thought It Was a Prank
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1dUber Slack 18-Year-Old
Not A Joke When a hacker announced that they had breached Uber's security, some of the ride-sharing company's employees reportedly thought they were being pranked. As screenshots provided to The Washington Post show that when the still-unknown hacker announced themselves via a company Slack channel, many employees responded with emoji reactions that suggest they thought someone was playing a joke
NFT Rental Platform Shuts Down Due to "Close to Zero Traction"
1dTractionless Occasionally, the invisible hand of the free market does, in fact, deliver. In a sheepish statement, the non-fungible token (NFT) rental startup Rentable, which was supposed to let people rent out their monkey jpgs — like Rent the Runway for NFTs, basically — announced this week that it's shuttering because it was unable to find a "product market fit." "I am sorry to announce that Re
Bin-opening cockatoos enter 'arms race' with humans
1dAustralia's crafty, sulphur-crested cockatoos appear to have entered an "innovation arms race" with humans, scientists say, as the two species spar over the rubbish in roadside bins.
Bin-opening cockatoos enter 'arms race' with humans
1dAustralia's crafty, sulphur-crested cockatoos appear to have entered an "innovation arms race" with humans, scientists say, as the two species spar over the rubbish in roadside bins.
Targeting aging biology — instead of treating common chronic diseases in isolation — is estimated to add up to 5% of GDP/year for 1 year in healthy lifespan. Aging therapeutics prevent multiple debilities simultaneously, thus increasing healthspan and lifespan
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Funding for neuro tech research UK
1dHey guys, My line manager assigned me a task to make a spreadsheet of all the potential funding sources we could reach out to apply to for a neuro tech feasibility trial we've designed. She threw in a comment about how this would be a good task for me as "it would give me a taste of what it's like to be a real psychologist"…. which was a bit mad as I've been working as an Assistant Psych for near
Mars rover sees hints of past life in latest rock samples
1dNASA's Perseverance Mars rover has detected its highest concentrations yet of organic molecules, in a potential signal of ancient microbes that scientists are eager to confirm when the rock samples are eventually brought to Earth.
1950: Disse størrelser er afgørende for et tandhjuls kvalitet
1dCivilingeniør E.O. Stub efterlyste i Ingeniøren i 1950 en kvalitetsinddeling af tandhjul og oplistede faktorer som kast, delingsfejl, tandformsfejl, sumfejl m.m., som har betydning for kvaliteten.
Deranged Scheme Proposes Mounting Queen's Coffin on Robot Arm
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1dQueen Coffin London
Coffin Drop There are few things as quintessentially English as queues and the Queen. Queen Elizabeth II's death, at the ripe old age of 96, and her impending funeral, has brought those two corners of English life together outside Westminster Hall, resulting in a line over five miles long to view and pay respects to her coffin. Saying it's become a logistical nightmare would be an understatement.
China Announces Plan for Hybrid Fission-Fusion Power Facility
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1dChina Fusion Energy
China says that it will start generating fusion power using the world's largest pulse-powered energy plant by 2028, thereby turning fusion energy into a reality — an eyebrow-raising claim, considering the decades of research and billions of dollars that have already been poured into doing just that. "Being the world's first to achieve energy-scale fusion release will lay the most important milest
This Photo of a Dying Comet Is So Incredible That It's Melting Our Eyeballs
1dComet's Tail Austrian astrophotographer Gerald Rhemann has really outdone himself with an absolutely stunning picture of a dying comet, including its dazzling tail, in front of an endless stretch of stars — and it's so beautiful, we're having trouble believing it's real. The photo, which earned Rhemann the top prize at the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest t
Guy Claims He Invented Bitcoin But Then "Stomped on the Hard Drive" Containing Proof
1dThe Australian programmer who claims to be the creator of Bitcoin has a super believable excuse for why he can't prove it. During the raucous proceedings of a defamation trial in Norway, computer scientist Craig Wright claimed that he "stomped on the hard drive" that contained the "key slices" to prove he's the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakomoto, as Coindesk relays . As the crypto blog
This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 17)
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An arms race over food waste: Sydney cockatoos are still opening curbside bins, despite our best efforts to stop them
1dBloody hell! That cockatoo just opened my bin, and it's eating my leftover pizza. We can't have that, I'll put a rock on the lid to stop it opening the bin. Problem solved…?
'I was lacking deeper connection': can online friends be the answer to loneliness?
1dPeople you don't see face to face can still provide a community I was raised not to talk to strangers. Strangers, I was taught as a child, are people we've never met before, therefore we don't know them. Childhood me would have been horrified to know that, now in my 30s, I frequently engage with complete randoms without giving it much thought. I'm not just talking about shop staff who make the mi
I hope King Charles will push for action on climate change, says John Kerry
1dThe US presidential envoy says the King can "leverage" the action needed to tackle global warming.
An arms race over food waste: Sydney cockatoos are still opening curbside bins, despite our best efforts to stop them
1dBloody hell! That cockatoo just opened my bin, and it's eating my leftover pizza. We can't have that, I'll put a rock on the lid to stop it opening the bin. Problem solved…?
Does exercise drive development? In the sea anemone, the way you move matters
1dResearchers employed interdisciplinary approaches to show how sea anemone 'exercise' changes their developing size and shape, uncovering an intimate relationship between behavior and body development. With expertise in live imaging, computational methodology, biophysics, and genetics, the multidisciplinary team of scientists turned 2D and 3D live imaging into quantitative features to track changes
Infants, young children finally get relief from eczema's terrible itch
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1dYoung Children Eczema
The first study to treat moderate-to-severe eczema in infants and children 6 months to 5 years old with a biologic drug rather than immune-suppressing medications shows the drug was highly effective in reducing the signs and symptoms of eczema. More than half of children had at least a 75% reduction in signs of eczema and itch. Kids slept through night for first time instead of scratching. Parents
What Atlanta Gave Me
1dThe pioneering FX comedy helmed by Donald Glover is coming to an end—but its cultural impact will live on.
Amazon Makes the Cheapest Kindle Even Better
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1dAmazon Alexa Kindle
Plus: Alexa will soon give branded answers, ByteDance has its own VR headset in the works, and TikTok pushes a new BeReal knockoff.
US Border Agents May Have a Copy of Your Text Messages
1dPlus: An AI artist exposes surveillance of Instagram users, the US charges Iranians over a ransomware campaign, and more.
Andungar på rad får IgNobelpris
1dAndungars förmåga att simma i formation, förstoppade skorpioner och rituella lavemang. Det är forskning som prisas i årets IgNobel. Två svenskar finns bland pristagarna. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
How Will We Remember Roger Federer?
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1dDjokovic Roger Federer
In the end, it was the knee. Roger Federer has played more than 1,500 matches in 24 years, and has never quit in the middle of one for injury, illness, exhaustion, burnout, or apathy. His most formidable on-court opponents, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, who have surpassed him in Grand Slam count and are still battling it out for statistical GOAT status, cannot say the same. Nadal has retired (
Separating Sports by Sex Doesn't Make Sense
1dShira Mandelzis fell in love with flag football while playing on her middle-school team. An avid snowboarder and all-around athletic kid, she loved the energy she felt while on the field, and the camaraderie engendered by the intensely physical game. So last summer, heading into her junior year at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, Mandelzis decided to sign up for football. She would be the o
Why Parker Decided Not to Buy This Wash Plant | Gold Rush: Parker's Trail
1dStream Gold Rush: Parker's Trail on discovery+ ▶︎ https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/gold-rush-parkers-trail #GoldRush #discovery #ParkersTrail Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Follow Us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@Discovery We're on Instagram! https://instagram.com/Discovery Join Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Discovery Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitt
Covid-19 pandemic linked to early onset of puberty in some girls
1dSeveral studies suggest that the number of girls starting puberty early has more than doubled amid the coronavirus outbreak – and experts are unsure exactly why
Astronomer Virginia Trimble: 'There were 14 women on the Caltech campus when I arrived in 1964'
1dAs her book of essays by female astronomers is published, the veteran scientist reflects on her career as an astronomy prodigy, the face of the Twilight Zone and Richard Feynman's life model Virginia Trimble, 78, is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, whose astronomy career spans more than 50 years. She has studied the structure and evolution of stars, ga
The Colorado River Is Dying. Can Its Aquatic Dinosaurs Be Saved?
1dThe razorback sucker has survived in the river for more than 3 million years. Climate change could end that.
The Haikubox Brings High-Tech Birding to the Masses
1dThis AI-enabled device can identify the species around your home by their songs and alert you when new ones arrive.
Best US Colleges for Comp + CogSci?
1dHi friends! I'm aware that this isn't r/a2c subreddit, but I find cogsci to be genuinely fascinating and hopes to pursue it for my undergraduate degree. I've a rather tech-centric background (did software, security, ai engineering etc.) and would love to perhaps integrate knowledge of comp+cogsci to build intelligent systems. I hope to ask if anyone here is familiar with great US colleges for com
Weekend reads: Russian co-authorship ban; predatory conferences; 'Does peer review improve the statistical content of manuscripts?'
1dWould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Stanford prof appeals order to pay $428K in legal fees after dropping defamation suit Journal sends cease-and-desist letter to a company marketing a homeopathic alternative to opioids How journal editors kept questionable data about women's … Continue reading
Humans evolved with their microbiomes. Like genes, your gut microbes pass from one generation to the next
1dWhen the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them.
10 Great Deals on Garmins, Wireless Chargers, and Sleep Tech
1dYou can rest easy knowing you're saving money on some top-notch gadgets.
How to See Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter Posts Chronologically
1dYes, you can take some control back from the algorithms in these and other social media accounts.
How to Design the Perfect Queue, According to Crowd Science
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1dQueue Queen Elizabeth II
The line to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state is snaking across central London. Could it have been done better?
How I Learned Confidence From Online Posers
1dIt took a few bad dates to remind me to embody the confidence that I knew I had, but also sought in a partner.
The Best iPhone 14 Cases and Accessories
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1dApple iPhone 14 Cases
Slap on some protection and grab a charger for your very expensive investment.
Humans evolved with their microbiomes. Like genes, your gut microbes pass from one generation to the next
1dWhen the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them.
The Problem for Trump's Intellectual Heirs
1dDonald Trump will be remembered as one of the most consequential presidents in American history. On a political level, he attempted to overturn an election—an unusual enterprise for a president—and popularized the idea that democratic outcomes can be rejected outright if you don't like the results. Oddly enough, however, Trump's impact may prove more distinctive and perhaps even more lasting on a
Ukrainian Success Will Not Be Catastrophic
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1dRussian Putin Ukraine
"The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish … the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature," Carl von Clausewitz wrote in his landmark treatise On War . "This is the first of all strategic questions and the most comprehensive.
In a 1st, scientists use designer immune cells to send an autoimmune disease into remission
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1dCAR Five Lupus Therapy
Five lupus patients reached remission with CAR T-cell therapy.
Oldest vertebrate fossil heart ever found tells a 380 million-year-old story of evolution
1dIn the limestone ranges of Western Australia's Kimberley region, near the town of Fitzroy Crossing, you'll find one of the world's best-preserved ancient reef complexes.
Oldest vertebrate fossil heart ever found tells a 380 million-year-old story of evolution
1dIn the limestone ranges of Western Australia's Kimberley region, near the town of Fitzroy Crossing, you'll find one of the world's best-preserved ancient reef complexes.
Character.AI – Building the next generation of dialog agents | New AI startup by ex-Google and Meta engineers "bringing to life the science-fiction dream of open-ended conversations and collaborations with computers."
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Ecuador launches floating islands to save stinky Guayaquil estuary
1dOn the banks of the dark and murky waters of the Guayaquil estuary, volunteers trudge through mud as they slide wooden platforms.
Ecuador launches floating islands to save stinky Guayaquil estuary
1dOn the banks of the dark and murky waters of the Guayaquil estuary, volunteers trudge through mud as they slide wooden platforms.
Climate takes backseat in Italy vote despite extreme events
1dFrom parched rivers to a glacier collapse and this week's deadly storms, Italy has suffered numerous climate events this year—but many politicians pay the subject little more than lip service.
Japan braces for 'very dangerous' Typhoon Nanmadol
1dJapan's weather agency warned Saturday of "unprecedented" risks from a "very dangerous" typhoon heading towards the southern Kyushu island, urging residents to take shelter ahead of the storm.
Record of Antarctic ice sheet response to climate cycles found in rock samples
1dBy analyzing unusual rock samples collected years ago in Antarctica, scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered a remarkable record of how the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has responded to changes in climate over a period of 100,000 years during the Late Pleistocene.
Højt arbejdspres: Manglen på STEM-kolleger gør hver tredje ingeniør og it-specialist stresset
1dPLUS. Oplevelsen af manglende hænder er særlig udbredt i rådgivningsbranchen med it- og informationstjenester, elektronikindustrien og bygge- og anlæg lige i hælene.
There's One Simple Strategy to Reduce Alcohol Intake, Scientists Say, And It Works
1dJust knowing it's 'bad for you' is not enough.
How long do new species take to evolve?
1dOrganisms that reproduce quickly can quickly evolve into new species, while geographic barriers can lead to new species formation over tens of millions of years.
Se hur isen ristar djupa spår i havsbottnen
1dFör första gången finns nu en högupplöst bild av havsbottnen under en flytande glaciär längs Antarktis kust – Vi trodde inte våra ögon när vi först såg de här spåren. Det såg ut som om människor hade gjort dem, säger Anna Wåhlin. Nu kan spåren avslöja hur fort isen riskerar att smälta i framtiden.
Medical Doctor Here! As school is just starting, I thought it would be a good time to explain what modafinil is and what it can and cannot do! This video is evidence based and takes a balanced POV 🙂
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New paper by Google and Oxford scientists claims AI will soon destroy mankind
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What are the most visceral climate scenarios (or those which are already here), which could jar people to demand immediate emergency action?
1dFor example: The breaking of the Doomsday glacier, causing immediate sea level rise and genocide for island and coastal cultures around the world. Proliferation of fungal infections, which we have few remedies for. Also, proliferation of fungal infections among plants and wildlife, which disrupt/threaten food webs and many species' abilities to survive. The collapse of the Mediterranean sea ecosy
Labs that combine cognitive science & pedagogy/education?
1dI will try to keep this short. I am applying to grad school this time around, and I am wondering if any of you know any labs that are attempting to apply the findings of cognitive science and education? Specifically, I am looking for labs that are justifying the improvement of school curriculums based on the findings in Cog Sci that kids are extremely receptive to general exposure to information,
Modi: India PM reintroduces extinct cheetahs on birthday
1dA group of eight cats arrived from Namibia on the occasion of PM Narendra Modi's birthday.
China, Europe, US drought: Is 2022 the driest year recorded?
1dHeatwaves hit China, Europe and the US, causing lakes and rivers to dry up. Is this year the driest ever?
A Sadistic Immigration Stunt
1dThis 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 . Ron DeSantis's hideous political stunt is a reminder that the GOP's policies are no longer about achieving results, but gratifying the basest impulses of MAGA voters. But first, here are three new sto
Colourful songbirds could be traded to extinction
1dThe wild bird trade is set to make tropical forests "drab", a study shows.
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Liquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob
1dA robot made from magnetic fluid can be made smaller, thinner, or directed to break up with special magnets, which could be useful for delivering drugs into the body
Scientists Absolutely Thrilled to Find 150 Million Year Old Vomit
1dVom de Terre As the saying goes, sort of: one being's 150 million year old pile of puked-out amphibian bones is another's scientific treasure. Per a new study, published in the journal Palaios , a team of researchers have indeed recovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric pile o' puke. And boy, are they happy about it — as they should be! It's a unique finding, and one that could reveal a l
Algorithm sheds new light on ICU patients' consciousness
1dResearchers have developed a new algorithm that can accurately track a patient's level of consciousness, easing strain on clinicians and enabling new treatments.
Novel analysis shows the experience of reward increases connectivity between the default mode network and other brain regions
1dIn line with other studies, during the reward-processing task, researchers observed decreased activation of the default mode network (DMN) and relative increased activation of other networks.
New tool overcomes major hurdle in clinical AI design
1dMost clinical AI models rely on laborious human annotation to make accurate diagnoses. A new AI model overcomes this hurdle.
The Uber Hack's Devastation Is Just Starting to Reveal Itself
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1dUber Slack 18-Year-Old
An alleged teen hacker claims to have gained deep access to the company's systems, but the full picture of the breach is still coming into focus.
Increasing conventional work productivity with the sex work approach (cognitive intervention with emotional/sexual/neural focus):
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Cognitive Science graduates… What do you do?
1dHey everyone, I am graduating with a bachelor's in cognitive science this year, and am unsure of what I am going to do next. If you are taking cognitive science, what are your plans for after you graduate? If you have graduated with a degree in cognitive science, what do you do currently? submitted by /u/swampshark19 [link] [comments]
Miners Forked Ether So They Can Still Pollute After the Merge, But It's Already Crashing in Value
1dNew Reality The Ethereum blockchain, the second-largest cryptocurrency by trading volume, has completed the "merge," switching from a proof-of-work to proof-of-stake system. It's a major win for the environment, as it puts energy-intensive Ethereum mining operations out of business overnight. But that also means mining outfits are now sitting on massive piles of extremely power-hungry hardware. M
Best Wireless Microphones In 2022
1dWireless microphones can simplify your recording or live music setup by reducing the number of cables that need to be strewn around your studio or the stage. This is especially helpful when playing live music, as you'll be able to move around without running the risk of tripping over a thick XLR cord. We often associate microphones with musicians and podcasters, but they're also an incredibly imp
T Cells Ward Off Aging With Help From Their Friends
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1dNew Mechanism Immune
Immune cells deliver packages of telomeres to T cells, helping them retain their virus-fighting function over time, research suggests.
Constipation's Effect on Scorpion Sex Garners Biology Ig Nobel
1dOther winners of this year's prizes include research on the physics of ducklings and the therapeutic potential of ice cream.
Historic Adaptations May Now Make Us Susceptible to Disease
1dResearchers made the find using an algorithm that purportedly distinguishes between mutations that were selected for and those that came along for the ride by coincidence, a feat that has long eluded scientists.
Climate change from the ground up: Researchers explore sea level rise impact on building foundations
2dResearchers have considered how flooding from rising sea levels and storm surges will damage the built environment along the coast, but what about climate change's less noticeable impacts below the surface? A new study by civil engineers examines the hidden costs to building foundations due to sea level rise. They propose a method for inspection and repair to lower the cost associated with deterio
Pythons are true choke artists
2dBiologists have found that it's not just the size of its head and body that puts almost everything on a Burmese python's menu. They evolved super-stretchy skin between their lower jaws that allows them to consume prey up to six times larger than similar-sized snakes.
Even smartest AI models don't match human visual processing
2dDeep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) don't see objects the way humans do — using configural shape perception — and that could be dangerous in real-world AI applications. The study employed novel visual stimuli called 'Frankensteins' to explore how the human brain and DCNNs process holistic, configural object properties.
Hoard of Islamic era gold and silver coins found behind Egyptian temple
2dResearchers in Egypt uncovered hundreds of gold and silver coins.
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