Thursday - May 18 2023, 02:32 UTC - 1 year ago

Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT), a personalized and intensive coaching program developed by Professor Peter O'Sullivan from the Curtin School of Allied Health has been tested to help long-term sufferers of chronic back pain. The study found that this treatment offered relief from pain and disability while saving over $5,000 per person in healthcare and work productivity costs as well as putting the patient at the center of care.

Thursday - May 18 2023, 01:01 UTC - 1 year ago

The Irish Times apologized for publishing an opinion article created using artificial intelligence, saying it had been targeted as part of a "deliberate deception". The hoax article was submitted under a fictitious byline and highlighted the danger in the usage of AI machine-generated content. The paper's editor said its publication was a breach of trust and called it a challenge raised by generative AI for news organizations.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 23:11 UTC - 1 year ago

Google has announced plans to embed generative AI tools into their products, allowing billions of people access to powerful AI models. Calls for regulation of live AI tools are growing, but debates within the EU as to how to regulate these types of tools are intensifying. AI has been documented to lead to bias, discrimination, and numerous scams and pitfalls. Regulators are looking to review existing laws in order to regulate AI, but it is unclear when this will happen.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 22:02 UTC - 1 year ago

NASA's golden, tissue box-sized satellite, TBIRD, has set a new record for the fastest data transfer rate ever performed in space. The recent test of the system demonstrated a 200 Gbps, space-to-ground optical link speed, doubling the transfer rate record set by itself from last year. This new ultra-high-speed capability is capable of transmitting a great deal more information than traditional space communication systems, and will enable the science discoveries of the future.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 20:32 UTC - 1 year ago

Tesla held a Q&A session on May 15th, 2021, where Elon Musk made predictions of FSD safer and smoother than human drivers by 2023, with expected Cybertruck sales of 250k-500k per year, expected combined sales of 5 million for the next two new products, giving insight on new products such as the rumored $20-25k car and Tesla Solar Roofing and Powerwall. Overall, it was a successful Q and A session.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 19:22 UTC - 1 year ago

Independent teams of researchers have been able to advance their success in growing monkey embryos in the lab whereby they were able to witness the growth and development of vital organs, cells, and tissues under a microscope. This breakthrough in embryo research opens new doors to understanding the formation of organs in three dimensions. However, the development was only allowed up to day 25 where the embryos need to be implanted in the uterus for further growth and survivability.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 17:24 UTC - 1 year ago

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned people against using EzriCare eye drops in February 2023. Researchers have detailed a case of a 72-year-old female diagnosed with a corneal ulcer, caused by irreparable infection of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa traced to the contaminated eye drops. Treatment was difficult as the isolate was resistant to any antibiotics that could be administered and instead had to be infused intravenously for 8 weeks for the infection to clear. The eye drops have since been pulled from shelves, but the risk may still persist.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 15:40 UTC - 1 year ago

On Thursday, May 17th, 2023 the European Parliament lawmakers took the first step towards creating rules on the use of AI systems. The creation of these rules is meant to protect citizens against potential threats caused by AI, while still fostering innovation in the sector.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 14:05 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers from Stockholm University have developed a novel type of Metal-Organic-Framework (MOF) called SU-102, using pomegranate extract and zirconium ions. This revolutionary material was tested at a local wastewater treatment facility resulting in excellent removal of pharmaceutical pollutants from already-purified water. The photodegradation process is also used to further break down pollutants.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 12:25 UTC - 1 year ago

In a recent publication in Physical Review Letters, physicists provided evidence for the existence of a deeply bound dibaryon, a composite subatomic particle, made of two triply bottom Omega (Ωbbb) baryons entirely of bottom (beauty) quarks. With its greater binding energy than the deuteron, the newly proposed dibaryon (D6b) is the most strongly bound beautiful dibaryon in our visible universe. It elucidates the features of strong forces and motivates the search for heavier exotic particles. Lattice QCD calculations based on a fundamental theory and high-performance computing are being used to solve the mystery of strong interactions.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 10:38 UTC - 1 year ago

A research team from Tianjin University published a new research about team-knowledge distillation networks (TKD-Net) for cross-domain few-shot learning (CD-FSL). The proposed method consists of two stages: a teacher development stage and a multi-level knowledge distillation stage. After obtaining multiple domain-specific teacher models, multi-level knowledge is then transferred from the cooperation of teachers to the student in the paradigm of meta-learning.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 09:22 UTC - 1 year ago

Anthropic announced that its AI, Claude AI, can comprehend books containing 75,000 words in a matter of seconds. This has been enabled through increasing its context window. Claude AI has a variety of applications including working with financial documents, legal documents and improving code or answering technical questions.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 08:09 UTC - 1 year ago

In a study conducted by researchers from IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and University of Milan Bicocca, it was found that globally, left-leaning political views exhibit more altruistic behavior, not just within their local communities, but towards international communities. Meanwhile, right-leaning political views tend to be more generous towards their own countries.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 06:35 UTC - 1 year ago

According to a new study, the end of the last ice age that began roughly 15,000 years ago was influenced by the arrival of warm and super salty water from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic Ocean. Scientists from St Andrews and Cardiff Universities reconstructed the ocean temperature and salinity of the ice age cycle over a period of 1.5 million years and analyzed fossil shells from 40-meter-long core of deep-sea mud for chemical fingerprints to come to this conclusion.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 05:19 UTC - 1 year ago

The Expedition 69 crew are studying microgravity’s impact on human immunity and conducting advanced space biology research. Meanwhile, Axiom Space is preparing their second private mission to the ISS, with four crew members conducting research, outreach, and commercial activities.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 03:21 UTC - 1 year ago

A new study conducted by Takahiro Tsumura and Seiji Yamada showed that self disclosure from anthropomorphic AI agents can increase empathy from humans and help inform the development of future AI tools.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 01:45 UTC - 1 year ago

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that it has fixed the $1.1 billion Jupiter probe's Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna. This antenna is one of 10 instruments of the JUICE probe set to investigate the existence of habitations in the Jupiter moons' surface and subsurface. After encountering difficulties deployment of the antenna, ESA was able to solve the issue using a 'non-explosive actuator'. Now, JUICE is on course to make history in the coming years, as one of several missions that could help to uncover whether Jupiter's moons are capable of harboring alien life.

Wednesday - May 17 2023, 00:15 UTC - 1 year ago

By introducing interstrand crosslinks into the CRISPR/Cas9 workflow, researchers in the University of California, Santa Barbara have managed to threefold increase the efficiency of gene editing without increasing mutation frequencies or altering end-joining repair outcomes.

Tuesday - May 16 2023, 23:05 UTC - 1 year ago

This study provides a clue on the possibility of an advanced alien civilization detecting Earth's technological signatures, which can be observed with the advent of mobile phones, and can relay information on where the landmasses are on our planet and the small nature of our civilization.