Sunday - November 5 2023, 01:17 UTC - 1 year ago

A University of Minnesota study on fish species located in the Apache Lake reservoir in Arizona's desert region revealed that some species of the buffalofish have lifespans of over 100 years. To determine the age of the buffalofish, the team extracted "earstones" from within the fish's skull, which are stone-like structures that develop a new layer each year. Anglers noticed and alerted researchers of unusual orange and black spots on the buffalofish which triggered the study, and the team concluded that species of the buffalofish introduced to Arizona in 1918 are most likely still alive today.

Saturday - November 4 2023, 20:46 UTC - 1 year ago

Two scientists studying nuclear and particle physics have developed a new method for measuring how the tau particle wobbles, called the tau magnetic moment. Their findings, published in the Physical Review Letters, could help reveal undiscovered particles in the quantum world, and may be presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in November 2023.

Saturday - November 4 2023, 16:09 UTC - 1 year ago

The executive order from the White House on Oct. 30, 2023, is an important step in addressing the risks posed by AI. It identifies eight categories of risk and directs government agencies and the private sector to take steps such as auditing AI systems and labeling AI-generated content. It also calls for an AI privacy bill of rights. However, comprehensive data privacy legislation is still needed.

Saturday - November 4 2023, 11:32 UTC - 1 year ago

For the past 30 years, ESA's General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) has greatly advanced space and commercial-use technologies, enabling the development of electromagnetic coils with laser powder bed fusion 3D printing. This program has been integral to ESA’s strategy and its success can be seen in the numerous contracts awarded, the successful development of products, and the achievements and milestones detailed in the latest GSTP Annual Report.

Saturday - November 4 2023, 06:50 UTC - 1 year ago

The team from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Department of Animal Sciences is set to provide a potential game changer for subsistence farmers in Tanzania with cows that produce up to 20 times the milk of indigenous breeds. The effort involves mixing the milk-producing potency of Holsteins and Jerseys with the heat, drought, and disease-resistance of Gyrs, an indigenous African cattle breed. With the support of the Tanzanian government and assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the research team is investing in training and student exchanges for the long-term success and sustainability of the project.

Saturday - November 4 2023, 02:48 UTC - 1 year ago

Google, Microsoft, and other tech conglomerates are turning to generative AI to improve online search. As users no longer need to visit search engines to find the information they need, the consequences for traditional search engine optimization are dire. Generative AI offers a sea of opportunities for users, but important potential drawbacks must also be noted.

Friday - November 3 2023, 22:08 UTC - 1 year ago

Tachyum® announced that it has accepted a major purchase order from a US company to build a 50 exaFLOPS supercomputer, powered by Prodigy® Universal Processor chip. The Prodigy chip is 5nm in size, 10x lower power and 1/3 the cost of competing products delivering 8 Zettaflops AI training for big language models and 16 Zettaflops of image and video processing capacity. It is built with hundreds of petabytes of DRAM and exabytes of flash-based primary storage with 4-socket nodes connected to 400G RoCE ethernet.Tachyum’s proprietary TPU® AI Inference IP supports Tachyum AI (TAI) data type and provides up to 6x performance for AI applications.

Friday - November 3 2023, 17:27 UTC - 1 year ago

This article takes a look at the role of technology both in helping and hindering the human race, and the potential role that technology could play in the future. It calls upon some of the smartest minds in technology to answer some of the biggest problems that are not getting enough attention at the moment.

Friday - November 3 2023, 12:28 UTC - 1 year ago

New research from the University of Bath finds that watching a training video featuring a deepfake version of yourself makes learning faster, easier and more enjoyable than watching videos featuring someone else. The study looks into two separate experiments that explore the positive use cases for deepfakes for fitness training and public speaking.

Friday - November 3 2023, 07:56 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers from Lancaster University have discovered how superfluid 3He would physically feel if put a finger into it, redefining our understanding of this unique element's structure and implications for quantum physics.

Friday - November 3 2023, 03:19 UTC - 1 year ago

Harvard labor economist Claudia Goldin was recently honored with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her decades of work studying the gender pay gap. Women are underrepresented as both economists and in traditional economic models. Goldin's groundbreaking research has turned the spotlight on the pivotal roles of women in the economy and contributed to the establishment of more robust support systems for women. On Oct. 7, 2023, the U.S. government also rolled out an unlimited amount of paid parental leave for federal workers.

Thursday - November 2 2023, 22:54 UTC - 1 year ago

Scientists have identified the second-known genus of animals that boasts three or more species with lifespans exceeding a century. This remarkable find has the potential to expand research in various fields, including those focused on gerontology and vertebrate senescence, offering new insights into longevity. A recent study from the University of Minnesota Duluth focused on the buffalofish genus within Ictiobus, including three species native to Minnesota - bigmouth buffalo, smallmouth buffalo, and black buffalo. Instead of examining the fish’s scale, scientists determined age by extracting otoliths from the cranium and forming a new layer each year. Results of the study show buffalofishes are native to central North America, but those in this recent study were found in Apache Lake, a reservoir in the desert southwest. This research raises the question of what their “fountain of youth” is.

Thursday - November 2 2023, 18:34 UTC - 1 year ago

A new study from New York University created an AI model that mimics a toddler’s ability to generalize language learning. The model was trained to reproduce errors from human test results and learn from them. Generalization is a sort of flexible thinking that lets us use newly learned words in new contexts. AI models rely on deep learning, which is a method loosely based on the brain. Humans have the uncanny ability to turn what we learn about the world into concepts.

Thursday - November 2 2023, 14:23 UTC - 1 year ago

Paleontologists have uncovered a new species of mosasaur from North Dakota, named Jormungandr walhallaensis. This species is 24 feet long and possesses flippers, a shark-like tail, and an ‘angry eyebrows’ ridge on its head. It likely served as an ancestor to the larger Mosasaurus. This discovery is expected to better our understanding of the evolutionary relationships between various mosasaur groups.

Thursday - November 2 2023, 10:19 UTC - 1 year ago

In a new study, MIT neuroscientists have found that deep neural networks, trained to identify objects or words, also respond to images or sounds that have no resemblance to the target. The paper suggests that these models develop their own idiosyncratic ‘invariances’, which lead to strange unrecognizable images and sounds being produced. These findings provide a new way to evaluate how well these models mimic the organization of human sensory perception.

Thursday - November 2 2023, 05:26 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai were able to restore hearing in patients suffering from inner ear hair cell loss. In order for gene therapy to become a successful medical treatment, more research needs to be done in order to make the product cost effective. The Chinese government has committed to improving the gene therapy industry, for example through subsidies and grants. However, despite this progress, gene therapy remains expensive and inaccessible.

Thursday - November 2 2023, 00:58 UTC - 1 year ago

Wind power is growing source of renewable energy and has the potential to affect the climate on a global-scale. We use a three-step approach to estimate how much power can be extracted and its potential impacts. The first method outlines the processes associated with wind power generation, followed by a momentum balance model and then general circulation model simulations. The maximum estimates in the range of 18-68 TW are significantly lower than recent estimates that claim abundant wind power availability.

Wednesday - November 1 2023, 20:44 UTC - 1 year ago

This week has seen a lot of movement in the world of AI regulation. A voluntary code of conduct for AI companies has been agreed by the G7, and the UK is hosting an AI Safety Summit. AI researcher Buolamwini has highlighted the dangers of AI systems, and the potential for bias in facial recognition systems. AI scientist Sutskever is prioritising preventing AI from going rogue. Making AI systems 'responsible' is no easy task, and those who point out potential AI-related risks can be subject to aggressive criticism online.

Wednesday - November 1 2023, 15:56 UTC - 1 year ago

Water is a central element of the conflict between Israel and Palestinians, with Israel controlling most of the water supply that enters Gaza. This has caused unequal access and environmental consequences due to rising population and demand for water. In order to solve this problem, there needs to be a shift in policy to enable an equitable distribution of resources and cooperation between the two sides of the conflict.