Monday - June 12 2023, 12:03 UTC - 1 year ago

Greenhouse gas emissions have decreased slightly during the pandemic, but not enough to make a lasting difference. We must all continue to make an effort to reduce emissions if we want to combat climate change.

Monday - June 12 2023, 07:17 UTC - 1 year ago

This course looks at how different peoples and cultures use nature-based medicines to heal themselves, examines how the pharmaceutical industry has exploited Indigenous peoples' ethnobotanical knowledge and landscapes for monetary gain, and considers the relevance of these practices in the current generation. The critical lesson is that there is no one right way of healing, but that we must take proactive steps to protect traditional knowledge systems.

Monday - June 12 2023, 02:49 UTC - 1 year ago

Modern AI has made remarkable progress creating images in many diverse styles. By examining the evolution of both AI and art history, it becomes clear that these two have profoundly grown together by learning from large datasets. AI has been used to create art from reference images or blend styles together, as well as generate pieces from datasets of landscapes, celebrity portraits, and food presentations.

Sunday - June 11 2023, 22:04 UTC - 1 year ago

Big banks and financial regulators are preparing for potential default on U.S debt through convening war rooms, planning speedy bailouts and raising house-on-fire alarm bells. Preparations include reducing exposure to Treasury securities and buying credit default swaps to hedge their exposure to a sell off.

Sunday - June 11 2023, 17:31 UTC - 1 year ago

US-based medical device company, RedDress has created a proprietary blood-based technology, ActiGraft, that creates an in-vitro blood clot from a patient's own whole blood in real-time. This innovative technology has almost zero risk of rejection and is cost-effective, making it a fast and efficient solution for patients with chronic or complex wounds. ActiGraft can be applied weekly in cases of chronic wounds and up to three times per week for complex wounds.

Sunday - June 11 2023, 12:47 UTC - 1 year ago

Blockchain technology is a reliable, decentralized system for many industries beyond cryptocurrencies. It was proved to have useful applications in supply chains, banking and finance, health care, and property records. These solutions offer improved trust, security and transparency in their respective fields.

Sunday - June 11 2023, 08:00 UTC - 1 year ago

Computer vision is an AI field that enables computers to acquire, process, and analyze digital images, and make recommendations based on that analysis. Researchers at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are looking to make advances in computer vision. They have developed In-Pixel Intelligent Processing (IP2), a low-cost, low-power technology that eliminates the need for backend processing. IP2 is suitable for both cars and drones, and can improve object detection accuracy.

Sunday - June 11 2023, 03:11 UTC - 1 year ago

MIT and IBM researchers developed saliency cards, a tool set designed to provide standardized documentation to machine-learning researchers and lay users alike, to help users choose the best saliency method for their particular task. Choosing the right method gives users a more accurate picture of how their model is behaving, thus better equipped to correctly interpret its predictions.

Saturday - June 10 2023, 23:01 UTC - 1 year ago

The United States has a child care crisis, yet the issue remains largely invisible in the farm sector. Our research has consistently found child care is an issue that affects all of agriculture regardless of farm size, production system or location. Access to child care is especially acute in rural areas, where even before COVID-19, 3 in 5 rural communities were categorized as child care deserts. The high cost of child care left the Paynes in a position familiar to many Americans – they make too much to qualify for child care support, but they don’t make enough to afford the type of quality child care they want.

Saturday - June 10 2023, 18:39 UTC - 1 year ago

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be accompanied by a CubeSat called MANTIS, which will cost $8.5 million. MANTIS' incredible long-range vision capabilities will be used to complete investigations into exoplanets, their atmospheres, and habitability. It is inspired by the mantis shrimp, which has impressive vision, and its two built-in telescopes can investigate extreme ultraviolet light. The plan is to launch the cube-sat in 2022.

Saturday - June 10 2023, 13:44 UTC - 1 year ago

Lockheed Martin and Airbus have officially selected GE Aerospace's CF6-80E1 engine as the propulsion system of its up-and-coming Lockheed Martin Next Tanker (LMXT) strategic tanker. This aircraft is a solution to the U.S. Air Force's KC-135 so-called "recapitalization plan" and is built on the combat-proven design of the A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). It also intends to replace the USAF's existing KC-135 tanker fleet by around 2025. The LMXT team has chosen GE's CF6 engine for its remarkable durability, reliability, and performance, providing over 3,000 jobs in the U.S. alongside an advantaged supply chain leading to increased mission readiness rate of the US Air Force.

Saturday - June 10 2023, 08:56 UTC - 1 year ago

Take a journey into the depths of the mysteries of the ocean. Spend some time learning about the extreme conditions creatures must survive in, the hydrothermal vents, and the species found near them. There is so much yet to be discovered and explored in the ocean depths.

Saturday - June 10 2023, 04:04 UTC - 1 year ago

A quantum computer, Juizhang, built by a team led by Pan Jianwei, has claimed to complete AI related tasks 180 million times faster than the fastest supercomputer today. Juizhang uses light as a physical medium for calculation and does not need to work at extremely low temperatures to carry out calculations. The research team said that the computations achieved by Jiuzhang could also help researchers apply the technology in areas such as data mining, biological information, network analysis, and chemical modeling research.

Friday - June 9 2023, 23:17 UTC - 1 year ago

Tightly curled scalp hair protected early humans from the sun’s radiative heat, allowing their brains to grow to sizes comparable to those of modern humans. Researchers have studied the role human hair textures play in regulating body temperature, finding that tightly curled hair allowed humans to stay cool and conserve water. These findings can shed light on an evolutionary adaptation that enabled the human brain to grow to modern-day sizes.

Friday - June 9 2023, 18:20 UTC - 1 year ago

The UK is set to host the world’s first global summit on Artificial Intelligence, to discuss the potential risks as well as harness AI's potential for the betterment of society. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the summit will gather “like-minded countries” to shape a regulatory response, in accordance with the G7's call for action in Japan last month.

Friday - June 9 2023, 13:18 UTC - 1 year ago

Elon Musk made a three-day visit to China to meet with high-ranking government officials in Beijing and Shanghi and express his opposition to the decoupling of US and China supply chains. His visit highlights the positive business relations between Tesla and the Chinese government, and the potential implications of SpaceX's Starlink project.

Friday - June 9 2023, 08:50 UTC - 1 year ago

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the universe, typically the result of the cataclysmic birth of a black hole in a distant galaxy. On October 2022, gamma-ray detectors on the orbital satellites Fermi and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory noted a burst known as GRB 221009A, dubbed the "Brightest Of All Time", or the "Boat". GRB 221009A originated from a distance of 2.4 billion light years and its energy was estimated to be 1 gigawatt of power into the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The jet launching process of a GRB is still a puzzle, but special relativity theory tells us that light emitted in all directions from the surface of a fast-moving jet will end up focused along its direction of motion. This means that, for GRBs, it should take a long time for the edges to come into view - which is what was observed with GRB 221009A.

Friday - June 9 2023, 03:49 UTC - 1 year ago

Hallucinogens such as LSD, psilocybin, and DMT, are being used in clinical trials as fast-acting antidepressants. Unlike Prozac, these drugs need to be carefully administered in a doctor's office and have to be taken under supervision to get the best therapeutic results. A new study shows that it is possible to strip the trip away from psychedelics, but leave its mood-boosting magic. The study found that psychedelics work in a different way than traditional antidepressants, by connecting to TrkB receptors instead of serotonin receptors.

Thursday - June 8 2023, 23:41 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers from MIT and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed an algorithm that automatically and independently determines when a student machine should imitate a teacher or learn through trial and error. When tested, they found that using this combination of learning methods enabled students to learn tasks more effectively. This method could help researchers train machine that will be deployed in uncertain real-world scenarios such as robots navigating inside a building they have never seen before.