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Oct 5, 2023

Reshaping Work: Adapting To The Future With Generative AI

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Today’s generative AI revolution poses similar challenges and opportunities as the Industrial Revolution.

Oct 5, 2023

Mentoring Keys to Grow the Disability Health Workforce

Posted by in category: health

A distinguished group of panelists engaging in a vibrant discussion about mentoring, careers, and more.

Speakers: Dr. Vijay Vasudevan, Dr. Monika Mitra, Dr. Michael McKee.

Oct 5, 2023

A Gene Variant That Promotes Inflammation is Carried by Millions

Posted by in category: genetics

WEHI researchers have identified a small change in the sequence of a particular gene that increases the likelihood of inflammation in carriers. | Genetics And Genomics.

Oct 4, 2023

Assisted by AI, a workforce of bees tracks pollution and boosts biodiversity

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability

When Karl Wenner looks at his farm on Upper Klamath Lake in the mountains of southern Oregon, he sees a landscape in transition.

He and his partners converted part of their fields of barley into wetlands along the shore of the lake to filter runoff and protect the quality of the water that eventually flows back into the Klamath River, which empties into the Pacific on California’s coast. The project is part of a larger effort to clean up the river, remove dams and bring back salmon.

At Lakeside Farms, that transformation is being guided by a surprising source of information: the pollen collected by tens of thousands of honeybees. A Belgian start-up called BeeOdiversity enlisted Wenner, who is also a beekeeper, to help in a survey in the Klamath River Basin. Each colony, with 50,000 bees, harvests pollen over an area of more than two square miles, collecting as many as 4 billion tiny samples in a year. The resulting data creates a clear, accurate picture of the plant life and pollution present in the environment.

Oct 4, 2023

Projects launch to map brain connections in mouse and macaque

Posted by in category: neuroscience

NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded research will lay the groundwork to map entire brains in incredible detail.

By Rachel Tompa, Ph.D. / Allen Institute.

5 min read.

Oct 4, 2023

Warp drive’s best hope dies, as antimatter falls down

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

I wouldnt worry about it. And ANY Effort on it is better spent on AI development now. It s a project for AI of 2050+, not for us today.


In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell ‘up’ provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.

Oct 4, 2023

Deciphering the secrets of the brain

Posted by in category: neuroscience

A place for cutting-edge research: PSI researchers to receive comprehensive funding from the US NIH for their brain research.

Oct 4, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope Has Spotted Something Lurking in the Orion Nebula That “Shouldn’t Exist,” and They Come in Pairs

Posted by in categories: evolution, space

New images of the Orion Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed the existence of 150 free-floating objects once considered a scientific impossibility.

South of Orion’s belt is one of the brightest nebulae visible in the night sky, the Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42, which is home to the Trapezium Cluster of stars. This cluster produces extremely strong ultraviolet radiation fields that cause the surrounding gas to glow, which is the source of the nebulae’s brightness.

Within the cluster is a veritable nursery for the formation of protostars, which the European Space Agency (ESA) recently called “a treasure trove for astronomers studying the formation and early evolution of stars, with a rich diversity of phenomena and objects” that include a mysterious category of celestial phenomena known as free-floating planetary mass objects.

Oct 4, 2023

Google doesn’t play fair with Bing, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Posted by in category: futurism

Google’s search engine dominance in the market share is causing a competitive disadvantage to other competitors like Bing, as it uses its power to improve its algorithm, ultimately placing it further.

Oct 4, 2023

Prada Will Help Design Spacesuits for an Upcoming NASA Mission to the Moon

Posted by in category: space travel

Moonwalking courtesy Prada.


The fashion brand is teaming up with Axiom Space to outfit astronauts.