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Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 583
May 27, 2021
“Gistification” – Memory Details Fade Over Time, With Only the Main Gist Preserved
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
What information is retained in a memory over time, and which parts get lost? These questions have led to many scientific theories over the years, and now a team of researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Birmingham have been able to provide some answers.
Their new study, which is published today (May 26, 2021) in Nature Communications, demonstrates that our memories become less vibrant and detailed over time, with only the central gist eventually preserved. Moreover, this ‘gistification’ of our memories is boosted when we frequently recall our recent experiences.
The work could have implications in a number of areas, including the nature of memories in post-traumatic stress disorder, the repeated questioning of eye-witness testimonies and even in best practice for exam studying.
May 27, 2021
New species of dinosaur found in Australia
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
May 27, 2021
Living Creatures Need Water. But Could They Make Do With Sulfuric Acid?
Posted by Dirk Schulze-Makuch in category: futurism
Can there be life in exotic solvents? — such as sulfuric acid?
New results cast doubt on the presence of life in the Venusian atmosphere.
May 27, 2021
Russia is building an army of robot weapons, and China’s AI tech is helping
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
An american source on this. Russia is way ahead of the USA on these, they were testing these in Syria, and there is no “WE CANT ARM ROBOTS!!” debate over there, they just go ahead and do it.
“In the context of increasing tensions with the United States, China and Russia have clearly made an agreement to expand their technological cooperation, with artificial intelligence playing a key role in their plans for the future,” a new CNA report finds.
May 26, 2021
A First Look at the World Partition System in UE5
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
How does Unreal Engine 5 manage to stream such amounts of data? The answer is World Partition.
May 25, 2021
Canada has waited long enough to ban chlorpyrifos
Posted by Poopeh Morakkabati in category: futurism
In 2019, the European Union banned chlorpyrifos, allowing three more months of use. Canada’s three-year phaseout risks ongoing harms, as well as dumping of this product on our market.
Back in 2000, Canadian politicians spoke up against commonly used lawn and household chlorpyrifos products when the U.S. banned domestic uses. Despite a year of study, the PMRA had not taken action.
How long will chlorpyrifos persist in commerce?
May 25, 2021
Lab-grown minihearts beat like the real thing
Posted by Derick Lee in category: futurism
For Ma, growing a more adultlike heart organoid, with all its chambers and structures, is the future of the field. But he doesn’t think this will happen in the next decade. For a complete heartlike organoid, he says, “there is still a long way to go.”
Self-organizing organoids resemble a 1-month-old embryo’s heart.
May 25, 2021
Man stumbles upon prehistoric sea turtle fossil that could be a new species
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The man was walking along a river when he made the amazing discovery, which experts estimate to be around 84 million years old.
May 24, 2021
Science Gets Closer To Making Human-Animal Chimeras
Posted by Michael Taylor in categories: futurism, science
The recent announcement that scientists have made human-monkey embryos and cultured them in the lab for two weeks made international headlines.
The technology to make animals that contain cells from other species has been available for decades and used extensively in research. These organisms are called “chimeras”.
But this latest advance highlights the need to broaden the discussion around the possible benefits of such research and, specifically, how inter-species chimeric research should be conducted in future.
