A German-based biotechnologist and filmmaker has presented his concept for an artificial womb. This futuristic device could allow a foetus to grow and develop outside the body, without the need for women to undergo pregnancy.
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Atlantis: How Plato’s Story Corresponds to Real History
Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? After years of extensive research, in conjunction with new archeological evidence, and with the aid of satellite technology, Christos A. Djonis credibly reveals that Plato based his story of Atlantis on a real prehistoric setting, now beneath 400 feet of water.
Although most people around the world agree that the original Santorini hypothesis so far made the most compelling case where Plato’s Atlantis once was, unfortunately, there are two critical flaws with that theory, which have allowed critics over the years to maintain the story was just a myth.
Artemis 1 / Orion Splashdown! LIVE
Splashdown off the Baja Coast near Guadalupe Island targeted for 11:39 a.m. CST (12:39 p.m. EST) on Sunday, Dec. 11Thanks for watching — why not support this…
Future-proof innovations emerge from Finland
“This is the break of dawn,” declared Slush CEO Eerika Savolainen, kicking off this year’s event and its messages of hope, renewal and change. The sense of positivity was palpable among the 12 000 attendees, including 4 600 startups and 2 600 investors, gathered at the Helsinki Exhibition Centre.
Since its inaugural event in 2008, which attracted 250 participants, Slush has become a landmark in the tech industry’s event calendar. It has developed a secret sauce featuring a student-led organisation, relaxed atmosphere and knack for attracting big names in tech both on stage and to Helsinki in general. At the same time, it has been able to maintain its mission to create and help ground-breaking entrepreneurs.
New receptor “decoy” drug neutralizes COVID-19 virus and its variants
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BOSTON — Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a drug that potently neutralizes SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 coronavirus, and is equally effective against the Omicron variant and every other tested variant. The drug is designed in such a way that natural selection to maintain infectiousness of the virus should also maintain the drug’s activity against future variants.
The investigational drug, described in a report published today in Science Advances, is not an antibody, but a related molecule known as an ACE2 receptor decoy. Unlike antibodies, the ACE2 decoy is far more difficult for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to evade because mutations in the virus that would enable it to avoid the drug would also reduce the virus’s ability to infect cells. The Dana-Farber scientists found a way to make this type of drug neutralize coronaviruses more potently in animals infected with COVID-19 and to make it safe to give to patients.
This report comes at a time when antibody drugs used to treat COVID-19 have lost their effectiveness because the viral spike protein has mutated to escape being targeted by the antibodies.
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OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits
It’s proving tough to reign in systems like ChatGPT
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Did a human write that, or ChatGPT? It can be hard to tell — perhaps too hard, its creator OpenAI thinks, which is why it is working on a way to “watermark” AI-generated content.
In a lecture at the University of Austin, computer science professor Scott Aaronson, currently a guest researcher at OpenAI, revealed that OpenAI is developing a tool for “statistically watermarking the outputs of a text [AI system].” Whenever a system — say, ChatGPT — generates text, the tool would embed an “unnoticeable secret signal” indicating where the text came from.
OpenAI engineer Hendrik Kirchner built a working prototype, Aaronson says, and the hope is to build it into future OpenAI-developed systems.