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The natural sugar that reduces the risk of diabetes in mice
Sugar may be the villain of our time, with too much of the sweet stuff known to be a leading cause of developing diabetes. But now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered a new way to reduce the risk of this condition – sugar. Trehalose is a natural sugar that has now been found to deprive the liver of glucose and activate a gene that improves insulin sensitivity and triggers the burning of more fat.
Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?
Nonetheless, the Pentagon appears to be pushing ahead on its own, looking for ways to strengthen its ties with A.I. researchers, particularly in Silicon Valley, where there is considerable wariness about working with the military and intelligence agencies.
The Defense Department, believing that A.I. research should be a national priority, has called on the White House to “inspire a whole of country effort.”
We’ve Finally Created an AI Network That’s Been Decades in the Making
The researcher who proved the usefulness of neural networks for image identification has revealed an approach he thinks may be better: capsule networks.
Katherine Johnson, who hand-crunched the numbers for America’s first manned space flight, is 100 today
Black women, especially, played a crucial role in the pool, providing mathematical data for NASA’s first successful space missions, including Alan Shepherd’s 1961 mission and John Glenn’s pioneering orbital spaceflight.
I Am Cyborg, Hear Me Roar: The Feeling of Pain is SO Last Century!
As we begin to question our biological roles during a non-biological (transhuman) era, will the role of pain remain as our sole method of detecting physical trauma or will it be replaced by a more efficient technological alternative?