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Feb 5, 2024
Rare 3.8-million-year-old skull recasts origins of iconic ‘Lucy’ fossil
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
The African skull aged 3.8 million years old is giving researchers a peek into humanity’s evolutionary history, a new study suggests.
The discovery explains what the face of a possible ancestor of the species famously represented by Lucy – the well-known Ethiopian skeleton discovered in the mid-1970s – may have looked like.
This thesis has been published in the British journal Nature, which was reviewed by superiors. The fossil cranium represents a specimen from a time interval between 4.1 and 3.6 million years ago when early human ancestor fossils are extremely rare, researchers say.
Feb 4, 2024
Tech and Cyber Predictions For 2024
Posted by Chuck Brooks in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI, space
Welcome to the latest edition of Security & Tech Insights. In this newsletter, predictions on topics of cybersecurity, emerging computing, artificial intelligence, and space will be explored. Thanks for reading and sharing!
Chuck Brooks, Editor.
https://enterprise.spectrum.com/insights/blog/2024-enterpris…aid-Social.
Feb 4, 2024
NASA spacecraft snaps image of ancient, winding rivers on Mars
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Feb 4, 2024
Neuroscience Discoveries: 7 Insights Changing Our Understanding of the Brain
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: ethics, neuroscience
Recent neuroscience reveals insights into the gut-brain link, vision, addiction relapse, memory, autism, infant cognition, and moral judgments. The findings offer new treatment avenues and highlight the brain’s complex functions.
Feb 4, 2024
Our brains bend time to adapt to life’s rhythm
Posted by Arthur Brown in categories: education, neuroscience
Scientists have made progress in understanding how the brain processes time, potentially rewriting the narrative on neural flexibility and cognitive function.
The research, led by Professor Arkarup Banerjee in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, focused on the vocalizations of Alston’s singing mouse from Costa Rica, offers profound insights into how our brains may bend the perception of time to adapt to varying circumstances.
This phenomenon could have far-reaching implications across numerous fields including technology, education, and therapy.
Feb 4, 2024
Generative AI Is Coming To Google Maps
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: mapping, robotics/AI
Feb 4, 2024
Scientists Have Created a New Type of Ice
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Feb 4, 2024
Scientists Transform Everyday Materials Into Conductors for Quantum Computers
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, quantum physics
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory, publishing in the latest issue of Nature Communications, describe the discovery of a new method that transforms everyday materials like glass into materials scientists can use to make quantum computers.
“The materials we made are substances that exhibit unique electrical or quantum properties because of their specific atomic shapes or structures,” said Luis A. Jauregui, professor of physics & astronomy at UCI and lead author of the new paper. “Imagine if we could transform glass, typically considered an insulating material, and convert it into efficient conductors akin to copper. That’s what we’ve done.”
Conventional computers use silicon as a conductor, but silicon has limits. Quantum computers stand to help bypass these limits, and methods like those described in the new study will help quantum computers become an everyday reality.
Feb 4, 2024
How to use Apple Vision Pro’s Optic ID authentication
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: privacy, security
The Apple Vision Pro uses Optic ID as biometric authentication for payments and certain visionOS actions. Here’s how it works, and how to use it.