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Oct 22, 2023

Archaeologists Excavating the Tomb of Egypt’s First Female Pharaoh Found Hundreds of Jars Still Holding Remnants of Wine

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The dig has also shed new light on the reign of the ancient queen.

Adam Schrader, October 18, 2023.

Oct 22, 2023

Natural killer cell, illustration

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

NK cells are a type of white blood cell and a component of the immune system. They recognise certain proteins, or antigens, on virus-infected or tumour cells and destroy them.

Credit: juan gaertner / science photo library.

Oct 22, 2023

There’s now an AI cancer survivor calculator

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According to main study author Lauren Janczewski, MD, a clinical scholar with ACS Cancer Programs and a general surgery resident at Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago, estimated survival rates for cancer patients currently primarily depend on disease stage and do not offer enough details to estimate an accurate survival time.

Oct 22, 2023

To be — or not to be — an enhanced human

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Researchers have revealed a radical new use of AI — to predict earthquakes.

A team from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used machine-learning techniques to analyze tiny changes in geomagnetic fields.

These allow the system, to predict natural disaster far earlier than current methods.

Oct 22, 2023

The people using AI to bring back dead relatives

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‘I actually had a conversation with Dad’: — including a plan to harvest DNA from graves to build new clone bodies…


People stricken by grief after losing a loved one are looking to scientific advances in hopes of bringing them back — even if only in a digital form.

Oct 22, 2023

23 Younger Biological Age: Supplements, Diet (Blood Test #6 in 2023)

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Oct 22, 2023

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ChatGPT would have passed for an AGI 10 years ago

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Artificial general intelligence is the big goal of OpenAI. What exactly that is, however, is still up for debate.

According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, systems like GPT-4 or GPT-5 would have passed for AGI to “a lot of people” ten years ago. “Now people are like, well, you know, it’s like a nice little chatbot or whatever,” Altman said.

The phenomenon Altman describes has a name: It’s called the “AI effect,” and computer scientist Larry Tesler summed it up by saying, “AI is anything that has not been done yet.”

Oct 22, 2023

Molecular engineers successfully create a working DNA ‘nanomachine’

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Petr Šulc, an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences, worked with Professor Michael Famulok from the University of Bonn, Germany, and Professor Nils Walter from the University of Michigan on this project.

Oct 22, 2023

Hologram Breakthrough — New Technology Transforms Ordinary 2D Images

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, holograms, virtual reality

Holograms provide a three-dimensional (3D) view of objects, offering a level of detail that two-dimensional (2D) images cannot match. Their realistic and immersive display of 3D objects makes holograms incredibly valuable across various sectors, including medical imaging, manufacturing, and virtual reality.

Traditional holography involves recording an object’s three-dimensional data and its interactions with light, a process that demands high computational power and the use of specialized cameras for capturing 3D images. This complexity has restricted the widespread adoption of holograms.

Oct 22, 2023

Quantum Computing for Complete Beginners

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Some have described the last several millennia of human dominion over the earth’s resources as the anthropocene, deriving from the Greek “anthropo” meaning human, and “cene” meaning recent. The last century in particular has been dubbed the fourth industrial revolution, due to the pace of technological innovation ushered in by the advent of computers in the middle of the 20th century.

In the past seventy years, computation has transformed every aspect of society, enabling efficient production at an accelerated rate, displacing human labour from chiefly production to services, and exponentially augmenting information storage, generation, and transmission through telecommunications.

How did we get here? Fundamentally, technological advancement draws on existing science. Without an understanding of the nature of electromagnetism and the structure of atoms, we wouldn’t have electricity and the integrated circuitry that power computers. It was only a matter of time, then, before we thought of exploiting the most accurate, fundamental description of physical reality provided by quantum mechanics for computation.