A preference for “universal masses” 9 and 16 times the mass of our Sun have been identified in the gravitational-wave events detected so far.
Columbia researchers have identified brain injuries that may underlie hidden consciousness, a puzzling phenomenon in which brain-injured patients are unable to respond to simple commands, making them appear unconscious despite having some level of awareness.
“Our study suggests that patients with hidden consciousness can hear and comprehend verbal commands, but they cannot carry out those commands because of injuries in brain circuits that relay instructions from the brain to the muscles,” says study leader Jan Claassen, MD, associate professor of neurology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and chief of critical care and hospitalist neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
The findings could help physicians more quickly identify brain-injured patients who might have hidden consciousness and better predict which patients are likely to recover with rehabilitation.
Do you prefer originals to remakes, or the whacky option compared to something more relevant? Well, a new study published in the journal American Psychologist suggests that people more inclined towards original ideas are likely to be more inventive themselves.
Creative mechanisms in the brain are complex and largely unknown – and scientists are still learning how creativity works and what motivates it. But a French team of cognitive neuroscientists are trying to shed the light on this process.
Neuroscientists currently agree that the creative process has two parts: coming up with ideas and then assessing them to choose the good ones.
Some elements of travel are the same for everyone. Clothing and toiletries, for instance, are generally a packing staple. Many people bring prescription drugs for chronic conditions, too.
But what if you have cancer? Are there any specific travel considerations you should keep in mind? We went to neuro-oncologist Ashley Aaroe, M.D., for advice.
Here are seven questions she recommends asking your care team before a trip.
The Discord.io custom invite service has temporarily shut down after suffering a data breach exposing the information of 760,000 members.
Discord.io is not an official Discord site but a third-party service allowing server owners to create custom invites to their channels. Most of the community was built around the service’s Discord server, with over 14,000 members.
Yesterday, a person known as ‘Akhirah’ began offering the Discord.io database for sale on the new Breached hacking forums. As proof of the theft, the threat actor shared four user records from the database.
Amazon announced this morning it will begin to leverage generative AI to help customers better understand what customers are saying about a product, without necessarily having to read through dozens of individual reviews. The retailer says it will use the new technology to provide a short paragraph of text right on the product detail page that will highlight the product features and customer sentiment mentioned across the customer reviews.
This blub of text could be used to get an overall sense of the common themes across the reviews more easily, Amazon noted.
In addition to the summary text, Amazon will also highlight key product attributes as clickable buttons. For example, if a customer wanted to know about the product’s “ease of use” or “performance,” they could tap a button to see just those reviews that mention those terms.
The chip’s components work in a way similar to synapses in human brains.
Tech corporation IBM has unveiled a new “prototype” of an analog AI chip that works like a human brain and performs complex computations in various deep neural networks (DNN) tasks.
The chip promises more. IBM says the state-of-the-art chip can make artificial intelligence remarkably efficient and less battery-draining for computers and smartphones.
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence studio that popularised AI with its chatbot ChatGPT, is reportedly facing a financial crisis that could lead to its bankruptcy.
According to a report by Analytics India Magazine, OpenAI spends a staggering $700,000 every day to run ChatGPT, one of its flagship AI services. The chatbot, which uses a powerful language model called GPT, can generate realistic and engaging conversations on various topics.
The polluting emission is rarely recycled and does much damage to the planet.
Methane is an extremely harmful emission and one that is rarely recycled. Now, researchers from the University of Central Florida have found a way to transform it into energy and materials.
This is according to a press release by the institution published on Friday.
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