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Mar 25, 2024

Odysseus lunar lander, 1st US craft on the moon in 50 years, has died and will ‘not complete another call home’

Posted by in categories: solar power, space travel, sustainability

Odysseus, which was built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, powered down one week after landing as lunar night began for 14 days. Flight controllers ordered the spacecraft to snooze for three weeks, while the moon’s south pole faced away from the sun, but they hoped Odie would reawaken once sunlight hit its solar panels again.

“Intuitive Machines started listening for Odie’s wake-up signal on March 20, when we projected enough sunlight would potentially charge the lander’s power system and turn on its radio,” representatives of the company wrote on X, formerly called Twitter.

Mar 25, 2024

Assessing GPT-4 for cell type annotation in single-cell RNA-seq analysis

Posted by in category: biological

With no biology expertise, GPT-4 performs as good or better than human experts for single-cell RNA-seq cell annotation.


This study evaluates the performance of GPT-4 in single-cell type annotation.

Mar 25, 2024

Exploring Extraterrestrial Oceans: Ice-Grains as Potential Carriers of Life

Posted by in categories: materials, space

“For the first time we have shown that even a tiny fraction of cellular material could be identified by a mass spectrometer onboard a spacecraft,” said Dr. Fabian Klenner.


How will we find life on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, and Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigate how ice grains that are discharged from the active plumes of these small moons could possess enough organic material for life to exist. This study holds the potential to help astrobiologists develop the necessary instruments and methods to find life on these small moons, specifically with NASA’s Europa Clipper scheduled to launch this October, whose goal will be to investigate Europa’s habitability potential.

Artist’s illustration of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, seen here upside down as the plumes are on the south pole. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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Mar 25, 2024

Paper page — AllHands: Ask Me Anything on Large-scale Verbatim Feedback via Large Language Models

Posted by in category: futurism

AllHands.

Ask me anything on large-scale verbatim feedback via large language models.

Verbatim feedback constitutes a valuable repository of user experiences, opinions, and requirements essential for software development.

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Mar 25, 2024

Vinge—Technological-Singularity-Tx5uZ.pdf

Posted by in category: singularity

Vernor Vinge the coming technological singularity 1993.


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Mar 25, 2024

The Peace War by Vernor Vinge (Bruce Huntey)

Posted by in category: futurism

The Peace Warby Vernor VingeRead by Bruce HunteyThis book was first published in 1984Audio originally issued by NLS on cassette in 1988 The Peace Authority g…

Mar 25, 2024

Coding with Qiskit 1.x Series Announcement

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Welcome back to Coding with Qiskit! Join research scientist Dr. Derek Wang as he walks you through the exciting capabilities of Qiskit 1 for utility scale quantum computing.

He’ll show you how to install Qiskit version 1 from scratch and how to run quantum circuits–both unitary and dynamic, all based on some of the latest research papers by IBM Quantum–on devices with over 100 qubits using the latest error suppression and mitigation techniques. He’ll also be learning how to contribute to the Qiskit ecosystem with the help of open-source extraordinaire Abby Mitchell.

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Mar 25, 2024

A modern-day woolly mammoth may be just a few years away, biotech company says

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, says it has developed the technology necessary to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction. NBC News’ Morgan Chesky reports on the opportunities this new technology could bring as well as the concerns some scientists are raising.

Mar 25, 2024

AI execs who urgently need more energy to power their tech revolution are turning to fossil fuels

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

AI is driving a dramatic new need for electricity, and while tech execs have long trumpeted their commitment to a green energy future, the urgency of that need presents them with a difficult path forward.

Questions about fueling the AI boom took center stage earlier this month at the CERAWeek by S&P Global, The Wall Street Journal reported. The annual energy conference draws thousands of executives to Houston to discuss topics ranging from geopolitics to the energy transition.

No one knows how much electricity will be needed to power the AI boom. AI requires massive computing power and energy loads and has triggered an explosion of data centers. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said at the conference that the amount of power AI is bound to consume is mind-blowing.

Mar 25, 2024

AI solves huge problem holding back fusion power

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, particle physics, robotics/AI

Princeton researchers have trained an AI to predict and prevent a common problem arising during nuclear fusion reactions — and they think it might be able to solve other problems, too.

The challenge: If the Spice Girls were physicists, their song “2 Become 1” might have been about nuclear fusion, a reaction that occurs when two atoms merge.

Fusion releases a tremendous amount of energy in the form of heat — it’s what powers the sun and other stars — and if we could harness the reaction here on Earth, we would have a near limitless source of clean energy.

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