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Scientists make ‘major finding’ with nanodevices that can seemingly produce energy out of thin air: ‘Contradicting prior understanding’

Two scientists at the Swiss Laboratory of Nanoscience for Energy Technologies in the School of Engineering may have hit upon a way to simultaneously produce clean water and clean electricity, all with zero pollution.

Giulia Tagliabue, the head of the laboratory, and Tarique Anwar, a PhD student, focused their research on hydrovoltaic effects, which can harness the power of evaporation to provide a continuous flow of energy in order to harvest electricity using specialized nanodevices.

In less technical terms: It’s a way to create clean energy using the power of evaporation. And scientists are taking interest in it due to its planet-friendliness.

Hacking Healthspan: Gene Therapy and Your Telomeres

Liz Parrish, CEO of BioViva Science, is the world’s most genetically modified person. She took a telomere-restoring gene therapy in 2015 alongside follistatin, making her the first person to take gene therapy to treat biological aging.

But why telomeres?

While there are other ways to measure and address the aging process, lengthening telomeres is an especially promising avenue.

Paper page — Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order

Aurora-M

The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.

Pretrained language models underpin several AI applications, but their high computational cost for training limits accessibility.


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