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Mar 6, 2023

New results from NASA’s DART planetary defense mission confirm we could deflect deadly asteroids

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

What would we do if we spotted a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Could we deflect it safely to prevent the impact?

Last year, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission tried to find out whether a “kinetic impactor” could do the job: smashing a 600kg spacecraft the size of a fridge into an asteroid the size of an Aussie Rules football field.

Early results from this first real-world test of our potential planetary defense systems looked promising. However, it’s only now that the first scientific results are being published: five papers in Nature have recreated the impact, and analyzed how it changed the asteroid’s momentum and orbit, while two studies investigate the debris knocked off by the impact.

Mar 6, 2023

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Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, education

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Mar 6, 2023

Singularity Timeline | Is Super Artificial Intelligence The END of Humanity?

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity

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Mar 5, 2023

Review highlights the effectiveness of diet-based low-density lipoprotein lowering over medication

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

In a recent article published in the journal Nutrition, researchers in Australia summarized how diet could help decrease low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLc) or triglyceride concentrations in polygenic hypercholesterolemia.

Study: A Review of Low-Density Lipoprotein-Lowering Diets in the Age of Anti-Sense Technology. Image Credit: Ralwell / Shutterstock.

Elevated LDLc or dyslipidemia, including high levels of total cholesterol, increases the risk of cardiometabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), especially ischemic heart disease (IHD), if not managed in time. Pharmacological treatment is sometimes a prerequisite for cases with complex dyslipidemia with a genetic component. Subsequently, pharmacological research yielded several highly effective drugs based on monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy, some of which researchers even reviewed in this paper.

Mar 5, 2023

‘Swarmalators’ better envision synchronized microbots

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, drones, engineering

Imagine a world with precision medicine, where a swarm of microrobots delivers a payload of medicine directly to ailing cells. Or one where aerial or marine drones can collectively survey an area while exchanging minimal information about their location.

One early step towards realizing such technologies is being able to simultaneously simulate swarming behaviors and synchronized timing—behaviors found in slime molds, sperm and fireflies, for example.

In 2014, Cornell researchers first introduced a simple model of swarmalators—short for “swarming oscillator”—where particles self-organize to synchronize in both time and space. In the study, “Diverse Behaviors in Non-uniform Chiral and Non-chiral Swarmalators,” which published Feb. 20 in the journal Nature Communications, they expanded this model to make it more useful for engineering microrobots; to better understand existing, observed biological behaviors; and for theoreticians to experiment in this field.

Mar 5, 2023

9 Best Cyberpunk Novels You Should Read

Posted by in category: futurism

FallenKingdomReads’ 10 Best Cyberpunk Novels You Should Read

The cyberpunk genre has been a popular subgenre of science fiction since the 1980s. Defined by its focus on high tech and low life, cyberpunk has become known for its gritty and often dystopian worlds, where technology has merged with humanity in unexpected and often unsettling ways.

With so many cyberpunk novels to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to start. In this article, we’ll take a look at the 9 best cyberpunk novels you should read, whether you’re new to the genre or a seasoned fan looking for your next read.

Mar 5, 2023

Time travel paradoxes and multiple histories

Posted by in category: time travel

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Mar 5, 2023

ChatGPT — How to Use it With Python

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Note: ChatGPT is coming to openai API soon, you can sign up in their waiting list. Here is a link for openAI’s ChatGPT API waitlist: https://share.hsforms.com/1u4goaXwDRKC9-x9IvKno0A4sk30

You might have already heard about ChatGPT, in case you haven’t, ChatGPT is a chatbot language model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the GPT-3 language model, specifically designed for conversational language generation.

The following definition is generate by ChatGPT (you can try it out at https://chat.openai.com/chat):

Mar 5, 2023

How do patients feel about postoperative cognitive dysfunction?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

One of the most concerning outcomes following surgery and anesthesia among older adults is a condition known as postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Often, patients and their family members report feeling very fearful that the patient will suffer permanent cognitive deficits after anesthesia. Unfortunately, this pre-emptive fear may contribute to the complex array of symptoms associated with POCD and further complicate the ability to fully understand the subjective experience of this postoperative complication.

About the study

The current study published in the British Journal of Anesthesia involved the collection of data from the comments section of the published article titled ‘The hidden long-term risks of surgery.’ The comments were given an alphanumeric code to maintain chronological order and structure, while the username, submission date, and time were kept anonymous.

Mar 5, 2023

The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Generative AI is here. Let’s hope we’re ready.