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Aug 20, 2022

GoogleAI launches YouTube Channel for Free Resources on AI/ML

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, information science, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Google AI announced the launch of the Google Research YouTube channel today. The channel is set to focus on a wide range of subjects like AI/ML, robotics, theory and algorithms, quantum computing, health and bioscience.

Aug 20, 2022

DARPA seeks AI solutions for sourcing critical minerals

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, security

DARPA has launched a competition to find AI solutions that can help with sourcing critical minerals.

Critical minerals are raw, non-fuel materials that are vital for manufacturing products that are essential to national security.

DARPA is teaming up with the US Geological Survey (USGS) to explore how machine learning and AI can accelerate critical mineral assessments.

Aug 20, 2022

Physicists surprised to discover the proton contains a charm quark

Posted by in category: particle physics

The textbook description of a proton says it contains three smaller particles — two up quarks and a down quark — but a new analysis has found strong evidence that it also holds a charm quark.

Aug 20, 2022

Tiny Robot Constructed Entirely From DNA

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

By scientists from Inserm, CNRS, and Université de Montpellier at the Structural Biology Center in Montpellier. The nano-robot could lead to a closer study of the mechanical forces applied at microscopic levels, which are important for various biological and pathological processes.

The study was published in Nature Communications.

Cellular Mechanosensitivity

Aug 20, 2022

Google Teaches Robots to Understand You on a Human Level

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI language skills let you command robots in plain English and help them navigate the chaos of the real world.

Aug 20, 2022

Can we make the future a million years from now go better?

Posted by in categories: ethics, futurism

You can buy What We Owe the Future here: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/william-macaskill/what-we-…541618626/

In his new book about longtermism, What We Owe the Future, the philosopher William MacAskill argues that concern for the long-term future should be a key moral priority of our time. There are three central claims that justify this view. 1. Future people matter. 2. There could be a lot of them. 3. We can make their lives go better. In this video, we focus on the third claim.

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Aug 19, 2022

Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes

Posted by in category: mathematics

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For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize.

Aug 19, 2022

Particle Physicists Lay Out Future Goals at ‘Snowmass’ Meeting

Posted by in categories: futurism, particle physics

Reflections from Brookhaven Lab physicists on culmination of 2020–22 U.S. high-energy physics community planning process.

Aug 19, 2022

Genetic tweaks to upgrade photosynthesis boost soy yield by a fifth

Posted by in categories: food, genetics, sustainability

Researchers have succeeded in making photosynthesis more efficient in soybean plants, in a major breakthrough that will mean less forest has to be cut down to make way for farms.

Aug 19, 2022

NASA reveals where it wants the next Americans to land on the moon

Posted by in category: space

The 13 regions at the moon’s South Pole are a long way from where Neil Armstrong explored.