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The OSIRIS-REx mission
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๐๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ค๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก, ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐
๐พ๐ก๐ค๐จ๐ ๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ฃ๐จ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ฃ๐ ๐ข๐ค๐ง๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ค๐ค๐ ๐ฅ๐ง๐๐จ๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ (๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ก๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ง๐๐จ๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐ก๐๐จ๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ 120 ๐ข๐ข ๐๐) ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐ข๐ค๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ ๐ก๐๐จ๐จ-๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐๐ก ๐ค๐ 140 ๐ข๐ข ๐๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ค๐จ๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐ช๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฃโ๐จ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐๐ช๐ก๐๐ง ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐จ: ๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ค๐ง๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ก๐๐๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค๐ญ๐๐ฃ๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐๐ช๐๐ฉ๐จ.
๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ง ๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ค๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐๐ช๐๐ฉ๐จ, ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐ช๐ข๐ช๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ข๐๐ฎ ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐ค๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐, ๐ง๐๐จ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ง๐จ ๐จ๐๐๐.
Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT/5 a.m. ET, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023
As technology advances, you can always count on one thing: students will use it to avoid doing homework. One industrious student not only got an AI chatbot to do their homework assignment, but they also rigged it to a 3D printer to write it out on pen and paper, expending the maximum amount of effort required to do the minimum amount of homework. Bravo!
TikTok user 3D_printer_stuff (opens in new tab) shared a series of videos on how they programmed a 3D printer to produce homework with the answers that ChatGPT (opens in new tab) wrote.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] โ More than two decades ago, a team of Brown University researchers set out with an ambitious goal to provide people with paralysis a revolutionary neurotechnology capable of turning thoughts about movement into actual action, using a tiny device that would one day be implanted in the surface of the brain. Their work led to an ongoing, multi-institution effort to create the BrainGate brain-computer interface, designed to allow clinical trial participants with paralysis to control assistive devices like computers or robotic limbs just by thinking about the action they want to initiate.
Open Access Paper:
https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2023/01/13/WNL.
In an important step toward a medical technology that could help restore independence of people with paralysis, researchers find the investigational BrainGate neural interface system has low rates of associated adverse events.
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The 4 wheel steering feature on the Tesla Cybertruck was leaked.
These astronomers have the next 50 years all planned out.
A 3D map of most of the luminous matter in the universe is the goal for the next 50 years or more.
Juan Andres Guerrero-Saadeโs speciality is picking apart malicious software to see how it attacks computers.
Itโs a relatively obscure cybersecurity field, which is why last month he hosted a weeklong seminar at Johns Hopkins University where he taught students the complicated practice of reverse engineering malware.
Several of the students had little to no coding background, but he was confident a new tool would make it less of a challenge: He told the students to sign up for ChatGPT.
โProgramming languages are languages,โ Guerrero-Saade, an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins, said, referring to what the ChatGPT software does. โSo it has become an amazing tool for prototyping things, for getting very quick, boilerplate code.โ
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed building a network of underground highway systems across the West Bank to enable the maintenance of territorial contiguity for both Israeli settlements and Palestinian towns, The Times of Israelโs sister site, Zman Yisrael, reported Saturday.
Netanyahu is aiming for high-speed tunnels routes designed ostensibly to address the problems of traffic jams and congestion, per the vision of the billionaire Elon Musk, and his engineering firm Boring Company.
Netanyahu presented his plans during a conversation Friday with French investors in Paris at the hotel where he spent the weekend.
Solar Foods
Posted in food, sustainability
Food from thin air?
Food production, as we know it, is entirely dependent on land and weather conditions. Protein production is a massively disproportionate squanderer of the Earthโs resources. Itโs time to enter the era of sustainable food production to liberate our planet from the burdens of agriculture.
Working with hundreds of thousands of high-resolution images, researchers from the Allen Institute for Cell Science, a division of the Allen Institute, put numbers on the internal organization of human cells โ a biological concept that has proven incredibly difficult to quantify until now.
The scientists also documented the diverse cell shapes of genetically identical cells grown under similar conditions in their work. Their findings were recently published in the journal Nature.
โThe way cells are organized tells us something about their behavior and identity,โ said Susanne Rafelski, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science, who led the study along with Senior Scientist Matheus Viana, Ph.D. โWhatโs been missing from the field, as we all try to understand how cells change in health and disease, is a rigorous way to deal with this kind of organization. We havenโt yet tapped into that information.โ