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Building a computer out of the skeletons that hold our cells together could make them smaller and far more energy efficient.
Unreal Engine 5âs MetaHuman is getting a new update called Animator to create new fully animated facial models in real time with just a phone camera. The team from Ninja Theory, including Senua actor Melina Juergens shows this process in real time.
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Photosynthesis is the process that plants, algae, and even certain species of bacteria use to convert sunlight into oxygen and chemical energy stored as sugar (aka gluclose). But what are the mechanisms behind one of natureâs most profound processes?
These are questions that a team of researchers led by the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) hope to answer as they used quantum chemical calculations to examine a photosynthesis protein complex known as photosystem I (PSI) in hopes of better understanding the complete process of photosynthesis and how plants are able to convert sunlight to energy, specifically pertaining to how chlorophylls and the reaction center play their roles in the process.
GPT-4 has a trillion parameters
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GPT-4 is reportedly six times larger than GPT-3, according to a media report, and Elon Muskâs exit from OpenAI has cleared the way for Microsoft.
The US website Semafor, citing eight anonymous sources familiar with the matter, reports that OpenAIâs new GPT-4 language model has one trillion parameters. Its predecessor, GPT-3, has 175 billion parameters.
Semafor previously revealed Microsoftâs $10 billion investment in OpenAI and the integration of GPT-4 into Bing in January and February, respectively, before the official announcement.
Although neutrinos are produced abundantly in collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), until now no neutrinos produced in such a way had been detected. Within just nine months of the start of LHC Run 3 and the beginning of its measurement campaign, the FASER collaboration changed this picture by announcing its first observation of collider neutrinos at this yearâs electroweak session of the Rencontres de Moriond. In particular, FASER observed muon neutrinos and candidate events of electron neutrinos. âOur statistical significance is roughly 16 sigma, far exceeding 5 sigma, the threshold for a discovery in particle physics,â explains FASERâs co-spokesperson Jamie Boyd.
In addition to its observation of neutrinos at a particle collider, FASER presented results on searches for dark photons. With a null result, the collaboration was able to set limits on previously unexplored parameter space and began to exclude regions motivated by dark matter. FASER aims to collect up to ten times more data over the coming years, allowing more searches and neutrino measurements.
FASER is one of two new experiments situated at either side of the ATLAS cavern to detect neutrinos produced in proton collisions in ATLAS. The complementary experiment, SND@LHC, also reported its first results at Moriond, showing eight muon neutrino candidate events. âWe are still working on the assessment of the systematic uncertainties to the background. As a very preliminary result, our observation can be claimed at the level of 5 sigma,â adds SND@LHC spokesperson Giovanni De Lellis. The SND@LHC detector was installed in the LHC tunnel just in time for the start of LHC Run 3.
Saw this coming 5 or 10 years back. Soon concept of being a model will be non existent. Probably by 2030. And, once can realistically animate and walk around and speak, end of actors and acting also.
Leviâs is partnering with an AI company on computer-generated fashion models to âsupplement human models.â The company frames the move as part of a âdigital transformation journeyâ of diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability. Although that sounds noble on the surface, Leviâs is essentially hiring a robot to generate the appearance of diversity while ridding itself of the burden of paying human beings who represent the qualities it wants to be associated with its brand.
Levi Strauss is partnering with Amsterdam-based digital model studio Lalaland.ai for the initiative. Founded in 2019, the companyâs mission is âto see more representation in the fashion industryâ and âcreate an inclusive, sustainable, and diverse design chain.â It aims to let customers see what various fashion items would look like on a person who looks like them via âhyper-realisticâ models âof every body type, age, size and skin tone.â
Leviâs announcement echoes that branding, saying the partnership is about âincreasing the number and diversity of our models for our products in a sustainable way.â The company continues, âWe see fashion and technology as both an art and a science, and weâre thrilled to be partnering with Lalaland.ai, a company with such high-quality technology that can help us continue on our journey for a more diverse and inclusive customer experience.â
The journal Nature published a groundbreaking new study by world-renowned Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pasca involving the transfer of human brain organoids into the brains of rats. Insoo Hyun, Director of the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Museum of Science, speaks candidly with Dr. Pasca about his research. Why did he do it? How might this uncover the mysteries of psychiatric disorders? And the Big Question we are all wondering about â can these rats ever develop âhuman-likeâ consciousness? Together they demystify the science.
00:33 Dr. Sergiu Pascaâs Romanian roots.
00:55 Why is Dr. Pascaâs work important for Psychiatry?
04:14 Dr. Pascaâs work with human brain organoids.
06:14 Challenges with using animal brains when trying to unlock mysteries of human psychiatric disorders.
07:13 Reason for Dr. Pascaâs latest research transplanting human brain organoids into rat brains.
08:47 How the human brain organoid transplantation into a rat brain is accomplished.
10:19 What Dr. Pasca learned from his experiment and its importance.
12:02 Brain cellsâ amazing ability to take over and organize themselves in appropriate environments.
13:03 Will animals with human brain organoids in their brain develop human-like consciousness?
17:30 Will manipulating human neurons in a rat change the behavior of the rat?
19:43 Application of rat experiment findings for human patients.
22:07 The ethics and regulation of using animals in scientific research.
25:25 Why context matters in research of transplanting human brain organoids into rat brains and the challenge of people backfilling science they might not understand with mythology and science fiction.
32:28 Dr. Pascaâs inspiration to work so hard to unlock the mysteries of psychiatric disorders.
âThe Big Questionâ is a production of the Museum of Science, Boston.
Learn more about the Museum of Science Life Sciences and Public Learning: https://www.mos.org/explore/center-for-life-sciences.
Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05277-w.
Among the worldâs largest science centers, the Museum of Science engages millions of people each year to the wonders of science and technology through interactive exhibitions, digital programs, giant screen productions, and preK â 8 EiEÂź STEM curricula through the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Science Education Center. Established in 1,830, the Museum is home to such iconic experiences as the Theater of Electricity, the Charles Hayden Planetarium, and the Mugar Omni Theater. Around the world, the Museum is known for digital experiences such as Mission: Mars launching in 2022 on Roblox, and traveling exhibitions such as the Science Behind Pixar.
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You may already know that itâs important to wash your hands, wear a face mask and avoid sick people while neutropenic.
But is there anything else you should â or should not â be doing to avoid infections when youâre immunocompromised by a low white blood cell count during or after cancer treatment?
We spoke with internal medicine expert Carmen Escalante, M.D., for insight. Here are five precautions she shares with immunocompromised patients and their caregivers.
