An unexpected discovery in a piece of amber stored at Harvard University since the 1930s reveals that army ants once lived in Europe.
Giving the anti-clotting drug rivaroxaban to patients for 12 weeks instead of the usual six after a blood clot in the lower leg reduces the risk of further clots developing up to two years after treatment, finds a trial published by The BMJ today.
What’s more, the additional six weeks of treatment did not result in increased bleeding risk, a common side effect of anti-clotting drugs.
Rivaroxaban is an anticoagulant drug. It’s given to people at a high risk of getting dangerous blood clots to help their blood clot (thicken) more slowly.
There is a deep root of mathematics within biology. How this came to be, you’ll have to watch the video to find out.
Created by Prompt Suathim (2nd year undergrad, Integrated Science, UBC)
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18 nov 2022.
A new discovery could finally usher the development of solid-state lithium batteries, which would be more lightweight, compact, and safe than current lithium batteries. The growth of metallic filaments called dendrites within the solid electrolyte has been a longstanding obstacle, but the new study explains how dendrites form and how to divert them.
MBW’s Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a single data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry. Stat Of the Week is supported by Cinq Music Group, a technology-driven record label, distribution, and rights management company. 
Continue to article…The use of artificial intelligence-created music just moved up a gear.
Alexander Fridman
Posted in futurism
Mortality | Lex Fridman Podcast.
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Stable Diffusion 2.0 Release
Posted in innovation, robotics/AI
It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2.
The original Stable Diffusion V1 led by CompVis changed the nature of open source AI models and spawned hundreds of other models and innovations all over the world. It had one of the fastest climbs to 10K Github stars of any software, rocketing through 33K stars in less than two months.
GPT3 is powerful but blind
Posted in futurism
The future of Foundation Models will be embodied agents that proactively take actions, endlessly explore the world, and continuously self-improve. What does it take? In our NeurIPS Outstanding Paper “MineDojo”, we provide a blueprint for this future:🧵”.
Announcing the Science Eye
Posted in biotech/medical, cyborgs, genetics, science
An advanced optogenetic visual prosthesis for patients with serious blindness due to photoreceptor loss.