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Aug 3, 2022

AI Dungeon, a text-based quest where a powerful AI makes up your adventure on the go, has been released on Steam

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI Dungeon project first became available in December 2019 and attracted attention due to its advanced artificial intelligence — it generated coherent text adventures, where you could perform any action by typing it in the input window. Now AI Dungeon has appeared on Steam.

The gameplay looks like 1970s text quests: you’re told what’s going on, and you write what you’re going to do. But while the 1970s quests only accepted tightly constrained answers, AI Dungeon tries to adjust by all means what you type in. You only have to specify the type of input: action, word, or event.

AI Dungeon also allows you to generate a world, fill it with details of your choice, or dive into the worlds of other players. In addition, you can control the progress of an incident: force II to create a paragraph again or even rewrite it completely by hand. Occurrences allow you to go through with your friends.

Aug 3, 2022

Scientists Have Made Mice Partially Regrow Amputated Toes

Posted by in category: futurism

Circa 2019


Scientists have identified two proteins that can partially stimulate growth in amputated toes in mice, a discovery that puts us one step closer to one day being able to replace amputated limbs in humans.

While bone growth has been achieved before, the new research demonstrates signs of joint growth as well — this shows a level of complexity we haven’t seen before. Both joints and bones are crucial if one is trying to bring back lost limbs.

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Aug 3, 2022

This tiny camera can show the world from a bug’s point of view

Posted by in categories: electronics, energy

Steerable arm helps save energy while capturing panoramic views.

Aug 3, 2022

Scientists Hope That Their Discovery About Black Holes is a Mistake. What Did They See?

Posted by in category: cosmology

Over the past few years, astronomers have become aware of some shocking new properties of black holes.

As it turned out, they not only mercilessly consume and destroy everything that falls into them.

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Aug 3, 2022

Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy

Posted by in category: cosmology

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Webb’s powerful infrared gaze produced this detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other galaxies.

Aug 3, 2022

Rapid roll-out solar system to provide power in off-grid locations

Posted by in category: space

Renovagen’s rapid roll-out solar system can be deployed to provide power quickly and cheaply in off-grid and disaster-struck locations.

Aug 2, 2022

£30m for scientists to rewrite DNA to cure killer heart diseases

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Aug 2, 2022

California declares a state of emergency over monkeypox outbreak, following New York and Illinois

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, government, health

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Newsom said the emergency declaration would help support the state’s vaccination efforts. Demand for the vaccines has outstripped supply as infections rise. Staff at sexual health clinics and other sites have struggled to keep up with the influx of people seeking the shots.

California is mobilizing personnel from its Emergency Medical Services to help administer the vaccines. Newsom said the state is working across all levels of government to slow the spread through testing, contract tracing and community outreach.

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Aug 2, 2022

Dark matter from 12 billion years ago detected for the 1st time

Posted by in category: cosmology

Scientists used a fossil relic left over from the Big Bang to perform the earliest detection of dark matter ever.


Astronomers used the cosmic microwave background, radiation left over from just after the Big Bang, to conduct the earliest ever detection of dark matter.

Aug 2, 2022

The End of Schizophrenia

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, quantum physics

Basically what this article says that schizophrenia is hard to pin down on the actual source of the symptoms so as of now the dsm 5 has it as a illness type but it is no longer on the dsm 5 essentially. This can relieve the stigma relating to it because it’s actually source of the disease is still not truly know. There are still medications for it but the actual source seems to be kinda unknown as it seems like other diseases aswell.


As human beings and scientists, we can think about phenomena in terms of categories and continuities. The distinction between light “particles” and “waves,” discovered by 20th-century quantum mechanics, is a case in point. Just as the particle-wave duality necessitated revisions in the understanding of the basic concepts and fundamental methods of theoretical physics, the revolution in psychiatric classification seems to bring with it the end of the fixed and fateful category of schizophrenia.

Still, most clinicians agree that some individuals do experience delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech that make them sound irrational. They attest that they have seen individuals who clearly exhibit disorganized or catatonic behavior, flat affect, or the failure to maintain basic self-care. Yet a growing number of psychiatrists maintain that, as a presumed disease entity, as an identifiable state, with clear subtypes, schizophrenia simply does not “exist.” Some consider schizophrenia no more than an “end stage” of other untreated mental disorders (in the same way that heart failure is the terminal stage of various heart diseases); others propose to abolish the diagnosis altogether.