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Apr 17, 2021
Earth’s magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, study shows
Posted by Jason Blain in category: futurism
Apr 17, 2021
Scientists discover microbes that have not evolved for 175 million years
Posted by Jason Blain in category: biological
Apr 17, 2021
Have physicists discovered evidence for a new force of nature?
Posted by Paul Battista in category: physics
Apr 16, 2021
More Than 500 Genes Linking Depression And Anxiety Discovered in New Study
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Find any two people with a diagnosis of depression, and there’s more than a fair chance one of them will also experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their life.
While the triggers for each condition are undoubtedly complex, it’s clear the genes we inherit can play a strong part in setting us up for a lifetime of bad mental health.
A new study led by researchers from the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia has now identified 509 genes shared by both psychiatric disorders.
Apr 16, 2021
This Flying ‘Monkeydactyl’ Is The Only Known Pterosaur With Opposed Thumbs
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
A small, flying reptile glides beneath the canopy of an ancient forest, scouring the trees for tasty bugs. She spots a cicada buzzing in the boughs of a ginkgo tree, then swoops down to snatch it up in her beak. The bug flees; the reptile follows, grasping swiftly along the branches with her sharp claws until – snatch! – she grabs the bug with her opposable thumbs.
It’s not your typical picture of a pterosaur – those iconic, winged reptiles that lived through most of the Mesozoic era (from about 252 million to 66 million years ago).
But according to a new study published April 12 in the journal Current Biology, a newly-described Jurassic pterosaur appears to have lived its life among the trees, hunting, and climbing with the help of its two opposable thumbs – one on each of its three-fingered hands.
Apr 16, 2021
Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AI
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
A decade ago, the artificial-intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton transformed the field with a major breakthrough. Now he’s chasing the next big advance—with an “imaginary system” named GLOM, outlined in a recent paper titled, “How to represent part-whole hierarchies in a neural network.”
Apr 16, 2021
Here’s why AI will be crucial for future US electrical grid reliability
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: employment, robotics/AI
When most Americans think of the infrastructure projects the Biden administration is proposing in the American Jobs Plan, they think of concrete, steel, and labor. But what if the biggest predictor of the success of the infrastructure plan is not in the materials but in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)?
Electrek spoke with Monte Zweben, CEO of Splice Machine, a database company that helps utilities and industrial companies implement data, about how AI/ML technologies could determine whether the American Jobs Plan succeeds as the US transitions to clean energy.
Apr 16, 2021
Pandemic is pushing robots into retail at unprecedented pace
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
A new survey illustrates broad acceptance for robots in retail, including these crucial tasks.
Apr 16, 2021
100 Million More IoT Devices Are Exposed—and They Won’t Be the Last
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
100 million more iot devices are exposed—and they won’t be the last.
The Name: Wreck flaws in TCP/IP are the latest in a series of vulnerabilities with global implications.