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Mar 3, 2021

Quick-learning cuttlefish pass ‘the marshmallow test’

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Do you remember the test about self control? It’s the test where you get more if you are patient and don’t eat the marshmallow at once. The cuttlefish just passed it. 😃


Much like the popular TikTok challenge where kids resist eating snacks, cuttlefish can do the same! Cuttlefish can delay gratification—wait for a better meal rather than be tempted by the one at hand—and those that can wait longest also do better in a learning test, scientists have discovered.

Mar 3, 2021

Insect-Inspired Flying Robots: Researchers Introduce a New Generation of Tiny, Agile Drones

Posted by in categories: drones, food, robotics/AI

The technology could boost aerial robots’ repertoire, allowing them to operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.

If you’ve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in flight. Those traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard to build into flying robots, but MIT Assistant Professor Kevin Yufeng Chen has built a system that approaches insects’ agility.

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Mar 2, 2021

The Meaning of Life

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hfTnyePBjU

An AI meditation on the Meaning of Life.

All the imagery is generated by the AI using a text prompt.
I inputed “The Meaning of Life” — and these are the results.

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Mar 2, 2021

Computer brings great classical composers to life with deepfakery

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Composers are being brought to life with deep fake AI technology.

Mar 2, 2021

A Decades-Long Quest Reveals New Details of Antimatter

Posted by in categories: futurism, particle physics

Planned future experiments will help researchers choose between the two pictures. But whichever model is right, SeaQuest’s hard data about the proton’s inner antimatter will be immediately useful, especially for physicists who smash protons together at nearly light speed in Europe’s Large Hadron Collider. When they know exactly what’s in the colliding objects, they can better piece through the collision debris looking for evidence of new particles or effects. Juan Rojo of VU University Amsterdam, who helps analyze LHC data, said the SeaQuest measurement “could have a big impact” on the search for new physics, which is currently “limited by our knowledge of the proton structure, in particular of its antimatter content.”


Twenty years ago, physicists began investigating a mysterious asymmetry inside the proton. Their results show how antimatter helps stabilize every atom’s core.

Mar 2, 2021

Newfound Comet Leonard will blaze into view this year

Posted by in category: space

The comet was discovered in January and may be bright enough to see without a telescope.

Mar 2, 2021

Photos of Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie and others come alive (creepily), thanks to AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In AI-generated animations, faces that were once frozen in time blink, turn their heads and even smile.

Mar 2, 2021

Japanese billionaire to fly eight members of the public on SpaceX moon flight

Posted by in category: space travel

Yusaku Maezawa announced he will choose eight members of the public to join him on a trip around the moon, scheduled to fly on SpaceX’s Starship in 2023.

Mar 2, 2021

Future of Vision: Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Are Here

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, futurism

Smart contact lenses are finally becoming a reality. And the future of this intriguing technology is nothing like what you might expect.

Mar 2, 2021

Desarrollan en la UNAM Inmunosensor óptico para diagnóstico de tuberculosis

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The device is more reliable for the diagnosis of tuberculosis than conventional methods for the detection of this disease.


Investigadores de la UNAM desarrollaron un inmunosensor interferométrico, dispositivo más confiable para el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis que los métodos convencionales para la detección de esta enfermedad.

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