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Sep 12, 2020
Linking calorie restriction, body temperature and healthspan
Posted by Jeff Myers in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, neuroscience
Cutting calories significantly may not be an easy task for most, but it’s tied to a host of health benefits ranging from longer lifespan to a much lower chance of developing cancer, heart disease, diabetes and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
A new study from teams led by Scripps Research Professors Bruno Conti, Ph.D., and Gary Siuzdak, Ph.D., illuminates the critical role that body temperature plays in realizing these diet-induced health benefits. Through their findings, the scientists pave the way toward creating a medicinal compound that imitates the valuable effects of reduced body temperature.
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Sep 12, 2020
How Neural Networks Work (From The Brain To Artificial Intelligence)
Posted by Ankur Bargotra in category: robotics/AI
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In the last video in this series we discussed the differences between deep learning and machine learning, how and when the field of deep learning was officially born, and it’s rise to mainstream popularity. The focus of this video then will be on artificial neural networks, more specifically – their structure.
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Sep 12, 2020
NASA tracks three space rocks making near-Earth approach TODAY
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks
ASTEROID trackers at US-based space agency NASA have revealed a trio of cosmic rocks will safely skim past Earth today.
Sep 11, 2020
How to Give A.I. a Pinch of Consciousness
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
In 1998, an engineer in Sony’s computer science lab in Japan filmed a lost-looking robot moving trepidatiously around an enclosure. The robot was tasked with two objectives: avoid obstacles and find objects in the pen. It was able to do so…
Sep 11, 2020
APOD: 2020 September 11 — The Reappearance of Mars
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Sep 11, 2020
First skydive from a solar electric plane accomplished in Switzerland
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: alien life, solar power, sustainability, transportation
Scientists claim to have found the first known extraterrestrial protein in a meteorite.
Team’s goal is to take the aircraft up into the icy stratosphere to 25km above the Earth.
Sep 11, 2020
Meteor booms over California in stunning video — ‘That was a close call’
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks
A HUGE meteor streaked in the skies above California, leaving onlookers stunned with one claiming it was “a close call”.
Sep 11, 2020
Biotechs in California developing COVID-blocking nasal spray with cloned antibodies
Posted by Heather Blevins in category: biotech/medical
Two biotechs in San Diego, California, are teaming up to develop a nasal spray using designer antibodies cloned from COVID-19 survivors.
Sep 11, 2020
Microsoft wants to take on Amazon in connecting satellites to the cloud
Posted by Malak Trabelsi Loeb in categories: computing, satellites
The FCC authorized Microsoft to perform proof-of-concept demonstrations of a service that would connect its cloud computing service Azure with a ground station the company proposed to build.
“If the demonstrations result in significant market interest, Microsoft will file an application for regular earth station authority with the International Bureau (IB) to support future commercial operations,” the company wrote in the filings.
The company’s strategy will put it in competition with Amazon, which in November 2018 launched its similar AWS Ground Station service.
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