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Dec 6, 2020
“It was a beautiful fireball”: Japan space capsule carrying astroid samples lands in Australia
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, space
It’s only the second time pristine astroid material has been brought back to Earth.
A Japanese space capsule carrying asteroid samples landed in a remote area of Australia as planned Saturday, Japan’s space agency, JAXA, said.
Why it matters via Axios’ Miriam Kramer: It’s only the second time pristine asteroid material has been brought back to Earth. Sample return missions like this one are incredibly valuable to scientists.
Dec 6, 2020
Control the Mouse with your Head Pose using Deep Learning with Google Teachable Machine
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon.
Introduction
Hi, In this article, let us go over how you can create a Python program using Convolutional Neural Networks (Deep Learning) and a mouse/keyboard automation library called pyautogui to move your mouse/cursor with your head pose. We will be using pyautogui as it is the simplest available Python library to programmatically control the various components of your computer. More details on how to use this library mentioned below.
Dec 5, 2020
China Just Turned On Its Artificial Sun
Posted by Derick Lee in category: nuclear energy
Now that EAST has switched on for what its makers say is the real deal, the project has a lot to prove. It costs a huge amount of energy input to bring a tokamak reactor’s entire assembly up to speed. If a fusion reactor can’t easily outpace that input, it will never produce power, let alone the dream of virtually limitless power that fusion proponents have sold for decades.
China has switched on its record-setting “artificial sun” tokamak, state media reported today. This begins a timeline China hopes will be similar to the one planned by the global International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project.
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Dec 5, 2020
MIT Scientists Create Norman, The World’s First ‘Psychopathic’ AI
Posted by Raphael Ramos in category: robotics/AI
A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a psychopathic AI using image captions pulled from Reddit. Oh, and they’
Dec 5, 2020
Mexican Senate Passes Bill To Legalize Marijuana Nationwide
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: government, law
Mexico’s Senate approved a bill to legalize marijuana nationally on Thursday.
Before it can become law it must also be passed by the other body of the country’s Congress, the Chamber of Deputies.
The legislation, which was circulated in draft form earlier this month, would establish a regulated cannabis market in Mexico, allowing adults 18 and older to purchase and possess up to 28 grams of marijuana and cultivate up to six plants for personal use.
Data from old Soviet weapons tests are helping scientists get a high-resolution look inside our planet.
Dec 5, 2020
JAXA’s Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return capsule lands in Australia
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: materials, space
Hayabusa2’s sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia, today, 5 December — or 6 December local time at Woomera. The exact landing location is now being determined, but a tweet from the mission’s official account says an estimated location of landing has been identified and teams are en route to recover it.
The craft returned not just asteroid surface material, but subsurface material (at first) as well, and will be met by Japanese scientists after completing its six-year mission to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu.
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Dec 5, 2020
Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
Just a few doses of an experimental drug can reverse age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice, according to a new study by UC San Francisco scientists. The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic brain injury (TBI), reverse cognitive impairments in Down Syndrome, prevent noise-related hearing loss, fight certain types of prostate cancer, and even enhance cognition in healthy animals.
In the new study, published Dec. 1, 2020, in the open-access journal eLife, researchers showed rapid restoration of youthful cognitive abilities in aged mice, accompanied by a rejuvenation of brain and immune cells that could help explain improvements in brain function.
“ISRIB’s extremely rapid effects show for the first time that a significant component of age-related cognitive losses may be caused by a kind of reversible physiological “blockage” rather than more permanent degradation,” said Susanna Rosi, PhD, Lewis and Ruth Cozen Chair II and professor in the departments of Neurological Surgery and of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science.
Dec 5, 2020
Northeast braces for first significant snowstorm of the winter from possible ‘bomb cyclone’
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: climatology
Some areas west of Interstate 95 could see double-digit snowfall totals and power outages.