We are made out of functions, and those functions are made out of functions, all the way down.
Even bacteria—the simplest life forms surviving today—are a product of many subsequent evolutionary steps.
IX. Ecology
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AI is shaking up industries — and software engineering is no exception.
In a leaked recording of a June fireside chat obtained by Business Insider, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman reportedly told employees that AI is changing what being a software engineer means —and essentially changes the job description.
“If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can’t exactly predict where it is — it’s possible that most developers are not coding,” Garman said, adding later that the developer role would look different next year compared to 2020.
What if our lifespan could be extended beyond its natural limits? Recently, scientists have made a significant leap towards this very real possibility with the discovery and study of an important longevity gene.
This gene has shown promise in promoting cellular repair and reducing the effects of aging, generating excitement in the scientific community about new methods for extending healthy lives, not just longer lives.
As we learn more about the mechanisms behind this particular longevity gene, we may soon uncover new strategies that could revolutionize how we approach human aging and lifespan, ultimately changing the way we live.
Research that began with a patient-driven discovery in the lab of YSM’s Carrie Lucas, PhD, could help in fighting autoimmune diseases.
Writing in Nature Immunology, Lucas and colleagues identify a signaling molecule found in immune cells that could be a target for future treatments.
A medical mystery served as the genesis for a Yale-led study that has promising implications for treating a range of autoimmune diseases.
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Multivalent interactions are crucial in transcriptional regulation. Here, by integrating specific multivalent molecules into dCas9-based activators, the authors provide valuable strategies to refine CRISPRa applications and achieve highly efficient gene transcription.
New technique lets robots detect force and interpret touch without extra sensors.
Researchers used internal sensors and machine learning to give robots an innate sense of touch, bypassing expensive external sensors.
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The Dark Energy Camera has captured an image of the dazzling Coma Cluster, named after the hair of Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Not only significant in Greek mythology, this collection of galaxies was also fundamental to the discovery of the existence of dark matter.
Dark states are quantum states in which a system does not interact with external fields, such as light (i.e., photons) or electromagnetic fields. These states, which generally occur due to interferences between the pathways through which a system interacts with an external field, are undetectable using spectroscopic techniques.
Many quantum devices, from quantum sensors to quantum computers, use ions or charged atoms trapped with electric and magnetic fields as a hardware platform to process information.
The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator may be producing the world’s tiniest droplets of liquid, right under scientists’ noses. Researchers are digging into this subatomic enigma.
