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Methane bomb is ticking.

Researchers were able to see the greenhouse gas bubbling through the seawater.

Walmart has over 100,000 different machine learning or AI-based projects currently in production. The success rate, however, is still just 75 percent.

With a self-guiding drone hovering over your shoulder, a not-too-humanoid robot sidekick as your wingman, and a four-legged fetch ‘bot trotting along beside, the day when you can surround yourself with a whole gaggle of AI-powered helpers is already here … even if it’s still the wee hours of the early morning.

Whether by air, on wheels, or even on padded little robot paws, the technology that drives our mechanized helpers is reaching that autonomous point at which the droids are able to think for themselves as they carry out their limited missions. Sure, they’re not quite ready to cross platforms and begin communicating with one another just yet, but at least they all can communicate with you — which pretty much makes you the star character in your budding little electronic entourage.

Dive into the subatomic world, into the heart of protons or neutrons, and you’ll find elementary particles known as quarks. Measuring the mass of these quarks can be challenging, but new results from the CMS collaboration reveal for the first time how the mass of the top quark – the heaviest of six types of quarks – varies depending on the energy scale used to measure the particle.

The theory of quantum chromodynamics, a component of the Standard Model, predicts this energy-scale variation, known as running, for the masses of all quarks and for the strong force acting between them. Observing the running masses of quarks can therefore provide a way of testing quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model.

Experiments at CERN and other laboratories have already measured the running masses of the bottom and charm quarks, the second and third heaviest quarks, and the results were in agreement with quantum chromodynamics. Now, the CMS collaboration has used data from high-energy proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider to chase out the running mass of the top quark.

In a new paper, Facebook researchers propose an AI technique that uses schemas to teach robots to manipulate objects in less than 10 hours of training.

The new study demonstrates a bizarre quantum effect at never-before-seen scales.

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We recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Amutha Boominathan from the SENS Research Foundation, at the Ending Age-Related Diseases 2019 conference about her research on mitochondrial repair therapies, the value of animal models, and her views on the future of aging research.

Dr. Amutha Boominathan received both her MSc and her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Pune and the National Chemical Laboratory in India, respectively. She went on to do postdoctoral work in the U.S. relating to mitochondrial biogenesis at U. Penn and Rutgers University. She has extensively studied mechanisms of fusion and fission in mitochondria, Fe-S cluster biosynthesis, and protein import into mitochondria as part of her postdoctoral fellowship with the American Heart Association.

Currently, Amutha leads the MitoSENS program at SENS Research Foundation in Mountain view, California. Her research group is focusing on understanding mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations and restoring lost functionality as a result of these mutations by way of the allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes. Inherited mtDNA mutations can result in severe and debilitating diseases, such as NARP, Leigh’s syndrome and MELAS. Even in otherwise healthy individuals, mtDNA mutations accumulate with age. The MitoSENS team has already succeeded in stably expressing the ATP8 gene using their method and is looking forward to tackling each of the 13 mitochondrial protein genes in the coming years. Its goal is to develop safe and effective gene therapies for mitochondrial dysfunction.

Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it’s edge-on rings. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill.

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