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Mar 7, 2020

Brain Scientist Witnesses Her Own Stroke, Shares Tips On Life And Career

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor describes a ringside seat to her own stroke and how you can use her experience to sustain hard knocks in the workplace and in life.

Mar 7, 2020

Robot learns to set the dinner table

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

To date, teaching a robot to perform a task has usually involved either direct coding, trial-and-error tests or handholding the machine. Soon, though, you might just have to perform that task like you would any other day. MIT scientists have developed a system, Planning with Uncertain Specifications (PUnS), that helps bots learn complicated tasks when they’d otherwise stumble, such as setting the dinner table. Instead of the usual method where the robot receives rewards for performing the right actions, PUnS has the bot hold “beliefs” over a variety of specifications and use a language (linear temporal logic) that lets it reason about what it has to do right now and in the future.

Mar 7, 2020

Low-carb diet may reverse age-related brain deterioration, study finds

Posted by in categories: life extension, neuroscience

Researchers say brain pathways begin to erode in late 40s, but can be repaired through dietary changes.

Mar 7, 2020

Fujifilm stock rises as Japan considers Avigan for COVID-19 treatment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Avigan was developed as a flu medicine and also has been used for Ebola virus disease (EVD) treatment. EVD, which causes fatal hemorrhagic fever, resulted in more than 11,300 deaths in the West Africa region between 2014 and 2016. There is currently another outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has seen more than 2,000 fatalities to date.


HONG KONG – Fujifilm Holdings Corp. stock (TYO:4901) jumped 8.8% to ¥5,890 (US$53.48) on Feb. 25, as Japan considers using Avigan (favipiravir), an anti-influenza medication developed by the company’s Toyama Chemical Co. Ltd., to treat COVID-19. The share price ended the day at ¥5,567, for a gain of 2.83%.

The medication attracted market attention when Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Katsunobu Kato said on Feb. 22 that the country is planning to test Avigan against COVID-19. “We hear from foreign countries that some drugs among those that have been used against influenza may be useful,” Kato said.

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Mar 7, 2020

Measuring iron in the brain can point to dementia

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

According to the first author of the study George Thomas, “It’s really promising to see measures like this, which can potentially track the varying progression of Parkinson’s disease, as it could help clinicians devise better treatment plans for people based on how their condition manifests.”

The co-author of the study, Dr. Julio Acosta-Cabronero from Tenoke Ltd. and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, also comments on the findings:

Mar 7, 2020

Late-night launch of SpaceX cargo ship marks end of an era

Posted by in category: space travel

Taking aim on the International Space Station, nine kerosene-burning rocket engines powered a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher into a clear sky over Florida’s Space Coast on Friday night to begin the final flight of the first version of the company’s Dragon cargo ship.

Minutes later, the Falcon 9’s first stage booster returned to a site a few miles from its starting point and landed at Cape Canaveral, marking the 50th time SpaceX has recovered a Falcon booster intact since the California rocket maker’s first successful recovery in 2015.

Liftoff of the 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket — using a first stage booster that previously launched and landed in December — occurred at 11:50:31 p.m. EST Friday (0450:31 GMT Saturday) from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Mar 7, 2020

Physicists have narrowed the mass range for hypothetical dark matter axions

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

In two new studies, scientists search for axions within new mass ranges but the particles remain elusive.

Mar 7, 2020

Engineers Built an AI-Powered Robot to Take Your Blood

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Don’t like needles?

Mar 7, 2020

How do human beings co-live with AI in the future?

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

How do human beings co-live with #AI in the #future? https://bit.ly/39BkOXe “Artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered many concerns and discussions in recent years, and through these discussions people are prompted to introspect on what it really means to be a human being …” #technology #innovation


Artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered many concerns and discussions in recent years, and through these discussions people are prompted to introspect on what it really means to be a human being. It provides us with plenty of food for thought regarding our science, society, family, work, etc., and all of these raise an important inquiry: how is life going to be with artificial intelligence being around us?

Mar 7, 2020

Rocket issue delays launch of UAE’s Falcon Eye 2 satellite for a month: report

Posted by in categories: military, satellites

A sharp-eyed satellite’s launch has been pushed back from its expected Thursday (March 5) launch date until no earlier than April due to a rocket problem, according to a media report.

Arianespace, which will be providing the launch from French Guiana, has not disclosed a reason for the delay. Nor did it release a new launch date for Falcon Eye 2, which is a high-performance optical observation satellite for commercial and military users in the United Arab Emirates.