Summary: A new study of gene expression in the hippocampus has unveiled two new genes potentially implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.
Source: PLOS
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Episode 39 — What NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Teaching Us About Management and Logistics
Great new episode with the details on how NASA JPL’s successful Mars rover program kept the Perseverance rover on track. JPL chief engineer Rob Manning gives us an inside look at the strategies NASA used to make sure the latest rover made a spectacular landing.
NASA’s Rob Manning, JPL’s Chief Engineer, discusses management, logistics, innovation and the future of robotic Mars exploration in this unique episode. With this week’s successful landing of the Perseverance rover on an ancient river delta, NASA ups its game at a time when the rest of the country badly needs some encouraging news. Manning talks about how JPL keeps itself on track when finessing complicated billion-dollar initiatives.
Feast Your Eyes on the First-Ever Mars 2020 Mission Videos
Get a guided tour of the Perseverance rover landing on the red planet from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Ian Clark:
Martian Ripples in 4K
A video of Martian Ripples in the highest quality. All the images you’re going to see are taken by NASA rovers and orbiters in Mars, boosted in quality with AI technology.
The wind has shaped the Martian landscape for much of its history and continues to play a major role today. Here we analyzed Martian Ripples and the similarities they have the ripples here on Earth.
Other information that can be found in this video:
📌- Real images of Martian Ripples.
📌- The density of the Martian Atmosphere.
📌- How these ripples are created?!
📌- Size of Martian Ripples.
📌- Rover’s Tire Track on Mars (image)
📌- Perseverance rover mission.
Mars landings that did (and didn’t) go to plan
With two missions due to land on Mars in 2021, we look back at 60 years of attempts to get to the Red Planet.
Reinforcement learning algorithms score higher than humans, other AI systems at classic video games
A team of researchers at Uber AI Labs in San Francisco has developed a set of learning algorithms that proved to be better at playing classic video games than human players or other AI systems. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers explain how their algorithms differ from others and why they believe they have applications in robotics, language processing and even designing new drugs.
How Europe’s €100 billion science fund will shape 7 years of research
But Horizon Europe also includes new elements that reflect increasing attention to open science, equality, interdisciplinary research and practical applications. Here, Nature takes a look at some of the major changes.
As Horizon Europe issues its first call for grants, Nature reviews some big changes — from open science to goal-oriented ‘missions’.
