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Strong New Evidence for a Controversial Decades-Old Theory That Explains the Odd Behaviors of Water
Study detects the critical point between 2 liquid forms of water.
Water, so ordinary and so essential to life, acts in ways that are quite puzzling to scientists. For example, why is ice less dense than water, floating rather than sinking the way other liquids do when they freeze?
Now a new study provides strong evidence for a controversial theory that at very cold temperatures water can exist in two distinct liquid forms, one being less dense and more structured than the other.
Big backing to pair doctors with AI-assist technology
Can artificial intelligence enhance human surgeons with AI superpowers to reduce medical errors?
Scientists Discover Three New Species of Chameleons
An international team of herpetologists from Germany and Madagascar has discovered and described three new species of chameleons from the Calumma nasutum species group.
“The endemic lemurs and chameleons are of particular interest and biologists have been investigating these groups of animals intensively since the 19th century.”
Starship SN5 set for a static fire followed shortly by a 150-meter hop attempt
Starship SN5 is finally set to begin Raptor engine testing this weekend after a successful cryogenic proof test on July 1. If the static fire test is successful, it will clear the way for a 150-meter hop test as early as next week. The 150-meter hop will be the first test flight of a full-scale Starship tank section.
Coronavirus Vaccines in Phase 3 Development | The State of Science
Tired of the coronavirus? Well, the good news is that there are several vaccines in development that are in their final phase of clinical testing before they can be approved for public usage. The bad thing, however, is the fact that there are only so many doses each vaccine manufacturer can make- meaning solving the pandemic will be as much a problem of distribution and manufacturing as it is research and development.
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OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images
In February of last year, the San Francisco–based research lab OpenAI announced that its AI system could now write convincing passages of English. Feed the beginning of a sentence or paragraph into GPT-2, as it was called, and it could continue the thought for as long as an essay with almost human-like coherence.
Now, the lab is exploring what would happen if the same algorithm were instead fed part of an image. The results, which were given an honorable mention for best paper at this week’s International Conference on Machine Learning, open up a new avenue for image generation, ripe with opportunity and consequences.
New BlackRock Android malware can steal passwords and card data from 337 apps
Android apps targeted by this new trojan include banking, dating, social media, and instant messaging apps.