Lifeboat Foundation

Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. These are white dwarfs caught actively consuming planets in their orbit. They are a valuable resource for studying the interiors of these distant, demolished planets. They are also difficult to find.

Historically, astronomers have had to manually review mountains of survey data for signs of these stars. Follow-up observations would then prove or refute their suspicions.

By using a novel form of artificial intelligence, called manifold learning, a team led by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Malia Kao has accelerated the process, leading to a 99% success rate in identification. The findings were published July 31 in The Astrophysical Journal.

In the quest to develop life-like materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists face a formidable challenge: Real tissues are often both strong and stretchable and vary in shape and size.

A CU Boulder-led team, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, has taken a critical step toward cracking that code. They’ve developed a new way to 3D print material that is at once elastic enough to withstand a heart’s persistent beating, tough enough to endure the crushing load placed on joints, and easily shapable to fit a patient’s unique defects.

Better yet, it sticks easily to wet tissue.

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Team at University of Edinburgh using microbes to recycle lithium, cobalt and other expensive minerals.

The CEO for iPad design app Procreate is taking out his stylus and going to war with Silicon Valley’s latest heavily-invested upon baby. “I really f— hate generative AI,” said executive James Cuda in a viral Twitter post uploaded by his company.

In a stripped-down-style video usually reserved for an actor publically atoning for cheating, Cuda tore into his sector’s implementation of AI and vowed to never get aboard the train.

Noting he doesn’t often get in front of the camera, Cuda explained after getting peppered with questions about AI, he wanted to set the record straight. “I don’t like what’s happening in the industry and I don’t like what it’s doing to artists,” he said.

Dark energy is not limited to outer space, many solid materials around us also contain electrons hidden in dark states.

Until now scientists believed that dark electrons, electrons associated with the quantum state of matter, simply don’t exist in solid materials.

However, a new study from…

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France over content moderation issues. Platform faces scrutiny for alleged facilitation of cybercrime and illegal.

Qilin ransomware attackers now steal Chrome credentials, marking a dangerous new trend in cybercrime. Learn about this evolving threat and its implica.

Discover ‘sedexp’, a stealthy Linux malware using udev rules for persistence, hiding credit card skimmers, and evading detection since 2022.