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This Volcano Erupted For 5 Years Straight, And The Photos Are Out of This World
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This Volcano Erupted For 5 Years Straight, And The Photos Are Out of This World
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This Volcano Erupted For 5 Years Straight, And The Photos Are Out of This World
On 24 May 1969, a deep rumbling started within Kīlauea, the youngest of the volcanoes comprising the island of Hawai'i.
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#health India’s Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine 77.8% effective, Lancet study finds.
A new study in The Lancet is offering the first peer-reviewed and published data on the efficacy of Covaxin, a COVID-19 vaccine developed in India. The vaccine was found to be 77.8 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in a large Phase 3 clinical trial (more than 25,000 subjects, randomly allocated either two doses of the vaccine (administered four weeks apart) or two doses of placebo). No serious adverse events were detected in the trial.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/india-covaxin-coronavirus-vaccine-effective-study-trial-results/
A new study in The Lancet is offering the first peer-reviewed and published data on the efficacy of Covaxin, a COVID-19 vaccine developed in India. The vaccine was found to be 77.8 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in a large Phase 3 clinical trial (more than 25,000 subjects, randomly allocated either two doses of the vaccine (administered four weeks apart) or two doses of placebo). No serious adverse events were detected in the trial.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/india-covaxin-coronavirus-vaccine-effective-study-trial-results/
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India’s Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine 77.8% effective, Lancet study finds
A new study in The Lancet is offering the first peer-reviewed and published data on the efficacy of Covaxin, a COVID-19 vaccine developed in India. The vaccine was found to be 77.8 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in a large Phase 3 clinical…
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Wildfires Are Spurring Wandering Tree Species to Move Faster, Study Finds
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Wildfires Are Spurring Wandering Tree Species to Move Faster, Study Finds
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Wildfires Are Spurring Wandering Tree Species to Move Faster, Study Finds
Plants and trees choose where to put down their roots based on the surrounding environment, and as the world's climate shifts, trees and other vegetation are on the move: movements which are accelerated by the spread of wildfires, according to a ne
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Antibody Breakthrough in Mice Could Lead to a Vaccine For Alzheimer's Disease
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Antibody Breakthrough in Mice Could Lead to a Vaccine For Alzheimer's Disease
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Antibody Breakthrough in Mice Could Lead to a Vaccine For Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, impacting roughly 44 million people worldwide.
Delivering chemotherapy drugs directly to cancers could help reduce side effects, and soon that job could be done by tiny 3D-printed robotic animals. These microrobots are steered by magnets, and only release their drug payload when they encounter the acidic environment around a tumor.
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Microrobot fish swims through the body to vomit drugs on cancer
Delivering chemotherapy drugs directly to cancers could help reduce side effects, and soon that job could be done by tiny 3D-printed robotic animals. These microrobots are steered by magnets, and only release their drug payload when they encounter the acidic…
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An Epic Lunar Eclipse Is Coming Tomorrow – The Longest of Its Kind in 580 Years
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An Epic Lunar Eclipse Is Coming Tomorrow – The Longest of Its Kind in 580 Years
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An Epic Lunar Eclipse Is Coming Tomorrow – The Longest of Its Kind in 580 Years
Space lovers are in for a treat this week. Late Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday morning (in terms of US time zones), you'll have the chance to witness the longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years.
UBC researchers train computers to predict the next designer drugs
They have trained computers to predict the next designer drugs before they are even on the market, technology that could save lives.
Law enforcement agencies are in a race to identify and regulate new versions of dangerous psychoactive drugs such as bath salts and synthetic opioids, even as clandestine chemists work to synthesize and distribute new molecules with the same psychoactive effects as classical drugs of abuse. Identifying these so-called “legal highs” within seized pills or powders can take months, during which time thousands of people may have already used a new designer drug.
But new research is already helping law enforcement agencies around the world to cut identification time down from months to days, crucial in the race to identify and regulate new versions of dangerous psychoactive drugs.
They have trained computers to predict the next designer drugs before they are even on the market, technology that could save lives.
Law enforcement agencies are in a race to identify and regulate new versions of dangerous psychoactive drugs such as bath salts and synthetic opioids, even as clandestine chemists work to synthesize and distribute new molecules with the same psychoactive effects as classical drugs of abuse. Identifying these so-called “legal highs” within seized pills or powders can take months, during which time thousands of people may have already used a new designer drug.
But new research is already helping law enforcement agencies around the world to cut identification time down from months to days, crucial in the race to identify and regulate new versions of dangerous psychoactive drugs.
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Just in time for METAverse launch researchers from MIT Media Lab presented their new invention. From a VR mask they made a sleep mask that records EEG, EOG, EMG, heart rate, head movement and skin temperature. While a person is sleeping, facial expressions and emotions are displayed in real time on their avatar in virtual reality.
Research has shown that facial muscle tension is consistent with the emotional content of the dream. Thus the dreamer is simultaneously in two quasi-realities: in his dream and in the metaverse, as an avatar.
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Research has shown that facial muscle tension is consistent with the emotional content of the dream. Thus the dreamer is simultaneously in two quasi-realities: in his dream and in the metaverse, as an avatar.
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Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices
The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project — a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google’s Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks.
“We are now operating a fleet of more than 100 robot prototypes that are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around our offices,” said Everyday Robot’s chief robot officer Hans Peter Brøndmo
The company announced today that its Everyday Robots Project — a team within its experimental X labs dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved some of its prototype machines out of the lab and into Google’s Bay Area campuses to carry out some light custodial tasks.
“We are now operating a fleet of more than 100 robot prototypes that are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around our offices,” said Everyday Robot’s chief robot officer Hans Peter Brøndmo
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A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes
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A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes
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A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) was quite the mass extinction event, wiping out 80-90 percent of land and sea species – and researchers have now identified a new contributing factor to this period of devastation.
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Do Babies Cry in The Womb? Ultrasounds Show Something Strange Going On
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Do Babies Cry in The Womb? Ultrasounds Show Something Strange Going On
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Do Babies Cry in The Womb? Ultrasounds Show Something Strange Going On
Beginning in the second trimester of pregnancy, an expecting parent may feel their unborn baby kicking, rolling over, and even hiccupping. But is it known whether babies can start crying before they're born?
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Meta AI + Google AI create a unified model for understanding all human languages.
In 2021, this is no longer a fantasy, but a purely engineering challenge.
XLS-R is a neural network for speech recognition, language detection and translation. It uses 2 billion parameters and nearly half a million hours of public available speech audio in 128 languages, nearly 10 times more than the previous Facebook system. The result is already impressive - a decrease in the error rate by an average of 14-34%.
The business goal of the planned breakthrough:
• The final solution for the simultaneous translation of human speech using mobile gadgets (the dream of science fiction writers of the 20th century)
• Voice communication of human-machine entities in the virtual environments (Metaverse, science fiction writers did not have enough imagination for that, but BigTech has)
In 2021, this is no longer a fantasy, but a purely engineering challenge.
XLS-R is a neural network for speech recognition, language detection and translation. It uses 2 billion parameters and nearly half a million hours of public available speech audio in 128 languages, nearly 10 times more than the previous Facebook system. The result is already impressive - a decrease in the error rate by an average of 14-34%.
The business goal of the planned breakthrough:
• The final solution for the simultaneous translation of human speech using mobile gadgets (the dream of science fiction writers of the 20th century)
• Voice communication of human-machine entities in the virtual environments (Metaverse, science fiction writers did not have enough imagination for that, but BigTech has)
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XLS-R: Self-supervised speech processing for 128 languages
We are releasing XLS-R, a new self-supervised multilingual model trained on 128 languages for a variety of speech tasks. XLS-R sets a new state of the art on several speech recognition benchmarks, foreign-to-English speech translation, and language identification.
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Cancer: Key factor sustaining malignant tumor state identified
In a study published in Nature Cancer, researchers led by Prof. Cedric Blanpain, WELBIO investigator, Director of the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, demonstrated that NR2F2 is an essential regulator of malignant tumor state by controlling cancer stem cell and tumor maintenance in mouse and human cancers.
In a study published in Nature Cancer, researchers led by Prof. Cedric Blanpain, WELBIO investigator, Director of the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, demonstrated that NR2F2 is an essential regulator of malignant tumor state by controlling cancer stem cell and tumor maintenance in mouse and human cancers.
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Cancer: Key factor sustaining malignant tumor state identified
Publication in Nature cancer: researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) uncovers the essential role of NR2F2 to promote malignant transition and to sustain tumor growth, providing evidence that NR2F2 could be a promising target for the development…
It seems that in the future people will be able to control their dreams. Researchers at the MIT conducted several studies on this topic. For example, they created a "smart" sleep glove. When you wear it while sleeping sensors record your muscle movements, heartbeat and electrical activity in your skin.
Then this device analyzes all the incoming data and accurately determines which sleeping phase you are in. At the right moment, the device emits a quiet sound signal - for example, the word "bunny"... And a bunny will suddenly appear in your dream. And it really works! The glove has been tested on 50 volunteers.
Is it good or not? Time will tell. Just imagine how they'll use that technology in an advertisement industry. The companies will get a chance to interfere your dream with «drive only BMW» - and you will.
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/targeted-dream-incubation/publications/
And don't forget to share @science
Then this device analyzes all the incoming data and accurately determines which sleeping phase you are in. At the right moment, the device emits a quiet sound signal - for example, the word "bunny"... And a bunny will suddenly appear in your dream. And it really works! The glove has been tested on 50 volunteers.
Is it good or not? Time will tell. Just imagine how they'll use that technology in an advertisement industry. The companies will get a chance to interfere your dream with «drive only BMW» - and you will.
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/targeted-dream-incubation/publications/
And don't forget to share @science
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Project Publications ‹ Targeted Dream Incubation – MIT Media Lab
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to learn more about TD…
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This Ancient Human Relative 'Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape'
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This Ancient Human Relative 'Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape'
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This Ancient Human Relative 'Walked Like a Human, But Climbed Like an Ape'
Sometime between 7-6 million years ago, our primate ancestors stood up and began to walk on two legs.
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We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
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We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
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We All Nearly Missed The Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
She was flying home from a holiday in Samoa when she saw it through the airplane window: a "peculiar large mass" floating on the ocean, hundreds of kilometres off the north coast of New Zealand.
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Mysterious Vanishing of Advanced Chinese Civilization 4,000 Years Ago Finally Solved
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Mysterious Vanishing of Advanced Chinese Civilization 4,000 Years Ago Finally Solved
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Mysterious Vanishing of Advanced Chinese Civilization 4,000 Years Ago Finally Solved
About 5,300 years ago, an ancient civilization emerged in the east of China, building a brilliant city the likes of which had perhaps never been seen before in all of Asia – nor possibly even the whole world.
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Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
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Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
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Bizarre Creatures Are World's First Self-Replicating 'Living Robots', Scientists Say
Scientists have engineered what they say are the first self-replicating 'robots' ever made from living cells.
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Scientists Discovered a Way to Read The Minds of Jellyfish, And It's Phenomenal
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Scientists Discovered a Way to Read The Minds of Jellyfish, And It's Phenomenal
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Scientists Discovered a Way to Read The Minds of Jellyfish, And It's Phenomenal
Even though jellyfish don't have brains, scientists have figured out a way to read their minds – in a manner of speaking.
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