This is fascinating as it works contrary to how most vaccines work. The usual method is to teach the immune system to attack things ( Covid, Polio, Influenza, etc, etc). This does the opposite, it makes the immune system forget to attack things it shouldn't be attacking. The list of autoimmune diseases is long, and many people...
TNW spoke with futurist Nick Foster about the danger of designing the future with sci-fi in mind and why mundanity is far more exciting.
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
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A study led by the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has investigated a seemingly contradictory phenomenon of sleep deprivation leading to mood improvement in patients with depressive disorders.
Lima, Peru: A team of Japanese archaeologists from Yamagata University discovered four new geoglyphs in Peru’s Nazca desert thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) technology known as Deep Learning (DL). Researchers say the Deep Learning tech can significantly speed up the time it takes for scientists to identify new geoglyphs....
Researchers and industry leaders have warned that A.I. could pose an existential risk to humanity. But they’ve been light on the details.
The supercomputer, named DeepSouth, will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations a second, rivalling operations of the human brain.
AI is poised to revolutionize our understanding of animal communication
When the spinal cords of mice and humans are partially damaged, the initial paralysis is followed by the extensive, spontaneous recovery of motor function. However, after a complete spinal cord injury, this natural repair of the spinal cord doesn't occur and there is no recovery. Meaningful recovery after severe injuries...
In 2020, California had 500 megawatts of grid battery storage. Now, just three years later, it has over 5,000 megawatts.
The mayor says they are paying less per hour than the city's minimum wage to lease the robot
Will everything you learned in college be replaced by ChatGPT? The CEO of job site Indeed says it's not out of the question.
Intel said it has made a significant breakthrough in the development of glass substrates for next-generation advanced packaging.
The latest generation of police surveillance tools are overused, underregulated and often completely wrong, opponents tell Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward
A first of its kind factory that will build humanoid robots is set to open in Salem, Oregon
Three industry professionals traveled 3,000 miles across America. Their mission: to dissect their carbon footprint. What they found was a complex calculation, with results more tightly-knit than anticipated – and a CO2 revelation.
Stephen Fry said he was "shocked" when AI cloned his voice because it could "have me read anything from a call to storm Parliament to hard porn."
I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....
With growing concerns about supply shortages, recycled battery materials could soon be playing a major role in the electric vehicle transition.
This genetically engineered microorganism has the ability to break down a type of plastic known as polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
