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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype Steven Levy | Wired “There’s universal agreement in the tech world that AI is the biggest thing since the internet, and maybe bigger. …Skeptics might try to claim that this is an industry-wide delusion, fueled by the prospect of massive profits. But the demos aren’t lying. […]

Some of the hardest sectors to decarbonize are industries that require high temperatures like steel smelting and cement production. A new approach uses a synthetic quartz solar trap to generate temperatures of over 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit)—hot enough for a host of carbon-intensive industries. While most of the focus on the climate fight […]

A quantum internet would essentially be unhackable. In the future, sensitive information—financial or national security data, for instance, as opposed to memes and cat pictures—would travel through such a network in parallel to a more traditional internet. Of course, building and scaling systems for quantum communications is no easy task. Scientists have been steadily chipping […]

Many people understand the concept of bias at some intuitive level. In society, and in artificial intelligence systems, racial and gender biases are well documented. If society could somehow remove bias, would all problems go away? The late Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who was a key figure in the field of behavioral economics, argued in […]

Scientists just published the most detailed map of a cubic millimeter of the human brain. Smaller than a grain of rice, the mapped section of brain includes over 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses. The project, a collaboration between Harvard and Google, is looking to accelerate connectomics—the study of how […]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Could Unveil Its Google Search Competitor on Monday Jess Weatherbed | The Verge “OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to announce a search product powered by artificial intelligence on Monday that could threaten Google’s dominance. That target date, provided to Reuters by ‘two sources familiar with the matter,’ would time the announcement a […]

Pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere is likely to be a crucial weapon in the battle against climate change. And now global carbon capture capacity has quadrupled with the opening of the world’s largest direct air capture plant in Iceland. Scientists and policymakers initially resisted proposals to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, due to […]

Researchers have discovered a compound and a brain region that may be related to chronic pain in older people and published their findings in Aging Cell. When one sense doesn’t decline Aging destroys […]

Scientists have demonstrated that viral particles from a harmless plant virus can be used as an adjuvant therapy to prevent recurrence of disease and metastasis formation in several cancer models [1]. The challenge of keeping cancer […]

Exercise may be able to remove senescent cells only if acute inflammation is allowed to occur, according to a new study published in Aging. Inflammation and senescence Inflammation is known to be a critical […]

John Hancock, along with its Toronto-based parent company Manulife (NYSE:MFC), today announced a five-year, multimillion-dollar research collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) […]

Experiments in mouse models show the efficacy and safety of mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in treating ovarian aging [1]. Mesenchymal stem cells as a therapy Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are […]

A new study suggests that aerobic medium-to-vigorous physical activity benefits obese and diabetic people the most when conducted in the evening hours [1]. Do you really need morning runs? Physical activity is an essential part of the longevity-conscious […]

Researchers have discovered negative ways in which intestinal bacteria change over time, spurring gut inflammation, and introduced older bacteria into a population of younger mice […]