After years of debate over whether non-invasively zapping the brain with electrical current can improve a person’s mental functioning, a massive analysis of past studies offers an answer: probably. But some question that conclusion, saying that the analysis spans experiments that are too disparate to offer a solid answer. In the past six years, the […]
CLIMATEWIRE | Many of the nation’s disaster organizations are exposed to perilous financial risks at the start of hurricane season, jeopardizing efforts across much of the U.S. to recover from catastrophes. Financial crises threaten to ricochet throughout Gulf Coast states and force people to pay surcharges on insurance premiums for years to come, and communities nationwide […]
Scientists recently discovered an asteroid that tags along with Earth during its yearly journey around the sun. Dubbed 2023 FW13, the space rock is considered a “quasi-moon” or “quasi-satellite,” meaning it orbits the sun in a similar time frame as Earth does, but is only slightly influenced by our planet’s gravitational pull. It is estimated […]
If you’ve ventured outside after sunset recently and happened to glance to the west, you may have noticed an astonishingly bright “star” glaring down on you, seemingly hovering in the sky. Is it a helicopter, a supernova, a—gasp—UFO? Nope. That’s Venus, the second rock from the sun, Earth’s evil twin and frequent UFO impersonator. If […]
Three years ago Christopher Havens, who has been serving a prison sentence of more than two decades for murder, published a discovery in number theory from his cell. A significant class of fractions, he and three co-authors showed, often maintains a regular structure after being transformed algebraically. Havens’s achievement was singular in another respect: he […]
Until now it has been impossible to peer into the human mind, but new biometric and machine learning tools are changing this. We can now understand how people experience cities, and these insights can provide a roadmap for creating more just, sustainable and healthy places. Assuming people approve of these technologies surveilling them, researchers like […]
When it comes to detecting breast cancer, regular testing matters. But precisely how early and how often you should get screened isn’t so straightforward. Medical guidance can seem bewilderingly inconsistent. Some agencies recommend annual checks from age 40 onward, for example, while others have said to wait until age 50. There is no “generalizable” age […]
They are largely unpredictable and unforeseeable but are twisters becoming a more serious threat? Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
In India, children under 16 returning to school this month at the start of the school year will no longer be taught about evolution, the periodic table of elements or sources of energy. The news that evolution would be cut from the curriculum for students aged 15–16 was widely reported last month, when thousands of people signed […]
A flat, rounded shell. A tail that’s folded under the body. This is what a crab looks like, and apparently what peak performance might look like — at least according to evolution. A crab-like body plan has evolved at least five separate times among decapod crustaceans, a group that includes crabs, lobsters and shrimp. In fact, […]
CLIMATEWIRE | An international effort to rein in plastic pollution is running into resistance from China, Saudi Arabia and other nations that see a future in plastics amid declining demand for oil, gas and coal. That debate is playing out over the terms of a prospective global treaty that could set limits on plastic production and […]
When two black holes slam together, they don’t make a sound. And yet, this is what we hear if we listen closely. [CLIP: Black hole “chirp”] Let’s listen again. [CLIP: Black hole “chirp”] That “chirp” is what we heard from two black holes that slammed together about a billion light-years from Earth. The tone rises […]
In 1992, a Dutch physician named Josh von Soer Clemm von Hohenberg wrote a letter to Henning Voscherau, the mayor of Hamburg, Germany, requesting to name a street after Marie Nyswander. The doctor had never met Marie, but had founded a clinic treating people with drug addiction, and had seen methadone treatment, co-developed by Marie, […]
The Fermi paradox takes its name from a 1950s visit by physicist Enrico Fermi to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. One day, as Fermi was walking to lunch with physicist colleagues Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller and Herbert York, one mentioned a New Yorker cartoon depicting aliens stealing public trash cans from the […]
You know a story is going to be fun when it starts with a question that makes you laugh: What is the most boring number in the world? It’s a legitimate mathematical question, and it turns out there are interesting numbers (prime numbers, powers of 2) and not-so-interesting numbers. You can probably anticipate the paradox: […]
1973 John Keats, Poet and Surgeon “Poet John Keats died tragically early, in 1821, at the age of 25, of tuberculosis. But few people are aware that he crowded two careers into his brief life: he studied medicine and was trained in surgery for as many years as he wrote poetry. Even people who know […]
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are keeping a close eye on rising ocean temperatures, and not just in the Atlantic. Globally, warm sea surface temperatures that can fuel hurricanes have been off the charts in the spring […]
“If there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed…, it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.” So said Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in 1918, when Americans were waging a fierce battle over the employment of young children. More than a century later, the argument rages again. In […]
Physicians Raymond Bunge and C. M. Kinloch Nelson noticed something unusual happening at their Iowa clinic in the early 1970s: a growing number of men seeking infertility treatment. To investigate whether there might be changes in sperm in the general male population, they looked at sperm samples from 386 presumably fertile men—those seeking an elective […]
A former prisoner held for years in the same jail as the group tells the BBC of their plight. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
CLIMATEWIRE | Climate change is a primary driver of escalating wildfires in California, with extreme temperatures and dry air spawning more intense burning, according to a UCLA study released Tuesday. The study, published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire, drew from state and federal firefighting data and synthesized earlier reports on climate change and wildfire. Researchers […]
Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail Random House, 2023 ($28.99) Decades after her father’s terrifying death from a bee sting, Theresa MacPhail learned that she, too, had allergies. The surprising diagnosis came after she contracted four respiratory infections in less than a year and made visits to specialists. What caused […]
In the collection of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University reside the mummified remains of a very peculiar creature. It has the shrunken head, torso and arms of a monkey, but from the waist down, it is a fish. This bizarre hybrid was bought by Moses Kimball, founder of the Boston Museum, from the family […]
Whether they work on climate change, evolution, vaccine safety, or any of a host of other issues, scientists frequently face resistance from people offering “alternative facts.” How did we come to live in a world where so many people feel vaguely supported opinions are just as valid as evidence-based scientific research—where people can’t tell the […]
It’s an old story: A woman is accused of witchcraft by someone close to her—a neighbor, a relative, a rival. Often the original accuser resents or envies the woman or has a property dispute with her. At first the complaints are just whispers. But then something happens—a child gets sick, or an accident occurs. The […]
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine is under the control of Russian forces Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Russian forces still occupying Europe’s largest nuclear power plant are creating an “extremely fragile and dangerous” situation, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Mariano Grossi. “We are fortunate that a nuclear accident has not […]
UK researchers are developing peas that don’t taste like peas as an environmentally friendly alternative to soya. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
NI has the UK’s worst waiting lists with it taking about 110 weeks for some women to see a consultant. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
Jo Cameron is a 75-year-old Scottish woman who has gone through life without experiencing significant pain of any kind. Even major surgery and childbirth failed to deliver the discomfort most of us would experience. According to an interview with the BBC in 2019, Cameron only knows her skin is burning if she smells or sees […]
A critical vulnerability patched 10 days ago in widely used email software from IT security company Barracuda Networks has been under active exploitation since October. The vulnerability has been used to install multiple pieces of malware inside large organization networks and steal data, Barracuda said Tuesday. The software bug, tracked as CVE-2023-2868, is a remote […]
A federal appeals court cleared the way for the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of legal claims tied to the opioid epidemic while shielding the wealthy owners of Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, from future lawsuits. Under the plan approved Tuesday by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, members of […]
Animal by-products being used for aviation fuel could increase demand for palm oil, experts fear. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Xbox has revealed which games are coming to Game Pass in the first wave of June additions. There are a few launch-day releases, and overall it’s a richer half-month for Game Pass subscribers than we’ve seen so far. […]
Workers at Taste by Spellbound in Connecticut were shocked when they spotted the uninvited customer. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
If you have psoriasis and allergies, maybe you’ve wondered if your allergy flares make your skin condition worse. There’s no need to guess: Doctors and researchers haven’t found links between the two problems. Here, four experts break down both conditions and explain what can trigger them. Although psoriasis and allergies both involve your immune system, […]
You can win or lose whenever you place a bet at a crypto casino. Most players tend to go bankrupt when they fail to practice responsible gaming. It’s no shocker that many players often wager more when they lose because they feel they will likely win the next bet. In most cases, this results in […]
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Miami-based Transak, which sells payment and onboarding infrastructure for Web3 games and financial apps, raised a $20M Series A led by CE Innovation Capital — The startup offers on- and off-ramps that could make it easier for new users to interact with Web3 projects. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view […]
By Aimee Sawyer, Product Marketing Manager at Khan Academy Kids and former preschool teacher The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University released a research paper that shows an interesting correlation between kids’ ability to engage in kid-friendly goal setting exercises and an improvement in their life outcomes.1 The paper identified three important principles that improve […]
In no particular order, here are some of my go-to resources for helping students and teachers understand the importance and the key concepts of copyright as it relates to school projects. Stanford University LibrariesStanford University Libraries offers the most comprehensive collection of resources about copyright and fair use that I know of. You could spend […]
Leading figures in the development of artificial intelligence systems, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, have signed a statement warning that the technology they are building may someday pose an existential threat to humanity comparable to that of nuclear war and pandemics. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should […]
Everyone is talking about AI, it seems. But if you feel overwhelmed or uncertain about what the hell people are talking about, don’t worry. We’ve got you. Melissa Heikkilä, our senior AI reporter, asked some of the best journalists in the business to share their top tips on how to talk about AI with confidence. […]
Price: $12.95(as of May 30,2023 07:00:12 UTC – Details) From the brand My vision for RYVE was to create empowering products that help others achieve the quality of life they desire. Our products equip you to be at your best through self-reflection, setting goals & taking action. We nurture the birth of empowering daily habits […]
China has sent three astronauts to its Tiangong Space Station, putting a civilian into orbit for the first time. The Shenzhou-16 mission took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on Tuesday morning in the Gobi desert in the country’s northwest. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
The careful operation required a long piece of rope to open the car door from a distance. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
How can you teach through play? We’ve talked before about the role of play in learning, and this is an idea that I’m becoming fascinated with. It’s also a bit of a tough nut to crack. What exactly is play? Can you make it happen, or must you let it happen? What is the relationship […]
The 51-year-old has a narrow escape from the animal while snorkelling off a luxury island. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
A similar system, also using heat from wastewater, is planned in Hamburg, according to reports. It will have a capacity of 60MW, though this too will rely on multiple heat pumps linked together, a spokeswoman for Hamburg Wasser, the water company involved in the project, says. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments […]
Why On-Demand Learning Is A Worthy Investment As markets become more competitive and workplaces turn toward remote or hybrid models, companies must find ways to stay ahead of the curve. On-demand learning is a versatile solution that provides educational and training resources in an instant, regardless of the employee’s location. It’s flexible and adaptable enough […]
Glaciers in the Arctic are not nearly as devoid of life as they might appear at first sight. In fact, carpets of ice and snow in Greenland and Iceland are practically crawling with microscopic life forms. Like seasonal zombies, many of these organisms lie dormant in winter, waking from their frozen slumber only with the […]
Back in 2000, a genuine global threat named Y2K turned out to be no big deal — for one very simple reason. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons. Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their […]
He writes that his officers are spending more than 10,000 hours a month on “what is principally a health matter”, adding that police and other social services are “collectively failing patients” by not ensuring they receive appropriate help, as well as failing Londoners more generally because of the effect on police resources. Source link Please […]
Last summer, in various cities in the UK, more than 40,000 people visited the Dreamachine, a large space designed to induce hallucinatory experiences with white stroboscopic light and electronic music. “We had guardians there to guide and relax people at the beginning through breathing exercises,” says Anil Seth, a neuroscientist at the University of Sussex […]
Whether you want to explore every treatment under the sun or manage your vitiligo as-is, it’s important to put together a care team you trust. Six people who live with the condition share advice on how to find medical specialists who put the T into teamwork so that you can manage your vitiligo together. Seek […]
If you ever come across a Cooper’s black orchid in the wild, you probably would mistake it for a stick — or perhaps an odd potato if you dig a little underneath it. Unlike many others of its kind, this delicate flower is devoid of lush green leaves and flashy petals. Its stem lies on […]
After sunlight completes its eight-minute journey to Earth, white surfaces such as clouds send much of it bouncing right back into space. The whiter and brighter the cloud, the better it is at reflecting sunlight—and at keeping Earth cool. Now, a study published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics examines a surprising part of this process: […]
Soprano pipistrelles migrate long distances Wildchromes/Alamy Migratory bats use a magnetic sense to navigate long distances, calibrating their internal compass based on the position of the setting sun each evening. Many animals may use Earth’s magnetic field either to orient themselves or to navigate, including turtles, birds and possibly even humans. Until now, there has been […]
Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Nvidia announced at Computex that electronics manufacturers worldwide are using its Omniverse simulation and collaboration platform to improve their factories. These industrial digitalization efforts are using a new, comprehensive reference workflow that combines NVIDIA technologies for generative AI, […]
Matthew Gault / VICE: A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others that is using AI-generated images to train ML systems and generative adversarial networks — Discord’s captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI. — Matthew Gault Source […]
The world of cryptocurrencies goes beyond Bitcoin (BTC), with a plethora of alternatives offering unique features, use cases, and potential for growth. If you’re looking to diversify your crypto portfolio or explore beyond Bitcoin, this article provides an in-depth analysis of the top Bitcoin alternatives. From Ethereum to Cardano, Litecoin to Ripple, we’ll cover the […]
Generate Revenue By Using The Best Selling Tools There are generally two approaches to selling online courses. The first is to use the content you already have, such as in-house training to generate extra revenue. Then there’s developing content from scratch for the sole purpose of boosting your bottom line. Whatever route you choose, you […]
A huge “smokestorm” from blazing Canadian wildfires made headlines around the world recently. Now, NASA imagery shows the smoke was so thick and widespread it was visible to a spacecraft nearly a million miles from Earth. The image was acquired by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite on May 20, 2023. A gigantic […]
Hotta found, to his surprise, that a simple sequence of events could, in fact, induce the quantum vacuum to go negative—giving up energy it didn’t appear to have. “First I thought I was wrong,” he said, “so I calculated again, and I checked my logic. But I could not find any flaw.” The trouble arises […]
Upon the publication of my latest video about how to add Google Drive videos to Google Earth Pro my playlist of tutorials on using Google Earth and Google Maps grew to 57. In my playlist of 57 Google Earth and Maps tutorials you’ll find directions for everything from the basics of navigation to creating historic […]
A huge “smokestorm” from blazing Canadian wildfires made headlines around the world recently. Now, NASA imagery shows the smoke was so thick and widespread it was visible to a spacecraft nearly a million miles from Earth. The image was acquired by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite on May 20, 2023. A gigantic […]
This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seabirds evolved about 60 million years ago, as Earth’s continents drifted toward their current positions and modern oceans took shape. They spread across thousands of undisturbed islands in the widening seas. And as flying dinosaurs and giant omnivorous sea […]
As central Spain’s Tirez Lagoon dried up over 20 years, becoming entirely desiccated by 2015, its barren landscape began to evoke arid Martian plains. That resemblance, it turns out, could be useful: researchers are watching the newly dead lagoon’s microbial residents to learn what could have happened to hypothetical life on Mars when its salty […]
by TeachThought Staff From reminding us of what to pack for a trip to helping doctors perform surgery, checklists are crucial for projects that require sequential steps or a series of tasks. As Atul Gawande points out in his book ‘Checklist Manifesto‘ (affiliate link), checklists break down complex tasks and also ensure consistency and efficiency […]
It’s hard to know how busy this year’s Atlantic hurricane season will be, thanks to a rarely observed combination of ocean and climate conditions. The Atlantic Ocean is in an active storm era, a yearslong period of increasing storm activity. Plus sea surface temperatures there are much higher than usual this year, which can fuel […]
Smartphone malware sold to governments around the world can surreptitiously record voice calls and nearby audio, collect data from apps such as Signal and WhatsApp, and hide apps or prevent them from running upon device reboots, researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have found. An analysis Talos published on Thursday provides the most detailed look […]
A South Carolina judge Friday temporarily blocked the state’s new law that would ban most abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy. The injunction will remain in effect until the state Supreme Court can review the measure. The ruling comes just one day after the law took […]
The pressure to publish or perish has led some desperate researchers to pay for fake papers to pad their resumés. Worse still, some of these sham papers are getting published in official scientific journals. A computer program designed to detect these made-up studies suggests far too many are slipping past peer review. The study was […]
Stress can lead to flare-ups of inflammatory bowel disease, and now we know why Shutterstock/Sorapop Udomsri Researchers have identified a pathway between the brain and the immune system in mice that may explain why psychological stress can worsen gut inflammation. The finding could improve treatments for chronic gastrointestinal conditions like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For […]
CLIMATEWIRE | A huge, mineral-rich region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone is attracting major international interest because of its potential for deep-sea mining, including for minerals essential to renewable energy technology. But scientists warn that the risks to biodiversity may be higher than previously realized. New research finds that the zone is home […]
Editor’s Note (5/26/23): The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved the antiviral Paxlovid as a treatment for COVID. This article discusses how the drug works and the phenomenon of “Paxlovid rebound.” When President Joe Biden was diagnosed with COVID, he started taking an oral treatment of the antiviral Paxlovid almost immediately. Four days after […]
This week Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy released a warning about the risks that social media presents to the mental health of children and teenagers. Adolescent mental health has been declining for years, and an increasing amount of research suggests that social media platforms could be partially to blame. But experts continue to debate just […]
The High Court judge rules there is no new evidence linking the tests with harm to babies. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
Neurological conditions can release a torrent of new creativity in a few people as if opening some mysterious floodgate. Auras of migraine and epilepsy may have influenced a long list of artists, including Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Giorgio de Chirico, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in […]
Leggett told researchers that she “became one” with her device. It helped her to control the unpredictable, violent seizures she routinely experienced, and allowed her to take charge of her own life. So she was devastated when, two years later, she was told she had to remove the implant because the company that made it […]
Most respondents in a new poll said they don’t trust the Supreme Court to decide cases related to reproductive and sexual health. Only 37 percent of adults said they trust the court “a lot” or “somewhat” to make the right decision on reproductive and sexual health, according to the poll released Friday by KFF. The […]
Home to 8.8 million people as of 2020, New York City is by far the most populous city in the U.S. And the mass of the buildings needed to support all those residents—and the work they do—really adds up. New research published on May 8 in Earth’s Future suggests that the weight of the city […]
Dear WeAreTeachers,We have four sick days per year and two personal days from the state. Every year that I’ve been in the district (which is now 10), the board has always voted to give us additional days so that we have eight sick and four personal total. But this year, as a “solution” to the […]
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes small, minimally outfitted theaters. But black box is also […]
For four seasons now, HBO’s Succession has given people something to tweet about on Sunday nights. Everyone, it seems, is obsessed with the Roys. With the finale airing on Sunday, it would seem that the big tent party is about to end. That’s not entirely the case. Online, Succession screengrabs, quotes, and references dominate the discourse in a […]
Anna McCleary had her daughter in October 2019. McCleary, who works at a law firm in Chicago, had just returned from her maternity leave in early 2020 when the COVID pandemic hit. She and her husband found themselves working from home without access to day care or other help. “We were just thrown into the […]
Dogs are cute and cuddly creatures who love to play. They make wonderful companions and are the most popular house pet in the world. They are loyal to their humans and are just as important as our other family members. Learn more about your favorite canine friend with these paws-itively delightful dog facts for kids! […]
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. My first experience with motion sickness was as a college student, standing on the back of a marine research vessel looking at interesting things dredged from the seafloor off the California coast. It was a day trip, the […]
The Verge‘s Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Tom Warren discuss the biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2023. Later, the crew discuss the launch of Warner Bros. Discovery’s combined streaming service Max. Further reading: Elon Musk fails to launch Ron DeSantis in disastrous Twitter Space Microsoft Build 2023: The 5 biggest announcements Microsoft’s Copilot […]
Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. BMW Group is giving a big endorsement to playing video games in your car as it launches the AirConsole gaming platform in its BMW 5 Series cars. BMW said the partnership will bring a unique kind of in-car […]
The cubs were the first to be born in the country 70 years after the animals were declared extinct here Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.
Bloomberg: 3D printing companies Stratasys and Desktop Metal agree to combine in an all-stock transaction valued at ~$1.8B and expect to generate $1.1B in revenue in 2025 — Stratasys Ltd. agreed to acquire Desktop Metal Inc. in an all-stock deal that will create a leading 3D printer company valued at about $1.8 billion. Source link […]
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “wall of fake images.” Stable Diffusion On Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that his biggest apprehension about AI revolves around the growing concern for deepfakes and synthetic media designed to deceive, Reuters reports. Smith made his remarks while revealing his “blueprint for public governance of AI” in […]
May 23, 2023 – It sounds like a simple solution to a complicated problem: Find out what kind of obesity you have based on a one-time genetic saliva test. Then you and your doctor can get a better idea if anti-obesity drugs or other treatments are more likely to work for you. The goal […]
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The rush in conservative states to ban abortion after the overturn of Roe v. Wade is resulting in a startling consequence that abortion opponents may not have considered: fewer medical services available for all women living in those states. Doctors are showing — through their words and actions — that they are reluctant to practice in places […]
Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, is running for president of the United States on a record of anti-diversity, pro-censorship, white nationalist measures. He has targeted education, LGBTQ rights and access to health care, and should he prevail, his anti-science candidacy stands to harm millions of Americans. DeSantis has banned books in school libraries, restricted […]
Twelve years ago, a cycling accident left Gert-Jan Oskam, now 40, with paralysed legs and partially paralysed arms, after his spinal cord was damaged in his neck. But these days, Oskam is back on his feet and walking, thanks to a device that creates a ‘digital bridge’ between his brain and the nerves below his […]
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people…. I thought it was way off…. Obviously, I no longer think that,” Geoffrey Hinton, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence scientists, also known as “the godfather of AI,” said after he quit his job in April so that he can warn about the dangers […]
“A patient should not have to undergo forcible explantation of a device,” says Nita Farahany, a legal scholar and ethicist at Duke University in North Carolina, who has written a book about neuro rights. “If there is evidence that a brain-computer interface could become part of the self of the human being, then it seems […]
Thousands of ‘otherworldly’ animals live beneath the ocean in an area that may be mined for metals. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.