Science & Space: 4 of 10
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Don’t let Big AI fool you: Piracy isn’t a business model
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, is basically saying that he can’t make his product unless he steals from others.
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We Love Writing. And Procrastinating. Running Helps Us Do Both.
The two pursuits have more in common than meets the eye
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New study shows how human-like qualities of voice assistants influence shopping habits
A recent study published in Computers in Human Behavior shows that the more human-like virtual assistants sound, the safer people feel using them for voice shopping.
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NASA is looking for people to test out its Mars simulator for a year
The agency is accepting applicants for the second cohort of its Mars simulator mission. Participants will live and work from a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot facility at NASA's Houston space center.
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How flying taxis could go mainstream
Flying taxis could even replace short-haul flights, but certification and new digital infrastructure must happen first.
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How to Build an Origami Computer
Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation.
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Food industry’s favorite ingredient has been killing us, slowly.
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AI and Employment: Is Universal Basic Income the Answer?
In this Article we discuss the necessity of Universal Basic Income in an AI-driven job market transformation.
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Writing things down may help you remember information more than typing
Writing words down increases connectivity linked to memory and learning between different areas of the brain, with the same not being true when things are typed out on a computer
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One Simple Change May Dramatically Boost The Effect of COVID-19 Vaccines
Sometimes it's the simplest solutions that get lost in the kerfuffle of scientific progress.
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Flipped Bit Could Mark The End Of Voyager 1‘s Interstellar Mission
Flight controllers have determined that the problem lies within the one remaining FDS on board (the backup FDS failed back in 1981), most likely thanks to a single bit of corrupted memory.
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Cancer vaccine with minimal side effects nearing Phase 3 clinical trials
Dr. Thomas Wagner, founder of the biotech company Orbis Health Solutions and cancer researcher, has made it his life's mission to find a way to treat cancer without the dreaded side effects that, for some, can become worse than the cancer itself or may even lead to an earlier death. "The tragedy of cancer is not just that person, the diagnosis, but it's also the fear of the therapy," Wagner told ABC News. This can cause a range of side effects including hair loss, nausea, vomiting, or may knock out a person's immune system putting them at risk of life-threatening infections, Wagner said.
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Why there is a new global race to the moon
Globally, more than 100 lunar missions are expected to take place by 2030, according to the European Space Agency.
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Glow way! Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time
Engineered petunia emits a continuous green glow thanks to genes from a light-up mushroom.
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Heart Failure - Do statins help or hurt?
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Oreo Study with Nick Norwitz and Dr. William Cromwell [Oreos better than Crestor?]
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AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium
Researchers used AI to design a new material that they used to build a working battery – it requires up to 70 percent less lithium than some competing designs.
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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?
Can special lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?
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Turns Out There's One Animal Powerful Enough to Mess With Lions' Feeding Habits
In a stark example of how everything on our living planet is interconnected, one species of tiny, invasive insects has reduced lions' abilities to feast on zebras.
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A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine
Researchers warn that most of the text we view online has been poorly translated into one or more languages—usually by a machine.