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Dec 24, 2020 · I am a field geologist and palaeontologist. For the first half of my career I worked essentially as a practical hands-on geologist, making geological maps of terrains ranging from the ancient rocks of the Welsh mountains to the very young deposits of the English Fenland. Subsequently, at the University of Leicester, I have taught across a wide range of courses in geology, and carried out ...

Dec 12, 2024 · As well as showing off the chip’s error-correction prowess, the company’s researchers also demonstrated its speed. They carried out a computation in under five minutes that would take the world’s second fastest supercomputer, Frontier, 10 …

Dec 9, 2024 · Thousands of new genes are hidden inside the “dark matter” of our genome. Previously thought to be noise left over from evolution, a new study found that some of these tiny DNA snippets can make miniproteins—potentially opening a new universe of treatments, from vaccines to immunotherapies for deadly brain cancers. The preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, is the latest from a global ...

Apr 22, 2024 · “I truly believe that the RNAi response is relevant to at least some viruses that infect mammals,” said Ding at the time. New-Age Vaccines. Many vaccines contain either a dead or a living but modified version of a virus to train the immune system.

Nov 9, 2024 · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Why AI Could Eat Quantum Computing’s Lunch Edd Gent | MIT Technology Review "The scale and complexity of quantum systems that can be simulated using AI is advancing rapidly, says Giuseppe Carleo, a professor of computational physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). ...

Jul 15, 2024 · A new generation of "flying cars" promises to revolutionize urban mobility, but limited battery power holds them back from plying longer routes.A new hydrogen-powered variant from Joby Aviation could soon change that. Rapid advances in battery technology and electric motors have opened the door to a new class of aircraft known as eVTOLs, which stands for electric vertical takeoff and landing.

Nov 21, 2024 · Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology. Now, Microsoft researchers have invented a new language to help their models talk to each other faster and more efficiently.

Aug 2, 2024 · Llama 3.1 405B is the largest open-source AI model in history. It is what’s known as a large language model, capable of generating human language text in multiple languages. It can be downloaded online but because of its huge size, users will need powerful hardware to run it.

Dec 19, 2024 · Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to form connections could be the future.. While companies like Neuralink have recently provided some flashy demos of what could be achieved by hooking brains up to computers, the technology still has serious limitations preventing ...