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Apr 20, 2023

Look! Hubble Image Celebrates the Telescope’s 33rd Anniversary with a Cosmic “Laser Lightshow”

Posted by in category: space

Behold a stellar nursery, where starlight scatters through interstellar dust — and sometimes can’t pierce the space soot.


This gorgeous Hubble image is a celebration of the telescope’s 33rd space birthday.

Apr 20, 2023

What’s AGI, and Why Are AI Experts Skeptical?

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

ChatGPT and other bots have revived conversations on artificial general intelligence. Scientists say algorithms won’t surpass you any time soon.

Apr 20, 2023

Creating Artificial Avians: A Novel Neural Network Generates Realistic Bird Pictures from Text using Common Sense

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Summary: Researchers in China have developed a new neural network that generates high-quality bird images from textual descriptions using common-sense knowledge to enhance the generated image at three different levels of resolution, achieving competitive scores with other neural network methods. The network uses a generative adversarial network and was trained with a dataset of bird images and text descriptions, with the goal of promoting the development of text-to-image synthesis.

Source: Intelligent Computing.

In an effort to generate high-quality images based on text descriptions, a group of researchers in China built a generative adversarial network that incorporates data representing common-sense knowledge.

Apr 20, 2023

Machine Natural Selection and the AI Apocalypse

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

An exploration of Machine Natural Selection and the potential of an AI Apocalypse.

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Apr 20, 2023

10 Bizarre Ways You Could End Up Immortal

Posted by in category: life extension

An exploration of 10 Bizarre Ways You Could End Up Immortal, and even the idea of becoming immortal twice.

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Apr 20, 2023

Aliens could exist on planets scientists least expected after shock discovery

Posted by in categories: alien life, futurism

Scientists could have been looking for extraterrestrial life in the wrong place all along, after it was revealed that unexpected types of star systems could be the key to potential discoveries in the future.

New research suggests that many of the things we thought about the habitable nature of certain planets could be proven wrong.

Apr 20, 2023

Scientists make discovery that shows our brains are more powerful than we realised

Posted by in category: neuroscience

The myth that humans only use 10 per cent of their brains is exactly that — a myth.

It’s a mistruth that’s been misattributed to the likes of Albert Einstein over the years. In reality, humans actually use a lot of their brain pretty much all the time, but our understanding of exactly how they actually work is changing all the time.

Apr 20, 2023

New look at ‘Einstein rings’ around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effects on the stars and galaxies we can see.

We’re not crazy! Without this “dark matter”, the universe as we see it would make no sense.

But the nature of dark matter is a longstanding puzzle. However, a new study by Alfred Amruth at the University of Hong Kong and colleagues, published in Nature Astronomy, uses the gravitational bending of light to bring us a step closer to understanding.

Apr 20, 2023

Strange ‘Anomalies’ In Spacetime Could Be Revealing New Physics, Scientists Say

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Scientists have made an unprecedented discovery about dark matter by examining anomalies in…

Apr 20, 2023

Mini brains grown in the lab sprout primitive “eyes”

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Organoids aren’t nearly as complex as their full-sized counterparts, but they’re useful for research — scientists can study organ development, monitor disease progression, and even test new treatments on them.

What’s new: When human embryos are about five weeks old, they develop structures called “optic cups” that will eventually become retinas.

Researchers have grown optic cups in the lab before, and they’ve also grown mini brains. Now, researchers at University Hospital Düsseldorf have grown brain organoids with optic cups.