Human language is remarkably rich and intricate. Yet from the standpoint of information theory, the same ideas could theoretically be transmitted in a far more compressed format. That raises an intriguing question: why do people not communicate…
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Cleaner fish show intelligence typical of mammals
Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan have discovered a previously undiscovered behavior in cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus). When presented with a mirror, the tiny fish not only recognized themselves, but experimented with…
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An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services
“In both instances, this was user error, not AI error,” Amazon said, adding that it had not seen evidence that mistakes were more common with AI tools.
The company said the incident in December was an “extremely…
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Moderna’s vaccine regulatory hokey-cokey | Opinion
It has been a dramatic week for mRNA vaccine-maker Moderna and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On 10 February, the FDA told Moderna that it would not accept the company’s application for a new influenza vaccine – a decision that…
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TerraClear Bridges the ‘Action Gap’ with TerraScout: The First Fully Autonomous Robot for Real-Time Field Prescriptions in Large Acre Row Crops
TerraClear’s initial focus was AI-generated rock maps allowing farmers to ease the burden of annual rock clearing, one of the worst jobs on the farm. It is now rapidly expanding into AI-identification and management of weeds. Across both…
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In a first, Chinese team slows quantum chaos using 78-qubit processor
Scientists at the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have directly observed and controlled prethermalisation – a temporary yet critical transition state in quantum systems.
The research conducted using Chaung tzu 2.0,…
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Planting Trees Isn’t Always Good for Birds, Study Finds
A study finds that shelterbelts in Japan’s wet farmlands boost edge-dwelling birds but reduce grassland species by about 74 percent, with populations recovering roughly one kilometer away, revealing a conservation trade-off. A team of…
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The history of clocks is one of tyranny and revolution
On a March evening in 1898, gunfire exploded through Mumbai’s Crawford Market….
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Monocyte-derived IL-10 drives sex differences in pain duration | Science Immunology
Peripheral monocytes and IL-10 are associated with shorter pain duration in males in both mice and humans.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ made us wonder how to survive a trip to interstellar space
I have long puzzled over something in Andy Weir’s 2021 book Project Hail Mary: Why did two of the three fictional astronauts die during an interstellar…
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