They were said to come from outer space, and there were even claims that they were actually bacteria and that they undermined the very definition of viruses. Giant viruses, nicknamed “giruses,” contain enormous quantities of genetic material…
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Skeletal remains of Franklin expedition crew member identified
Researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University have identified the skeletal remains of James Fitzjames who served on the HMS Erebus during Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Northwest Passage expedition.
The Franklin expedition was a…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Launches the 2024-25 President’s Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon
09/20/2024 Alexander Johnson
On Wednesday, Sept. 18, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai traveled to Carnegie Mellon University to tour research labs, talk with faculty and students about emerging technologies and…
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Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions.ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English?
Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from…
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Stormy Findings and Hot Discoveries – Environment | Weizmann Wonder Wander
The summer of 2024 was the hottest on record and, unfortunately, this came as no surprise. Summers have been getting hotter and drier around the world, including in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to intense droughts and heatwaves in North…
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Original colours of painted carvings unveiled by Edfu Temple restoration
A restoration project of Edfu Temple has restored the original colours of the temple’s interior carvings.
Edfu was one of several temples built during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt. Construction…
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Into the Light – Environment | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae and certain kinds of bacteria convert solar radiation into chemical energy, must adjust itself to changes in the intensity of sunlight, so as to ensure its efficient use. Just like our pupils,…
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Feeling Gravity’s Pull – Nautilus
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I met Claudia de Rham nearly 20 years ago at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical…
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“Vampiric” burial unearthed in Bishop’s former palace
Archaeologists from the Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments have unearthed a “vampiric” burial in the gardens of the Palace of the Uniate bishops, located on Góra Chełmska, Poland.
The palace is part of the cathedral complex of the…
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Deepak Pathak Named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 List
09/11/2024 Mallory Lindahl
Robotics Institute Raj Reddy Assistant Professor Deepak Pathak was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35 for his work in self-supervised…
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