Archaeologists from the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology of Saxony-Anhalt are currently excavating the site of a former gallows in Quedlinburg, Germany.
Gallows are usually wooden structures made of two vertical posts, a…
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Plastic Fantastic: Green, Strong and Edible – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Billions of tons of plastic waste clutter our world. Most of it has accumulated on the ground and in the oceans or disintegrated into tiny particles known as microplastics that pollute the air and the water, penetrating vegetation and the…
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Why Physics Is Unreasonably Good at Creating New Math
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Mathematics has long been the basis for advances in physics. Albert Einstein…
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New Circuit Made of DNA Has Everything Wired In – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers were thrilled when they managed to observe the birth of a protein made by a single DNA molecule: No one had previously seen this event outside a cell. That excitement, however, was only the beginning. The…
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Einstein’s Other Theory of Everything: the Unified Theory
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Einstein finished his masterwork, the theory of general relativity, in 1915. He…
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High Schoolers Bring Robots to Life at CMU Feiyue Program
08/29/2024 Mallory Lindahl
Twenty high school students gathered in huddles across a classroom, each hunched over a computer or fiddling with a small tri-legged robot. In one corner, students attempted to make the robot…
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Missing WWII USAF airman recovered from crash site in Sicily
The Cranfield Forensic Institute, working in collaboration with the POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), has assisted in the identification and recovery of a missing USAF airman near Caltagirone, Sicily.
In 1943, Second Lieutenant Allan W. Knepper…
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A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to…
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Farmonacci
Farmonacci is an autonomous robot tractor. It serves as a test and demonstration platform for equipping industrial vehicles with general autonomy. It's powered by an advanced autonomy system with capabilities that include perception,…
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VoicePilot Framework Enhances Communication Between Humans and Physically Assistive Robots
08/22/2024 Mallory Lindahl
Motor impairments currently affect about 5 million people in the United States. Physically assistive robots not only have the potential to help these individuals with daily tasks, they can…
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