At some point in your life, you’ve probably used a combination of sight and touch to find something hidden beneath your couch cushions. And for a while now, robotics researchers …
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Alzheimer’s disease is becoming increasingly prevalent as life expectancies lengthen. But the complexity of the condition makes it hard to find effective treatments. One way to expedite the search that’s …
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While bees, birds, and ants swarm together to mate or protect themselves against predators, these worms are able to braid themselves together to accomplish tasks that unconnected individuals can’t handle. …
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The New York TimesFeb 15, 2021 10:37:17 IST A team of experts selected by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic …
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The developers of audio chat room app Clubhouse plan to add additional encryption to prevent it from transmitting pings to servers in China, after Stanford researchers said they found vulnerabilities …
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Their simulations estimated that a 6-centimeter plate could carry 10 milligrams of cargo in the mesosphere under natural sunlight. Ten milligrams may not sound like much; a drop of water …
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Roche arthritis drug reduces death in hospitalized patients with severe Covid, Oxford researchers say
A pharmacist displays a box of tocilizumab, which is used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, at the pharmacy of Cambrai hospital, France, April 28, 2020. Pascal Rossignol | Reuters …
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This cutting-edge cloud-computing service is helping researchers track COVID’s spread | ZDNet
Cloud computing is powering a transformaion in healthcare research. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto There’s a saying in the scientific community: all biology is computational biology. In other words, when you’re dealing with …
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File this one under: While the rest of the world was busy trying to get virtual assistants to tell dad jokes, researchers in Estonia figured out how to Deepfake people …
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However, AstraZeneca said it is yet to be fully determined whether the vaccine protects against severe disease caused by the highly transmissible coronavirus variant found in South Africa Representational image. …
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Coronavirus | Indian researchers find why variant with D614G mutation spread faster in Europe, U.S. but not East Asia
A study found that the variant with the D614G mutation introduced an additional cleavage site on the ACE-2 receptor for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to gain entry into cells Kalyani-based scientists …
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getty A new study from the National Institutes of Health found that almost 5% of Americans surveyed had undiagnosed Covid-19 last summer — which amounts to almost 17 million cases …
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A new report finds that claims of anti-conservative bias on social media platforms are not only untrue but serve as a form of disinformation. The report from NYU’s Stern Center …
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Twitter on Tuesday announced a significant shift in the type of data it makes available for free to third-party academic researchers interested in studying user behaviors and trends related to …
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The researchers used the open-source system Leela, which is based on DeepMind’s AlphaZero, to develop Maia. They trained the model on individual moves from millions of online human games rather …
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Government-backed hackers based in North Korea are targeting individual security researchers through a number of means including a “novel social engineering method,” Google’s Threat Analysis Group is reporting. The campaign …
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Facebook will let researchers study how advertisers targeted users with political ads prior to Election Day
Facebook is aiming to improve transparency around political advertising on its platform by opening up more data to independent researchers, including targeting information on more than 1.3 million ads that …
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The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) has slammed the company’s treatment of two prominent AI researchers as “an attack on the people who are trying to make Google’s technology more ethical.” The …
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Over all, children’s screen time had doubled by May as compared with the same period in the year prior, according to Qustodio, a company that tracks usage on tens of …
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What are WHO researchers trying to learn about Covid-19 origins in Wuhan? Is the secrecy necessary? – World News , Firstpost
Possible visits after a 14-day quarantine are to the market where the first cases came up in December 2019, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. On 27 January 2020, workers …
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Ohio researchers say they’ve identified two new Covid strains likely originating in the U.S.
Healthcare workers administer free Covid-19 tests to people in their cars in the parking lot of the Columbus West Family Health and Wellness Center in Columbus, Ohio on November 19, …
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A part of the vertebrae coming out of the ground, were spotted by a cyclist in early November Thai researchers have unearthed a rare partially fossilised skeleton belonging to a …
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Coronavirus | IISc researchers working on COVID-19 detection using Raman spectroscopy, artificial intelligence
“Traditionally a chemist’s tool, Raman spectroscopy has found numerous applications in biomedicine, especially in disease diagnosis.” Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, are working on rapid identification …
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Coronavirus | N501Y mutation in SARS-CoV-2 virus causes increased infectivity in mice: researchers
The mutation seems to provide a more favourable interaction with mouse ACE2 for docking and entry, they say In a preliminary report posted on December 19, Dr. Andrew Rambaut …
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A duck-billed platypus.Photo: Martin Pelanek (Shutterstock) Waddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing monotremata—the taxonomic order made up of only two …
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For years, police have been warning about the dangers of crowdsourced detective work — but on Thursday morning, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of Washington, DC decided to do just …
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