Physicists finally know where at least some of these high-energy particles come from, which helps make the neutrinos useful for exploring fundamental physics.
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Struck Gold In the race to hoard lithium, a metal crucial for creating the batteries that power electric vehicles, the US may have fortuitously stumbled on the world's biggest deposit yet. A new study, published in the journal Science Advances , estimates that the McDermitt Caldera, a volcanic crater on the Nevada-Oregon border, harbors a colossal 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium. Based on
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The early ancestors of humans deliberately made stones into spheres 1.4 million years ago, a study said on Wednesday, though what prehistoric people used the balls for remains a mystery.
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Astronomers have discovered the first "bubble of galaxies," an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilized remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard.
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Hello everybody, I begin by introducing the idea of the project I am working on: It is a table top game where the players guide their civilizations through the history of technological progress until they reach a type 1 civilization. The players will need to manage the resources on their planet for both sustaining the growth of their infrastructure while at the same time investing in newer techno
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Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.
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Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.
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Geoff Renshaw has realised that the chatbot can’t say ‘I don’t know’, Tom Brown thinks it has been reading too much Kafka From Elif Batuman’s experience with ChatGPT, it seems that artificial intelligence possesses one very human characteristic: a deep reluctance to confess to ignorance ( Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote, 5 September ). Many, many times I have found that instea
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I Danmark fjerner man nogle gange en del af kirtlen 'thymus' under åbne hjerteoperationer.
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De senaste åren har många syrsor på stillahavsöar slutat sjunga. Evolutionsbiologen Marlene Zuk upptäckte att det fanns en fysisk förklaring. – Om du ser en massa syrsor men inte hör lockrop måste det vara något fel, säger hon.
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My husband, Dr Geoff Durbin, who has died aged 78, was a consultant neonatologist whose early research was one of the crucial steps in improving the treatment of babies with breathing difficulties. In 1973 he became a research fellow in Sir Osmund Reynolds ’s team at University College London (UCL), one of the early pioneers of intensive care for babies. Geoff was at the heart of this work from t
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Ingeniører og fysikere var gennem en lang årrække vildt uenige om, hvordan de skulle tidskorrigere atomurene på navigationssatellitterne for at opnå den ønskede positionsbestemmelse.
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On Friday, around 11:11 p.m. local time, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake exploded through the High Atlas mountains in Morocco, not far from the populous city of Marrakesh. People as far away as Spain and Portugal felt a strange vibration ripple beneath their feet. But millions in Morocco felt the planet shake and splinter, jolt and disintegrate, before thousands of the most unfortunate were greeted by
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I believe that it is evident that humans, when given authority and power, often become corrupt. As a regular low to middle-class American, I find myself increasingly confused by the multitude of perspectives and conflicting evidence that can be found on any given issue. It is disheartening to see deliberate spread of misinformation, and I believe those responsible should face criminal charges. Ho
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Join us as the charismatic Mike Rowe takes on a jaw-dropping challenge that will leave you in awe. In this remarkable installment, witness the astonishing construction of a complete bridge in just one day. Brace yourself for an unforgettable experience as we unveil the astounding secrets behind this rapid feat of engineering prowess. #discovery #dirtyjobs Stream Full Episodes of Dirty Jobs https:
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On Sept. 6, a new satellite left Earth; its mission is to tell us about the motions of hot plasma flows in the universe.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-42303-x
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-41504-8
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Explorer Ludovic Slimak has dedicated decades to unearthing the mystery of our prehistoric ancestors. Now he has found a missing piece that radically reshapes our understanding – not just of the Neanderthals but of humanity itself There’s no confusing Ludovic Slimak for just another hotel guest. It’s a sweltering Sunday afternoon in late August and we’ve arranged to meet in the car park of a guest
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Forecasts can now predict the location and onset of marine heat waves that can disrupt marine ecosystems. Scientists say the next step is to forecast what happens to top predators that inhabit those ecosystems.
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Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intelligence to emulate, few people would likely place creativity at the top of their list. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting. It defines us as human beings—and seemingly defies the cold logic that lies behind the silicon curtain of machines. Yet, the use of AI for creative endeavors is now growing.
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#shorts #moonshiners #discovery From: Discovery
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Forecasts can now predict the location and onset of marine heat waves that can disrupt marine ecosystems. Scientists say the next step is to forecast what happens to top predators that inhabit those ecosystems.
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Sommerens naturbrande i Canada og Grækenland bliver kaldt de værste i nyere tid
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Hello, Future Thinkers of r/Futurology ! 👋 I'm a young student committed to exploring the future of human aging—or rather, how we might end it. I've put forth an entry in the renowned Breakthrough Junior Challenge that I think you'll find incredibly relevant to the discussions we have here. 🛸 Why Should Futurists Care? 🌌 Groundbreaking Science: This entry simplifies the enigmatic subject of Ya
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-41900-0
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This article originally appeared in Undark Magazine . When Kevin E. Taylor became a pastor 22 years ago, he didn’t expect how often he’d have to help families make gut-wrenching decisions for a loved one who was very ill or about to die. The families in his predominantly Black church in New Jersey generally didn’t have any written instructions, or conversations to recall, to help them know if the
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is the staff writer and author Mark Leibovich. Mark has r
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T he struggle over the sweeping red-state drive to roll back civil rights and liberties has primarily moved to the courts. Since 2021, Republican-controlled states have passed a swarm of laws to restrict voting rights, increase penalties for public protest, impose new restrictions on transgender youth, ban books, and limit what teachers, college professors, and employers can say about race, gende
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The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place.
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More than 50 world sites hope for inclusion on the UN's coveted heritage list at a meeting opening in Riyadh Sunday, while some incumbents, including Venice and Kyiv, face the risk of a downgrade.
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The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place.
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Sept. 8, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
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Debunk Science Harvard's resident alien hunter believes he's found evidence of something from outside our Solar System at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean — but one of his fellow scientists isn't convinced. In a detailed takedown published by The Conversation , British planetary scientist Monica Grady wrote that the conclusions drawn by Harvard's Avi Loeb are a "little inconsistent." Grady takes i
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Concussions linked to cognitive decline
New research shows that suffering concussions — or even just one — is linked to increased cognitive decline later in life, including in patients who appeared to have fully recovered from the injury. The research, published in the journal Neurology , followed thousands of twins who were World War II veterans, many of them identical. Since identical twins share genetic code , comparing the developm
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DNA nanoballs revolutionize pathogen detectio
Researchers at Karolinska Institute have developed a novel method using DNA nanoballs to detect pathogens, aiming to simplify nucleic acid testing and revolutionize pathogen detection. The study's results, published in Science Advances, could pave the way for a straightforward electronic-based test capable of identifying various nucleic acids in diverse scenarios quickly and cheaply.
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Et nyt engelsk aktieselskab ‘The Great Horseless Carriage Company’ vil fabrikere selvbevægende vogne af enhver art. Automobilbevægelsen vinder terræn i England, efter at franskmændene var først på pletten, skrev Industriforeningens Tidsskrift i 1896.
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Hello Everyone, I am currently working on my masters dissertation on the impact of AI/ML on finance and would like to request people in this community to participate in the survey. The questionnaire is provided through google forms and is completely anonymous. It will take between 10-15 minutes to fill and is open to everyone! Your help is welcome and highly appreciated! I am not sure if this is
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IMPORTANT NOTE: There will definitely be better VR social platforms than VRChat the platform itself in the future which will run and work much faster and better than this social game like: NeosVR or ChilloutVR but there is yet to be a challenging competitor who is willing to properly advertise, make a big step and overtake the spot of VRChat as of the writing of this post. This subreddit is heavi
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IMPORTANT NOTE: There will definitely be better VR social platforms than VRChat the platform itself in the future which will run and work much faster and better than this social game like: NeosVR or ChilloutVR but there is yet to be a challenging competitor who is willing to properly advertise, make a big step and overtake the spot of VRChat as of the writing of this post. This subreddit is heavi
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M y father and mother met in the winter of 1976. I’ve seen photos. There they are, looking as young and untroubled as any two high-school students on a Friday-night date. Not yet parents, not yet weighed down with the responsibility of caring for four children, both are smiling, my father standing behind my mother, who sits on a stool with her head nestled into his chest. My parents were introduc
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— After a visit to the Yaak Valley in Kootenai National Forest, Montana, where the U.S. Forest Service has announced a logging project called Black Ram What is there to be done now, but enter against abandonment, become a hollow sound in the halo of labyrinthine green, become a crossed- out word on the back of someone’s hand. Once, all of this became all of this. One not-yet-golden western larch
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Two planet-sized sunspots peer out from behind what will be the world's largest telescope, currently being built on a mountaintop in Chile.
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Young investor learns valuable lesson
Margin Call It's been just over a year since last summer's crypto crashes, and investors who lost out are still licking their wounds. One young crypto enthusiast, 22-year-old software engineer Ethan Nguonly, reflected on his crypto losses to CNBC this week, explaining to the broadcaster that back in 2021, he invested — on margin — a sizeable $40,000 into Bitcoin and Ethereum, while picking up som
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MOXIE generates oxygen on Mars
Drop the Marslupa Since 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has been roaming the desolate surface of Mars, collecting samples and probing the area for signs of ancient microbial life. And thanks to one of its onboard scientific instruments called MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment), it's even generated some breathable oxygen from the planet's thin atmosphere, a proof-of-concep
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Decades after the senseless killing of his friend, the author and journalist finally feels a sense of peace Days after Ken was murdered, in the summer of 1998, the then-21-year-old Hua Hsu went out into the California sunshine and bought a journal. Everything is wrong, he scrawled in permanent black marker across the first page – because everything was. Laughter distressed him. Pop harmonies were
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Apps that offer to "do it all" will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.
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Apple's iCloud and Google Photos make file storage easy—as long as your memories stay on someone else's server. There's another way.
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Google faces antitrust trial
Google’s search dominance is going on trial in the biggest US antitrust case since a crackdown on Big Tech that started in 2019.
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W illiam Safire wrote in the introduction to his classic compendium Lend Me Your Ears that “what makes a draft speech a real speech is the speaking of it.” But I’ve found that some of the most interesting speeches written were never delivered at all. I spent years collecting examples of the words that went unspoken because events intervened, or a leader had a change of heart, or history took a su
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My most vivid memories of my early years at sleepaway camp, when I was 10 and 11, focus on the bizarre institution of color war. The campers were divided randomly in half for a wide-ranging competition between teams defined around no common identity, status, experience, or prior allegiance—just pure partisan competition. For one entire day, half of my bunkmates and possibly one or both of my brot
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Lost in Translation Bad AI has a price — and in the case of the United States immigration system, that price could cost people their freedom. As The Guardian reports , immigration officials have been instructed to use free programs like Google Translate or Microsoft Translator to communicate with the people they detain, which can result in inaccurate or confusing information being given to detain
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-42142-w
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Klimaforandringerne har haft store konsekvenser over hele verden denne sommer.
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Separating molecules is critical to producing many essential products. For example, in petroleum refining, the hydrocarbons—chemical compounds composed of hydrogens and carbons—in crude oil are separated into gasoline, diesel and lubricants by sorting them based on their molecular size, shape and weight. In the pharmaceutical industry, the active ingredients in medications are purified by separati
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South Africa is renowned for having one of the world's biggest populations of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). Substantial declines have been observed, however, in places where the sharks normally gather on the coast of the Western Cape province. Sharks congregate at these locations to feed, interact socially, or rest.
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South Africa is renowned for having one of the world's biggest populations of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). Substantial declines have been observed, however, in places where the sharks normally gather on the coast of the Western Cape province. Sharks congregate at these locations to feed, interact socially, or rest.
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Mayflies are famous for cramming an entire life into a single day, but that's not strictly true.
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Robots combat school truancy
Logging In Feeling anxious about going to school? A school district in Kumamoto, Japan thinks it might have a solution. According to the Japanese newspaper The Mainichi , the southwestern Japanese city will soon allow some students to attend class via telepresence robot in a fascinatingly futuristic — if eccentric — effort to tackle the school district's attendance problem, which the authorities
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-40962-4
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-42081-6
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-38950-9
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A recent study showed that a statin drug significantly lowered the risk of heart attacks and strokes among middle-aged and older people with the virus.
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Patients must be given better access to the latest drugs, technology and clinical trials Cancer has been hitting the front pages again, and it can be difficult from the headlines to judge whether it is good news or bad. We seem to lurch from a game-changing new treatment one day to reports of rising rates the next – most recently, alarming news about the increase in global incidence of cancer amon
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This bold and forensic history of the pandemic, drawing on previously unpublished diaries, underlines the sheer scale of suffering, with the poor and isolated particularly badly hit Covid-19 is the best documented pandemic in history. From the moment it became clear that the coronavirus would trigger a series of global lockdowns, every twist and turn in the pandemic has been chronicled in blogs,
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"Imagine an ICT device twenty (20) years from now, that will have a drastic effect on our society. Give your ICT device a name and describe your work with an essay explaining what it is and what it does." We we're told to make essay for our assignment and nothing comes in mind. Would you guys give me your ideas? submitted by /u/nxtgrngr [link] [comments]
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19th-century trailblazers Annie Maunder and Alice Everett finally earn due recognition for decades of largely unattributed work They charted the stars for pitiful wages, knowing their observations about the universe would be attributed to male colleagues, and died in relative obscurity, their scientific achievements unrecognised and overlooked. Now, in a tribute to trailblazing British female ast
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Where science leads, British industry must speak with one voice to force politicians to re-establish vital links with the European Union It was a moment when it became clear that the high-water mark of Brexit had been reached and the tide was going out fast on what is now a disgraced and palpable failure. The universal and enthusiastic welcome to Thursday’s news that Britain was to rejoin the £81b
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Selv når københavnerne ikke har brug for varme, er der aktivitet helt inde i hjertet af Hofors nye flisfyrede kraftværksblok.
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Food, War, Disease, Black Holes, Exploding Sun, Resource Depletion, Zombies-we survive or all submitted by /u/Sankronizedone [link] [comments]
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Is there any study on ways to make animals like chimpanzee or dolphins more intelligent? I wonder if instead of evolving humans, we could use technologies to evolve more species to become intelligent. submitted by /u/aquamaester [link] [comments]
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In principle, yes, it is possible for an AI to generate another AI by transferring it to a native code similar to DNA. This native code could be composed of a set of algorithms and parameters that define the structure and functioning of the AI. For example, an AI could be designed to generate another AI that is able to learn and adapt in a similar way to a human. In this case, the native code cou
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Grimes pleads to see son
Name Game Thought you were up to date on the drama surrounding international busy guy Elon Musk's ever-expanding brood of offspring? Well, you'd be wrong. A new revelation from biographer Walter Isaacson's upcoming book about Musk, courtesy of a new review in the New York Times : he has a third child with musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher in addition to the two we knew about, this one with the fic
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I just wanted to share, for those who might be interested, an uncensored CharacterAI subreddit for c.ai users. /r/CharacterAiUncensored submitted by /u/Earthling_April [link] [comments]
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Just happened upon a Reddit post titled something that inspired me to write this post. So here's the thing about both scientific and social advancement throughout human history: It does not have much of a set pattern beyond general acceleration and improvement. What I mean with that is that, very generally, we see a trend towards more advanced technology and a generally better off humanity (just
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Whe should as humans eventually all have iPhones so that we may have a huge democracy then we may maybe all vote for how humanity should go meaning one government rule is inevitable unless we start following politicians then it’s the drama. submitted by /u/Fit_Tumbleweed_8659 [link] [comments]
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There’s only one solution left.
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ICC prosecutes cyberwar crimes
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I know it’s nice to imagine lying in a deckchair sipping cocktails on the beach while robots do all the work and complete all of your chores for you, folding the clothes and doing the dishes and cleaning the house top to bottom, all while you go to the immortality clinic, made of graphene and built by nanobots, on your 150th birthday to get yet another infusion of immortality serum. But this simp
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Uploading consciousness to quantum computers This issue has been bothering me for a week. I think this will be possible in the future. It is thought that quantum computers will enter our lives in 2030 and a huge change will be made in the financial field. I think in 2040 or 2050 the rich (billionaires) will be able to load their consciousness into the universes they have created and live in the f
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Synchronicity is all around us, but it is poorly understood. Computer scientists have now developed new tools to understand how human and natural networks fall in and out of sync.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 09 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-42196-w
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Editor’s Note: Washington Week with The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings or watch full episodes here . President Joe Biden is attending the G20 gathering of world leaders in Delhi and meeting with Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi this week with the goals of strengthening key relation
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The powerful earthquake that struck Morocco, killing more than 2,000 people, didn't hit in the most active seismological region, said one French expert. But aftershocks can be expected, he warned.
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