The kilogram just got a revamp. A unit of time might be next0
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- May 21, 2019
The unit of mass is now defined by a fundamental constant of nature, not a hunk of metal
The unit of mass is now defined by a fundamental constant of nature, not a hunk of metal
Some of today’s Scientists are pushing theories on how aliens are actually visiting us. Philip Defanco and his news team goes through the story.
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth’s orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun – and prevent a collision with Jupiter.
Finding offers potential novel approach to cancer treatment and prevention
Researchers create altered synthetic genome, in move with potential medical benefits
Computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have taught an artificial intelligence agent how to do something that usually only humans can do — take a few quick glimpses around and infer its whole environment, a skill necessary for the development of effective search-and-rescue robots that one day can improve the effectiveness of dangerous missions. The team, led by professor Kristen Grauman, Ph.D. candidate Santhosh Ramakrishnan and former Ph.D. candidate Dinesh Jayaraman (now at the University of California, Berkeley) published their results today in the journal Science Robotics.
The first gene-edited snails confirm which gene is responsible for how a shell swirls
Most Europeans descend from a combination of European hunter-gatherers, Anatolian early farmers, and Steppe herders. But only European speakers of Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish also have DNA from ancient Siberians. Now, with the help of ancient DNA samples, researchers reporting in Current Biology on May 9 suggest that these languages may have arrived from Siberia by the beginning of the Iron Age, about 2,500 years ago, rather than evolving in Northern Europe.
The neural network developed ‘number neurons’ similar to those in animal brains