Science & Technology

The leader’s brain: Neuroscience in the workplace 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 22, 2021
The brain rarely fires on all cylinders even at the best of times – what more during a pandemic?

By David Aragorn
Scientists Are Giving AI The Ability to Imagine Things It’s Never Seen Before 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 22, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving very adept at certain tasks – like inventing human faces that don’t actually exist, or winning games of poker – but these networks still struggle when it comes to something humans do naturally: imagine.

By David Aragorn
Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 21, 2021
What makes humans unique? Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern humans and that of our extinct ancestors.

By David Aragorn
Artificial intelligence: governments see huge business potential, but ignore the downsides 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 21, 2021
Many governments are increasingly approaching artificial intelligence with an almost religious zeal. By 2018 at least 22 countries around the world, and also the EU, had launched grand national strategies for making AI part of their business development, while many more had announced ethical frameworks for how it should be allowed to develop. The EU documents more than 290 AI policy initiatives in individual EU member states between 2016 and 2020.

By David Aragorn
$Only a tiny fraction of our DNA is uniquely human$
Only a tiny fraction of our DNA is uniquely human 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 20, 2021
The result underscores how big of a hand interbreeding among ancient hominids had in shaping us

By David Aragorn
A Decade of Ancient DNA Analysis Has Taught Scientists “What It Means to Be Human”0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 20, 2021
A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a whalebone comb led to the first ever reconstruction of an ancient human genome just over a decade ago.

By David Aragorn
Study: Domestication Changed Not Just How Dogs Look, But Their Minds As Well 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 20, 2021
A new study led by a Duke University researcher supports the idea that domestication enhanced the cooperative-communicative abilities of dogs as selection for attraction to humans altered social maturation.

By David Aragorn
Rats prefer to help their own kind; Humans may be similarly wired 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 19, 2021
A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, pinpoints the brain regions that drive rats to prioritize their nearest and dearest in times of crisis. It also suggests humans may share the same neural bias.

By David Aragorn
Do We Live in a Multiverse?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 13, 2021
As far as we currently know, there is a single expanding blob of spacetime speckled with trillions of galaxies – that’s our Universe. If there are others, we have no compelling evidence for their existence.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Have Created a New Bendy And Flexible Form of Ice 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 13, 2021
Water ice isn’t exactly known for its flexibility. In fact, it’s quite the opposite: rigid and brittle, easily fracturing and snapping. It’s why avalanches and sea ice fragmentation occur.

By David Aragorn