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You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras
19 Nov

You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras

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At an upscale sushi bar in New York last week, a smattering of media and policy types chowed down on a menu of sushi rolls, peking duck tapas, and mushroom salad. But what made this menu unusual was the one ingredient that ran through the dishes—foie gras made from quail cells brewed in a bioreactor. The event, catered by the sushi chef Masa Takayama, was a launch party for Australian cultivated meat firm Vow, which will sell its foie gras at a handful of restaurants in Singapore and Hong Kong.The meal was decadent—one course featured a mountain of black truffle—but…
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Latest UN report demands ‘unprecedented’ emissions cuts to salvage climate goals
25 Oct

Latest UN report demands ‘unprecedented’ emissions cuts to salvage climate goals

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The United Nations' Environmental Program has released a new with yet more dire news about our odds of avoiding climate disaster caused by greenhouse gas emissions. According to this assessment, the current trajectory of international commitments will see the planet's temperature increasing 2.6 degrees Celsius or more over the course of this century. That amount of temperature change would lead to more catastrophic and life-threatening weather events.UN members are due to submit their latest Nationally Determined Contributions ahead of the COP30 conference in Brazil next year. The NDCs lay out each country's plan for reduced greenhouse gas emissions. One part…
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NASA’s newest telescope can detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes
23 Oct

NASA’s newest telescope can detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes

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NASA showed off for a new gravitational wave detection mission in space. The telescope is part of the mission led by the European Space Agency (NSA) in partnership with NASA.The goal of the LISA mission is to position three spacecraft in a triangular orbit measuring nearly 1.6 million miles on each side. The three spacecraft will follow the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Each spacecraft will carry two telescopes to track their siblings using infrared laser beams. Those beams can measure distances down to a trillionth of a meter.Gravitational waves are created during a collision between two black holes. They…
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SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster after launching Starship’s fifth flight
13 Oct

SpaceX successfully catches Super Heavy booster after launching Starship’s fifth flight

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SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster successfully returned to the pad after liftoff to be caught by the launch tower’s mechanical arms in an incredible feat Sunday morning. The milestone came during the fifth flight of the company’s Starship, and is a huge step for the rocket’s planned reusability. Starship launched at about 8:25AM ET from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas Starbase.Landing rockets is nothing new for SpaceX, which has now been reusing its Falcon 9 workhorse for several years, but the company took a completely different approach for recapturing Super Heavy. Whereas Falcon 9 typically lands on a drone ship out in…
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Unlock 6-Figure Data Science Career in 4 Proven Steps
09 Oct

Unlock 6-Figure Data Science Career in 4 Proven Steps

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In today's data-driven era, businesses are hungry for valuable insights from their vast data reserves. Consequently, the demand for data scientists has soared, making them a vital component of corporate strategy. This surge in demand has paved the way for an exciting career path in data science, with opportunities to progress from junior to senior levels, including principal data scientist and director, in just a few years. If you're new to data science and aspire to reach the top, it's crucial to understand the career progression and the skills required to succeed. According to computerstechnicians, a well-planned approach can help…
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09 Oct

All the news and science from the 2024 Nobel prizes – podcast

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With awards for the discovery of microRNA and the creation of new proteins, plus recognition for artificial intelligence via the physics and chemistry prizes, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian science team – Nicola Davis, Ian Sample and Hannah Devlin – as they break down the news, science and surprises from this year’s Nobels How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link lol
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How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research
09 Oct

How the AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research

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Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this year. “What I hope this doesn’t do is make researchers inappropriately use chatbots, by wrongly thinking that all AI tools are equivalent,” he says.The fear that this could happen is founded in the explosion of interest around other supposedly transformative technologies. “There’s always hype cycles, recent ones being blockchain and graphene,” says Hodgkinson. Following graphene’s discovery in 2004, 45,000 academic papers mentioning the material were published between 2005 and 2009,…
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08 Oct

Could AI help fight conspiracy theories? – podcast

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We’re used to hearing about the power of artificial intelligence to spread misinformation – but could it also be a tool for persuading people of the truth? Ian Sample speaks to Thomas Costello, an assistant professor of psychology at American University, who has published a study exploring the potential for AI chatbots to lead people away from conspiracy beliefs Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/sciencepod How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link lol
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This Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t
07 Oct

This Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t

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When Charlie Kelly first messaged saying he wouldn’t make it home that night, his partner wasn’t happy. It was September 6, 2023, a Wednesday, and the 56-year-old, a keen hillwalker, had left the house that he shared with Emer Kennedy in Tillicoultry, near the Scottish city of Stirling, before she went to work. His plan was to climb Creise, a 1,100-meter-high peak overlooking Glen Etive, the remote Highland valley made famous by the James Bond film Skyfall.The weather was unusually mild for the season, and Kelly thought he might even have time to “bag” a second Munro, as the Scottish…
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What to read this weekend: Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult of the Lamb’s first arc wraps up
05 Oct

What to read this weekend: Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult of the Lamb’s first arc wraps up

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.HarperNormally a book described as being largely about a teen love triangle wouldn’t be something I’d reach for, but I decided to give this one a go after reading many glowing reviews, and found myself drawn in by Louise Erdrich’s prose right away. There is a love triangle, yes, but The Mighty Red is about much more than that. It covers a lot of ground, including the struggles of a farming community facing economic recession, land degradation and concerns about the chemicals being used to keep the land productive. The…
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