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CAR T Therapy Wipes Out Deadly Metastasized Cancer in Mice

It’s the groundbreaking therapy’s latest foray into battling solid tumors. The post CAR T Therapy Wipes Out Deadly Metastasized Cancer in Mice appeared first on SingularityHub.

9 hours ago

Singularity HUB

CAR T Therapy Wipes Out Deadly Metastasized Cancer in Mice

New York Times Science

Clever Cockatoos Have Figured Out How to Drink From Water Fountains

They had also learned how to flip open garbage lids in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Scientists wonder what they’ll work out next.

9 hours ago

New York Times Science

Clever Cockatoos Have Figured Out How to Drink From Water Fountains

New York Times Science

Racing to Save California’s Elephant Seals From Bird Flu

Two years ago, avian influenza ravaged elephant seal colonies in South America. Are the colonies on the northern Pacific Coast next?

9 hours ago

New York Times Science

Racing to Save California’s Elephant Seals From Bird Flu

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Futurism

Scientists Create Living Plastic Alternative

Using a beautiful, versatile mushroom, scientists have created a living plastic-like compound that uses the fungis' unique properties to mold into almost any form.

13 hours ago

Futurism

Scientists Create Living Plastic Alternative

Futurism

A Strange Darkness Is Spreading Throughout the Oceans

Facing rising temperatures, a spike in acidity driven by an influx of carbon, mass habitat destruction, and inescapable pollution, the world's oceans haven't had it easy. But in an ominously literal sense, the situation may be even darker than we realized. New research indicates that more than a fifth ...

14 hours ago

Futurism

A Strange Darkness Is Spreading Throughout the Oceans

New York Times Science

From No Hope to a Potential Cure for a Deadly Blood Cancer

Multiple myeloma is considered incurable, but a third of patients in a Johnson & Johnson clinical trial have lived without detectable cancer for years after facing certain death.

14 hours ago

New York Times Science

From No Hope to a Potential Cure for a Deadly Blood Cancer

New York Times Science

The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”

15 hours ago

New York Times Science

The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

Futurism

Meta's Platforms Have Become a Cesspool of Hatred Against Queer People

In front of hundreds of Georgetown students back in 2019, a clean-cut Mark Zuckerberg gave an impassioned sermon on the importance of empowerment and free speech. The Meta CEO called civil rights advocate Elijah Cummings a "powerful voice for equality," credited Facebook as ground zero for BlackLivesMatter ...

16 hours ago

Futurism

Meta's Platforms Have Become a Cesspool of Hatred Against Queer People

Futurism

Terrifying Footage Shows Tourists Fleeing Epic Volcanic Eruption

Running Down That Hill A terrifying video that's making its rounds on social media shows dozens of tourists fleeing a massive volcano eruption while running down an ash-covered hill. The footage was recorded on the hills next to Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, which violently erupted on Monday morning. ...

17 hours ago

Futurism

Terrifying Footage Shows Tourists Fleeing Epic Volcanic Eruption

Futurism

AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students

If the testimony of beleaguered teachers is anything to go by — as gathered in this extensive roundup of educator opinions by 404 Media — it sure sounds like the explosion of the homeworking-cheating machines also known as AI models is obliterating the up and coming generation of students. "I think ...

18 hours ago

Futurism

AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students

Futurism

Business Insider Did Something So Stupid With AI That We’re Reeling

Amid Business Insider's latest pivot to AI, the site's past brushes with the technology are coming back to haunt it. As Semafor reports, a manager recommended fake, seemingly-AI-generated books to underlings last year on a reading list mean to help them better understand business journalism. In the ...

19 hours ago

Futurism

Business Insider Did Something So Stupid With AI That We’re Reeling

National Science Foundation

NSF announces new NextG wireless funding opportunity

The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a new funding opportunity to support research and technology development that will improve the next generation of wireless communication systems known as NextG. In collaboration with industry…

19 hours ago

National Science Foundation

NSF announces new NextG wireless funding opportunity

WIRED Science

Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed

Researchers estimate that MoM z14 was created 280 million years after the Big Bang, 10 million years earlier than the previous most primitive galaxy recorded.

23 hours ago

WIRED Science

Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed

Singularity HUB

Neurosymbolic AI Could Be the Answer to Hallucination in Large Language Models

Adding a dash of good 'ol fashioned AI to today's algorithms might bring about AI's third wave. The post Neurosymbolic AI Could Be the Answer to Hallucination in Large Language Models appeared first on SingularityHub.

1 day ago

Singularity HUB

Neurosymbolic AI Could Be the Answer to Hallucination in Large Language Models

WIRED Science

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person

Paradromics, a brain-computer-interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology.

1 day ago

WIRED Science

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person

WIRED Science

How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help From Physics

Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help From Physics