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Twilight observations with the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, hiding in the glare of the sun. These NEAs are part of an elusive population that lurks inside the orbits of Earth and Venus. One of the asteroids is the largest object that is potentially hazardous to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years. Image: DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine

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Asteroid defense update: Three large near-Earth objects lurking in the inner Solar System

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Experimental set-up for the training stage (aerial view). A nest was connected to a colored chamber via a tunnel. The chamber was connected to a flight arena with feeders providing ad libitum sucrose (S) or pollen (P); their positions were swapped each experimental day. The colored training chamber was either yellow or blue. One of the colored chambers contained movable balls and the other was empty. Baffles at the entrance of the colored chamber prevented bees seeing the presence/absence of objects. Only one colored chamber was presented at a time and they were alternated every 20 min (six times each) for a total of 2 h exposure for each color. One group of bees was trained with the yellow chamber containing balls and the other group with the blue chamber containing balls. This experimental stage was carried out on 2 consecutive days for each bee. Credit: Animal Behaviour (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.08.013

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Bumble bees at play: Why do humans constantly underestimate the real intelligence of other creatures?

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Scans like these were used to identify the part of the brain responsible for the effortful prosocial behaviour

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Altruistic behaviour takes place in a different part of the brain to similar activity to help oneself

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Can bumblebees feel pain?

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Two of the study’s authors: Pauline Bohne (on the left) and Melanie Mark Credit: RUB, Marquard

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Researchers have found a connection in the brain that is crucial for aggressive behaviour – in mice

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Sources of noise from deep-sea mining activities will span the entire water column.

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Noise from one deep-sea mine alone could travel approximately 500 kilometers (roughly 311 miles)

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Facial expression detection by merging near-infrared light-field camera techniques with artificial intelligence (AI) technology

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The increasing irrelevance of factual truth in public discourse is part of a groundswell trend that started decades ago

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A study participant is interviewed by Ellie, an artificial character, to gather text data. CREDIT Photo courtesy of Jonathan Gratch, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

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Identifying people with PTSD through text data alone with 80 percent accuracy

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Remote experimentation takes the world of research on an unexpected journey of adaptation

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A newly developed algorithm can spot depression in Twitter users with 88.39 percent accuracy

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A new study examining the impact of geoengineering uses climate models to identify which temperatures are most conducive for malaria transmission by the Anopheles mosquito and identify how many people live in areas where transmission is possible.

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The first assessment of how geoengineering the climate could impact the burden of infectious diseases

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Twilight observations with the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, hiding in the glare of the sun. These NEAs are part of an elusive population that lurks inside the orbits of Earth and Venus. One of the asteroids is the largest object that is potentially hazardous to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years. Image: DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine

Asteroid defense update: Three large near-Earth objects lurking in the inner Solar System

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Experimental set-up for the training stage (aerial view). A nest was connected to a colored chamber via a tunnel. The chamber was connected to a flight arena with feeders providing ad libitum sucrose (S) or pollen (P); their positions were swapped each experimental day. The colored training chamber was either yellow or blue. One of the colored chambers contained movable balls and the other was empty. Baffles at the entrance of the colored chamber prevented bees seeing the presence/absence of objects. Only one colored chamber was presented at a time and they were alternated every 20 min (six times each) for a total of 2 h exposure for each color. One group of bees was trained with the yellow chamber containing balls and the other group with the blue chamber containing balls. This experimental stage was carried out on 2 consecutive days for each bee. Credit: Animal Behaviour (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.08.013

Bumble bees at play: Why do humans constantly underestimate the real intelligence of other creatures?

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The brightness of the Earth is dimming due to climate change

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An all-out push on concentrated farming could ease pressure on wildlife and more

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Must artificial intelligence “think” like humans if it is to be fully relied upon?

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Ranking healthiness of foods from first to worst with a new nutrient profiling system

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Engineering a microbe to produce something unknown in nature is a first

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Fairness and accuracy in machine learning

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Researchers have successfully produced coffee cells in a bioreactor through cellular agriculture that taste and smell like normal coffee

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An autonomous mushroom harvesting robot to address the labour shortage

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Can AI can make better clinical decisions than humans?

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Facial expression detection by merging near-infrared light-field camera techniques with artificial intelligence (AI) technology

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The increasing irrelevance of factual truth in public discourse is part of a groundswell trend that started decades ago

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A study participant is interviewed by Ellie, an artificial character, to gather text data. CREDIT Photo courtesy of Jonathan Gratch, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Identifying people with PTSD through text data alone with 80 percent accuracy

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Remote experimentation takes the world of research on an unexpected journey of adaptation

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A newly developed algorithm can spot depression in Twitter users with 88.39 percent accuracy

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A new study examining the impact of geoengineering uses climate models to identify which temperatures are most conducive for malaria transmission by the Anopheles mosquito and identify how many people live in areas where transmission is possible.

The first assessment of how geoengineering the climate could impact the burden of infectious diseases

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An AI project models first impressions based on facial features and can accurately predict how people will be perceived

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An algorithm that blocks a rogue microphone from correctly hearing your words, in English so far, 80 percent of the time

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Participants were asked about moral status and treatment pigs, dogs and people

Children differ dramatically from adults in their moral views on animals

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Can new hardware for artificial intelligence deliver the brain’s secret to lifelong learning

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Reducing invasive cancer risk by 61% among adults aged 70+

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From left: FAU graduate student Anthony Davis; Warner A. Miller, Ph.D.; and collaborator Pedram Nimreezi, stand behind the large drone, which includes a network of a ground station, lasers and fiber optics. (Photo by Alex Dolce)

The first drone based mobile quantum network provides unrivaled security

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Stunning tree of all known life unveiled online

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Multimodal sentiment analysis combining language, audio, visual, and physiological signals. The multimodal neural network is used to predict user sentiment from multimodal features such as text, audio, and visual data. In a new study, researchers from Japan account for physiological signals in sentiment estimation while talking with the system, greatly improving the system's performance. Image courtesy: Shogo Okada from JAIST

Enabling emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence systems

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Use fossil power plants at full capacity for one last time . . . and then switch them off forever?

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The potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years by the rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture

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Engineering a microbe to produce something unknown in nature is a first

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A way to 3D-print a meat alternative containing muscle, fat, and blood vessels arranged to closely resemble conventional steaks

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Could coronavirus particles travel up to 200 feet and linger in the air for 30 minutes?

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Non-typhoidal Salmonella invasive disease is an emerging neglected infectious disease that needs investment

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A targeted, reliable, long-lasting kill switch addresses fears of contamination by genetically modified microbes

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Some numbers to think about around why masks matter in the spread of Covid-19

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Detecting mental disorders based on web posts using AI

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Artificial nerve cells can be used for sensitive human prostheses, implantable systems and soft intelligent robotics

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Sources of noise from deep-sea mining activities will span the entire water column.

Noise from one deep-sea mine alone could travel approximately 500 kilometers (roughly 311 miles)

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How much could cyber attacks affect global food production?

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Who gets the patent when a machine invents things for humanity?

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The brightness of the Earth is dimming due to climate change

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AI’s looming ‘crisis of trust’

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Desalination as an integral part of a global water strategy

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Student performing on rigging at the University of Stockholm’s ‘Department of Circus’, which explores different disciplines through circus arts. Credit: Joakim Björklund

Researchers call for rebellion: Instead of just writing more papers take more risks

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Gene editing technology can now create female-only and male-only mice litters

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Ensuring digital technology works for the public good

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Fairness and accuracy in machine learning

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Corn ethanol is not a climate-friendly fuel

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Two of the study’s authors: Pauline Bohne (on the left) and Melanie Mark Credit: RUB, Marquard

Researchers have found a connection in the brain that is crucial for aggressive behaviour – in mice

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Could breath biometrics be the next thing in identification technologies?

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The impact of rocket launches may have a greater climate effect than the aviation industry

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Is society really ready for artificial intelligence ethical decision making?

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An AI-powered prediction market may provide scientists with an efficient, cost-effective tool to tackle the reproducibility problem, a team of researchers report. Credit: (National Cancer Institute/Unsplash.)

Addressing the concerns and challenges around reproducibility in research by using AI betting agents

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Can bumblebees feel pain?

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We need a conversation around the use and regulation of brain-monitoring tech: Now

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Making “ecocide” an international “super crime” on the order of genocide

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Scientific breakthroughs more likely with long-distance collaboration

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Examining people’s emotional response to cloned faces which could soon become the norm in robotics

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Six ocean carbon dioxide removal strategies outlined

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Controlling the weather with the help of chaos theory?

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Scans like these were used to identify the part of the brain responsible for the effortful prosocial behaviour

Altruistic behaviour takes place in a different part of the brain to similar activity to help oneself

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A suspicion that heat-tolerant offspring from surviving corals are beginning to repopulate some reefs

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A machine learning algorithm is revolutionizing the study of behavior

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Facial recognition can arise spontaneously in completely untrained deep neural networks

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Could Covid-19 social distancing in crowds be managed by robots

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Is a circular economy the panacea we’ve been looking for?

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An all-out push on concentrated farming could ease pressure on wildlife and more

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Predicting future psychotic illnesses in children with a new algorithm?

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Must artificial intelligence “think” like humans if it is to be fully relied upon?

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Twilight observations with the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, have enabled astronomers to spot three near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, hiding in the glare of the sun. These NEAs are part of an elusive population that lurks inside the orbits of Earth and Venus. One of the asteroids is the largest object that is potentially hazardous to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years. Image: DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine

Asteroid defense update: Three large near-Earth objects lurking in the inner Solar System

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Experimental set-up for the training stage (aerial view). A nest was connected to a colored chamber via a tunnel. The chamber was connected to a flight arena with feeders providing ad libitum sucrose (S) or pollen (P); their positions were swapped each experimental day. The colored training chamber was either yellow or blue. One of the colored chambers contained movable balls and the other was empty. Baffles at the entrance of the colored chamber prevented bees seeing the presence/absence of objects. Only one colored chamber was presented at a time and they were alternated every 20 min (six times each) for a total of 2 h exposure for each color. One group of bees was trained with the yellow chamber containing balls and the other group with the blue chamber containing balls. This experimental stage was carried out on 2 consecutive days for each bee. Credit: Animal Behaviour (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.08.013

Bumble bees at play: Why do humans constantly underestimate the real intelligence of other creatures?

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