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‘I am, in fact, a person’: can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?
14th August 2022 | theguardian.com | Humans, Tech

Controversy over Google’s AI program is raising questions about just how powerful it is. Is it even safe?

Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals?
2nd August 2022 | theguardian.com | Animal Life, Earth, Tech, Weird

A California-based organisation wants to harness the power of machine learning to decode communication across the entire animal kingdom. But the project has its doubters

New device will investigate Milky Way’s origins
2nd August 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Humans, Space, Tech

Scientists have supercharged one of Earth’s most powerful telescopes with new technology that will reveal how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.

 

A robot dog with a virtual spinal cord can learn to walk in just one hour
20th July 2022 cosmosmagazine.com | Animal Life, Humans, Tech

Researchers wanted to know how animals learn to walk and learn from their stumbling, so they built a four-legged, dog-sized robot to simulate it, according to a new study reported in Nature Machine Intelligence.

Cosmic “heartbeat” detected in fast radio burst billions of lightyears from Earth
17th July 2022 cosmosmagazine.com | Space, Tech

Astronomers have detected a new fast radio burst, or FRB, from a galaxy far, far away. The new FRB is currently the longest lasting with the clearest periodic pattern ever observed.

Machine learning identifies the origin of the most famous Martian meteorite to land on Earth
13th July 2022 cosmosmagazine.com | Ancient, Space, Tech

Somewhere between five and ten million years ago, an asteroid crashed into Mars, creating a massive crater. Like getting caught in the crossfire of a friend’s drama, a piece of detritus from that explosive impact made its way all the way to Earth.

James Webb telescope takes super sharp view of early cosmos
12th July 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Ancient, Humans, Space, Tech

The image is said to be the deepest, most detailed infrared view of the Universe to date, containing the light from galaxies that has taken many billions of years to reach us.

Cern gears up for more discoveries 10 years after ‘God particle’ find
5th July 2022 | theguardian.com | Humans, Tech

It’s 10 years to the day since evidence of the Higgs boson – the elusive particle associated with an invisible mass-giving field – was announced. But for Prof Daniela Bortoletto the memories are as fresh as ever.

Machine-learning model can detect hidden Aussie rock art
28th June 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans, Tech

Researchers have developed a way to detect the presence of rock art in remote, hard-to-reach areas in Australia’s rugged landscapes using Machine Learning (ML) methods.

Incredible New Maps of Asteroid Psyche Reveal an Ancient World of Metal and Rock
20th June 2022 scitechdaily.com | Ancient, Humans, Space, Tech

The varied surface of asteroid Psyche suggests a dynamic history, which could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, and a lost rocky mantle.

The most mysterious asteroids in the solar system
29th May 2022 mashable.com | Ancient, Humans, Space, Tech

Two swarms of curious, diverse space rocks — called Trojan asteroids — continuously journey around the sun, one in front of the gas giant Jupiter and one behind. Jupiter and the sun’s gravity have combined to lock the Trojans into this immutable orbit.

Ghostly ‘mirror world’ might be cause of cosmic controversy
20th May 2022 phys.org | Humans, Tech, Weird

New research suggests an unseen “mirror world” of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today—the Hubble constant problem.

Famous ‘alien’ Wow! signal may have come from distant, sunlike star
20th May 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Space, Tech, Weird

Researchers may have pinpointed the source of a famous supposed alien broadcast discovered nearly a half century ago.

These Videos From a Space Probe Flying Past The Sun Are Truly Out of This World
20th May 2022 | sciencealert.com | Space, Tech, Weird

A spacecraft looping around the Sun has made its first close approach – and filmed the encounter in glorious detail.

The study of nonhuman intelligence could be missing major insights
17th May 2022 bigthink.com | Animal Life, Humans, Tech

From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.

Astronomers discover asteroid treasure trove in old Hubble Space Telescope data
12th May 2022 | space.com | Ancient, Space, Tech

Astronomers have revealed the trails of nearly 1,500 new asteroids hidden in data gathered by NASA’s most venerable space telescope.

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