Facebook Tweet Email Link For thousands of years, a disease repeatedly struck ancient Eurasia, quickly spreading far and wide. The bite of infected fleas that lived on rats passed on the plague in its most infamous form — the Black Death of the 14th century — to humans, and remains its most common form of transmission today. During the Bronze …
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In recent months, the AI industry has started moving toward so-called simulated reasoning models that use a “chain of thought” process to work through tricky problems in multiple logical steps. At the same time, recent research has cast doubt on whether those models have even a basic understanding of general logical …
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A meta-analysis of “countless” peer-reviewed studies and interviews with dozens of subject matter experts identified a threat that researchers say is as grave as planetary warming is flying frighteningly under our radar, the Guardian reported. What’s happening? “Novel entities” at first may conjure up images of newly established businesses or ghosts, but the concept is more unsettling than an encounter …
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Google fixed a bug that allowed maliciously crafted Google Calendar invites to remotely take over Gemini agents running on the target’s device and leak sensitive user data. The attack unfolded without requiring any user involvement beyond typical interactions with the assistant, which occur daily for users of Gemini. Gemini is Google’s large language model (LLM) assistant integrated into Android, Google …
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What could the next mega-earthquake on California’s notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from Monterey County all the way through Los Angeles County? Would it be more akin to the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which began just offshore of the …
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An ancient hack could finally help relive the dreadful symptoms of snoring, a new study has revealed. The practice of blowing through a conch shell, also known as shankh blowing, could assist patients struggling with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), which blocks the airways and can lead to snoring. Affecting an estimated eight million people across the UK, common symptoms of …
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A massive breakthrough in quantum mechanics has been made. Researchers in Austria have discovered how to reverse the flow of time for a single particle within a quantum system, effectively bending the laws of physics. Does this mean we’re anywhere close to sending people back to the age of dinosaurs? No. We’re a long ways away, and a diagram created …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash landing. Fragments of the extraterrestrial rock were turned over to scientists after they fell to Earth this summer to determine their classification …
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Researchers at St. Petersburg State Technical University “leti” have developed a compact, fully domestic thermal imaging system that can monitor blood flow during the surgical removal of tumors. The technology, currently undergoing trials at the a.l. polenov russian scientific research neurosurgical institute, shows promise for helping surgeons assess tissue microcirculation before, during, and after operations — a critical factor in …
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