Category: Humans
-
Being human… Not being one…
With only 1 percent difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line of research. Researchers have developed a new approach to pinpoint adaptive human-specific changes in the way genes are regulated in the brain. (1) But…
-
Navigating into the unknown… (Where are you going?)
As engineers increasingly turn to machine learning methods to develop adaptable robots, new work makes progress on safety and performance guarantees for robots operating in novel environments with diverse types of obstacles and constraints. (1) Computers trying to navigate into the unknown. Like humans before them. Like gods before them. Like God in the beginning.…
-
From the depths of the cosmos!
Cataclysmic astrophysical events such as black hole mergers could release energy in unexpected forms. Exotic low-mass fields (ELFs), for example, could propagate through space and cause feeble signals detectable with quantum sensor networks such as the atomic clocks of the GPS network or the magnetometers of the GNOME network. These results are particularly interesting in…
-
The era of AI and the role of humans
The think tank 2050withHumans has started publishing some ideas on how humans will stay relevant in the era of AI until 2050 and beyond. One can view the relative article at https://www.2050withhumans.com/post/2050-with-humans-what-humans-do-not-do-is-what-defines-them. In a nutshell, this article entertains the idea that what defines us as humans is not what we do and what we think…
-
Touch Earth. Sense that flower…
Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity. (1) Touch the rhinoceros. Touch me. Touch Earth. They all feel it. And so do you. A sense of…
You must be logged in to post a comment.