Category: gods

  • 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…

  • Travelling into the Unthinkable…

    Travelling into the Unthinkable…

    A team of scientists has uncovered details of the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of objects. They found that patterns of neural signals, called traveling brain waves, exist in the visual system of the awake brain and are organized to allow the brain to perceive objects that are faint or otherwise difficult to see. (1)…

  • Cooking spaghetti… Devouring the cosmos…

    Cooking spaghetti… Devouring the cosmos…

    UC Berkeley archaeologists have discovered that unglazed ceramic cookware can retain the residue of not just the last supper cooked, but earlier meals as well, opening a window onto gastronomic practices possibly going back millennia. (1) At some point we might even recreate the old recipes. But we will never be with those people eating.…

  • Bots. Humans.

    Bots. Humans.

    Social media bots are continuously evolving and becoming more 'human-like' in the way they talk and interact on online platforms. Previous research has focused on bot detection, but little attention has been devoted to the characterization and measurement of the behavior and activity of bots, compared to humans. In this study, researchers have revealed distinct…

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