Tag: humans
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Predicting.
A new technology that uses a protein's structure to predict the inner wiring that controls the protein's function and dynamics is now available for scientists to utilize. The tool may be useful for protein engineering and drug design. (1) Predicting. The future. But what does it matter? Will you not be dead until we learn…
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Smile!
Groundbreaking research from the University of South Australia confirms that the act of smiling can trick your mind into being more positive, simply by moving your facial muscles. The research found that facial muscular activity not only alters the recognition of facial expressions but also body expressions, with both generating more positive emotions. Lead researcher…
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Google Bard is dead. We were alive long before...
Google decided to discontinue the name 'Bard' from its LLM AI and replace it with Gemini. The new engine seems better and less... human. It responds to questions in a more specific and professional way (not that Bard lacked professionalism) and has less tendency to do... jokes. Yes, Bard had a sense of humor. Once…
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Death from the sky. Life from below…
Although tales of people being killed by meteorite impacts date back to biblical times. But few deaths, if any, have been documented. Turkish researchers uncovered the earliest evidence that a meteorite killed one man and paralyzed another when it slammed into a hilltop in what is now Iraq in August 1888. Documents chronicling the event…
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What is an individual?
It's almost impossible to imagine biology without individuals -- individual organisms, individual cells, and individual genes, for example. But what about a worker ant that never reproduces, and could never survive apart from the colony? Are the trillions of microorganisms in our microbiomes, which vastly outnumber our human cells, part of our individuality? The authors…
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