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David Posner (at lectern) introduces his plan to bring students from Mexico’s Vasco de Quiroga University to Cambridge, UK, for a research stay.Credit: Pedro Andres Garcia Escamilla Born in the United States to a Mexican mum and a UK–US dad, I grew up in Mexico but relocated back to the United States in 2012, aged […]
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Twenty years ago, a cave diver found thousands of fossils in a blue hole on Great Abaco Island. The fossils reveal the island’s Ice Age history, with pristine specimens of now-extinct species. Hurricane Dorian nearly destroyed researchers’ collections, and the blue holes’ future is uncertain. Nestled in The Bahamas on Great Abaco Island is a […]
Covering your surfboard in bright lights sounds like an open invitation to great white sharks, but research released Tuesday by Australian scientists found it might actually stave off attacks. Biologist Laura Ryan said the predator often attacked its prey from underneath, occasionally mistaking a surfer’s silhouette for the outline of a seal. Ryan and her […]
Poaching typically involves people killing elephants for their tusks, which are sold illegally on an international black market driven mostly by ivory demand in China and other parts of Asia. Agricultural expansion is the top factor in habitat loss. The forest elephant population is estimated to be about a third that of savanna elephants. Poaching […]
A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic […]
(Reuters) – Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-bigger large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to “think”. A dozen AI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these techniques, which are behind OpenAI’s recently […]
The new report also says that global warming has hit a threshold, at least temporarily, that countries had pledged to avoid. Source link
In 2014, after the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas in Mexico, Silván and other CentroGeo professionals joined the scientific advisory board on the case. During the search for the students, different civilian groups and government brigades detected dozens of illegal graves. In less than 10 months, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office counted 60 sites and […]