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3-D printed ovaries produce healthy offspring in mice
Bioprosthetic ovaries produced mouse pups in otherwise infertile mice
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 208 posts.
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On Norbert Blum’s claimed proof that P does not equal NP
Edited 8/16 to correct attributions to Alon and Boppana and to Tardos, thanks to an anonymous commenter for the correction Yesterday, Norbert Blum posted a preprint with a claimed proof that $latex…
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Robot-assisted surgery associated with longer operating times, higher cost
A Stanford study of nearly 24,000 patients with kidney cancer concluded that robot-assisted laparoscopic surgeries are associated with increases in operating times and cost compared with conventional laparoscopic surgeries.
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Scientists discover hidden patterns of brain activity
In a collaboration led by EPFL’s Blue Brain, scientists discover patterns of brain activity – never before observed – with the help of mathematics, providing insight into how neurons collectively process information.
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Tutorial on Deep Learning
Lecture 1: Tutorial on Deep Learning I Lecture 2: Tutorial on Deep Learning II Lecture 3: Tutorial on Deep Learning III Lecture 4: Tutorial on Deep Learning IV
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Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts
Posted by Sergey Levine, Faculty Advisor and Pierre Sermanet, Research Scientist, Google Brain TeamMachine learning can allow robots to acquire com...
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Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (2015)
Is the best way to curb crime a widespread program in cognitive behavioral therapy?
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Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode
The unit Energy and Materials Transition will focus primarily on the themes of a sustainable energy system and sustainable industry, including circularity.
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How to Study Physics (1949)
physics, history of science, pseudoscience, hoaxes, writing, education, skepticisism, humor, quotes, illusions, 3d stereo photography.
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Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future
I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level.
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Sugar-sweetened drinks with protein rich meal affect metabolism
Let’s face it, sugar tastes good. Added sugars account for approximately 16% of total energy intake. That’s around 6 tablespoons (91 grams) of added sugar every day. The largest source of added sugars in our diet is from sugar-sweetened drinks. This is why a large amount of research is focused on the health effects of…
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LIGO and Virgo announce the detection of a black hole binary merger
Scientists searching for gravitational waves have confirmed yet another detection from their fruitful observing run earlier this year. Dubbed GW170608, the latest discovery was produced by the merger of two relatively light black holes, 7 and 12 times the mass of the sun, at a distance of about a thousand million…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
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The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (2009)
Douglas G. Steigerwald joined the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara after completing an M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching focus on frontier econometric methods at the intersection of…
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A researcher's response to people pointing out 150 errors in four of his papers
There are a bunch of things about this story that just don’t make a lot of sense to me.
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Fake Physics
2016 so far wins my lifetime award for most depressing and disturbing year ever (on the front of the larger world one reads about in the newspaper and elsewhere, personally things are fine, thanks)…
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Sound waves enhance deep sleep and memory
Pink noise synced to brain waves deepens sleep and boosts memory in older adults
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3D printing with cellulose
Researchers at MIT have invented a 3-D printing process for cellulose, the world’s most abundant polymer.
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Understanding Agent Cooperation
We employ deep multi-agent reinforcement learning to model the emergence of cooperation. The new notion of sequential social dilemmas allows us to model how rational agents interact, and arrive at more or less cooperative behaviours depending on the nature of the environment and the agents’ cognitive capacity. The…
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The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway
Explore the science behind the headlines with our leading experts.
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Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler
A group of Hopkins students have a special gift just in time for Christmas for a 2-year-old with a rare genetic disorder
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The Scientific Case for P≠NP
Out there in the wider world—OK, OK, among Luboš Motl, and a few others who comment on this blog—there appears to be a widespread opinion that P≠NP is just “a fashionable dogma of…
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Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake
After a major metamaterials breakthrough, David Smith learned how to turn promising research into real-world applications.