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AI System Does Better Than Humans At Identifying Odors

Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 31st Aug, 2023
by Alex Muller

The researchers used the system to map 500,000 odor molecules that have never actually been synthesized – a task, says the team, that would take a human 70 years of sniffing to complete.

NASA's Psyche Mission To All-metal Asteroid, To Better Understand The Earth, Nears Liftoff

Posted in Science on 29th Aug, 2023
by Alex Muller

"If you can get a measurement of Psyche, then you got the original material in its original state, and then many, many of those Psyches may have added up to make our Earth"

US Invests $1.2 Billion In Carbon Capture Plants To Suck Tons Of CO2 From The Air

Posted in Science on 29th Aug, 2023
by Alex Muller

The hope is that building facilities at a much larger scale than shown in previous demonstrations will help prove the feasibility of the technology and cut costs.

Consciousness May Rely On Brain Cells Acting Collectively, New Psychedelics Research Finds

Posted in Medicine, Science on 29th Aug, 2023
by Alex Muller

Comparing two psychedelic classes, LSD and ketamine, in rats revealed that both induced similar distinctive rapid brain wave patterns across regions.

What's Next For The Moon?

Posted in Science on 24th Jul, 2023
by Alex Muller

The moon, private space travel, and the wider solar system will all have major missions over the next 12 months.