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Sep 28, 2024

SpaceX launches Crew-9 astronauts from upgraded Florida pad to return Boeing Starliner crew home

Posted by in categories: alien life, habitats

Liftoff occurred at 1:17 p.m. ET.

Sep 28, 2024

The Most Sophisticated AIs Are Most Likely to Lie, Worrying Research Finds

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The AIs are “getting better at pretending to be knowledgeable.”


As AI chatbots get bigger and more powerful, they are also lying more, instead of declining questions they can’t answer.

Sep 28, 2024

🚨 Last Chance Alert: Early Bird Registration Ending Soon!

Posted by in category: space travel

Working towards the achievement of interstellar flight through knowledge to the stars — Starships in our lifetime.

Sep 28, 2024

Gut Microbiome and Aspirin May Reverse Hormonal Issues

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

Summary: Researchers found that mutations in the Sox3 gene cause hypopituitarism, a condition where the pituitary gland produces insufficient hormones, leading to growth issues and infertility. In a study on mice, they discovered that Sox3 mutations affect brain cells called NG2 glia, which are essential for hormone production.

Treating the mice with aspirin or altering their gut microbiome restored NG2 glia levels and reversed hypopituitarism. These findings suggest that both aspirin and gut bacteria could be explored as potential treatments for people with Sox3 mutations or other hormone-related disorders.

Sep 28, 2024

Blog: In this study

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The researchers examine the effectiveness of watermarking in large language models (LLMs) and find that current methods, while promising, have serious weaknesses.


Advances in generative models have made it possible for AI-generated text, code, and images to mirror human-generated content in many applications. Watermarking, a technique that embeds information in the output of a model to verify its source, aims to mitigate the misuse of such AI-generated content. Current state-of-the-art watermarking schemes embed watermarks by slightly perturbing probabilities of the LLM’s output tokens, which can be detected via statistical testing during verification.

Unfortunately, our work shows that common design choices in LLM watermarking schemes make the resulting systems surprisingly susceptible to watermark removal or spoofing attacks—leading to fundamental trade-offs in robustness, utility, and usability. To navigate these trade-offs, we rigorously study a set of simple yet effective attacks on common watermarking systems and propose guidelines and defenses for LLM watermarking in practice.

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Sep 28, 2024

World’s most powerful X-ray laser to get 3,000 times more powerful

Posted by in categories: biological, quantum physics

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s most powerful X-ray laser located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US, is set for a major upgrade that will increase its X-ray energy 3,000-fold, a press release shared with Interesting Engineering said.

When complete, the upgrade will let scientists explore atomic-scale processes in their search for answers in biology, materials science, quantum physics, and much more.

Sep 28, 2024

Hemp shows high promise as potential natural insecticide

Posted by in category: futurism

As part of the race to combat global insecticide resistance, new research shows that the same CBD people use to treat a variety of ailments is also extremely effective at killing mosquito larvae.

Sep 28, 2024

Genetically engineered bacteria solve computational problems

Posted by in categories: genetics, physics, robotics/AI

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking system that uses bacteria to mimic the problem-solving capabilities of artificial neural networks.


Cell-based biocomputing is a novel technique that uses cellular processes to perform computations. Such micron-scale biocomputers could overcome many of the energy, cost and technological limitations of conventional microprocessor-based computers, but the technology is still very much in its infancy. One of the key challenges is the creation of cell-based systems that can solve complex computational problems.

Now a research team from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in India has used genetically modified bacteria to create a cell-based biocomputer with problem-solving capabilities. The researchers created 14 engineered bacterial cells, each of which functioned as a modular and configurable system. They demonstrated that by mixing and matching appropriate modules, the resulting multicellular system could solve nine yes/no computational decision problems and one optimization problem.

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Sep 27, 2024

Unexpected Immune Response Linked to Cancer Remission

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

In 2012, 7-year-old Emily Whitehead became the first pediatric patient to receive pioneering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) therapy to fight the recurrence of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Twelve years later, Emily is in remission and a student at the University of Pennsylvania, where the therapy was developed. But for many others, the fight continues: more than half of ALL patients experience a relapse within one year following CAR-T therapy.

Sep 27, 2024

A translational framework to DELIVER nanomedicines to the clinic

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Nanomedicines have created a paradigm shift in healthcare.


The authors propose a framework to be followed during preclinical investigation of nanomedicines to increase their translatability potential.

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