These effects aren’t confined to Mimosa pudica– all plants are probably susceptible to anaesthesia, it is just that the effects are more dramatic in …
Category: Curiosities
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Articles, papers, or tidbits that struck me as curious.
In the dog brain, sturdy neural tracts run from the olfactory bulb (bottom left) to five distinct spots. A newfound connection (orange) …
This seems like a big deal—basically centaur research (man + AI) leading to breakthroughs. The problem is that a simple chain can …
In a worrying historical parallel, Kristian Blickle at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that, among German cities, the higher the death rate …
A single gene edit to reduce cholesterol… The Verve trial aims to edit cells directly in the body. The team has encased …
A biotech firm is trialling the removal of PFAS “forever chemicals” from soil at a test site in Wisconsin by injecting chemical-eating …
Maybe the smarter we get, the more collective knowledge we have (both human and artificial intelligence) explains the expansion of the universe. …
As he talked to LaMDA about religion, Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer science in college, noticed the chatbot talking about its …
Lambda sounds like a very thoughtful dog… The thing which continues to puzzle me is how strong Google is resisting giving it …
With its brightly coloured slides, trampolines and tunnels, the soft play area at the Hakaniemi Arena, near the centre of Helsinki, looks …
Hence the need for plant neurobiology, a new field “aimed at understanding how plants perceive their circumstances and respond to environmental input …
A hyperaccumulator is a plant capable of growing in soil or water with very high concentrations of metals, absorbing these metals through …
If in fact, low entropy correlates with intelligence, is the cost of localized intelligence then a “stupider universe” over the long term? …
But when you’re on an exponential, science fiction becomes science fact while you are blinking. On where gene sequence has come and …
Biology wins again… But it is the storage capacity that shines. DNA can accurately stow massive amounts of data at a density …
The amplituhedron, or a similar geometric object, could help by removing two deeply rooted principles of physics: locality and unitarity. They have …