by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 12, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Work on Bridges-2 shows the approach can help explain persistence of some cultural practices as well as how culture changes over time Do human culture and practices evolve in a predictable way over time? A team from Carnegie Mellon University and the Santa Fe...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 29, 2023 | Science Highlights
Adobe Stock #527516305. Scientists leverage past MARC program to maintain competitive bioinformatics program at minority-serving institution Lucina pectinata is a clam that lives in mud flats among levels of hydrogen sulfide high enough to harm most animals....
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 15, 2023 | Neocortex, Science Highlights
Neocortex-computed still-image from a simulation of the classic Rayleigh-Bénard convection problem, which shows how a fluid layer begins mixing as it’s heated from the bottom (red) and cooled from the top (blue) in a gravitational field. Real-time simulations offer...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 1, 2023 | Anton 2, Science Highlights
Comparison of where D-serine (D-Ser, teal dots) and glutamate (Glu, gray dots) stick to the GluN2AA subunit. From Remy A Yovanno Tsung Han Chou Sarah J Brantley Hiro Furukawa Albert Y Lau (2022) Excitatory and inhibitory D-serine binding to the NMDA receptor eLife...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 15, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The two, massive neutron stars merge with a great gravitational clang — but little electromagnetic signal gets out. Scientists had not predicted absence of electromagnetic signal in 2019 detection A collision of two massive neutron stars detected by gravity-wave...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 1, 2023 | AI, Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Bridges-2-powered AI matches life-critical performance of other AI and non-AI alternatives — unlike them, its “thinking” is understandable to humans Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our lives, giving us a tool for vastly better-informed decision making....
