Five Friends

Five friends are all pilots: Mr. Johnson, Mr. Bruckner, Dr. Thompson, Mr. Landis, and Lord Christopher. Each pilot has one daughter but named his plane after a friend's daughter. Mr. Landis's plane is the Carla Jean; Dr. Thompson's, the Rene. Elizabeth Johnson's father owns the Lindsey Kay. Mr. Bruckner owns the Mary Lynn, which is named after Mr. Landis's daughter. Carla's father used Lord Christopher's daughter's name for his plane. Who is Lindsey Kay's father?


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The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information private – but a new approach could maintain the same privacy while improving accuracy

Scientists used AI to transform tourist photos into a 3D digital map of Antarctic penguin colonies – even as researchers debate whether to harness or discourage tourism in this remote region

I have a confession to make. After taking a handful of autonomous taxi rides, I have gone from a hater to a friend of robot cars in just a few weeks, says Annalee Newitz

Feedback digs into a baffling ad for a mobile game and identifies a new and devilish way to advertise a product online: make it as confusing as possible to encourage people to click (it worked on Feedback)

Thanks to artificial intelligence, understanding animals may be closer than we think. But we may not like what they are going to tell us, says RSPCA chief executive Chris Sherwood

Emerging CAR-T technologies offer transformative potential to address the needs of patients with autoimmunity or other diseases beyond cancer.

Protumoral foamy macrophages are associated with poorer survival in humans with glioblastoma and can be targeted by lipid droplet inhibitors.

A fasting-mimicking diet treatment restores renal function in glomerulopathy and provides preliminary evidence of beneficial effects in chronic kidney disease.

Statistical modeling allows the classification of individual tumor responses and assessment of treatment effects with heterogeneous response.

A granulovacuolar degeneration–associated form of necroptosis represents an Alzheimer’s disease–related type of nerve cell death that can be inhibited.

A single-cell transcriptomic atlas with integrated proteomics for the prefrontal cortex of late-stage Parkinson’s disease human brains is presented.

Which Noun?

Which noun, from group B, belongs in group A?
Why?

Group A

Man,
Foot,
Child,
Tooth,
Mouse.

Group B

Girl,
Hand,
Adult,
Toe,
Goose.


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Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore neighbouring planets

A specialised algorithm could help autonomous vehicles track hidden objects, such as a pedestrian, a bicycle or another vehicle concealed behind a parked car

Large language models can be used to scam humans, but AI is also susceptible to being scammed – and some models are more gullible than others

The largest and most ambitious Martian drone yet could carry kilograms of scientific equipment over great distances and set itself down on the Red Planet unassisted

A lithium-ion battery made from three droplets of hydrogel is the smallest soft battery of its kind – and it could be used in biocompatible and biodegradable implants

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas

A new supercapacitor design that uses only water, clay and graphene could source material on Mars and be more sustainable and accessible than traditional batteries