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Battery made from water and clay could be used on Mars
A new battery design that uses only water, clay and graphene could source material on Mars and be more sustainable and accessible than traditional batteries
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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Oct 24, 2024)
Filtered Lens
My first, by means of reflection meets your eyes
My second means no image is recognized
My whole means a grayscale world is normalized
What am I?
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My first, by means of reflection meets your eyes
My second means no image is recognized
My whole means a grayscale world is normalized
What am I?
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Musical AI harmonises with your voice in a transcendent new exhibition
What happens if AI is trained to write choral music by feeding it a specially created vocal dataset? Moving new exhibition The Call tackles some thorny questions about AI and creativity – and stirs the soul with music
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DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster
Researchers have managed to encode enormous amounts of information, including images, into DNA at a rate hundreds of times faster than was previously possible
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Google tool makes AI-generated writing easily detectable
Google DeepMind has been using its AI watermarking method on Gemini chatbot responses for months – and now it’s making the tool available to any AI developer
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A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system
A nearby star that exploded some 3 million years ago could have removed all dust smaller than a millimetre from the outer solar system
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From blood to mucosa | Science Translational Medicine
Current COVID-19 vaccines induce suboptimal respiratory mucosal immunity even after mRNA boosters (Declercq et al. and Lasrado et al., this issue).
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SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 mRNA booster vaccination elicits limited mucosal immunity | Science Translational Medicine
COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccines induce limited mucosal immunity.
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Repeated COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccination contributes to SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses in the mucosa | Science Translational Medicine
mRNA booster vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 induce circulating virus neutralizing antibodies that may enter the respiratory mucosa.
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Characterization of clonal dynamics using duplex sequencing in donor-recipient pairs decades after hematopoietic cell transplantation | Science Translational Medicine
Mutation load and clonal hematopoiesis are similar between donors and recipients, even decades after hematopoietic cell transplantation.
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Stromal reprogramming overcomes resistance to RAS-MAPK inhibition to improve pancreas cancer responses to cytotoxic and immune therapy | Science Translational Medicine
Stromal reprograming by FAK inhibition overcomes RAS-MAPK inhibition resistance and enhances responses to therapy in pancreas cancer models.
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Cryptosporidium lysyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors define the interplay between solubility and permeability required to achieve efficacy | Science Translational Medicine
Potent lysyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors advance our understanding of desirable properties for achieving efficacy in cryptosporidiosis animal models.
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Daily Brain Teaser for Oct 23, 2024
Jumbled Anagrams
The following three (3) clues are the definitions of words that have been jumbled below and turned into anagrams. Your job is to correctly unravel the anagrams and then place them next to their proper definition. Good luck!
1. hanging cloth used as a blind.
2. a strong English ale.
3. destined or inevitable.
Jumbled anagrams:
1. nice rat
2. car unit
3. rub not
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The following three (3) clues are the definitions of words that have been jumbled below and turned into anagrams. Your job is to correctly unravel the anagrams and then place them next to their proper definition. Good luck!
1. hanging cloth used as a blind.
2. a strong English ale.
3. destined or inevitable.
Jumbled anagrams:
1. nice rat
2. car unit
3. rub not
Check Braingle.com for the answer.
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10 stunning James Webb Space Telescope images show the beauty of space
Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots
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Meta AI tackles maths problems that stumped humans for over a century
A type of mathematical problem that was previously impossible to solve can now be successfully analysed with artificial intelligence
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I've been boosting my ego with a sycophant AI and it can't be healthy
Google’s NotebookLM tool is billed as an AI-powered research assistant and can even turn your text history into a jovial fake podcast. But it could also tempt you into narcissism and nostalgia, says Jacob Aron
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Writing backwards can trick an AI into providing a bomb recipe
AI models have safeguards in place to prevent them creating dangerous or illegal output, but a range of jailbreaks have been found to evade them. Now researchers show that writing backwards can trick AI models into revealing bomb-making instructions.
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Party Handshakes
There are a large number of people at a party. As there naturally are a lot of people who haven't met each other before, numerous handshakes occur. Assume that each individual handshake occurs between exactly two people.
Are there an even or odd number of people at the party who shook hands with an odd number of people?
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Are there an even or odd number of people at the party who shook hands with an odd number of people?
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Claps
You clap when you see me.
I'm smaller than you.
I make your skin itchy.
And animals' too.
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I'm smaller than you.
I make your skin itchy.
And animals' too.
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Developing Story
What phrase is represented by the following?
SHOT
PRESS
becomes:
S
PRESS
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SHOT
PRESS
becomes:
S
PRESS
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