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Brain-reading implants turn thoughts into speech
Two teams of researchers have found that brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can read speech at rates of 78 and 62 words per minute. The error rate for a limited 50-word vocabulary was 9.1% while a 125,000-word vocabulary had a 20.8% error rate. The BCIs were able to convert the brain signals into words in four months…
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A new discovery could help with Chikungunya
Researchers say they have discovered a new language in the South American city of Muiz that may be used by chikungunya virus to spread the virus. It’s spelled “chicken-GOON-YA” and means “to become contorted”. It comes from the Kimakonde language, spoken in parts of Tanzania and Mozambique and means “to become contorted”, researchers said.
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The Camp David Summit is a defining moment for Asian security
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that the Joint Summit on South Korea, Israel and the Middle East was not against anyone but for something. “It wasn’t for anyone but for something,” he added. US President Joe Biden, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met at the Camp David resort…
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The emergence of new organisms will be caused by the retreat
Climate change and glacier protection laws can cause an event called Ambio glaucl,glacial Stewardship, according to a paper published in Nature Communications. Ambio glaucl is an event that occurs every few years due to the consequences of climate change and glacier protection laws on the natural environment, it said. Ambio glaucl was identified in 2008…
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Drivers for the ride-sharing companies have some tips for how to navigate the streets of self-driving cars
David Ireland, a ride-hail driver, said, “It’s sucks!! Ride-hail driver Glauco Marinho Recalls Picking up Passengers on New Year’s Eve near San Francisco’s City Hall.” He added, “The robotaxis are cleaned when they come back to the base for charging or maintenance. Humans use cameras to determine if there is a need for a cleaning…
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Local residents are trying to see Lahaina after the fires in Maui killed at least six people
In 1960, when a tsunami hit Hawaii, researchers learned that many residents didn’t know the meaning of siren sound or what to do next, researcher Gregg Gregg said. “That’s the limitation of these sirens, they don’t tell you exactly what to do,” Sarah DeYoung, a professor at the University ofDelaware who studies disaster preparedness, said.
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The recovery of European freshwater fish has stopped
Taxonomic and functional diversity metrics representing freshwater invertebrate communities across sites and over time have been calculated and compared with long-term data and species-level data. The models used to calculate site-level biodiversity metric trends were the same as the models used to estimate the coefficient of a continuous year effect. We analysed functional diversity separately…
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Lawyers for Trump ask for more time to respond to the DOJ order
US prosecutors have asked a judge to issue a protective order after President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss and block the peaceful transition of power. It restricts what information Trump’s legal team can reveal about the case brought by Jack Smith. It is different from…
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The LK-99 is claimed to be an online sensation, but replication efforts fall short
Researchers from the US, China, UK and South Korea said they’ve made samples of LK-99 and haven’t found it to be a superconductor at room temperature. The researchers added that they’ve not performed heat anomaly test that is standard for major laboratories studying these kinds of materials. Earlier, one of the research groups claimed LK-99…
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How much does theU.S. credit rating matter?
Fitch downgraded the US’ debt rating by one level fromAAA to AA+, citing the “deterioration of the country’s finances…the growing debt burden” and the “erosion of governance”. The downgrade comes after the government and Congress agreed to suspend the debt ceiling in a last minute deal, narrowly avoiding a potential federal default. The agency warned…
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The jury voted for the death penalty in an antisemitic attack
A congregant from the Tree of Life synagogue said she was against death penalty in general but did not fault the jury for unanimously recommending that the gunman be sentenced to death. Robert Bowers, the gunman who killed 11 worshipers in the synagogue, should face the death sentence, jurors found. The jury deliberated for less…
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The boundaries of the species are pushed by a whale
Scientists have come up with a visual reconstruction of the skull of a colossus whale, which was found in Peru, based on skulls of related basilosaurid species. They said that some of the details are speculative but they cautioned that some of the detail are speculative. The skull belonged to a colossus whale that roamed…
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The Biden administration wants to increase the bar for trucks
The US Department of Transportation has announced new fuel economy standards for new vehicles that would improve the fuel economy by 2% each year through 2032. fleet-wide fuel economy for new vehicles may be as high as 58 miles per gallon by 2032. Under the new rules, vehicles would have to have an overall average…
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A Turing test for artificial intelligence
An e-mail sent by a researcher to Nature about a paper on manganese disulfide’s electrical properties in January 2018 had raised concerns about possible data fabrication. It was the first time Dias had sent an e-mail to Nature since the 2022 retraction of his research. A report by four independent referees found no evidence of…
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Evaluating the evidence for adaptive rate variation
Researchers have found that a higher proportion of potential bleed-through and homopolymer bleed-through errors in gene bounds than expected, leading to underestimates of gene body mutation rates. The researchers observed a 50% reduction in potential homopolymer bleed-through errors in genes they included, while the proportion of potential bleed-through errors is not reduced in essential genes.
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Monkeys got a Brain boost after one Shot of aKidneyProtein
Scientists at California’s UCSF have discovered that the protein klotho, which circulates in the blood, enhances the brain’s memory. In the study, researchers studied more than 700 people. Those who had higher levels of the protein performed better on thinking and memory tests, such as drawing a recalled image and naming the colour of a…
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The US Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action
A report has revealed that over 10% of all admitted students at a US college in 2022 had family ties to alumni or donors. As per the report, the majority of the admissions came from white students while black students were more likely to make donations. The report added that legacy students were more likely…
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A bitter blow to educational inclusion was dealt by the US Supreme Court
US Supreme Court on June 29 ruled in favour of Harvard University, the University of North Carolina and other universities in the lawsuit against the use of race as a factor in admissions. The court ruled that race can’t be taken into account to determine the “sex and gender balance of a class of applicants”.…
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France is on fire after police killings
Thousands of people in France’s Nanterre took to the streets after a 17-year-old was killed by a police officer at a traffic stop as he was walking down the street. Nahel M was shot and killed by the officer on Tuesday after being stopped for a traffic violation. Prosecutor Pascal Prache announced a preliminary charge…
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More than 600 people were arrested after another night of protests over the killing of a teen
Protests erupted in France after a policeman shot and killed a 15-year-old boy after he rammed his car into cars that were set on fire. The boy, whose name was Nahel, died after he was hit by one of the two police patrol cars that were chasing him. “Unrest over the killing of Nahel, whose…
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The Supreme Court stopped Biden’s student debt plan in its tracks
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the government’s student loan forgiveness programme, HEROES, cannot be used to help nearly 20 million people who defaulted on their loans. US President Joe Biden’s plan was aimed at easing the financial burden of public higher education. However, the court ruled that HEROES could not be used to…
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The Supreme Court is ending affirmative action
The Supreme Court of the US has ruled that race can’t be considered in college admissions. In a divided opinion, the court said that race is only a way to increase diversity on campus and that not all students need to be admitted on the basis of race. California had banned race-conscious admissions in 1996.
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More than 600 people have been arrested in France over the teen’s killing
French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the killing of Nahel, a black man in Nanterre, by a police officer and called for accountability in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police in Minnesota. France also witnessed protests against racial profiling and other injustice in the wake of Floyd’s killing. Over 600 people have been…
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I teach at an elite college
The US Supreme Court has struck down colleges’ and universities’ right to use race as a factor in determining which students they admit. The Students For Fair Admissions brought two cases against University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which resulted in the court issuing its decision. Both universities…
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Why did the Supreme Court decide on affirmative action?
The US Supreme Court on Thursday exempted military academies from the ban on race-conscious admissions in the case involving Harvard University and Michigan State University. The decision comes after the California Supreme Court earlier ruled that universities can’t use race as a factor in admissions. The Supreme Court’s decision exempts military academies from the ban…