Supercomputer calculation took 108 days and nine hours – 3.5 times as fast as previous recordSwiss researchers have calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude, hitting 62.8tn figures using a supercomputer.“The cal…
Saturn’s core is a big, diffuse, rocky slushball
There are still uncertainties, but data from the rings rules out a layered model.
When robots screw up, how can they regain human trust?
New study shows tactics robots can use to redeem themselves in the workplace.
Rewilding: should we bring the lynx back to Britain?
Reintroducing the big cats could control deer numbers and enrich ecosystems but farmers and the public need reassurance, say expertsThe maverick rewilder Derek Gow is wearing an extremely small pair of coral pink shorts as he introduces his three new E…
BrainQ raises $40M to transform stroke patient rehabilitation with its home therapy device
If you injure your elbow, surgery can help. If you lose a leg, prostheses are available. But problems within the brain are more difficult to treat, and for stroke victims rehabilitation is largely left to the body’s own repair mechanisms. BrainQ aims to change that with a device that stimulates the damaged part of the […]
Parts of the US are getting dangerously hot. Yet Americans are moving the wrong way | David Sirota and Julia Rock
As the climate changes, census data shows that Americans are shifting from safer areas of the US to the regions most at risk of heating and floodingScience has provided America with a decent idea of which areas of our country will be most devastated by…
地下を走る光ファイバーは、こうして地上の人間たちの動きを“偵察”する
地下に敷設されている光ファイバーケーブルを用いて地上の振動を検知し、人の動きや交通状況の変化などを把握する技術を米国の研究チームが開発した。その鍵を握るのは、光ファイバーの内部を通るレーザー光の乱反射だ。
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‘Hidden pandemic’: Peruvian children in crisis as carers die
With 93,000 children in Peru losing a parent to Covid, many face depression, anxiety and povertyWhen Covid-19 began shutting down Nilda López’s vital organs, doctors decided that the best chance of saving her and her unborn baby was to put her into a c…
AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, and the future of structural biology
Back in 2020, we discussed DeepMind’s impressive advances in protein structure prediction, as evinced by their showing at CASP14. They’ve finally made good on their promise to publish their work on AlphaFold2! In the interim, though, David Baker’s gr…
mRNAワクチン革命はまだ始まったばかりだ（前篇）：インフルエンザへの応用
従来のワクチン開発の時間軸を打ち砕き、新型コロナウイルスに対して記録的なスピードでワクチン開発を可能にしたmRNA。このテクノロジーは飛躍的に速く、わずかなコストでワクチンの実現を約束する。その応用範囲はインフルエンザやマラリア、HIVなど幅広く、次世代mRNAワクチンの開発競争がすでに勃発しているのだ。世界を変えたmRNAワクチンはさらなるゲームチェンジャーとなるだろうか？
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