Photo: Leon Neil / Staff (Getty Images) About three weeks after Blake’s sudden exit Artificial intelligence ethics Timnit Gabru, Google More details are coming out about the shady new set of policies designed for its research team. After reviewing internal communications and talking to researchers affected by the rule change, …
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Improving the efficiency of solar cells can make a big difference in the amount of energy from the same surface area and the same amount of sunshine, and has beaten another world record in the pressure to produce more. Researchers have now reached 29.15 percent efficiency in the Perovskite / …
Read More »New materials can store energy from the sun for months or years
If we are going to be better at energizing the planet with renewable energy, we need to be better at finding ways to store that energy effectively until energy is needed – and scientists have identified a specific material that can help us. Can give exactly. Materials are known as …
Read More »Trial of Peru Hult for Chinese Covid-19 vaccine
LIMA, Peru – Peru’s health ministry said on Saturday it had postponed a trial for the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine after a participant reported health problems. The health ministry said a trial with 12,000 volunteers for China’s synopharm vaccine had been temporarily halted because it was investigating whether the vaccine was …
Read More »Brain scans confirm that there is a part of you that remains ‘you’ throughout your life
The kernel of self-awareness at the very root of your identity connects memories of the past with the fleeting sensations of the present, and a touch of anticipation for the future. The question of whether this ongoing understanding of ‘you’ is as strong as it makes one is has plagued …
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