How Our Genome Is Like a Generative AI Model | RealClearScience
WEB5 days ago · But building an organism is much more complex than constructing a house or baking a cake. This week I came across an idea for a new way to think about the genome—one that borrows from the field of artificial intelligence. Two researchers are arguing that we should think about it as being more like a generative model, a form of AI …
Earth's First Complex Life May Have Died Out | RealClearScience
WEB3 days ago · Abderrazzak El Albani. A group of scientists say they have found new evidence to back up their theory that complex life on Earth may have begun 1.5 billion years earlier than thought. The team, working in Gabon, say they discovered evidence deep within rocks showing environmental conditions for animal life 2.1 billion years ago.
The Muon Fails to Upend Physics as We Know It
WEB4 days ago · The Muon Fails to Upend Physics as We Know It. Another nail may seal the coffin of the muon as a venue for new physics. A team of physicists taking highly precise calculations of the muon’s properties in simulations found the particle’s properties more in line with the Standard Model than previously believed. You must be logged in to comment.
Hidden Structure of Prime Numbers Coming Into Focus
WEB3 days ago · Hidden Structure of Prime Numbers Is Coming Into Focus. Just as molecules are composed of atoms, in math, every natural number can be broken down into its prime factors—those that are divisible only by themselves and 1. Mathematicians want to understand how primes are distributed along the number line, in the hope of revealing …
The Best Quick Fix for Climate Change | RealClearScience
WEB5 days ago · The Best Quick Fix for Climate Change. Rob Jackson Wall Street Journal July 27, 2024. AP. If greenhouse gases were prizefighters, methane would be a heavyweight—a powerful puncher that tires quickly. Pound for pound, it is 90 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO 2) at warming the Earth. But it is also much shorter lived than CO 2, leaving ...
Picture of Human Origins in Africa Grows More Complex
WEB4 days ago · Picture of Human Origins in Africa Grows More Complex. For decades, scientists who studied early modern humans believed that our ancestors initially inhabited only small areas of Africa, the savannas of the eastern and southern part of the continent, and then moved north into Asia, Europe and beyond. In this view, early humans …
Seventh Patient 'Cured' of HIV: Scientists Are Excited
WEB5 days ago · Seventh Patient 'Cured' of HIV: Scientists Are Excited. A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant 1. But the man, who has been virus-free for close to six years, is only the second person to receive stem cells that are not resistant to ...