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“Scientists at Duke University say they've unlocked the mystery of how herpes simplex 1 slips into dormancy and stays dormant -- evading the drugs that might otherwise wipe it out.”
posted 6 hours ago in science, biology3 views | 1 jaa | reply )
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So that you don't undervalue scientific truth when you learn it, just because it doesn't seem to be protected appropriately to its value. Imagine the robes and masks. Visualize yourself creeping into the vaults and stealing the Lost Knowledge of more...
posted 3 months ago in science, humor28 views | 6 jaas | 1 save | reply )
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"Talking Hands" takes readers to a place like nowhere else on earth: the village of Al-Sayyid, a remote Bedouin community in Israel where everyone "speaks” sign language. There, scientists are discovering the essential ingredients of all human language - and more...
posted 3 days ago in brain, research, interesting5 views | 2 jaas | reply )
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posted 2 weeks ago in funny, tech, computer28 views | 2 jaas | 2 replies )
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“To begin with, let's get things straight and admit up front that Godzilla is not a real animal, nor was it ever. It's an unfeasibly big late-surviving dinosaur (belonging to the hypothetical taxon Godzillasaurus, according to some), mutated by radiation, more...
posted 2 days ago in physics, zoology, science1 view | 1 jaa | reply )
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“Character animation in video games—whether manually key-framed or motion captured—has traditionally relied on codifying skeletons early in a game's development, and creating animations rigidly tied to these fixed skeleton morphologies. This paper introduces a novel system for animating characters wh more...
posted 2 weeks ago in programming, games, graphics21 views | 6 jaas | 1 tag | 3 saves | reply )
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“Just go see it. I don't know how Pixar will be able to top this one. It took my breath away scene after scene. In some moments I started to tear up at the sheer lyrical beauty of it. I more...
posted 3 days ago in art, entertainment21 views | 2 jaas | 1 tag | reply )
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in-degree/out-degree distribution of the Wikipedia's hyperlink graph in logarithmic coordinates. The distribution follows a simple geometric pattern (an "ant-hill").
posted 3 months ago in wikipedia, search22 views | 10 jaas | 1 tag | reply )
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I put up a small survey - will let you know the results in a week, I promise! Please take this minute to answer just 6 short questions.
posted 2 weeks ago in information, science, web-2.015 views | 3 jaas | 2 tags | reply )
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“Making a dent in the climate crisis is going to take more than solar panels and recycled toilet paper.”
posted 1 week ago in science, future14 views | 2 jaas | 1 reply )
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Boston Dynamics keeps working on their BigDog quadruped robot, which will probably grow to be the future AT-AT of the Pentagon. See it climb through rubble, snow, jump over obstacles like a wild goat, and save a near-fall on iced more...
posted 3 months ago in ai, robots, youtube25 views | 18 jaas | 1 tag | 3 saves | reply )
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“When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead."”
posted 2 months ago in scifi, science23 views | 4 jaas | reply )
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“A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells.”
posted 2 weeks ago in science, health7 views | 3 jaas | reply )

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