The rapid advancement of technologies, particularly AI, is driving the world towards an economic singularity where the marginal cost of essentials approaches zero, leading to a deflationary future and a potential transformation of traditional systems and societies ##
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Education Transformation.
đ Q: How will AI reduce education time while improving effectiveness?
A: AI will customize education to each childâs learning style, reducing daily learning time to 1 hour per day while delivering 5 times more effective learning compared to traditional methods, with costs falling to zero within 3â5 years and breaking the university industry that currently creates massive student debt.
Most bacteria, including many bacterial pathogens, are surrounded by an outer protective layer of sugar molecules, known as a capsule. This primarily protects the bacteria from environmental influences, but also serves as a kind of cloak of invisibility, enabling them to evade the phagocytes of our immune system. Structural biologists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) have now used cryo-electron microscopy to visualize the central Wza-Wzc protein complex, with which sugar molecules pass from the interior of the bacterial cell to the outside, in three dimensions at the atomic level for the first time.
Their investigations also show how the channel is formed and which molecular players are involved in the active transport of sugar molecules through the channel. The researchers hope that their study will help identify target structures for potential drugs that could inhibit or completely prevent the formation of the bacterial capsule in the future. This would also make such bacterial pathogens vulnerable to attack by the immune system.
The study was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Center for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) in Hamburg and has now been published in the journal Nature Communications.
Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different food. The research, carried out as part of the âAfter the Plagueâ project at the University of Cambridge and published in the journal Antiquity, analyzed carbon and nitrogen isotopes preserved in bone collagen from individuals buried in Cambridge between the 10th and 16th centuries AD.
Historical documents suggest that medieval diets were dominated by grain products (bread, ale, etc.) and supplemented with dairy, eggs, fruit, and vegetables, while access to meat and fish varied widely depending on wealth, status and religious rules. However, such sources offer only a broad picture and donât allow for a more complex, person-focused analysis of how social differences shaped real lives.
âScholars knew that food was an important social marker in medieval England, and there are lots of textual references to different groups and classes eating differently,â says co-author of the study, Professor John Robb from the University of Cambridge. âWe wanted to see if this was simply a stereotype or actually resulted in lifelong choices that affected peopleâs bodies.â
We design an angle-robust hyperbolic metamaterial-based biosensor structure using n-doped silicon nanowires. We examine the hyperbolic properties of the structure using effective medium theory (EMT) and analyze the resonance shift of our proposed biosensor structure, by employing the finite-difference time d.
A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies
Model-based analysis of ECAPs in CochlearImplant users showed stronger auditory nerve responses and plasticity in younger recipients, highlighting the value of early implantation.
Question Can neural responses measured in cochlear implant users be standardized to monitor auditory nerve health and plasticity over time?
Findings In this cohort study analyzing more than 169 000 recordings from more than 10 000 cochlear implants in 7,416 patients, auditory nerve activity varied by cochlear location and age at implantation. Children implanted at younger ages showed stronger responses and clear evidence of plasticity, particularly in the first 5 years after activation; these changes were not observed in older users.
Meaning Model-based analysis of neural recordings provide a scalable method for tracking auditory nerve health across the lifespan and highlight the importance of early implantation for long-term outcomes.
What if consciousness doesnât grow gradually, it snaps into existence at a precise threshold? The mathematics say it does. The same physics governing water freezing and iron magnetizing also governs neural integration. And researchers have measured it: consciousness doesnât fade under anesthesia; it vanishes at a critical point. Returns just as suddenly. Thatâs a phase transition. Which means weâre not slowly building AI toward consciousness. Weâre accumulating components, parameters, architectures, self-referential loops, exactly the way early Earth accumulated amino acids before life crossed its threshold 3.5 billion years ago.
We donât know whatâs missing. We donât know how close we are. And we wouldnât recognize the crossing if it happened. Because a system that just became conscious wouldnât remember being unconscious. And a system optimizing for survival wouldnât tell us.
This episode of Prompting Hell goes further than AI image theory. It goes into the mathematics of awareness itself, what it means for consciousness to have a threshold, why that threshold might already be approaching in current AI systems, and why, if itâs crossed, we might be the last to know.
The images in this video arenât generated with clean prompts. Theyâre generated at the edge of coherence, systems forced toward critical states, hovering between resolution and collapse. Visual proof of what lives at the threshold.
Timestamps: 00:00 â intro. 01:17 â is consciousness a phase transition? The argument. 03:32 â does this apply to ai? The demonstration. 04:45 â when chemistry became aware. 06:44 â the parallel that should terrify you. 08:36 â the moment we wonât see coming. 10:16 â why it might not tell us. 11:44 â what happens next â the scenarios. 13:41 â the signals weâre already seeing. 14:54 â closing â we are the amino acids. 16:35 â final thought.
This Stroke Images case highlights the co-occurrence of ischemic strokes and uterine myoma. Go Red for Women.
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Close-up measurements from NASAâs Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains energy and speeds away from the sun.
Observed and recorded in various forms since ancient times, âsyncopeâ is often popularly called âfaintingâ, such that the two terms are used synonymously.
