martedì 30 marzo 2021

# ai: how a bot could start playing experimentally (as if it were a video game)

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<< Inspired by the mastery of artificial intelligence (AI) over games like Go and Super Mario, scientists (..) trained an AI agent -- ...
venerdì 26 marzo 2021

# evol: ancient photosynthesis could be as old as life itself

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<< the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis,  (..) The finding also challenges expectations for...
mercoledì 24 marzo 2021

# life: a tiny pill against two unfavorable hypotheses on serial coronavirus pandemics - to avoid the socio-economic psycho-behavioral fallout caused by 1or2achoos (e.g. from Wuhan)

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<< Pfizer Inc. said it has begun human safety testing of a new pill to treat the coronavirus that could be used at the first sign of i...
lunedì 22 marzo 2021

# gst: weird nature: the generation of complex (frilly, flexible, and functional) wrinkling patterns by 'defects'

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<< A ubiquitous motif in nature is the self-similar hierarchical buckling of a thin lamina near its margins. This is seen in leaves, f...
sabato 20 marzo 2021

# gst: apropos of transitions among granular entities, the behavior of silicone-coated sand mixtures (the 'magic sand')

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<< Sand is a fascinating material. It can flow and be poured like a liquid, but retains many of the properties of solids, clogging pip...
mercoledì 17 marzo 2021

# phys: trace the birth and evolution of a quasiparticle entity

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<< The idea of quasiparticles was first introduced in the 1930s by physicist Lev Landau, who was trying to gain a better understanding...
lunedì 15 marzo 2021

# gst: an atomic imaging of a (slow) crack

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AA << successfully imaged the snapping of individual atomic bonds in a one-atom-thick sheet of rhenium disulfide ( ReS2) using scannin...