The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden
25.02.2026 01:09
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Imagine rewinding the tape of life. You go back past the dinosaurs, past the explosion of animal life in the Cambrian, past the first multicellular blobs, all the way back to a single, microscopic speck floating in a primordial ocean about four billion years ago.
Scientists call this speck LUCA…⇩
Worried AI means you won’t get a job when you graduate?
Lukasz Swiatek of the University of New South Wales Sydney discusses what advancement in technologies might mean for future graduates
💬 A must-read article by @draehernandez.bsky.social:
“Researchers have documented dozens of recent cases where deepfakes played a central role in online fraud. In several instances, high-ranking government officials appeared on social media endorsing questionable investments—though neither their words nor gestures were genuine.”
A new study into how different parts of memory work in the brain has shown that the same brain areas are involved in retrieving different types of information, the findings could redefine how memory is understood and studied.
Simple method can enable early detection and prevention of chronic kidney disease
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COVID-19 still claims more than 100,000 US lives each year
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Your genes determine how fast your DNA mutates with age, study shows
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Ozempic and Wegovy might help people avoid colon cancer as well as promote weight loss or control diabetes, a new study says.
Murder victim discovered to have two sets of DNA due to rare condition
www.newscientist.com/article/2507... #medsky #dna #chimerism
The Virtual Classroom Is Wishing You A Happy New Year!
Biology-inspired brain model matches animal learning and reveals overlooked neuron activity
New for @newscientist.com:
Variants in at least 259 genes contribute to people's risk of developing #ChronicFatigueSyndrome, or #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis (ME/CFS).
Almost half of them have also been linked to #LongCovid.
https://loom.ly/_QjfGG8
He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing
A scientist’s unconventional project illustrates many challenges in developing new vaccines: www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...
“The only conclusion I could arrive at is that it is an application for businesses and individuals whose job it is to produce lengthy, seemingly accurate reports that no one will actually read…It is designed to produce the appearance of research, without any actual research happening along the way.”
Pro tip: next time you invite an academic to give a talk, put them up in a nice resort hotel afterwards. The room should contain a photo of the speaker in mid-spiel. The photo should be made of fine chocolate.
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UK to rejoin Erasmus+: “an excellent early Christmas gift,” says president of @eua.eu, Josep Garrell.
@sophieatrpn.bsky.social reports via @resprofnews.bsky.social
How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And how did we suddenly jump from eating Easter eggs to putting up Christmas trees?
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Simple Supplement Combo Could Help Fight Deadly Brain Cancer
In Praise of Experts
“AI is about to flood the internet (and the scientific literature) with even more content. Some of it will be brilliant…Much of it will be mediocre. A lot of it will be confidently wrong.…The risk is that we end up…where nonsense begets more nonsense…passed off as insight.”
