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New study shows ants can hold grudges! 🐜 Researchers from the University of Freiburg found that ants remember past encounters with rival nests and adjust aggression levels accordingly. This suggests more complex cognitive abilities in ant behavior. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

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The Sombrero Galaxy taken by Hubble vs JWST

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The World Beekeeping Awards will have no award for honey this year. The reason, they're all spiked with sugar syrup. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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#MedSky🧪 #IDsky #CardioSky #immunoSky #publichealth As more evidences come out to the surface #SARSCOV2 infrection may caused endothelial dysfunction to stiffness 🩸vessels & #Covidheart link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A breakthrough, which allows polymers to be both stiff and stretchable, has potential applications in medical implants, wearable electronics, and soft robotics. Researchers at the University of Virginia have developed foldable bottlebrush polymer networks that decouple stiffness and stretchability.

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In the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary, what were once believed to only be canals were part of a Mesoamerican industrial aquaculture site feeding as many as 15,000 people. The fisheries were constructed by Archaic hunter-gatherer-fishers, almost 4000 years ago. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Forking over a pile of cash is psychologically different than swiping. Research from the University of Surrey reveals that physical cash fosters a stronger sense of psychological ownership and spending awareness compared to digital payments. www.surrey.ac.uk/news/cash-ki...

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Seeking altered states is core to the human experience. Researchers have identified psychotropic compounds in a 2nd century BCE Egyptian ritual Bes-vase. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Scientists have discovered new magnetic fields for fusion reactors that simplify designs. This allows them to optimize the field in pieces instead of trying to do it as a whole. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

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MassiveFold is an optimized version of AlphaFold that runs predictions in parallel. These improvement may reduce both the cost and runtime for predicting new protein structures. www.nature.com/articles/s43... github.com/GBLille/Mass...

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Great White Sharks can't see very well. So, they hunt on shape, surfer or seal. Counterillumination may form new shark deterrent technology. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Time lapse of #Jupiter with Europa shadow transit. Covers two hours of real time. 83 x 1500 x 15 ms RGB in Celestron 8" + 3x barlow + ADC.

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Ok algo: AI - ML - TTS Transport Tycoon - Dyson Sphere Program M365 - Azure - GCP - Security World News - US News Science - arxiv

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