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- AGI is far from inevitable https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/dont-believe-the-hype-agi-is-far-from-inevitable 243 comments
- Eventually everything will evaporate, not only black holes https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/eventually-everything-will-evaporate-not-only-black-holes 55 comments
- Diamagnetic Levitation (1997) https://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic-levitation/ 7 comments
- Dutch antennas unfolded behind the moon https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/imapp/astrophysics/2019/dutch-antennas-unfolded-behind-moon/ 21 comments
- Computer can read letters directly from the brain http://www.ru.nl/english/general/news_agenda/news/@910991/computer-can-read/ 32 comments
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- Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/dont-believe-the-hype-agi-is-far-from-inevitable 56 comments ai
- Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs) https://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/909275/draft-paper_1.pdf 3 comments cryptography , pdf , security
- Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/dont-believe-the-hype-agi-is-far-from-inevitable 396 comments technology
- Astronomers ask public to help find newly formed black holes https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/astronomers-ask-public-to-help-find-newly-formed-black-holes 10 comments astronomy
- Magnetic spins that ‘freeze’ when heated. Physicists observed a strange new type of behaviour in a magnetic material when it’s heated up. The magnetic spins ‘freeze’ into a static pattern when the temperature rises, a phenomenon that normally occurs when the temperature decreases. https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/magnetic-spins-that-freeze-when-heated-nature-in-the-wrong-direction 5 comments science
- The more the video quality of an online meeting degrades, the louder we start talking and also tend to change up their gestures to compensate https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/donders/2022/why-we-shout-during-zoom-calls-image-gets-blurry/ 17 comments science
- Researchers in 1997 managed to levitate acorns, insects and frogs using diamagnetic properties of water within them https://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic-levitation/ 14 comments science
- New “whirling” state of matter discovered in Neodymium, an element of the periodic table https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/imm/2020/new-whirling-state-matter-discovered-element/ 21 comments science
- Over the past 20 years, concentrations of pharmaceuticals have increased in freshwater sources all over the world, as research by environmental experts has revealed. Levels of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin have reached the point of potentially causing damaging ecological effects. https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/iwwr/2019/pharmaceutical-residues-fresh-water-pose-growing/ 3 comments science
- People are prepared to save a robot at the cost of human lives under certain conditions. When the robot was presented as a conscious being with its own thoughts, pain, and emotions, test subjects were less likely to sacrifice it in favour of anonymous people, finds a new study using moral dilemmas. https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/bsi/2019/what-value-robot-life/ 382 comments science
- Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs): "In reality, we found that many hardware implementations have critical security weaknesses, for many models allowing for complete recovery of the data without knowledge of any secret." https://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/909275/draft-paper_1.pdf 15 comments hardware
- Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs) https://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/909275/draft-paper_1.pdf 16 comments crypto
- Climate change is causing increases in the release of methane from aquatic environments across the planet. A 1°C increase in temperature is estimated to raise emissions of the potent greenhouse gas between 6 to 20%. http://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/iwwr/2017/methane-bubbles-effect-cause-rise-temperature/ 11 comments science
- Seeing life in fast-forward: Visual brain predicts future events based on past experience. The visual cortex was thought of as an area that determines what you perceive based on information coming from the eyes. Neuroscientists show that the area is also involved in the prediction of future events. http://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/donders/cognitive-neuroscience/2017/visual-brain-predicts-future-events/ 25 comments science
- Visual brain predicts future events based on past experience: For a long time, researchers thought of the visual cortex as a brain area that determines what you perceive based on information coming from the eyes. Neuroscientists now show that the area is also involved in predicting future events. http://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/donders/cognitive-neuroscience/2017/visual-brain-predicts-future-events/ 3 comments cogsci
- Volkswagen fraud: 44,000 healthy years lost in Europe - Radboud University http://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/vm/nature-environment/2016/volkswagen-fraud-44-000-healthy-years-lost-europe/ 16 comments science
- The Same Insecticide That's Killing Bees Is Also Killing Birds http://www.ru.nl/science/@944790/pagina/ 12 comments science
- Odors are expressible in language, as long as you speak the right language http://www.ru.nl/english/university/vm/news/@928888/odorscognitionmajid/ 23 comments linguistics
- Brain structure shows affinity with numbers: The structure of the brain shows the way in which we process numbers. People either do this spatially or non-spatially. A study shows for the first time that these individual differences have a structural basis in the brain. http://www.ru.nl/english/university/vm/news/@927501/brain-structure-2013/ 54 comments science
- Who learns from the carrot, and who from the stick? Scientist have demonstrated that serotonin and dopamine related genes influence how we base our choices on past punishments or rewards. This influence depends on which gene variant you inherited from your parents. http://www.ru.nl/english/current/news/@925794/who-learns-from/ 30 comments science
- Computer can read letters directly from the brain http://www.ru.nl/english/general/news_agenda/news/@910991/computer-can-read/ 3 comments technology
- Computer can read letters directly from the brain http://www.ru.nl/english/general/news_agenda/news/@910991/computer-can-read/ 34 comments science
- Discovery: New peatland bacteria feed on greenhouse gas and excess fertilizer. Could be used in water treatment. http://www.ru.nl/english/general/news_agenda/news/redactionele/new-peatland/ 79 comments science
- GPU-based Password Cracking [PDF] http://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/578936/thesis.pdf 2 comments netsec
- High Field Magnet Laboratory - The Frog That Learned to Fly - www.ru.nl http://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic/ 4 comments science