Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Huffingtonpost
EntertainmentBobby Caldwell, R&B Singer Of ‘What You Won’t Do For Love,’ Dead At 71Caldwell’s songs were covered and sampled by Boyz II Men, Michael Bolton, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Lil Nas X, Common and Chance the Rapper.By ANDREW DALTON, AP ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
If you were to meet a velociraptor, you wouldn’t be confronted with the tall, sleek and lizard-skinned beast from the hit Jurassic Park franchise. Instead, you would likely face off against a much smaller, feathery and colorful creature. Over the last few decades, scientists have learned a lot about what dinosaurs looked like — and that’s changing long-held beliefs. Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?One of the biggest recent changes, says Paul Barrett, a researcher with the Natural History Mu ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array of questions – from queries about the best Italian restaurant in town to explaining competing theories about the nature of evil.The technology’s uncanny writing ability has surfaced some old questions – until recently relegated to the realm of science fiction – about the possibility of machines becoming conscious, self-aware or sentient.In 2022, a Google engineer declared, after inte ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Based on research in France’s Mandrin cave, in February 2022 we published a study in the journal Science Advances that pushed back the earliest evidence of the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in Europe to 54,000 years ago – 11 millennia earlier than had been previously established.In the study, we described nine fossil teeth excavated from all the archeological layers in the cave. Eight were determined to be from Neanderthals, but one from one of the middle layers belonged to a paleo ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
When it comes to quantum technologies, computing has dominated headlines around the world. Computers that exploit the laws of quantum mechanics are significantly faster for several classes of problem than even the most powerful supercomputers.But behind the scenes other quantum technologies are emerging with the potential to revolutionize other areas of science. One of these technologies is quantum imaging, using the quantum properties of photons to enhance images.Now Lihong Wang and colleagues ...read more