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Whiskers are clipped in mice nearing 16 days of age, causing social impairment. This symptom is quite similar to autism in humans. The research by the Zhejiang University team found that 12-16 days after birth in mice is a critical period for the formation of brain circuits related to the whisker tactile system. Artificially cutting […]

The Nikkei reported that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Institute of Science, Technology and Academic Policy analyzed the number of papers in major countries based on data from the British research firm Clarivate. Due to huge fluctuations, the data for 2019 (average from 2018 to 2020) are calculated on a 3-year

Google launched a campaign to pressure Apple to adopt the RCS standard . RCS, which stands for Rich Communication Services, supports more functions than SMS or MMS, such as group chat, and is compatible with messaging applications from operators and manufacturers that use the RCS standard. Google created the website Get The Message , which

The U.S. on Monday announced sanctions on coin mixer Tornado Cash, barring U.S. individuals and entities from engaging in any transactions with it. In accordance with U.S. regulatory requirements, GitHub subsequently deleted the account of the project developer. In an apparent effort to create regulatory trouble , an anonymous user sent 0.1 ETH to a

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 has an encryption bug that can cause data loss to run slowly . The issue primarily affects recent Windows devices that support the Vector Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (VAES) instruction set. VAES is part of the AVX-512 instruction set, which is supported on Intel’s Ice Lake, Tiger Lake, Rocket

Humans sleep in two modes: rapid eye movement sleep (REM) and non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM). During REM sleep, the eyeballs move rapidly while the body muscles relax, and the brain’s neurons are active in the same way as during waking, and dreams usually occur during this phase. REM sleep is common in vertebrates. According

In 1963 mathematician Roy Kerr discovered an exact solution to Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The solution known today as the Kerr black hole/Kerr metric describes the spacetime geometry of the vacuum region surrounding a rotating, spherically symmetric massive object such as a black hole. Researchers have been trying to prove mathematically that Kerr black

Electric cars collect a lot of data, but who actually owns the data ? In the case of Tesla, for each trip, the car records the complete driving track, GPS coordinates and other records for each mile. Tesla claims to anonymize the data it collects, but researchers who reverse-engineered Autopilot’s data collection found that de-anonymization

The federal government is investigating whether Tesla’s Autopilot system can safely identify motorcycles after two fatal crashes. The California regulator, the Department of Motor Vehicles, accused Tesla of making false claims about its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technologies. The first of the two crashes occurred in the early hours of July 7 in Riverside, California,

A COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech and Pfizer targeting variants of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subtypes will enter clinical trials this month, and BioNTech expects to begin delivering the vaccine as early as October. Chief Medical Officer Özlem Türeci said data from studies in mice showed that vaccines against BA.4 and BA.5 elicited stronger immune

Three electricians were seriously injured in an “electrical accident” at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The accident occurred at 11:59 a.m. local time Monday when three electricians suffered an arc flash (electrical explosion) while working at a substation near the data center building, resulting in three serious burns. One was taken by

Houses of cards choreographed around Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger are falling : the company’s chips are stuck on a 10-nanometer process; desktop CPUs consume astonishingly; Strong processors don’t lag. Intel once dominated the data center market, but the release of its ambitious data center processor Sapphire Rapid has been delayed: at the earliest in mid-2021,

DeepMind announced last month the release of predicted structures for all known proteins, with more than 200 million data in its protein structure database, AlphaFold DB. Will this breakthrough have a revolutionary impact on new drug development? Dr. Derek Lowe, who has worked in several large pharmaceutical companies, gave a negative answer . He points