Research: Nearly half of tap water in the United States is contaminated with permanent chemical PFAS
[First hand information] 2 hours agoNickel is an indispensable part of life, used in stainless steel, mobile phones, and electric vehicle batteries. As the world shifts towards more environmentally friendly cars, it is expected that the demand for metals will increase significantly...
Researchers of You'an Hospital questioned the real world research of Xiangya: is Azvudine really a magic drug?
Previously, several researchers from Xiangya Hospital made unremitting efforts to use the data of the same group of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Xiangya, left to right, and issued three papers to demonstrate that Azvudine is effective in COVID-19 patients, not only effective, but also more effective than P drug.When we tested the data, we found that the data of the same group of patients were contradictory in several papers, which made the reliability of these studies quite suspicious (suspected fraud! Tear off the mask of Azvudine's effectiveness in the real world)...
GPT-4 hybrid large model? Research has proven that MoE+instruction tuning does indeed outperform large models
Machine Heart ReportEditor: Xiaozhou, Chen PingGoogle, UC Berkeley, and others have proven that MoE+instruction tuning has worked 1+1> The effect of 2.Since the introduction of GPT-4, people have been amazed by its powerful emergence ability, including excellent language comprehension, generative ability, logical reasoning ability, and so on...
US tap water is generally contaminated with toxic PFAS, and research warns of health risks
The new research report issued by the United States Geological Survey shows that at least 45% of tap water in the United States contains toxic perfluorinated and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These substances are not easily degraded in the environment and human body, and are also known as "permanent chemicals"...
Research shows that curly hair is crucial for human brain development
Reported on Reference News Network on July 5thAccording to the website of Newsweek on June 27th, scientists have found that curly hair may be the key to the development of such a large human brain.A research paper published by researchers at Pennsylvania State University analyzed how human hair texture helps regulate body temperature...
Help Quantum technology! After Nature, the scientific research team of Wuhan University will release Science again!
Recently,SciencePublished in ScienceWuhan UniversityThe latest research results of Yuan Shengjun's team from the School of Physical Science and Technology on the Rydberg Morr excitons. The title of the paper is(Discovering the Rydberg Moore exciton)...
From the Steep Waterway to the Golden Waterway - Record the Scientific Research Achievements of the Three Gorges Ship Lock Cascade Navigation Series
The Three Gorges Water Control Project. Lin Hai PhotographyIn July, the Three Gorges Dam is often shrouded in clouds...
The largest cloud based research and intelligent computing platform for Chinese universities has been launched, and the public cloud model has significantly improved the efficiency of computing power utilization
On June 27th, the largest cloud based research and intelligent computing platform CFFF (Computing for the Future at Fudan) in Chinese universities was officially launched at Fudan University. This scientific research "supercomputer" built to discover and solve complex scientific problems was jointly built by Fudan University and Alibaba Cloud...
The Fourth "Tsinghua University National Strong Research Institute Cup" Global AI and Robot Innovation Competition Launched in Beijing
Guangming Network NewsOn June 20th, the launch ceremony of the 4th "Tsinghua University National Strong Research Institute Cup" Global AI and Robot Innovation Competition was held at Tsinghua University.Speech by Liu Yiqun, Dean of the Research Institute of Tsinghua UniversitySpeech by Liu Yiqun, Dean of the Research Institute of Tsinghua University Zhang Yaoxue, Academician of the CAE Member and Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Tsinghua University, delivered a speechZhang Yaoxue, academician of the CAE Member, president of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Tsinghua University, and chief consultant of the event, delivered a speech as a consultant expert representative...
Every 6 months in the future? Research points out that each person is infected 2-3 times a year or becomes normal!
On June 13, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission released the epidemic situation in the 23rd week. From June 5 to 11, Beijing reported 16 969 cases of 14 Notifiable disease, and 5 deaths...
Shanxi: Build 500 new research and development institutions by 2025
Science and Technology Daily, Taiyuan, June 15 (Reporter Han Rong) The reporter learned from the Department of Science and Technology of Shanxi Province on the 15th that the Carbon based Film Electronics Research Institute of Shanxi Beida and the Energy Internet Research Institute of Shanxi Province have recently passed the accreditation and become the first batch of provincial new research and development institutions in 2023 in Shanxi Province. The relevant person in charge of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology stated that the recognition of two new research and development institutions is an important step towards achieving the construction of 500 new research and development institutions in Shanxi Province by 2025...
Progress in research on broad-spectrum disease resistance genes in rice in China
Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, June 15 (Reporter Li Wei, Xiong Xianghe) The reporter learned from Huazhong Agricultural University that Professor Li Guotian's team had discovered a new rice broad-spectrum disease resistance gene RBL12. The field experiment results showed that RBL12 could recover about 40% of the yield loss in the case of rice blast disease in the field...