MAJOR DEPRESSION ON THE RISE AMONG EVERYONE, NEW DATA SHOWS
What’s behind the increase? Kids and young adults, especially, feel rushed and pressured, Williams said. The highest percentage of major depression diagnoses were among people aged 35 to 49. The survey found 5.8 percent of 35-to 49-year-olds had major depression in 2016, compared to 4.6 percent three years before. Perhaps most troubling is the high rate of children and young adults who have depression, the report said. Many years of risk lie ahead if they do not get treatment, which can include medication, therapy or both.
Read moreAI TRAINED TO NAVIGATE DEVELOPS BRAIN-LIKE LOCATION TRACKING
Now that DeepMind has solved Go, the company is applying DeepMind to navigation. Navigation relies on knowing where you are in space relative to your surroundings and continually updating that knowledge as you move. DeepMind scientists trained neural networks to navigate like this in a square arena, mimicking the paths that foraging rats took as they explored the space. The networks got information about the rat’s speed, head direction, distance from the walls, and other details.
Read moreEMAILS SHOW FDA CHEMISTS HAVE BEEN FINDING GLYPHOSATE IN FOOD
First, some background: Glyphosate, which is commonly sold by Monsanto under the brand name Roundup, is the most widely-used pesticide in the United States; it is an herbicide most often used to kill weeds. The EPA is responsible for setting maximum limits for pesticides, and the FDA tests food to make sure those limits are not exceeded. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were quickly filed, and the newest set, this one by thenon-profit food industry research groupUS
Read moreALLEN INTEGRATED CELL IS A POWERFUL TOOL FOR VISUALIZING BIOLOGY IN 3D
What does a cell look like? If you had to draw one, you’d probably do the usual thing: a sort of fried egg with a nucleus yolk and a couple of ribosomes peppered around, maybe a rough endoplasmic reticulum if you’re fancy. But cells are vastly more complicated than that, not to mention three-dimensional. Allen Integrated Cell is a new tool that lets anyone visualize cells the way they actually exist in the body.
Read moreINTEL STARTS R&D EFFORT IN PROBABILISTIC COMPUTING FOR AI
Intel announced today that it is forming a strategic research alliance to take artificial intelligence to the next level. Autonomous systems don’t have good enough ways to respond to the uncertainties of the real world, and they don’t have a good enough way to understand how the uncertainties of their sensors should factor into the decisions they need to make. According to Intel CTO Mike Mayberry the answer is “probabilistic computing”, which he says could be AI’s next wave.
Read moreSCIENTISTS WANT TO STUDY EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES FOR SIGNS OF ALIEN LIFE
Most exoplanet hunting telescopes are only able to tell basic things about a planet like its mass or distance from its host star, but a new generation of exoplanet telescopes like PLATO promise to reveal their subjects detail, including the composition of their atmospheres. The question, then, is what sorts of atmospheric markers would indicate the presence of extraterrestrial life? In a new paper published Wednesday in Astrophysical Journal Letters, University of California-Riverside planetary scientist Stephanie Olson outlined a dynamic framework for detecting life based on how the composition of exoplanet atmospheres change during the seasons.
Read moreAPPLE WILL REPORTEDLY LAUNCH A CREDIT CARD WITH GOLDMAN SACHS
Apple is preparing to release a credit card in partnership with investment bank Goldman Sachs, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The new credit card — which marks the end of Apple’s credit card partnership with Barclays — would use the Apple Pay branding, and it’s expected to be released early next year. Goldman Sachs will also offer in-store loans to Apple customers, according to the report.
Read moreSCIENTISTS MADE A WORKING INVISIBILITY CLOAK (BUT THERE’S A CATCH)
Whether the invisibility cloak in Harry Potter, the cloaking device in Star Trek, or the various government agencies investing in invisibility R&D, humans have long fantasized about technology capable of rendering one undetectable. Scientists have been working at actually making this fantasy a reality, and a group of researchers was recently successful. Amanda D. Hanford, a researcher at Pennsylvania State University, and her colleagues made a design for an underwater cloaking device that uses metamaterials—synthetic composites that have structural components not found in nature—to obscure objects.
Read moreWATCH THESE TRIPPY NASA VISUALIZATIONS OF SPACE MAGNETISM
Earth is a giant magnet, and the field that surrounds it, called the magnetosphere, is one of the major reasons life on our planet has been able to flourish. But despite its crucial role in warding off cosmic radiation and atmospheric loss, there’s a lot we don’t know about the magnetosphere. That’s why in March 2015, NASA launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), a fleet of four spacecraft, to study its secrets.
Read moreGOOGLE’S NEW CONVERSATIONAL AI COULD EVENTUALLY UNDERMINE OUR SENSE OF IDENTITY
At Google’s annual Google I/O developer conference, the search giant showcased a number of impressive implementations of artificial intelligence. One demonstration showed how Google Assistant could autonomously book a haircut and make a dinner reservation with some convincing machine to human conversations. Impressive, but what happens if Google Assistant eventually learns how to masquerade as its owner? Source: co.uk