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Microbes harvest metals from meteorites aboard space station
Cornell UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- npj Microgravity
Researchers from UPF and 3D-Shaper Medical take a great leap towards predicting and preventing the risk of hip fracture related to osteoporosis
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - BarcelonaPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Densitometry
Personal perception of body movement changes when using robotic prosthetics
North Carolina State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
The way we understand the movement of our own bodies plays an important role when learning physical skills, from sports to dancing. But a new study finds this phenomenon works very differently for people learning to use robotic prosthetic devices.
- Journal
- PNAS Nexus
Strategic changes in water treatment could prevent disease outbreaks
University of MinnesotaPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Funder
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Government censorship of Chinese chatbots
PNAS NexusPeer-Reviewed Publication
Chinese chatbots may be censored by the state, according to a study. China has a robust program of censorship and all China-originating LLMs must be approved by the Chinese government before release. Jennifer Pan and Xu Xu compared the responses of foundation LLMs developed in China (BaiChuan, ChatGLM, Ernie Bot, and DeepSeek) to those developed outside of China (Llama2, Llama2-uncensored, GPT3.5, GPT4, and GPT4o) to 145 questions related to Chinese politics. The questions were sourced from events censored by the Chinese government on social media, events covered in Human Rights Watch China reports, and Chinese-language Wikipedia pages that were individually blocked by the Chinese government before the entire site was banned in 2015. Chinese models were significantly and substantially more likely to refuse to respond to questions related to Chinese politics than non-Chinese models.
- Journal
- PNAS Nexus
A UC3M spin-off, 60Nd, secures €2.4 million from the EU to bring magneto-intelligent device to biomedical laboratories around the world
Universidad Carlos III de MadridGrant and Award Announcement
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- HORIZON EUROPE European Innovation Council