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The future of surgery just scrubbed in. In a groundbreaking medical first, robots designed to move and function like humans have performed surgery on a live patient, successfully completing two laparoscopic gallbladder removals. The breakthrough offers a peek at a future where these advanced machines could help bridge gaps in healthcare — easing surgeon shortages,…

Image credit: By Jeff Dahl – Own work by uploader, Based on the public domain document: [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, Link By Stephanie Parker This research from the NeuroAI Lab of Martin Schrimpf, part of EPFL’s Schools of Computer and Communication Sciences and Life Sciences, uses AI models to predict exactly where to stimulate the…

Hi everyone, I've been working independently on a recurrent architecture called **DABSN (Dynamic Adaptive Bias State Network)** for the past several months, and I finally reached the point where I feel comfortable sharing the first preprint. The paper is mainly about the architecture itself and its behavior on reasoning, memory, and long-sequence benchmarks (MQAR, Copy,…

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have uncovered evidence that the thymus, a small immune system organ long thought to lose its importance after childhood, may play a major role in adult health. Two new studies found that adults with healthier thymuses were more likely to live longer and less likely to develop serious diseases. The…

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For all the complaints I have about social media, with its ceaseless extrusion of trash into cultural and political spaces, I have to admit that when the algorithm gets something right, it really gets it right. And in my case one thing it has been getting very right in recent months is making sure that…