Science and Technology News: 27 October 2021

Latest Science Technology news:

1. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a concept that would make Martian rocket fuel, on Mars, that could be used to launch future astronauts back to Earth. GATech
2. The term “metaverse” seems to be everywhere. Facebook is hiring thousands of engineers in Europe to work on it, while video game companies are outlining their long-term visions for what some consider the next big thing online.
3. The study, published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters, reports that in the last 2.5 billion years, more heavy metals were produced in binary neutron star mergers, or collisions between two neutron stars, than in mergers between a neutron star and a black hole. Phys.org
4. After feedback from the community at large, Microsoft has reversed itself over the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repository
5. In the new study, the MIT team compared language-processing centers in the human brain with language-processing models. The researchers analyzed 43 different language models, including several that are optimized for next-word prediction. These include a model called GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3), which, given a prompt, can generate text similar to what a human would produce. Other models were designed to perform different language tasks, such as filling in a blank in a sentence. MIT
6. Scientists at NRL, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, published their Argon fluoride (ArF) laser fusion research findings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society last fall. Phys.org
7. A woman farmer from Kerala’s Kannur district has come up with an innovative practice to develop support roots in cashew trees to protect her senile cashew garden from devastating borer attacks and frequent cyclonic storms. Weather.com
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