Migraines are throbbing headaches[1] often accompanied by nausea and increased sensitivity to light, sound and touch. Nearly 30 million Americans[2] suffer from migraines, and almost 1 in 4 of them[3] have at least four severe attacks each month. Three times as many women[4] suffer from migraine headaches as men, and this disparity is even...
AIs encode language like brains do − opening a window on human conversations
Language enables people to transmit thoughts to each other because each person’s brain responds similarly to the meaning of words. In our newly published research[1], my colleagues[2] and I[3] developed a framework to model the brain activity of speakers as they engaged in face-to-face conversations.
We recorded the electrical activity of two...
The struggle to tell real humans from fake
CAPTCHAs are those now ubiquitous challenges you encounter to prove that you’re a human and not a bot when you go to log in to many websites.
Websites and mobile apps have long been attacked by bots on a massive scale[1]. Those malicious bots[2] are programmed to automatically consume a large amount of computing resources, post spam...
Read more https://theconversation.com/captchas-the-struggle-to-tell-real-humans-from-fake-232369
Wildfires can create their own weather, including tornado-like fire whirls − an atmospheric scientist explains how
Wildfire blowups[1], fire whirls, towering thunderstorms: When fires get large and hot enough, they can actually create their own weather.
In these extreme fire situations[2], firefighters’ ordinary methods to directly control the fire don’t work, and wildfires burn out of control. Firefighters have seen many of these risks in the enormous...