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1 The French Agency for Biodiversity (AFB) warned Monday on threats to the living, accusing including pesticides.
“Farm bird species have disappeared at an alarming rate for 30 years,” says Julien Massetti, project manager at AFB, describing a decline in these species by 30% over the last 30 years.
This decline also affects city birds, bats but also fish that live between sea and fresh water, such as eel and Atlantic salmon.
2 New research reveals that spider silk could increase the effectiveness of vaccines.
This silk — a long chain of light protein, resistant, but especially biocompatible and biodegradable — could be recreated in the laboratory. What allow scientists to integrate a peptide with vaccine properties.
This artificial silk is then rolled up to form injectable nanoparticles. Microparticles able to travel through the body to the heart of lymph node cells.
3 The AI developed by Google DeepMind would be able to create 3D objects from 2D images.
The Generative Query Network (GQN) could generate 3D models of objects and scenes from 2D photos, all without prior human supervision. This new algorithm works in the same way the human brain processes visual information and creates a representation of the physical environment.
DeepMind hopes that eventually this work will create artificial intelligence capable of apprehending the physical environment without researchers having to water a huge amount of data.
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