Technology

On the occasion of its centenary, IBM presented Watson in 2011, an artificial intelligence computer system capable of answering questions asked in natural language. It was named after the founder and first president of IBM, Thomas J. Watson. Now, the agency DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which hosted the development of Watson, has released a free and open source version of this supercomputer: “Deep Dive”.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is the only satellite in our solar system with a dense atmosphere, rivers and shallow seas, although the latter are made up of liquid hydrocarbons such as ethane and methane.

Gamma-ray bursts could play a key role, much more important than previously suspected, in the development of life, both on Earth and on other planets.

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has discovered that the water vapor from the comet in which the Philae robotic probe, 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is found, is significantly different from that which exists on Earth. This finding, published in the journal Science, opens an important question about the origin of the oceans on our planet.

Maotianshan schists are a real box of surprises for paleontologists In this geological area of southern China, also known as Chengjiang biota, numerous fossils have been unearthed more than 500 million years old.

One of the most active meteor showers of the year is here: the Geminids. The cycle of this particular shower of high intensity stars is from Sunday, December 7 to 17, being the best day for viewing the night-early morning of Saturday, December 13 to Sunday, December 14, since it will be the time of greatest apogee and for both the one with the most number of meteors per hour in the sky.

A team of researchers from the University of Rochester in New York (USA) has confirmed that injecting glial cells into the brain of mice causes a significant improvement in both memory and cognition in the rodent. The work has been published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

A team of biomedical engineers from Washington University in St. Louis (USA) has created the fastest 2D camera in the world, managing to capture up to 100,000 million frames per second. This technological milestone has been collected by the journal Nature.