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The protein changes observed in a group of trans women after gender-affirming hormone treatment were similar to what is seen in cis women re

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While scanning the frozen surface of northwestern Greenland this year, NASA scientists stumbled across a "city under the ice" from the paranoid years of the Cold War.

The structure was Camp Century, an abandoned Arctic military research base run by the US between 1959 and 1967 during the Cold War. It was the hub of Project Iceworm, a plan to install a network of nuclear missile launch sites hidden amid the Arctic Ice Sheet that could survive a first strike from the Soviet Union.

Nuclear missiles never made it to the camp, fortunately, because they couldn’t get permission from the Danish government, which still holds sovereignty over Greenland. However, the complex was powered by a nuclear reactor, which left behind a large amount of radioactive debris, as well as loads of chemical and biological waste.

IFL Science's most recent item on this is here: https://www.iflscience.com/a-nuclear-city-under-the-ice-revealed-by-nasa-scans-over-greenland-76983 - and a background feature posted in 2016, is here: https://www.iflscience.com/top-secret-cold-war-nuclear-missile-base-unearthed-by-climate-change-37242

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this is the 2019 photo of messier 87's supermassive black hole, and then the same image sharpened by PRIMO; an AI.

THIS is what AI should be used for, and shows the scientific potential of AI. here's the article that explains in much more detail HOW they did this and ALSO links to the actual paper published in the past day or so.

ai is about the training, and biases are important to remember. ai art is not right, and this doesn't change that. it just shows that when trained correctly, it can find amazing details and help scientists so much. our special interest is space, and always has been, so this [the image of the supermassive black hole in the first place, as well as the new study published] has been fascinating to see in real time.