'Lunar Bricks' for Future Lunar Base Construction

Chinese researchers used a lunar soil simulant to make "lunar bricks" that are more than three times stronger than the standard red bricks or concrete bricks. This breakthrough is promising for constructing strong lunar bases in the future.

Multimodal Model Emu 3 Unifies Video, Image and Text

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence released Emu3, a multimodal world model that unifies the understanding and generation of text, image, and video modalities with next-token prediction. It can serve as a powerful paradigm for multimodal models, going beyond language models and delivering state-of-the-art performance across multimodal tasks.

124 New Mineral Deposits Discovered

The Ministry of Natural Resources has released the China Mineral Resources 2024 report. According to it, by the end of 2023, 173 kinds of minerals had been discovered in China, and 124 new mineral deposits were discovered last year.

Human Skin 'Map' Created

Researchers from the UK Wellcome Sanger Institute and Australian Newcastle University used single cell sequencing and other genomics techniques to create a human skin atlas and uncover how human skin, including hair follicles, is formed. These insights could be used to create new hair follicles in regenerative medicine and skin transplants for burn victims.

Flexible Sensors Enable Health Monitoring

A research team led by Hokkaido University and the University of Tokyo in Japan has created a flexible multimodal wearable sensor patch and developed corresponding edge computing software. The software, which can be installed on a smartphone, analyzes the data collected by the sensors to monitor the user for conditions such as arrhythmias, coughs and falls.