Garden catalog season gives gardeners a chance to explore, shop for next year’s seeds

January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently and en masse. “It used to be you would get either a vegetable catalog or a fruit catalog or flower catalog,” says Richard Hentschel, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. “Many catalogs now contain something for everyone, including the garden gadget addicts.” It used to be that Swiss chard was green, but now it is also available in shades of pink, orange, yellow, gold, white and purple. Illinois gardeners should…

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics Catalog lineup for July 2023 announced

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced the July 2023 Game Catalog lineup for Extra and Premium subscribers, and Classics Catalog titles for Premium subscribers. Get the details below. All titles will be available from July 18. Catalog Games The Ascents (PS5, PS4) – Meet new allies and enemies and find loot as you explore the brimming cyberpunk world of action–shooter RPG The Ascents. Aim low or high, switch weapons and equip lethal gadgets, take cover and use the destructive environment to your advantage and keep adjusting your tactics as you face new enemies. Customize your character with cyberware that suits …

Would You Press a Button on an Extraterrestrial Gadget?

In my last class before the summer break, I asked all students in the classroom: “If you were to recover an extraterrestrial gadget, would you press its buttons?” This question is relevant as I prepare to lead the Galileo Project team on an expedition to retrieve the relics from the first interstellar meter, IM1, in the Pacific Ocean. The material strength of this meteor was higher than all other 272 meteors in the CNEOS catalog of NASA, so there is a chance that we will recover a large piece of it – as suggested in a recent paper that I…

Garden catalog season gives gardeners a chance to explore, shop for next year’s seeds

January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently and en masse. “It used to be you would get either a vegetable catalog or a fruit catalog or flower catalog,” says Richard Hentschel, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. “Many catalogs now contain something for everyone, including the garden gadget addicts.” It used to be that Swiss chard was green, but now it is also available in shades of pink, orange, yellow, gold, white and purple. Illinois gardeners should…

How Artificial Intelligence is helping in drug development

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd, Japan and Exscientia Ltd., UK have announced the Phase I clinical trial of DSP-1181, a drug created using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The drug aims to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The trial begins in Japan from March 2020. The company claims it is the first instance of using AI to develop a drug that’s been tested on humans. Pharmaceutical expertise was contributed by Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma. Exscientia, on the other hand, provides the technology by using its Centaur Chemist AI platform. In another instance, Deep Genomics, a Canadian company, had announced that it had used AI…

Garden catalog season gives gardeners a chance to explore, shop for next year’s seeds

January begins the annual flight of vegetable, flower, and fruit tree catalogs to your mailbox or inbox. Depending on your level of gardening, the catalogs are starting to arrive frequently and en masse. “It used to be you would get either a vegetable catalog or a fruit catalog or flower catalog,” says Richard Hentschel, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator. “Many catalogs now contain something for everyone, including the garden gadget addicts.” It used to be that Swiss chard was green, but now it is also available in shades of pink, orange, yellow, gold, white and purple. Illinois gardeners should…