Re-release: Microgravity Gardening, AI Learns Language, Elephant Numbers

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about the possible dangers of growing leafy greens in microgravity, a study that let AI tag along with a toddler to learn language the human way, and research on stabilizing elephant populations on the African savannah.

Microgravity Gardening

•“Simulated microgravity facilitates stomatal ingression by Salmonella in lettuce and suppresses a biocontrol agent.” by Noah Totsline, et al. 2024.

•“The Future.” NASA. N.D.

•“What will astronauts eat during long missions in space?” Leidos. 2023.

AI Learns Language

•“AI learns language through the experience of a single child in groundbreaking study.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.

•“Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child.” by Wai Keen Vong, et al. 2024.

Elephant Numbers

•“Protecting and connecting landscapes stabilizes populations of the Endangered savannah elephant.” by Ryan M. Huang, et al. 2024.

•“The African Savanna.” by Michael Swiderek. 2021.

•“Africa’s great savannahs may be more endangered than the world’s rainforests.” by Jeremy Hance. 2012.

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1:05.7	Today, you'll learn about the possible dangers of growing leafy greens in microgravity,
1:13.0	a study that let AI tag along with a toddler to learn language the human way, and research on stabilizing elephant populations
1:18.1	on the African savanna.
1:19.9	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
1:23.4	As NASA gets set to send humans back to the moon in upcoming Artemis missions,
1:31.8	humans have already started looking beyond the moon to Mars and even beyond that.
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