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🎙️ Host of Curiosity Weekly for Discovery
📺 Science Expert on CTV’s The Good Stuff
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instagram.com/science.sam
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Thanks for sharing this! It was a STEM-themed gingerbread house too 🥰
Isomalt windows, dry ice “smoke” on the chimney, and a homemade circuit lighting up the tree out front
Isomalt windows, dry ice “smoke” on the chimney, and a homemade circuit lighting up the tree out front
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Thanks for sharing this! It was a STEM-themed gingerbread house too 🥰
Isomalt windows, dry ice “smoke” on the chimney, and a homemade circuit lighting up the tree out front
Isomalt windows, dry ice “smoke” on the chimney, and a homemade circuit lighting up the tree out front
Researchers have previously decoded brain activity representing words or images before, and even a word or two for videos.
But this study takes a step in getting more accurate longer descriptions based on mental representations of video, which are quite complex!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
But this study takes a step in getting more accurate longer descriptions based on mental representations of video, which are quite complex!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity
Nonverbal thoughts can be translated into verbal descriptions by aligning semantic representations between text and the brain.
www.science.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Researchers have previously decoded brain activity representing words or images before, and even a word or two for videos.
But this study takes a step in getting more accurate longer descriptions based on mental representations of video, which are quite complex!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
But this study takes a step in getting more accurate longer descriptions based on mental representations of video, which are quite complex!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
You can see more results below.
LEFT: The videos shown to participants are on the left.
RIGHT: the AI's descriptions after 100 iterations interpreting brain activity from each of the 6 participants.
LEFT: The videos shown to participants are on the left.
RIGHT: the AI's descriptions after 100 iterations interpreting brain activity from each of the 6 participants.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You can see more results below.
LEFT: The videos shown to participants are on the left.
RIGHT: the AI's descriptions after 100 iterations interpreting brain activity from each of the 6 participants.
LEFT: The videos shown to participants are on the left.
RIGHT: the AI's descriptions after 100 iterations interpreting brain activity from each of the 6 participants.
This is part of ongoing efforts to improve interpretation tools for people with language difficulties like aphasias.
The researchers had 6 different people watch or recall videos while getting an fMRI. Then they tested whether a suite of AI tools could translate the fMRI data into descriptive text.
The researchers had 6 different people watch or recall videos while getting an fMRI. Then they tested whether a suite of AI tools could translate the fMRI data into descriptive text.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is part of ongoing efforts to improve interpretation tools for people with language difficulties like aphasias.
The researchers had 6 different people watch or recall videos while getting an fMRI. Then they tested whether a suite of AI tools could translate the fMRI data into descriptive text.
The researchers had 6 different people watch or recall videos while getting an fMRI. Then they tested whether a suite of AI tools could translate the fMRI data into descriptive text.
Video captured by microscopes Jay McClellan, who took first prize in the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition. Shared with permission & provided by Nikon Small World.
September 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Video captured by microscopes Jay McClellan, who took first prize in the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition. Shared with permission & provided by Nikon Small World.
Watch the full videos and see all the stunning honourable mentions: www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
2025 Small World in Motion Competition
View the winning entries from the 2025 Small World in Motion Competition
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September 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Watch the full videos and see all the stunning honourable mentions: www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
PS. if you want more details, I broke it down in a new video: www.instagram.com/p/DOYkStDjd2g/ (with receipts!)
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September 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
PS. if you want more details, I broke it down in a new video: www.instagram.com/p/DOYkStDjd2g/ (with receipts!)
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August 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
You all were the BEST audience!!! Our team is so happy so many public servants showed up and showed out!!!
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Thanks for listening!! Really appreciate it 🙏🏼