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NIH budget cuts are threatening key medical research programs, shrinking training grants, and leaving young researchers ...
Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...
It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...
A newly discovered species of dinosaur is now on display at London’s Natural History Museum. Researchers have named this new species Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a speedy, two-legged herbivore, 64 ...
The Masked Singer has revealed the identity of the Mad Scientist Monster — and it may not be the country singer you were expecting. This post contains spoilers for The Masked Singer season 13 ...
AI scientist ‘team’ joins the search for extraterrestrial life The collaborative system generated more than 100 hypotheses relating to the origins of life in the Universe.
New Yorker artists are people who can present a dilemma, an issue, a moment or a spectacle visually, not abstracted, but through emotional empathy. The covers are non-linear but require “reading”.
Previously editor-in-chief of Prog ’s sister magazine Metal Hammer, Milas was the man who introduced Wilson to the idea of 'The Overview Effect', the phenomenon that affects astronauts when they ...
How to Build an ‘Artificial Scientist’ Physicist Mario Krenn uses artificial intelligence to inspire and accelerate scientific progress. Read related article Emily Buder/ Quanta Magazine Interviews ...
Google has unveiled an AI co-scientist built on its Gemini 2.0 platform, aiming to accelerate scientific research by generating novel hypotheses and refining experiments. While the system shows ...
algorithms Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than ...