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In what must be the greatest scientific paper of all time, Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki attacked the problem with the ...

Training artificial intelligence to enforce even seemingly straightforward rules—like balls and strikes in Major League ...

The Gaia mission has allowed researchers to understand the motions of stars like never before, even revealing possible interactions between our solar system and nearby stars. Planetary Science ...

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

Summary: Patients surviving severe traumatic brain injuries often enter states designated as Prolonged Disorders of ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

Artificial intelligence can process information with remarkable sophistication, but can it ever possess consciousness?

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In a world where self-driving robotaxis glide through major city streets without drivers behind the wheel and delivery drones ...

Animal psychologists have found that giraffes can mentally combine small sums of objects, but can't perform the subtractive equivalent.