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It was one of the great missed connections of physics. In 1965 a particle theorist derived a formula for the collision of elementary…
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Cat owners can breathe easy: there’s little danger that your beloved tabby will make it more likely for you to develop a mental illness. New research has cleared the name of cats, helping put to...
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Google’s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for machine-generated speech that it says outperforms existing technology by 50 percent.
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It’s a subtle point, but the British comedian Ricky Gervais was not quite right when he told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show yesterday,…
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A Japanese satellite recorded unprecedented observations of the Perseus galaxy before it disappeared from contact, scientists said Friday, offering precious?
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It's hard to visit a tech site these days without seeing a headline about deep learning for X, and that AI is on the verge of solving all our problems. Gary..
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Welcome to the “illusory truth effect,” a glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth.
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It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?
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Illustration by Jeremy Leung In the fall of 1951, Humphry Osmond, a thirty-four-year-old British psychiatrist, travelled from London to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, to become the clinical director of the…
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The green-tech guru is backing an energy storage breakthrough that could power the future.
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The report directly contradicts Trump administration claims about global warming and concludes that temperatures have risen rapidly since 1980.
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Dozens of startups are inventing ways to keep LA cool with products and services that aim to avert environmental disaster – and yield profits