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Why Are Our Brains So Big? Because They Excel at Damage Control

Compared to other primates, our brains are exceptionally large. Why? A new study comparing neurons from different primates pinpointed several genetic changes unique to humans...

A 4.45-Billion-Year-Old Crystal From Mars Reveals the Planet Had Water From the Beginning

Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface, and...

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Can Now Create a Replica of Your Personality James O'Donnell | MIT Technology Review "Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken...

Forget Needles. These Squid-Like Pills Will Spray Drugs Into the Gut Instead.

As a medical doctor, my mother isn’t afraid of needles. But when she recently began injecting insulin daily for her newly diagnosed diabetes, the...

‘Droidspeak’: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Language Thanks to Microsoft

Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology. Now, Microsoft researchers have invented a new language to help...

Poetry by History’s Greatest Poets or AI? People Can’t Tell the Difference—and Even Prefer the Latter. What Gives?

Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote: The air is thick with tension, My mind is a tangled mess, The weight of my emotions Is heavy on...

A ChatGPT-Like AI Can Now Design Whole New Genomes From Scratch

All life on Earth is written with four DNA "letters." An AI just used those letters to dream up a completely new genome from...

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COMPUTING IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done on Quantum Hardware John Timmer | Ars Technica "There's a general consensus that we won't be...
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MIT’s New Robot Dog Learned to Walk and Climb in a Simulation Whipped Up by Generative AI

A big challenge when training AI models to control robots is gathering enough realistic data. Now, researchers at MIT have shown they can train...

Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You

When I was a young kid, our neighborhood didn’t have any grocery stores. The only place to buy fruits and vegetables was at our...

Could We Ever Decipher an Alien Language? Uncovering How AI Communicates May Be Key

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases,...

This Ambitious Project Wants to Sequence the DNA of All Complex Life on Earth

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018....

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 9)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Why AI Could Eat Quantum Computing’s Lunch Edd Gent | MIT Technology Review "The scale and complexity of quantum systems that can be simulated using...

Solar-Powered ‘Planimal’ Cells? Chloroplasts in Hamster Cells Make Food From Light

The ability of plants to convert sunlight into food is an enviable superpower. Now, researchers have shown they can get animal cells to do...

The First Cells May Have Formed From Simple Fatty Bubbles Like These Ones

The first spark of cellular life on Earth likely needed gift packaging. Let me explain. With the holidays around the corner, we’re all beginning to...

Europe Aims to Visit This Large Asteroid When It Brushes by Earth in 2029

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called Apophis. If approved at a...

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