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Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”
In 2023, data from the James Webb Space Telescope soured hopes that TRAPPIST-1 c had an atmosphere. That disappointment might have been premature.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.
Planets can be Earth-like or Neptune-like, but only rarely are in between. This hot, Saturn-like planet hints at a solution to this puzzle.
With new W-boson, top quark, and Higgs boson measurements, the LHC contradicts earlier Fermilab results. The Standard Model still holds.
EBT-101 is not the only candidate for an HIV cure. Stem cell transplants, medications, and other CRISPR therapies are being researched.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
We’ve all tried to win an argument by bringing up statistics that support our view. But here’s why that doesn’t work, according to a neuroscientist.
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Einstein’s laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
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Renowned business expert Roger Martin shares the key essentials for effective management with a focus on strategy, culture, execution, talent and data.
Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.
“Stargate” could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.
From synthetic biology to xenotransplantation, biotech will continue to march forward in 2023, in part powered by data and AI.
So far, two papers have been retracted, and a third is under investigation. Accusations of plagiarism appear convincing.
The JWST’s observations of well-developed galaxies early in universal history may coincide with accepted astronomical theory after all.
The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
It could lead to earlier diagnoses, better treatment, and fewer deaths from pancreatic cancer, which kills 88% of patients within five years.
A healthy lifestyle even protects those who are genetically predisposed to depression.
Musical preferences are correlated with personality traits — and these connections are largely consistent across cultures and continents.
The heart’s rhythms may play a larger role in shaping psychedelic experiences than previously thought.
Making up false information is one of the biggest problems with AI, but there are no silver-bullet solutions.
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here’s the sober truth.
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
Practical ML can radically improve business operations, but there’s a deployment issue.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
Stars are born, live, and die within the spiral arms of galaxies like the Milky Way. These 19 JWST spirals deliver unprecedented riches.