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Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon
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Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon

NASA will work with startup Lonestar plus the Isle of Man to send a data payload to the Moon next February to assess lunar-based backup storage as part of the Artemis...

LK-99 Confirmed Not To Be A Room-Temperature Superconductor
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LK-99 Confirmed Not To Be A Room-Temperature Superconductor

There is no point in resisting the data.

Building Robust Optical Structures Made of Darkness
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Building Robust Optical Structures Made of Darkness

A team of Harvard University researchers harnessed metasurfaces to generate and manipulate dark regions in electromagnetic fields called "optical singularities."...

A Secret Language of Cells? Cell Computations Uncovered
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A Secret Language of Cells? Cell Computations Uncovered

Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and  EPFL's Blue Brain Project have published a theory describing a secret cell language...

AI Designs Proteins With Potential for Medicines, Vaccines
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AI Designs Proteins With Potential for Medicines, Vaccines

University of Washington researchers developed an AI software that can design structures for proteins that do not exist, including compounds that might find use...

AI Knows Where Your Proteins Go
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AI Knows Where Your Proteins Go

Machine learning able to predict subcellular locations of functionally related proteins

CMU Scientists Solve 90-Year-Old Geometry Problem
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CMU Scientists Solve 90-Year-Old Geometry Problem

The math puzzle was resolved by translating it into satisfiability problem.

Deep Learning on Cell Signaling Networks Establishes Interpretable AI for Single-Cell Biology
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Deep Learning on Cell Signaling Networks Establishes Interpretable AI for Single-Cell Biology

Researchers at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have created knowledge-primed neural networks which utilize signaling...

Chinese Researchers Achieve Stunning Quantum-Entanglement Record
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Chinese Researchers Achieve Stunning Quantum-Entanglement Record

Scientists have just packed 18 qubits—the most basic units of quantum computing—into just six weirdly connected photons.

The Complex Physics Behind Bending It Like a World Cup Player
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The Complex Physics Behind Bending It Like a World Cup Player

The gems of every World Cup are the impossible goals.

Why Are Countries Creating Public Random Number Generators?
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Why Are Countries Creating Public Random Number Generators?

In Chile, politicians resent the Comptroller General, which audits government officials to prevent corruption.

AI Researchers Allege that Machine Learning Is Alchemy
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AI Researchers Allege that Machine Learning Is Alchemy

Ali Rahimi, a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI) at Google in San Francisco, California, took a swipe at his field last December—and received a 40-second...

China's Quantum-Key Network, the Largest Ever, Is Officially Online
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China's Quantum-Key Network, the Largest Ever, Is Officially Online

China has the quantum technology to perfectly encrypt useful signals over distances far vaster than anyone has ever accomplished, spanning Europe and Asia, according...

The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret

A pair of physicists announced the discovery of a subatomic event so powerful that the researchers wondered if it was too dangerous to make public.

There Are Three Kinds of Consciousness, and Computers Have Mastered One, Says Study
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There Are Three Kinds of Consciousness, and Computers Have Mastered One, Says Study

A study by neuroscientists offers insights into whether computers may become conscious by deconstructing consciousness into three categories.

Alien Life Could Feed on Cosmic Rays
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Alien Life Could Feed on Cosmic Rays

A bizarre microbe found deep in a gold mine in South Africa could provide a model for how life might survive in seemingly uninhabitable environments through the...

Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved Over More Than 7 Km of City Fibre
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Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved Over More Than 7 Km of City Fibre

Quantum teleportation just moved out of the lab and into the real world, with two independent teams of scientists successfully sending quantum information across...

It's Official: You're Lost in a Directionless ­niverse
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It's Official: You're Lost in a Directionless ­niverse

Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or if the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top?

Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent
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Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent

The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests.

The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why
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The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why

This week, scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting devoted to gene therapy—a long-struggling field that has clawed its way back to respectability...
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