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Australian bushfires didn’t just destroy specific species, but entire ecosystems
The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of ...
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The forgotten woman who discovered the greenhouse effect
When did we first realize that we had the potential to warm our planet’s climate? You could go all the way back to 1827, when French mathematician Joseph Fourier calculated that the atmosphere, somehow, was keeping the planet warm like a blanket. Or you could go as late as 1938 ...
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Animals use some wild tricks to survive bushfires
Have you ever wondered how our native wildlife manage to stay alive when an inferno is ripping through their homes, and afterwards ...
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AlphaZero beat humans at Chess and StarCraft, now it's working with quantum computers
A team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark let DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm loose on a few quantum computing optimization problems and, much to everyone's surprise, the AI was able to solve the problems without any outside expert knowledge. Not bad for a machine learning ...
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Why the extinction of mammoths may have forced us to invent civilization
Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But ...
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What science teaches us about breaking bad habits
It’s a new year and many people are in the mood for making a fresh start. And that often means giving something up (cigarettes, ...
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Scientists used stem cells to create a new life-form: Organic robots
Straight out of the 1990s and the plot of Jurassic Park, a team of scientists have successfully created an entirely new life-form using stem cells derived from frog embryos. The new species is called a xenobot and it's unlike anything else in nature. The researchers call it a “living ...
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Here's how body clock cycles affect our immune system
All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and ...
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Why machines should have rights, just like humans
Like it or loathe it, the robot revolution is now well underway and the futures described by writers such as Isaac Asimov, ...
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New archaeology findings are redefining human history faster than ever
In 1924, a 3-year-old child’s skull found in South Africa forever changed how people think about human origins. The ...
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Artificial intelligence: How to measure the 'I' in AI
Last week, Lee Se-dol, the South Korean Go champion who lost in a historical matchup against DeepMind’s artificial intelligence ...
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Brain science’s biggest roadblock: Collecting better data without killing people
Historically, there has been no safe, non-invasive and/or efficient method with deep penetration for modulating the human ...
