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Ajdina Halilovic is a science writer and researcher based in London, UK. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a ...

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...

The Hopfield network was a “conceptual breakthrough,” said Marc Mézard, a theoretical physicist at Bocconi University in ...

With AI, “we are in the process not of re-creating human biology,” said Thomas Naselaris, a neuroscientist at the University ...

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Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a ...

Hallucinations / A common (but controversial) term of art for undesirable outputs produced by generative AI, such as when ...