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Last year, China's government put out its plan to lead the world in AI by 2030. As Eric Schmidt has explained, "It's pretty simple. By 2020, they will have caught up. By 2025, they will be better than us. By 2030, they w...

The recurrence plot is a vital tool for analyzing nonlinear dynamic systems, especially systems involving empirically observed time series data. RPs show patterns in a phase space system and indicate where data visit the...

If a rapidly-heating layer of water building up under the Arctic wells up to the surface, it may melt all remaining seasonal sea ice in the area

Directly detecting this long-predicted phenomenon further validates the Standard Model of particle physics --

Researchers have identified a network of cells in the entorhinal cortex that appear to play a key role into putting experience into a temporal context.

Remains of dung from 3700 years ago reveal how it was nomadic herders, not nature, that seeded the Serengeti's unique ecosystems

Forget your own genome - now you can pay to sequence the DNA of the microbes in your gut and get advice on which foods to eat for better health

We've never accelerated electrons to high enough energies to smash them apart before, but a new machine at the home of the Large Hadron Collider is a step towards doing so

Early in the morning on Saturday, 26 May 2018, the AWAKE collaboration at CERN successfully accelerated electrons for the first time using a wakefield generated by protons zipping through a plasma. A paper describing thi...

The Earth's magnetic field extends from pole to pole and is strongly affected by solar wind from the sun. This "wind" is a stream of charged particles constantly ejected from the sun's surface. Occasional sudden flashes ...

A new study reports conscious feelings stem from bodily feedback. Researchers have mapped the organization of conscious feelings, reporting they cluster into five categories: positive emotions, negative emotions, cogniti...

Without these genes, there's no REM sleep.

A new study reports a single dose of the cannabis extract CBD can help reduce brain function abnormalities in those with psychosis. The findings provide evidence of how cannabidiol acts in the brain to help reduce psycho...

Researchers have developed a 3D printed prototype for a bionic eye. The team successfully printed an array of light receptors onto a hemispherical surface. This advance could revolutionize restoring vision to those who h...

US Vice President Mike Pence says a habitable base orbiting the moon will be built and in use by 2024. It's a pointless distraction, warns Mars Society president Robert Zubrin

Today, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have announced that, for the first time, they have observed the Higgs boson transforming into elementary particles known as bottom quarks as it d...

A new study reports teenagers have a more difficult time discerning the emotional vocal tones of their peers. The results, researchers suggest, show teens have not reached a level of maturity in either ability to identif...

There has been an uptick in deaths caused by the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the death count for the current outbreak up to 75

To enable negative refraction and related optical illusions, metamaterials are artificially engineered with unique properties that result from their internal physical structures, rather than their chemical composition. T...

How you type could reveal early signs of Parkinson's disease, including subtle tremors, before serious changes in the brain have occurred

Today's dazzling displays of pyrotechnics began as a simple pop.

With threats of sea level rise, storm surge and other natural disasters, researchers from Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science are turning to nature to protect humans from nature. The...