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Earth's early life might have been purple, suggesting the search for extraterrestrial life should scan for the color.

If a recent project using Google's DeepMind were a recipe, you would take a pair of AI systems, images of animals, and a whole lot of computing power. Mix it all together, and you'd get a series of imagined animals dream...

(University of Groningen) Computer bits are binary, with a value of 0 or one. By contrast, neurons in the brain can have all kinds of different internal states, depending on the input that they received. This allows the ...