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In early 2019 OpenAI, a startup co-founded by Elon Musk devoted to ensuring artificial general intelligence is safe for humanity, announced it had created a neural network for natural language processing called GPT-2. In...

(Michigan State University Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Five Michigan State University researchers from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and the Department of Statistics and Probability are participating in a new ...

More than 5 million years ago, North America was home to the only rodents to ever have horns on their noses - and they may have evolved them to defend against predators

Some coronavirus patients exhibit clinical and neurochemical signs of brain injury associated with the viral infection. COVID-19 patients who required ventilation had increased plasma NfL levels. The higher NfL concentra...

Suicide rates for those with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) are 170 times higher than the general population. Suicide risk is predicted by key factors including age, evidence of mood disorders and hospitalization...

A 110-year-old measles genome has helped date the origin of the disease to about 500 BC, which is roughly when humans began living in cities with large populations

The outbreak occurred in Virginia men who bought the supplement from local convenient stores.

Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon have contracted covid-19, and the disease could reach uncontacted tribes, which are particularly vulnerable

A preserved lung helped scientists rewrite the virus's history.

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Chilean scientists nicknamed the fossil "The Thing" after a 1982 sci-fi movie based in Antarctica.

Scientists just created a pattern that, according to researchers, is impossible to duplicate or forge, a feat that could quash counterfeiters.

The algorithms that ride-hailing companies such as Uber use to determine fare prices appear to set higher prices for non-white neighbourhoods

In solid materials, when an electron changes position without another to fill its place, a positively charged 'hole' can appear which is attracted to the original electron. In more complex situations, the process can eve...

For the fourth Science on the Hill event, "Future Climate: What We Know, What We Don't", experts talked with Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti about what goes into modeling... --

Ultracold atoms trapped in appropriately prepared optical traps can arrange themselves in surprisingly complex, hitherto unobserved structures, according to scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish ...

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Human bones in the famous Newgrange tomb in Ireland belonged to king born of first-degree incest, researchers say.

Using thousands of seismic wave recordings, researchers mapped the mysterious 'blobs' deep below the Pacific Ocean and found they are even bigger than imagined.

Quantum simulation uses a controllable quantum system to mimic complex systems or solve intractable problems, among which the non-equilibrium problems of quantum many-body systems have attracted wide research interest. S...

Massive, underwater rivers have been discovered hidden off Australia's coasts by robotic ocean gliders.

A new park in Oregon gets its name from an explosive event in 1970: the dynamiting of a dead, beached sperm whale.