Frank Wilczek has one of the most brilliant and original minds in theoretical physics, having come up with the idea of time ...

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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has assembled a team of researchers to make communication networks ...

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Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platform suggest efforts to design out antagonistic ...

A 1989 experiment offered the promise of nuclear fusion without the need for high temperatures, but this "cold fusion" was ...

We need to think about the purpose of noise in our daily lives and environments. Chris Stokel-Walker discovers a great guide ...

The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning the well of artificial ...