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DeepMind AI learns to play soccer using decades of match simulations
An artificial intelligence learned to skilfully control digital humanoid soccer players by working through decades worth of soccer matches in…
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How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside
Theoretical physics has been in crisis mode ever since 1974, when Stephen Hawking argued that black holes destroy information. Hawking…
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Cheap New Method Breaks Down ‘Forever Chemicals’
Researchers have developed an approach to break down a class of long-lasting chemicals that they say is easier and cheaper than…
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More than half of people infected with omicron may not know it
Out of 210 people who had antibodies suggesting they had recently had the covid-19 omicron variant, more than half were…
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Simple chemistry can recycle polystyrene into more valuable products
UV light plus aluminium chloride as a catalyst can break down polystyrene so that it can be turned into a…
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Salty Sea Spray Keeps Lightning Strikes Away
Although most rain on Earth falls over the oceans, lightning at sea is rarer than expected—and for decades, scientists were…
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Forensic Experts Are Surprisingly Good at Telling Whether Two Writing Samples Match
After the 2020 U.S. presidential election, handwriting analysis researcher Mara Merlino got a strange phone call. The person on the…
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This Sticker Looks Inside the Body
Ultrasound scanners, which image the inside of the human body, are a life-saving medical tool. Now researchers have shrunk the…
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There Is an Effective Treatment for Monkeypox, but It’s Hard to Get
As monkeypox cases continue to rise in the U.S. and the rest of the world, many of those most affected…
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Stroke drug improves memory and repairs injured brain tissue in mice
Unlike existing treatments that focus on rehabilitation or reducing the risk of an additional stroke, the experimental drug targets the…
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