Scientists have long and studiously avoided claiming that other animals have language. Now, using the power of AI, they are ...

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

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

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

A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...

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A study of more than 6 million children finds that exposure to antibiotics in the womb or early in life tends not to increase ...

Engineers have developed a class of origami structures that unfold in one smooth motion to create flower-like shapes, which ...

A quantum computer that uses particles of light took about two dozen microseconds to complete a calculation that may take ...