A scalpel can follow instructions, but a hand still has to decide what “superficially” means. That is the stubborn problem at ...

An experiment led by researchers from University College Dublin successfully tested how magnesium alloys solidify in ...

When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air, as if a giant balloon had inflated it from below. It wasn’t a balloon. Scientists had exploded a nuclear ...

The brain is a mere piece of furniture in the vastness of the cosmos, subject to the same physical laws as asteroids, electrons or photons. On the surface, its three pounds of neural tissue seem to ...

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