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Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...

While futuristic car features might make you feel like James Bond out on the road, car safety experts have now warned that ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly able to simulate human behavior and answer online surveys and political polls, putting the reliability of survey-based research at risk. Consequences can be ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Our fourth-grade reading scores have fallen to 1998 levels. The state must double down on investing in evidence-based reading instruction.

AI systems still lack the judgment to understand when commands will cause catastrophic damage — and without strict controls ...

Haroche emphasised the role of an innate “sense of beauty” and symmetry in nature as a defining trait of great physicists ...

Overview: Ideal nutrition apps are those that go beyond calories and offer accurate nutrient data, AI logging, and smart insights.Apps like Nourish, Cronometer, ...

Enterprises are not short on AI ambition. What they lack is a governance model that keeps pace with how AI is actually being ...